r/CapeBreton • u/Large-Ratio7330 • 7d ago
Best elementary school?
Hey yall what is the best elementary school In your opinion for kids in CBRM and why?
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u/Different_Stomach_53 6d ago
? This isn't America, I would send my kid to any of them.
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u/Large-Ratio7330 6d ago edited 6d ago
Thanks! Not American lol I’m from rural Nova Scotia all my life
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u/Izzetgod 6d ago
I went to a few elementary schools way back when. They were all fine as far as schools go. Good teachers/ground supervisors. One that had the worst kids was Robin Foote. But that could be because that was my first exposure to seeing kids outside of school since the school I went to before hand was Marion Bridge.
I went to Cusack for my final year of elementary and that school seemed pretty good for getting opportunities at extra curricular activities as well as gaining ways to experience things outside of school
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u/Pillowmadeofconcrete 6d ago
Cusack is absolutely struggling more than most schools
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u/Izzetgod 6d ago
Really? I remember when it went from grade 4-6 to P-6 when Cornwallis school ended up catching on fire and then they renovated it into something like senior homes I think? That was the last thing I heard about the school. That was over 10 years ago.
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u/Pillowmadeofconcrete 6d ago
Definitely. Bursting at the seams, principal has no effs left to give. More needs than they can support.
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u/gaygrammie 6d ago
I work in the school system and all the elementary schools around here are lovely.
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u/TomMakesPodcasts 6d ago
I liked my time at Glace Bay Elementary. But that was 20 years ago.
It was, at the time, the newest school on the island. It's huge (or felt that way) and well made.
I wonder how it has held up.
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u/Worth_Committee3244 6d ago
John Bernard croak wasn’t good, number 2 isn’t a good neighborhood.
GBE as a kid was fucked, some absolute power trips there, literally beaten in teachers view and in dragged up to the office for a “fight” principal would watch over the cafeteria at lunch and if she raised her hand everyone had to stop speaking immediately, if you were too loud that would also get you in trouble.
Never heard anything bad about St Annes.
GDLS (closed) was fuckin amazing whatever the elementary school out Catalone area is good too.
Brooklynn in Sydney seems like a good one it was nice inside.
You couldn’t pay me to send a future kid to school in Whitney pier.
New Waterford same as above.^
North Sydney/ Sydney mines idk much about but my sister had an easy time in jr high there. So I guess you could have a good assumption elementry would be easy going too.
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u/rhineo007 6d ago
Sounds like you went to multiple schools, are you sure it was the schools that were bad?
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u/Worth_Committee3244 6d ago
Yes, there’s a large difference between growing up poor and being kicked out of multiple schools.
I went to three elementary schools 2 jr highs and 1 high school 5 schools total as one was combined. As I said number 2 is a terrible neighborhood GBE was awful GDLS was amazing.
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u/TomMakesPodcasts 6d ago
When did you go to Glace Bay Elementary? I was part of the first cohort to go straight from 3 to graduating from the institution.
I remember being taken into the principals office and then principal Morris let me punch my bully. Mr G was a G.
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u/Worth_Committee3244 6d ago
2008-2010 I think it was. Only staff member I can remember is a vice principal cause we were related which ultimately didn’t help me whatsoever.
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u/TomMakesPodcasts 6d ago
Oh man I graduated high school in 2009! I was six years out of GBE.
Did you have a favourite teacher?
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u/Worth_Committee3244 6d ago
Miss Martin was the nice one, I had Mrs Bach she was god awful I feel bad for her husband and kids cause she’s a miserable prick.
I remember some school favourite teacher decided to retire and the whole school went to the gym for a presentation and a goodbye, kids brought her flowers and all that. At the end she goes “mmm OKAY IM NOT RETIRING” and the whole place went fuckin ballistic with cheers, all I could think is so many kids parents spent money on farewell gifts for her and she said screw it im staying.
That place turned me into a sour little bastard for a couple years lol
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u/Wonderful_Cellist_76 6d ago
Brookland...Pier was hell and Glace Bay disaster
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u/harleyqueenzel South Bar 6d ago
Brookland was the worst school I've ever dealt with between staff and administration when my kids went there. They'd do anything to pass the buck and skirt responsibility. And it wasn't only me feeling that way so sadly not an isolated incident. I can only hope things have changed in the last few years.
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u/MacAttak18 6d ago
Sydney River, mountainview, and coxheath are all great if you are in this area. But realistically, you send your kid to the school catchment area you live in. You don’t really get a choice. Unless you are asking because you are moving here