Little Acorns Montessori

We couldn&#39;t speak more highly of the wonderful care we received over the past two years at little acorns. The teachers are warm, well educated, caring and so fun! The school is clean and bright. We were so impressed with the sweet touches: birthday circles, parent/teacher meetings, graduation ceremony, parenting workshops, options to give parent hours. We felt supported, as an entire family, from billing questions to changes in schedule. We will sincerely miss it!

This has been an awful experience. As another reviewer has posted, the owner, Mindy, prioritizes making money over caring for children, and it shows. We made the very unfortunate mistake of sending both of our kids (four years apart) to two of the schools she operates, last one being this Little Acorns Montessori, and our experience has been terrible both times. As they say - fool me once... The facilities look clean and well-cared for, which is an obvious attempt to &#34;sell&#34;, and it works. However, this comes at the expense of teachers being treated horribly (did you know that teachers stay after hours to clean?) - and it results in a very high teacher turnover. They are paid pennies compared to other places, and good ones just don&#39;t stay. As a matter of fact the teachers we spoke to were miserable, but were afraid to go on record because of some threatening remarks made by the owner. But the biggest problem is with the way they treat children. As soon as your kid deviates in the slightest way from a compliant, submissive and subdued behavior, he or she is labeled &#34;not a Montessori child&#34;, and the school begins a process of pushing your kid out. We didn&#39;t realize it until the teachers told us it was a &#34;standard operating procedure&#34; - a warning, a letter, a requirement to hire an expert/shadow/aide, then an aggressive push towards termination. All for the sake of maintaining a low-cost cookie-cutter business model with minimal investment into actual childcare and learning. You should read the other reviews - apparently we weren&#39;t the only ones experiencing this. I can totally relate to the other&#39;s feedback... I can&#39;t complain about racism (our kids are white) - but being immigrants definitely didn&#39;t help. The worst part of it is how it would affect your kid. If he or she is &#34;labeled&#34;, they will make them miserable - until your usually happy and agreeable child screams every morning when getting ready to go to school. For us it ended when our three-year old told us one of the teachers slapped him. Doesn&#39;t matter if it was real or perceived - he&#39;s been complaining for weeks that the teachers were mean to him, so that was just the last straw. Convenience aside - why would you send your kids every morning to be unhappy? Case in point - both our kids are doing amazingly well now - the younger in a loving, attentive daycare, and the older in a great elementary school... both were labeled as lost causes by the Little Acorns owner. Don&#39;t make the same mistake as we did - a new shiny facility is less important than your child getting the love and respect they deserve.

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