Peninsula Montessori School

I had a disrespectful incident with the owner of the school. She is the old lady in the front of the gate checking tempers. First of all I would like to say she never came off friendly or ever greeted me as I am a first time parent at her school. What happened was I ran across the street to leave my daughter at the gate. I saw there was a parked car on the drive way. Just to be clear it wasn&#39;t moving as my daughter and I ran across the street. I got to the front gate and I realized she was nodding her head at me, I also saw she nodded her head to the driver in the parked car, and then she nodded her head at a staff member who was there as well. What was the point there? At first I was puzzled. Then she say&#39;s &#34;well that was a close call&#34; since I was the only one at the gate at the time I thought okay she&#39;s talking about me. I replied &#34;what was a close call?&#34; She said the car almost hit me and my daughter. I told her I didn&#39;t see the car moving and she said &#34;I know.&#34; What I should have said was the car wasn&#39;t moving when we ran across the street. What mother would put her child and herself in harms way? So after she treated me like a child and tried to embarrass me in front of the public, she realized I spoke up about the incident so she tried to sugar code it with my very first GOOD BYE. I obviously left upset. I thought am I really paying all this money for this? I hope the education really makes up for the lack of respect. I was better off at a catholic school. I decided to make a complain in which is where I found out the old lady was the owner, okay well that just got worse. After trying to make a complain they directed my call straight to her and boy was I ready. I told her the way she handled the situation was disrespectful. She then started talking about the car moving and the person had to stomp on the brakes. What I think happened was my daughter and I ran across the street right when the driver was getting ready to leave, put the car on drive and maybe wasn&#39;t fully aware, and was about to go but saw us and pushed the brakes. I understand her worry. So back to the phone call.. I told her that&#39;s not what I&#39;m complaining about. She was so stuck on trying to say the car was moving. I told her &#34; ma&#39;am I would never run with my daughter onto a moving vehicle.&#34; I am complaining about how you handled the situation afterwards. As I felt the conversation turning into an argument I tried ending it with &#34;well I hope that doesn&#39;t happen again.&#34; She then says &#34;we&#39;ll I hope you don&#39;t cross the street diagonally again.&#34; Lol **the owner of the school**  Who in the hell is she to tell me what to do? And by the way I didn&#39;t even cross diagonally but like I said she was so stuck on trying to say i ran into the moving vehicle just because she saw the brake lights. I didn&#39;t want to argue any long and realized this old lady is full of her self so I just hung up. Moral of the story is she&#39;s disrespectful or racist and if she&#39;s so concern about anyone getting hit, why is she allowing these cars to park right in front of the student entrance where parents and student cross all the time? There&#39;s a big parking lot where parents can park. The drop off, pick up station is very dangerous. So now that shes claiming I ran in front of a moving car I can see how that can be a concern and she should organize that where parent and students aren&#39;t in danger. Im not saying I did that but I can see that happening and I&#39;m sure it has happened before. It actually is dangerous the way they organized that. Definitely going to be the first and last year here. Besides her everyone else was a pleasure coming across.

We are so grateful for the teachers and staff at Peninsula Montessori. Notwithstanding the challenges that 2020 brought, they continued to work extremely hard to create a safe haven for our children to learn and grow. A special thank you to Ms. Becky, Ms. Cheryl and Ms. Kathy and Ms. Melissa who were wonderful to our two boys. They love going to school every day and we can see the benefits of a Montessori education - their thirst for learning and questioning never stops. We are excited to be back in 2021!

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