The Goddard School

The Goddard school has educated, competent teachers with a small ratio of students and teachers. The smaller ratio fits my daughter best because she gets more 1:1 time with her teachers. They are very curriculum focused and the 1st month my 2 year went, not only did her speech improve immensely, her social skills as well. Highly recommend!

The Goddard School is an exceptional place. The staff truly cares about the development of each child. I cannot recommend highly enough.

Do NOT take your children to this place. They do not care who they accept, as long as you can pay the premium tuition of $1000 per month. My 80 year old mother who lived alone had a stroke in December. Resulting in my children & I moving back to the area from California to care for her. My husband remained in California to work. While I am here through summer with the kids alone. I currently am homeschooling a 10 & 6 year old online at home. While we also have a 3,4 and 10 month old in the house. I enrolled my 3 & 4 year old at Goddard to get them out of the house so the boys could school in peace. Rachel the owner did not ask any questions when I called, she simply stated there was room for both in a 4 day program. I came in that day handed her $2600 in cash for the registration & month for both children. She happily welcomed them both. I paid on a Friday. The following Monday was Presidents day, so they would not be able to start until Wednesday. I spent 3 hours filling out there registration & child information packets. I paid my babysitter $25 an hour to stay with my other children & mother while I took the 2 kids to get there physicals completed. In total a good 6-7 hours of my time getting them enrolled & $150 between co-pays & a babysitter. When Wednesday came my children went to their first day. They had an OK day. I packed both of them extra large lunches that day not knowing how anything worked if they stayed late (6pm latest pickup). If they had lunch at what time & if they were able to go back & eat from their lunch later in the day. When I picked them up at 5pm my kids told me the teachers made them throw all their food away, even sealed packaged food. Which does not make sense in any way shape or form. I can understand throwing away fruit, a half eaten sandwich, yogurt etc. But why sealed granola bars, fig bars, any of these things? These are all things that could be used towards the next days lunch. Absolutely no reason to throw them away. My 3 year old was especially upset about this. It's all he talked about. I told them both I would bring it up tomorrow at school. The next day at school at drop off I spoke with both teachers & they agreed. It did not make sense. Yet again upon pickup that day their lunch boxes were completely empty & they said the same story. Their teachers told them lunch was over throw it away whatever is left. That bothers me. As a mother of 5 children food in my house hold is a whole expense in itself. Now I care for & cook for my mother. So there is NO acceptable reason good food should be going in the trash. That day upon pickup as I was leaving the heavy set lady in the office (I do not recall her name) walks out & hands me an envelope filled with money. She said my children could no longer attend the school. I was so caught off guard. She said "Rachel emailed you." I asked why & she said that my children are unvaccinated & it was school policy in the handbook that they must be vaccinated. The day I came in to enroll, I paid my $2600 & that was it. Rachel walked us to the room my daughter would be in. Then the room my son would be in. I was given 2 folders with paperwork for both to bring back the following week. Never a booklet of policies or school rules etc. No one ever gave me a tour. Went over anything. I was paid and they were enrolled. That was how it was handled. With the situation at home with my boys needing to be online to finish the remainder of the school year I needed the 2 little ones out. Atleast a few days a week to give the boys some peace to do their studies in. My children have never gone to a daycare, preschool, anything. It took us as a family the entire week to hype my little 2 up on how great this was going to be for them. That they would get to do crafts, make friends, play etc. Finally when I had them excited the school just hands me an envelope and says they cannot return. My husband is Moroccan Jew. Born and raised in LA. They do not vaccinate based off Religious reasons. This IS & always has been acceptable. Hence, religious exemptions.

I love this school. All of the faculty and staff are friendly, well educated in their fields, easy to work with, and work so well with the students. My son has grown and matured dramatically since he's started at Goddard, and it's only been a few weeks. This school is definitely filled with people who are passionate about their jobs, and the growth and development of their students.

I think it is a very enriching experience for my son to be interacting with other kids his age and being stimulated in a learning environment by a structured curriculum taught by caring instructors.