So I'm back about four years later to edit this review.
I was a "perfect" first time mom and I'm off my high horse now. There was nothing wrong with this school and I'm humiliated just reading this. I over reacted and I'm sorry! I get it now.
Original: I originally enrolled my 3 year old son for part time preschool at the Junior Junction school in Auburn, when it closed we were told we could switch our enrollment to the Junior Junction Day School if we wanted. I toured the school and it looked great! Very clean, a nice outside play area, a secure entrance, and I loved the classroom. We switched enrollment that day and my son was so excited to start preschool in the fall. Unfortunately once he started we very quickly regretted our decision. The major problem here was his teacher. ***** were his instructors. The first red flag I had was after his very first day, my son told me that the class did not go outside because "kids in the class were naughty". We don't call kids naughty at our house so I felt he picked that up from something the teachers said at preschool, it didn't sit well with me. I thought I was possibly overreacting or being overly sensitive so we took him back for the next preschool class again. I started noticing the teacher was rarely smiling anymore, my son could not tell me what he learned about, and the work he brought home was way too easy (match the big dog to the big doghouse, the small dog to the small doghouse, and the medium dog to the medium doghouse...Really? I would expect a 3 year old to be able to learn at a higher level than that easily). What happened when we came to pick my son up his last day at JJDS was really the last straw. We arrived early and were waiting in the parking lot to go inside about 10 minutes before his class would be released. We saw ****attempting to get the children to line up to go outside. She and ****looked frustrated and overwhelmed. It took a few minutes for them to get control of the line then they walked out toward the play area.... And came back less than 5 minutes later. There's no way the kids got a real chance to play. My husband and I went in the building to wait. When we went in the classroom that day all the kids were sitting on the rug, the little boy next to my son kept kicking him. *****saw, but said nothing. My son politely asked the boy to stop, when he wouldn't stop kicking my son moved. Then there was another child sitting next to a bucket of fun looking toys. Obviously the temptation was too much, the child reached in and grabbed a toy. *****silently grabbed his arm, forced the toy out of his hand, and threw it back in the bucket. Not one word of explanation to the child. My husband and I could not leave fast enough. We left our letter with the desk that we were not coming back and never did. read more