Slater Montessori Academy

I walked in to take a tour this Preschool and it was super attractive. Beautiful classrooms. Fairytale-ish playground. Rachel, who I believe is the new director showed me and my wife around and explained the curriculum, which is great. Definitely a contender.

I have seen some of the negative reviews on here and I must say that the school has improved any problems they may have had previously. The staff is wonderful and the school is a great place to bring your child if you want them to become proficient readers!

My child attended the program at Slater and had good results. He had with his friends and was ahead of his grade level when he attend elementary school. Staff was always friendly despite the pandemic stress and they wore masks.

I attended this preschool a long time ago, back in the mid to late 2000s, and I gotta say, it was a good experience for me to get out of my home and explore the world in which I live in as well as to check out and learn the basics of education for the first time in my life. I enjoyed my preschool years there, except that there was this one teacher who played with the kids as if they were her toys and was sometimes a little too impatient with them. She didn't really care a lot about educating the kids at all; it seemed that all she cared about was having a job. It appears that the school needs to identify their teachers more closely, to make sure that they are fully fit and 100% reliable when it comes to educating the youngest students in the world. Overall, I think this preschool is pretty good since I learned so much there and had fun making special memories there as well. I would recommend this school to any parent looking for a reliable place where their kids can get a first glimpse of the world as well as their education.

When My son started, he got evaluated to see if he could fit in the same class age range and he passed. What didn’t sit well with me, was that the teacher treated my son as if he was there from day one when it came to homework. I mean in some sense that’s fine but when it comes to development, learning, skills and his ability, that should of been on a whole new level of evaluation. I believe by the teacher providing the same work to all students, it helps make the teacher’s job easier. They gave him homework like all the other kids but they gave him the same addition math homework as everyone else. My son has never done math work before, the teacher should of started him off with 1+1, 1+2 and not 5+1 and 5+9, etc. When we left the school, my son’s last math homework was 7+8 and 7+9. This caused a bit of a stress on my son and me.

After about a month, my son’s teacher was moved to a different class. I soon found out that teachers were being favored over others. Teachers are talking to parents about other teachers and among themselves obviously. That’s when I decided to pull my son out of the school because I’m not sure if I wanted him to be in such environment. I did bring this up to the director’s attention and was not happy on how she approached the situation. The director asked me who I obtained these information from. I was not comfortable providing the names of the people that was informing me of what was and is going on. She left me with an unprofessional feeling and not how you would run a school. I informed her instead of me providing names, you should addressed the issue with your whole staff. She than came back and told me that because I didn’t provide names, she wrote all her staff up with a warning. Which again left me feeling unprofessional because I didn’t think that was something she needed to let a parent know.

His new main teacher who came from another classroom. Did not took the time to greet the parents when we came to pick up our kids. It’s always the assistant. I tried to say hello and talk to her when I come to pick up my son because I believe that parent and teacher should have relationship. She seems to shy away and avoid eye contact. Which leaves me to think, how is she teaching and interacting with the kids. I had to informed the director that the cubby area floor always have jackets on the floor and kids, staff and parents could easily tripped over and hurt themselves.

My son was on anabiotic and drops. I provided to the school with paperwork and specific instructions on providing the medication to my son. I also instructed that the medication have to be refrigerated. I came to pick up my son one day to find his medication on the counter......room temperature. This could’ve caused harm to my son. He was unable to continue with medication and I had to email the doctor. Lucky he was ok to discontinue the medication because if he had continue the medication it would have not worked to its fullest. I was pretty upset how irresponsible the teacher was. I understand that she has a room full of students to attend too but with something so important I would’ve of thought she would make that her priority with the assistant and director to help assist.

Last, I reached out to another Montessori to obtained the owner’s contact information because I believe that the owner needs to be aware of what’s going on in her schools. That also failed because I reached out before Easter and still haven’t gotten call back as I was told the she really wanted to talk to me about what happened. So that also left me feeling unprofessional. I’m sorry but Maria Montessori would not be proud to know that her name and goal was not kept up to it’s name.

My children are attending this school right now and since their attendance, I have noticed a significant improvement in their social development. They greet me after a long day at school and I have noticed their manners improving without me having to do anything. Even better, their teacher is very kind is helping them grow academically.

I would like to start by saying how happy my husband and I have been with Slater Montessori Academy.  Our two boys started there this school year, one in Ms. Krista&#39;s classroom and our other in Ms. Robyn&#39;s classroom, and they have been excited to go to school every day. The back story: our oldest son was at another local Montessori - which we loved - for four and a half years, but what was so special about that school were the teachers.  Ms. Krista being one of those teachers.  When she decided to return to Slater Montessori Academy, we made a tough decision and followed her there.  Our trust and respect in her ability as a teacher is that strong, and we have not been disappointed.  She is now the teacher for our younger son, who is four, and Ms. Robyn is our older son&#39;s second grade teacher. Although our older son is no longer with Ms. Krista, Ms. Robyn has been equally amazing!   We know that every time we drop the boys off at school they are safe, happy, and challenged academically.  All the things a parent could hope for in a school has been provided here.  All the teachers are loving!   I will leave off with saying that my husband and I do not take our boys&#39; education or where they are educated lightly.  We researched six different schools before we placed them in their previous school.  Our decision to follow Ms. Krista here, and to keep our boys here for the remainder of the school year, has not been a disappointment, and we are truly grateful for Slater Montessori Academy.

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