After hearing glowing recommendations for this school, I decided to call and set up a tour. During this tour (in which my son was not present due to COVID) my husband and I met with a teacher at the location on Abbington St. in North Port, the home location where I'm told the kids that go to VPK part-time attend. I was taken aback when a student approached the teacher and asked if she could paint. The teacher then told her no and to go sit down and do a worksheet, then looked at us, laughed and said, "That was weird". Now, normally I would not think anything of this, but what kind of teacher uses the word "weird" when discussing a STUDENT to another parent? My son is not what you'd call a "cookie cutter" child and would most definitely be the child asking out of the box questions, such as if he could paint at an unusual time, or asking all sorts of "weird" questions.... Another issue I had with this school is their lack of correspondence. I have twice tried to contact them via email to ask questions about registration and have gotten no reply. I have called and only gotten someone on the phone who sounded annoyed and too busy to speak. After considering what I've learned so far and reading other negative reviews for myself, I am less than impressed with this school and will not be sending my son here for VPK. I urge you to dig for yourself and ask yourself if you are alright with staff talking about your child like this to other parents behind their back. To me this is unacceptable and sad. I held off on writing this review to give them time to reply to me, but I still haven't heard back and I've decided to go ahead and share my experience. read more