Denver Public Schools - Denver, Colorado

Address: 1860 Lincoln St, Denver, CO 80203.
Phone: 204233200.
Website: dpsk12.org
Specialties: School district office.
Other points of interest: Wheelchair accessible entrance, Wheelchair accessible parking lot.
Opinions: This company has 76 reviews on Google My Business.
Average opinion: 2.3/5.

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Denver Public Schools - Denver, Colorado

Dave S.

1/5

I feel really sorry for the teachers that they have to deal with such incompetent senior staff and social workers. The transfer system is non existent and won’t help kids that struggle with mental health issues. Wish I would’ve never moved to Denver.

E R.

5/5

I've had great experiences every time I've had to visit the district offices. Clearly people are taking out their frustrations here, but this is not the proper place to vent about principles and your children's education. This is an office of people trying to do their jobs. Please give your testy negative reviews to the appropriate place, don't mess with the good people that just work at the district. Reviews posted here are for the office and the people that work there only. Fools....

Heather W.

1/5

This district office treats teachers horrid. This is another review since my first was not posted. The woman working badges was the worst of them all. I had a much waited for appointment but she chose her same racial friend who came 40 minutes after me to go in front of me. She sat and talked about what high school she went to, being pregnant and on and on further wasting my time which was now 2 hours past my appointment time, the district claims this takes twenty minutes. While missing my new school's PD and PTO lunch! This was in addition to after the receptionist upstairs took one hour to complete my I-9 form! I also sat and listened to her talk to every employee who passed her desk about their upcoming weekends, lunch and even rap music! Then I was not even talked to about benefits or direct deposit but told to go to a link if I had questions. This is after four weeks after being hired. HR never calls, never emails except a generic we will respond in 48 hours- but do not. No one answers the phone. I have started teaching and still no contract! no access to student rosters- grades- emails. This woman doing badges black, braids, pregnant was so rude and unprofessional towards me I finally went back out and asked security to come in and assist me since I felt unsafe. The woman then lied about this situation to cover her own lack of professionalism and wrongdoing. The sad thing is that people like her in a new job just give a bad taste. The sad thing is I had a good experience with the security prior to this woman but I assume they support her lies. Its upsetting to see this still exist despite tireless efforts in diversity and equity. Sadly, I turned down another job that had hired me one month earlier-ironically the high school of this badge woman- and I quit another current job for this DPS one. I like my school, they are dedicated and friendly and professional, yet the excuse still goes back to the district and no one can do anything. Yet I have been observed everyday in the classroom the first week of school! I was observed for two hours straight the fifth day! two of the days were hot day early release. In all the jobs I have had, I have never been treated like this by a district HR, nor the way DPS chooses to coach teachers- not even as a student teacher as if I am not being trusted as a professional with credentials and experience, it is confusing. In addition, this is in a classroom that is over 86 degrees all day, it is the hottest room in the school- it was 92 degrees in there! I was dizzy and sick by the end of the days, the PARAs were laying their heads on the tables the kids had sweaty hair stuck to their foreheads with hot skin. Observed with no access to my education databases like all the other teachers!? How is this equitable or even an accurate observation? I don't receive info because I don't get the emails. Including Early Release Days- students told me they had a shorter class is how I found out! I have no access to my information so idea who my ELL kids are or IEP kids are but then I am going to be told that my lesson needs to focus on ELL! I have a Masters in ELL and Bachelor in Visual Art but the one feedback was I need to produce visual examples for ELL students!?!?! how is this possible! DPS- HR- Let's start with basic necessities first- like teacher access to DPS- student names. My chair was a 12 inch wide folding chair! I feel there is no support but a lot of complaining and hoops without explanation towards a new teacher with over twenty years experience. There were six hundred and fifty new teachers this year in DPS at orientation, to me that scared me. Then I got an email stating I had to wait three days after my I-9 to start but I had already been working for over two weeks!

Unique P.

1/5

The whole DPS system is HORRIBLE. I really wish there was just another district in the area to be honest. By the way if your middle school kid lives 2.8 miles from the school(NO MATTER THE AGE), There is no bus for them. Nope it's a 42-43 minute walk to and from school. So 2 hours daily for my 11 year old( which I don't feel safe with at all)or $10 in gas everyday just to make sure my child gets to school. No exceptions either. I HAVE NEVER HEARD OF THIS BEFORE. The walk zone policy is really weird.

George E.

5/5

All three kids in my family attended DPS, made life-long friends, met exciting challenges and opportunities, and in the end, all three were accepted to Ivy League colleges. A public education is what you make of it. Don’t deprive the public system of your wonderful children because of bad reviews on google. Invest in the system and we all reap the rewards.

Julie H.

1/5

Tay Anderson is a disgrace to the entire Denver Community as well as the students in DPS. We have recalled, demanded resignation and spoke publicly about elected officials on more than one level. Tay....have some dignity and get the heck out! you don't belong in that capacity or in any capacity around minor children or our proud youth of Denver. You will never hold this sort of position again as long as Denver voters of all races and cultures vote....Its time you leave!

TheGamingWolf 1.

1/5

i hate on how they are so inconsiderate of Parents and children to take them to and from school in this time of weather with slippery roads and the amount of traffic there is in Denver. So if DPS can please be thoughtful of parents commutes to drop off and pick our children in this weather.

Eloisa P.

1/5

Terrible. They do not provide a scheme for social, emotional, well-being and security development for children. The focus is only academic.
They do not handle the tools adequately in conflitos, in the main office they personalize the conflicts of the students, lack of objectivity. Unprofessional Little seriousness: they manage speeches in their favor, they deceive the parents. They do not respond to the requirements in a timely manner, more reactivity than proactivity.
Disciplinary schemes, without legal bases, severe, extreme, without consulting psychologists or social workers, erratic with a tendency to run over the human rights of children, abuse of children, lack of structure for supervision. Lack of training, ignorance in the management of the needs of children gifted and talented
They do not handle equity, equality, tendency to discrimination.