Do not send your child here. My child was here for a month and I quickly saw how bad it was and removed her. This was the first school my child attended and in the few weeks she was there she started exhibiting aggressive behaviors she never displayed prior to attending. She started hitting, scratching, pinching, and pushing.
They use covid as the reason to not allow parents to set foot in the school so you never know what is going on in your kids class and can never see or communicate with the teachers. Teachers are supposed to message you daily and give you updates but I was lucky if I got one photo a day and many days I got no updates on my child and 80% of my messages to the teachers would go unanswered. I brought this up to the director and she shrugged it off. When your child is too young to talk, this is NOT okay.
This school does not care how sick kids are as they never send them home. Every time I looked through her classroom window or got a photo I saw kids visibly sick with green mucus running down their noses or coughing/ sneezing non-stop. Yes, I know that it is normal for kids to get sick when starting school but this was another level of sick. Every 3-5 days my daughter was sick with something different, had to go to urgent care, and even got pink eye. I missed so much work staying home with her sick and then getting me sick that it defeated the purpose of paying for child care.
The last straw was when my child was bitten by another kid. The bite was so hard you could still see the imprint of every tooth on my childs arm the next day. I should have been called immediately by the director. Instead I was sent a text message by teacher and it was treated like no big deal. I asked 3 separate times for the director to contact me about the incident and she never bothered to call me. I had to track her down and when I finally spoke to her on the phone she was very dismissive and acted like it was no big deal.
The few times I was able to peer in my child class through the window I saw the kids playing with toys by themselves while the "teacher" was just there watching them. They do not provide enriching activities or play and teach the kids. They do the bare minimum and just supervise them.
My daughter is now in a new school and the difference in her behavior is night and day. Aggressive behavior immediately stopped and she is excited to go to school and runs inside when she sees her teacher instead of crying and not wanting to let me go like she would do at Riverside. read more