Sanz School

With the exception of a few very dedicated teachers, I have nothing good to say about this school.
Facility: Classrooms often lack heat or air conditioning, and the bathrooms have two few stalls (the men’s rooms has no urinal and only one stall for dozens of people, and the women’s room has two stalls). They are filthy (urine on the floors and toilet seats, toilet tissue everywhere, odor sometimes so bad, it is nauseating, and at least one of the two sinks often stopped up). It is not uncommon to have mice running around the classroom, and once a dead mouse was not removed from a classroom for over a week. The odor of the dead rodent was unbelievable and extended into the hallway, and an administrator sprayed perfume in the hallway to «cover up» the odor. The students routinely complain about how uncomfortable the classroom seating is. Basic technological support such as dvd players, computers, etc. is either non-​existent or often doesn’t work.
Staff: While some of the teachers are excellent and highly dedicated, some have poor English pronunciation and grammatical skills themselves. One teacher throws things, walks down the hallways yelling profanities and acts out physically on furniture in the classroom. Another comes to teach smelling heavily of alcohol.
Some students who enter the classroom do not have enough English reading ability to be in a classroom that requires reading skills, and are literally wasting their money when they should have been in a literacy program and not in a vocational English program. The books are boring and not really appropriate for the needs of the students, and the exams are inconsistent, with some teachers making their own and others using prepared exams that are too easy as to really be a measurement tool. Students are shuffled back and forth from level to level to satisfy problems of classroom availability, and sometimes their grades are altered to allow them to be placed in a class they are not suited for in order to accommodate this space problem, or students are asked to skip levels because the school doesn’t have adequate enrollment at a particular level.