St. Michael School

I went to school here and am now sending my children through. Such a wonderful school with well educated and pleasant teachers.

My sisters and I all went to St. Michael’s. I, however, stopped going here after 5^th grade. I was one of the kids who actually got their dream come true: it was my 5^th grade year that the school burnt down. It seemed really awesome at the time: we got two weeks off in the middle of March. But of course, we had to make up for it later, and on top of that, the school was split up different places for the rest of the year while they reconstructed. The 3^rd to 5^th graders got stuck in a school called Little Flower. It was used mainly for preschoolers, and smelled like a giant diaper pail. They wouldn’t let us use their cafeteria, so we had to eat our lunches outside. Doesn’t sound terrible until you remember that in March in Ohio there will still be random blizzards. It’s not fun to eat your lunch outside in half a foot of snow.
We basically didn’t learn anything for the rest of the year. When I transferred to Our Lady of the Elms in Akron, I was horribly behind. So behind they stuck me in remedial everything. But hey, it’s okay: when I switched to public school my freshman year of high school I was put in advanced everything!
Seriously though, even before the school burnt down it wasn’t that good. I never learned the capitals. Also, nuns are terrifying, even if they’re not trying to be. They also held me back a year (or rather, they wouldn’t let me in kindergarten when I should have been) because they «ran out of slots.» Uh, what? What hapepned to merit based decisions? This place was/​is whack. I’d never send my kids here, that’s for sure.