High Tech Elementary North County

Posted: September 17, 2025

Our son has an emotional disability.And they just treated him like he was a horrible person. In first grade they suspended him as much as three days at a time. It turns out he's very gifted and since leaving.The school works three grades above his level. From talking to other parents the school has a history of discriminating against children with learning disabilities. I even suspect his race was a factor.

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Posted: August 5, 2025

This school went downhill. They don't support, respect, or listen to families unless you are a Caucasian male or woman, or donate a lot of money, or live an alternative lifestyle.

Posted: August 5, 2025

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Posted: August 5, 2025

HTENC started out amazing. They had a "principal" who was tech first and forward. Then the principal switched and the school became mostly LGBTQIA forward. They lost great teachers, and instead were replaced with Pride forward teachers. To give an example for Black History Month students were given the experience of learning about Ru Paul. When given the option to opt out of sex education, signing the form, my child still sat through sex education at the 5th grade level. Was it a social experiment? Just to see who didn't want to be a part of sex-ed? The tech foward-ality of the school shifted when the principal and vice principal were in office. I was given a request to permit my child to watch the movie Encanto, but not told about my child watching the movie The Prince and the Knight.
Before you come for me, we as a family support ALL communities. There is a month dedicated to Pride which is what I repeatedly mentioned. The school forced indoctrination upon my family and there was no corresponce nor respect towards me as a parent
Need special services? Don't count on being a single parent and getting any support. My child scored low, I was in constant commnciation with my child's teachers. Yet my child scored low on report cards, and even my child was threatened with suspension due to 5 other children involved in an incident, they did not contact parents or hold meetings with students.
When my child got to the age to transfer schools they shut my child out yet 5 other schools accepted them.
This school is a respecter of persons. Don't mind the fact that as a single parent with my childs other parent on life support and almost died I made it to just about every school field trip, driving so the kids could go. Don't mention that I donated with my little funds and supported teachers every end of the year with gift cards and little gifts thanking them.
Higg Tech North County - Shame on you. There is such a thing as karma. What goes around comes around. I hope you don't sleep well at night for treating a single parent and a child who has half a parent in critical condition the way that you did.
Moral of the story? Take your children there if you want them to become indoctrinated and question their sexuality at the ages of 8. My child who has trouble with verbal communication broke down to me and told me that they hated being the sex they were. Because they thought they had to like the same sex. And I found out weeks after the damage was done. Shame on you all

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Posted: November 1, 2023

The teachers are very talented and the project based style of learning was good for my daughter.

Unfortunately when she was falling behind in math I requested an assessment and extra help. They took months to start it and said they were providing support so I blindly believed them. It wasn't until much later when I placed my daughter in a traditional public school that I realized how very far behind she was.

Secondly, several kids including my daughter were injured due to the turf on the playground not not being installed correctly. The office staff sympathized and acknowledged this needs to be corrected for the safety of the children but the leadership staff never acknowledged or corrected the problem.

Throughout the 4 years my daughter was there she had three friends leave the school due to bullying. Then my daughter experienced bullying to the point of not wanting to go to school, but when I tried to bring it up to the staff they were not only unsupportive but the school counselor caused my daughter a lot of emotional trauma.

I finally pulled my daughter out of the school. She is still in therapy for what the school counselor did to her.

Lastly, I ran into an old friend with a son who younger than my daughter and is currently attending HTHNC. The parents confided in me that they too are having problems with not receiving the proper support for their child. The same school counselor told them that if they don't put their child on medication he will be expelled.

This is a terrible school environment and I would never recommend it for a young child.

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Posted: August 23, 2017

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Posted: August 23, 2017

I have two children attending HTe. They enjoy going to school everyday. Project-based learning is NOT traditional. You won't see packets of homework. However, you will find that your child will have learned real-world skills including public speaking, empathy, multiple approaches to get to an answer & working in a group effectively. I love that the main homework assignment is reading. They encourage reading in class and at home. I also like that they go on many field trips that are usually associated with their current exploratory subject of Engineering, Science or Art. I also love the small class sizes of 24 or less. Each teacher also has an assistant, making the adult to kid ratio 12:1 or less.

Posted: August 20, 2017

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Posted: August 20, 2017

We have multiple children at this school and we're not thrilled with their progress in the fundamentals, particularly math and science. The teachers are quite arrogant, especially considering how many of them have never taught anywhere else before and only have 2 or 3 years under their belt.

A new principal is starting this year, so we're going to give it one more try, but if we still feel our children are not measuring up to students from other schools, then we'll be taking them somewhere else.

The school is "High Tech", however, they are more liberal arts minded. Just check the pathetic math and science scores. The math homework assignments are assigned solely on a computer program called ST Math without books. I tried some of the ST Math homework and it's not only confusing, it's counter intuitive and only makes my kids anxious. For example, they'll have a character walking across the screen and you have to guess the answer before the character falls into a pit. I don't like having to rush to think and I don't want that kind of pressure on my child when they're trying to learn something. It only makes them frustrated. To me, ST Math seems like a cop out for the teachers to have to actually grade and monitor their students' progress using paper and pencil. If you complain, they'll explain that your child is mastering different "strategies" to complete mathematical problems. I'm not buying it considering they do not know their multiplication tables yet and should be learning long division by now, but are way too behind. Using your fingers to calculate 5 x 5 is not a viable strategy!

The classes have a number of projects they complete through the year and this requires parents to show up at the school and drive students on different field trips around San Diego County because never once have they chartered a bus. It's hard when you're taking a group of children into a bad neighborhood because the liberal teachers want to help underprivileged. I teach my children charity at home, I don't need the teachers doing it for me. They should focus on math, science and English. If there is spare time for their projects, then by all means, but don't use my kids to get up on a high horse and act like you're Mother Teresa.

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Posted: May 31, 2017

Wonderful! Amanda Massey is a strong leader who will be sorely missed.

Posted: July 13, 2016

Both Ms. Schemmel and Ms. Park were fantastic. They worked with our extremely shy daughter with encouragement , while concurrently reinforcing with her classmates that she was shy. None of them made fun of her for it, they were very accepting of her nature which built her confidence and encouraged her to break out of her shell and participate more. An amazing process to witness!

Posted: July 13, 2016

In first grade, they were given the homework for the week to turn in completed by the following Mon or before. This level of flexibility was fantastic in our busy household as we could balance out the workload between less busy or more willing to engage days. The homework was personalized to their level and allowed them to build confidence and advance at their pace and capability.

Posted: July 13, 2016

They dedicate a lot of time and effort developing the kids into responsible and respectful people who look forward to giving back to their community.

Posted: July 13, 2016

We have a super shy daughter who would have gotten lost in the public school system. The class sizes for her 1st grade class was 17!!! This school fosters a community feeling. Pairs up kids with older kid "buddies" who stay paired until one graduates. They help the younger kids with respectful feedback on their projects, while building their confidence in the succeeding in a project based learning environment.