Norman S. Edelcup Sunny Isles Beach K-8 - Sunny Isles Beach, Florida

Veronica Rayvich

For starters most of the teachers in this school have very strict policies. Each teacher assumes that their class is most important, but they don't consider that these kids have more than just their class. These students have 6 different classes to attend and each teacher thinks their own way. Most of these teachers assign hours of homework a day, which is why most of the students come to class looking all droopy and exhausted. Some of these teachers give notice about a test the day before it comes up. How do the students have enough time to finish their homework, do extra curricular classes, and then study for an upcoming test that's due the next day. The system makes no sense. It's ridiculous that students have to stay up doing homework and studying all night. They have lives too, they'd like to enjoy them, it's bad enough they go to school to write and do work everyday, and on top of that u give them packets of homework. This needs to be changed

Elena A

Middle school is horrible! Teachers, with some exceptions, don't care about students, including counselors and principle. Poor kids have no right for mistakes. All year round kids have tests, tests and tests. All grades they put in the grade book without letting kids and parents know., no syllabuses given, grades pop up in the grade book just because, often kids have no knowledge about work being done for grade. Very poor grading system. Teachers are working to satisfy department of education, not to help and to teach. Teachers simply don't like children.Tests and essays never given back to kids and to parents to review and to fix mistakes for the reason that kids will cheat from each other ( what a nonsense!!!) Very disappointed with teachers, no such thing as a human factor , teachers don't care about effort. Had my older son in different state in the middle and in the high school, shocked how teachers treat kids (11-12 y.o) here. Homeroom teacher never responded about meeting that I requested. Most of the teachers get annoyed if you question them, then they bully children and it affects your child grades. Bad school!

TheBrokeToaster

oof... hello random person scrolling through reviews. I am in the 8th grade and this is my review. This school has its moments, there are a lot of inappropriate/ braindead people and the teachers are very quick to put the bad grades in but to put the good ones they take forever. This school is made up of good and bad teachers mostly bad that don't teach you ( i do pay attention tho) i have also had many experiences with roaches flying on my arm and the school is extremely dirty. The food is TERRIBLE and most of the time children in the lunchroom start screaming random chants as if they were summoning saten himself. This school has its good sides for example, the equipment (most of it) is up to date and the books are fairly new. This is an honest review and trust me i cant wait to go to high school.

Bye human scrolling through reviews.

P.S: don't eat the food, trust me 😉

Satanic Cabal

To be honest, I don't understand why people are that pissed. I attended this school since it first opened (2008) and I graduated from it in 2013/4. I can't imagine that it would devolve to the extent that other reviewers were saying. In this review, I am not going to base my review on the students. Lets be honest, in any school there are garbage students. This is why I'm basing my review only on aspects that the school fully controls.

Putting that aside, my personal experience was alright. It had some parts that I thought suckes, but I am willing to put it aside. The school educated me and I came out fine.

The guidance was good; they listened and provided good advice.

The teachers overall were good. Some were mediocre, but most of them were good. The ones that I would say were best would be the Algebra teacher Meulkamova (I think I messed up her name), Civics teacher Osbourne, the science teacher Goodfriend, and computer science teacher Adler. They may or may not still work there, but they did make my experience at this school good.

The only disdain I have is the cafeteria food, which was garbage.

alan Gonzalez

Ok so I am 10 years old and this school is very good but the people who work at there are not there is this lady with bangs short hair and glasses she is very rude to me 1. When I had a rash on my skin (it was very red) she refused to give me an ice pack I did not know why. 2. There is this lunch lady who doesn't have any hair and pushes students when they are not straight in line she also yells A LOT for no reason.

Katerina Vaynriber

Clean friendly environment, great teachers, good program for special ed class. Older child used to attend this school as well. Most of the bad reviews were written by students who probably couldn't keep up with teacher's demands...

Lawrence Veyberma

I go to the school there, it is a fine school. From one of the comments, it says there is bullying, lots of it, but in all honesty, there is very little. I am in 8th grade right now but since I have been here, there was no or very little bullying. I will admit there was a couple guys (and not to offend the equal rights feminists, girls) that really annoyed me and most of the classes. Really there is only name calling, and very little nicknames. There are only a couple fights a year and well the food... its NOT BAD but most of the time its under cooked a bit. The salads sometimes take like chemicals and the utensils and straws do to since its plastic. The pizza is usually edible and tastes good but since the cafeteria lady's don't have that much time to prepare the food for middle school its undercooked. But overall the school is good. Most teachers are fine and if you are going to 8th grade, and you are good in math, ask for Ms. Melkumova as she is very good. Though she gives out tons of homework, if you do them you should understand the work you are doing a bit better. BUT if you are not good in math, I REPEAT!!!! DO NOT GET HER. As you will be failing her class so hard that it would be the worst thing you would do!! But she in general is very nice when you get to know her, just that she is VERY strict. So just don't make any STUPID mistakes and pay attention, and you should be fine in ALL classes. Oh and about the drug thing, although the most drug THING is weed, there is a very little amount for NOW, not saying that its going to be like that for all the years, but it should be fine for the next 3 years. So just don't send the annoying kids to school to ruin the education of others and just be ready for a regular school.

Sebastian Velez

i went to this school til 4th grade. HOrrible. one of my teachers makes you stand in the front of the class and say "i have a problem" if you did something wrong. the principal is very uncaring and the teachers dont teach. they also give about 8 2 sided pages for homework evry night and once, i went home at 8pm because i went on a cruise for a week and my teacher made me do all the homework for that week afterschool, then she said " you shouldve cancelled that cruise and you wouldnt be here!" i was very mad. the only good part about this school is the lunch so for that i give it 1 star.