If you're looking to get your toddler started in Montessori where the teachers don't care about your child's learning and development, choose Hope Falcon! Now, here's the situation. A primary teacher left, which they took one of the teachers for my son's class. No communication, email or anything regarding this. Then, within two weeks they took his favorite teacher for the baby class because another staff left that classroom too. Suddenly, the 2's room got whole new staff he wasn't used to and he started leaving the classroom. He did this twice, three times each day, during circle time. This was never an issue before until this new staff transition. The new teachers were sweet, but after the second time I confronted them, and to the one that supposedly had almost two decades of childhood education, asking the question of "why is it so hard for you to keep my son in your class for all this experience you've been appraised by the director for?" Apparently, that was attacking and the director who I discussed with the week before trying to implement a plan for my son, forced de-enrollment for my son. Hope policy states a support plan which entailed 2-3 meetings, and a period for 1-3 weeks of improvement is part of the enrollment packet. The director and assistant director both refused to work with me and especially refused to show ANY type of SUPPORT for my son in the classroom, and the director made me feel like it was my fault and my son was a danger to the environment. "It's a dangerous behavior, and I can't have allow this in my school" she stated. Let me add, they wrote my son up for being a toddler and opening a door, which MAJORITY of toddlers do developmentally anyways. The ridiculous part was her saying my son was a danger to the environment for this. Also, stating "if I have nobody at the front desk, it's a liability if he manages to get outside the school." Understandably so, why wouldn't you have at least one staff member watching the front desk? Oh! Apparently, the fire martial is the one who deems it not worthy to bubble an exit button or fire alarm system that little hands can reach in a school where toddlers are going for some reason too. Thanks Mr.Fire martial, thanks Kerry, thanks Patty for NOT FOLLOWING YOUR OWN POLICY AND TREATING MY SON LIKE A DOLLAR SIGN. read more