Just do yourself a favor and do not bring your kids here. I don't even know where to start with this school. First off, I can't recall how many times they shut down due to kids and staff testing positive for COVID. The toys always look filthy and disgusting so I know they aren't doing a good job of cleaning and disinfecting. When they were mandated to clean after having a positive COVID case, is when things actually looked clean. There's many times where the front door will be wide open and no one sitting at the front desk, so just anyone could walk in.
Mariella, the person who runs the school, is always extremely rude. She has a snotty attitude and you get the feeling you're being talked about as soon as you leave the school doors. I call every morning before 9 am, to let them know we will be there by 10 am, which is required of us to do. Her phones wouldn't go to voicemail, no one answered the phone, and I called at least 3 times. Then she had the audacity to point blame on me and told me to basically jump through more hoops and contact his teacher. Which even though it's ridiculous, I said fine.
Brings me to my next topic, I don't even know who his teachers are anymore because they switch so often. They never have constant or reliable staff. The only great teacher I've met there so far is Ms. Prascilla. There's two teachers who are still there even though I complained about how rude they are to the kids. A teacher with bright red hair is so rude to the kids. She will YELL at them, barking commands and god knows what else. I stayed home from work and kept my son with me any time she was filling in for his class because she is that mean. I refuse to let her watch him. There's some teachers who just don't care to be there and they don't care to engage, play, or teach the kids. There are constantly way too many kids in the classes. I understand it's about 9-1 ratio for kids/teachers for my sons age group but it's chaos. Theres three teachers in one class usually with 9 kids for each teacher. 20 something kids in one class at times. There's been multiple times where I've had to intervene personally between kids because one will be hitting another, climbing dangerously on something, or just crying without any comfort or acknowledgment from the teacher(s). There was a time when a little girl (no older than 3) had a giant piece of plastic in her mouth and no one even noticed till I did, she could've very well choked easily and no one would have noticed till it was too late.
There's been multiple times where my child's medicine was never distributed to him. They do medicine time twice a day and I always bring 4 vials, to ensure that they're being used. Yet, I've had multiple occasions where they told me yes, he got his medicine, but there were still 4 vials.
Due to the lack of availability in other schools, my child is stuck here until I can find somewhere else. I know of other parents that are in the same boat.
2 stars because the school itself is in a safe neighborhood. Otherwise, it'd be one.
I'm pretty easy going too so writing this review is really disappointing. read more