Kinder High School For The Performing And Visual Arts

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Some of the visual arts teachers are wack but the good ones made me want to stay.

Posted: May 17, 2017

Some good teachers, some bad teachers. Both in magnet area and academics.

Posted: May 17, 2017

Students are respectful to one another, but teachers being disrespectful to students (and parents) does NOT teach students character. It teaches them "power rules."

Posted: May 17, 2017

Won't get better until principal Scott Allen is replaced.

Posted: May 17, 2017

Posted: May 17, 2017

Some of the teachers are the ones being disrespectful to the students. Wouldn't be tolerated from other students, but is accepted from the teachers.

Posted: May 17, 2017

Some great teachers, some awful teachers. I found the principal to be the worst, most unsympathetic "advocate" for the students.

Posted: May 17, 2017

"Abundant" does not equal "Effective." Students are in classes 7-8 hours a day. Having 6-8 hours of homework a night is ridiculous, even for AP students. In college, students don't have to attend classes 7-8 hours a day + 6-8 hours homework each night.

Posted: April 6, 2017

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Posted: April 6, 2017

To develop compassion, people need to be treated with compassion. Most teachers at this school forget that the students are just teenagers trying to get through the days in their teenage lives.

Posted: April 6, 2017

The academic teachers seem to understand their teenage students more and understand this is school. The art area teachers seem to treat the students more like insubordinates in the work place. who haven't yet "earned the right" to be there.

Posted: April 6, 2017

Posted: April 6, 2017

Irritated and annoyed that HSPVA did not plan an alternative to making their Juniors take the SAT in the middle of all the neighborhood construction. The SAT is a major college admission determining factor and the students had to take it with construction noises all around during the entire test time. Construction has been in progress around the school for months, so it was a known factor. One call from the school principal to HISD or from the HISD superintendent to the mayor could have eliminated the noise for the 5 hours of testing. Or the school could have provided an alternative examination site -- like, for instance, having the 200 students take the SAT at Bellaire High School where the school had numerous empty classrooms because Bellaire asked their 3,000+ freshmen, sophomores, and seniors to arrive to school late on the testing date to provide their juniors with quiet for testing. One instance of HSPVA's top administration's lack of consideration and respect for their students.

Posted: April 20, 2014

Just a few comments from an old alum. The school is not for everyone (kids or parents) but it is a decent school. Be prepared to suffer through the trials that your kid will experience such as extreme competition, immediate shock to self-esteem within the first year, constant schedule juggling, prima donna micro-manager instructors, constant practicing, summer school, senior recital prep, some level of outside-of-the-class isolation, obvious cliques, and some level of apathy from the school when it comes to college. The school expects that if your son or daughter is going there, the child should have a higher level of maturity when it comes to determining the college to attend, major, etc. HSPVA is mainly focused on the here and now as a college prepatory program for the arts. So, there is sort of a take no prisoners attitude there. If your kid doesn't cut it in the first year academically/ arts, they are out. Thats it. The best thing a kid will get coming out of there is mental toughness and learning to stay focused on achieving set goals in the face of schedule constraints and adversity. Overall, it is a good school but it is not a cakewalk.

Posted: September 6, 2013

Couldn't have been a better choice for our son. Great sense of community, challenging academics, sense of equality, originality, creativity, freedom to express oneself in many mediums, great teachers and over 95 % go on to college.

Posted: April 23, 2013

This is a great school. My daughter is in dance. Each art area is amazing. Acadmics are very strong and the teachers are wonderful. I am delighted my daughter had the opportunity to attend and will graduate from this school in 2013. Not for the weak hearted, you have to work hard, stick to it and earn respect in your art area. This school has encouraged my daughter to be a wonderful dancer and to take the most academically challenging classes. Excellent balance between art and academics.

Posted: September 15, 2012

PVA set me up for success. It gained me acceptance into my dream school, where I felt prepared and ahead of the game. When I graduated with my master's degree in art education, I taught there. Teaching there wasn't for me, but it lead me to find my dream job. Whenever I think about where I am in life, which is exactly where I want to be, I think about HSPVA. It truly is a family, and I am thankful to be a part of it.

Posted: April 8, 2012

This is a great school for balance. It has both great academics and fantastic art areas.

Posted: March 8, 2012

Each department (music, art, dance, writing, drama) have its own system, but academics are same for all departments and are solid. The school stresses self discipline -- both for the students' classwork and art.

Posted: May 28, 2010

My child attends HSPVA for dance. The academics have been ok and the art area atrocious. We all know the evaluation of dance is subjective but one has to seriously question a department which finds 0% growth in a student whom outside organizations consistently give high marks. The dept. is more concerned with producing PVA-bots than well- trained dancers. The teachers tear down students self-esteem by telling them they are fat, are not cut out for dance, their choreography is horrible, have not shown improvement and by threatening to kick them out. Dance classes are like an episode Beverly Hills 90210 where groups of students have one set of rules and expectations and others another. I haven t yet figured out how students succeed in the dance department but I know it s not by dancing well. You d do better at Carver or the Houston Ballet.

Posted: January 14, 2009

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