Please take into account that this review is based on a walkthrough of the school and my kid never attended and I have no input on the teaching itself. For all I know they may be the most amazing educators to walk the earth but unfortunately, I will never find out. I say this because the walkthrough left me rather amazed. The place is tiny, three little rooms, a hallway and a reception. No bathrooms! The bathrooms are outside the fascility down a sidewalk further down the building next to the parking lot and belong communaly to the entire building. The six children in a class are taken all at the same time by one teacher and lined up against the wall then told to go one by one. In the middle of the hallway between the classes, there is a closet with no door and just an open curtain that houses what could best be described as a pantry/teacher's lounge/first aid kit. It is not a room, but a few shelves crammed with a coffee machine within reach of children and coffee supplies. Also within children's reach was a big bottle of tylenol. The rest of the hallway was crammed with ikea toy drawers filled with.... Toys. Hundreds of toys that frankly made it seem more like a hurridely put together daycare than a school of any sort. I can certainly understand that an educator can use inventive props to convey certain concepts but this was way beyond that. While we were being shown one of the three rooms, a three or four year old little girl just wandered in, sat down on the floor and proceeded to eat little marshmallows from these marshmallow sculptures on the floor. This went on for a couple of minutes. The lady giving us the tour did not even blink at the fact that there was a class somewhere missing a kid, and here she was eating a sculpture. That same room had blinds that were in tatters akin to something you may find adorning the windows of a roadside motel. Although I do not believe the lady giving us the tour was an educator, It was still a little disscomcerning that a spanish language immersion school has spanish speakers working for them and interacting with the children that drop the letter "s" from all the words they use to speak to them and others. If this were any other type of school then this would be acceptable just not ideal, here it leaves a lot to be desired. I actually preffer a school with uniforms as it simplifies things and keeps uneccesary distractions out of the equation. That said, this school requires all children to wear a cheap white tshirt with their logo and their phone number in a huge font on the front. I guess some parents don't care but I don't want my kid to be a free walking billboard for their business. The place is in general dissaray and that includes the welcome pamphlet printed on a page with long black toner lines on it with a business card paperclipped to it. I don't expect a welcome packet bound in leather but a little more dedication, pride, and profecionalism would have inspired much more confidence in the rest of their program. read more
