Columbus Jr High School

This school is the best kept secret in the Valley. The students are kind and caring. The campus is beautiful and quiet. The teachers, staff and principal are working hard on behalf of the students to ensure it is a great place for learning.

Columbus is a great school! I was a student at Columbus from 1996 – 1998 and had a wonderful experience, I met some of my very best friends there. I know for a fact that they have a very intelligent and friendly staff and are working towards improving the school any way they can.

Review: Recognizing school issues with school faculties. (LAUSD)
Address: 22 250 Elkwood St, Canoga Park, CA 91 304
Phone: (818) 702‑1200
Fax: (818) 348‑2894
Date of visit: Tuesday Dec 1, 2009
Name: Ann Allocca, Principal
Lenght of visit: 10 mins.
As a parent liason in our community of Canoga Park and West Hills family, I would like express my disappointment toward Ann Allocca’s actions who’s the principal for Columbus Middle in the city of Canoga Park.
On the day of my suprise visit in her office. As a parent of two young students of our local community school and as a parent representative for our community I had found that I will no longer nor looking forward to have my innocent children to be near Mrs./Ms. Ann Alloca in the near future. She have proven her worthless attitude to service my family by showing a very negative behavior toward a parents of Los Angeles school district. We will no longer pursue our children’s future education to be part of Columbus Middle school. Her negative and disrespectful actions had me scared to even think of having any children in her presence.
I will be taking some actions and will make this a point why many of our children are not learning from our school system is due to an example of worthless educator like Ann Allocca who’s a perpetrator in our school system.
The day of my visit was a nerve wrecking moment, a moment a mother has to encounter with feeling of worthless and lasting with a nervous emotions.
I walked into her office and greeted her with hello and kindness by making an effort to extend my hand to shake hand, but she did not extend her hand or even try to shake mine. I was also hoping for her to ask me how she can service my presence. The first thing she asked was who was I? I said my name is Anita Betito and I live in the community. She respond by saying «I don’t know you» with a unpleasant tone in her voice and attitude. I continually tried to extend my hand to her to shake her hand but, she did not want to extend her hand to me. I was hoping she would also offer me one of the empty two chairs in her office, which she did not, I was standing throughout this dillema. I was pretty consumed with her negative unpleasant behavior that I was encountering a nervous emotions and confusion. Her actions toward me was unexplainable. I did not know what to do at this moment but explain to her my purpose of visiting her office. As I stood there, while she’s sitting down and had a very unpleasant look on her face as we went further by the minutes of unpleasant moment, I knew that my purpose of visit was unwanted. She replied to me and says if you’re asking us to help you my answer is no. At this time she also has not taken the time to read the invitation I had handed her, but all she did was took the time to make me feel very unpleasant by being rude to me. At this moment, I have accepted that this woman don’t want nothing to do with me. The further the conversation, my emotional confusion has extended with her unpleasant actions toward my presence. I decided to end this trauma that I was encountering at the moment. I walked away as she spun her chair to face her computer with no goodbyes or nor thank you for visiting her campus that day. I sat in my car and gave my self a breather, inhale and exhale and try to catch myself with overwhelming and scared emotions. I went back in my thoughts and re evaluated the visit.
The first thing came to my my mind was the race card issue might have played. The second issue was descrimination?, but yet, I have to keep my mind open to this subject. It was pretty understood in my caliber of business and education that Ann Allocca did not take her time or effort to show me her loyalty and dedication to our children and our family.
My goal is to help our children and it’s family. I will make sure that this incident I have encountered with Ann will not happen to any other innocent family again. Being a principal does not empower you to make any family worthless than you.
Our children has not fail our family, Ann Allocca has FAILED our families. She let our children and community down. I am hoping for our school district to take some kind of disciplinary action toward such unprofessional faculty like Ann Allocca. At this point her service in no longer needed by my family.
Sometimes it only take kindness to make an effort in making a change in our children’s life.
Reviewer Business:
Community Relations Los Angeles
Los Angeles Services Contributor
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Tips: take time to visit your children’s school and find out what type of faculty you’re dealing with. There are no more excuses for bad behavior from an adult.