My son initially loved it here but as the class size grew the experience deteriorated. The teacher told my son that he was not allowed to get up during lunch so he had multiple accidents in his pants. The poop was wrapped up in the pants and put directly into his backpack next to his lunch box, clean clothes, and pillow. We have had several pieces of his belongings lost or damaged. As the class size has grown, there is less physical space for each child, less materials to go around, and the teacher struggles to monitor the children. My son has come home with physical injuries three days in a row. When my son tries to tell other kids to leave him alone, they don't listen, and the teacher is not available so he pushes them away and then he is the one that receives an incident report from the teacher. The teacher does not set consistent rules for every child in the class. My son was told that he cannot play some of the games that the other kids can because he is too big and weights too much. When I attempted to raise concerns of class size to the onsite owner, she was defensive and accused me of making false accusations. When the onsite owner found out that I had spoke to 3 other mothers in the class about the class size, I was accused of slander, defamation, libel, and threatened with legal action. The onsite owner also emailed the entire school regarding my concerns and condemning my conversations with other parents with whom I am friends as unsolicited communications. I believe that communication between the school and parent is key to doing what is best for the child and that forming relationships with classmates outside of school is wonderful. We have moved on to another local school that supports equality, manageable class sizes, communication, and building relationships. It's sad, my son loves his friends there and Ms. Melissa, Director, and some of the teachers, Ms. Katie and Ms. Bridget are great.
