Logan Square

Staff favor students. Bullying is never handled. Learning environments are disruptive. Staff bully and mistreat children.

Teachers are paid extremely low but expected to work extra hours. HOS is not open to staff/faculty concerns. Great environment for the children and families because the teachers care a lot and go above and beyond, despite the poverty salary. I do not recommend this school because teachers are not paid what they are worth.

Though I left FSS in after second grade, my experience up until that point was far from superb, and reports from friends still in FSS indicate that it gets worse as the grade levels progress. Though many of the teachers were very kind and supportive, some of them were very inflexibale and did not teach effectively. Moreover, the actual content of the teaching was of an extremely low level, making it so that when I left for a new school, I was far behind. Even if things remained at this level, I would be currently maleducated at best (if I had stayed there), but the general idea I seem to have gotten is that it gets worse in the higher grade levels. I have little basis with which to elaborate on this specifically, but in general it seems to be an inflated version of all bad aspects present in the lower levels in the Upper School. I would not recommend FSS to anyone, and though it is far from the worst, one would expect better from a private school in central Philadelphia.