Private Schools

Morning Star Ranch is a religious community of the Twelve Tribes of Israel. You may have had their food or yerba mate at any of their Yellow Deli locations, or maybe you've tasted their Green Drink at your local farmer's market, maybe you've even seen their brightly painted bus or have been handed a copy of the Twelve Tribes Free Paper at the music festival you attended last summer. The community at Morning Star Ranch (one of many world wide) is based on the first church founded on Christ's teachings as described in the New Testament, though they do not associate with Christianity nor Judaism. It is a farming community of maybe 50 men, women, and children. Each is given a Hebrew name by the community and, in fact, Christ is referred to by his Hebrew name of Yeshua. They focus primarily on Yeshua's teachings of love and acceptance but also on ushering in the Day of Judgment as described in the book of Revelations. Some view The Twelve Tribes as a cult and others as a benign religious institution. Either way, referring to Morning Star as a "training program" or "private school" is a little spooky to me.

We have taken our little now for the full year and she loves it. We're enrolled for summer and fall 2016. Her teachers have been amazing. One thing I would suggest is for better newsletters that really reiterate or remind us of important dates such as Last Day / First Day / Re-enrollment. Sometimes it can take a little while to open up the newsletter from a smart phone. It's nice to see important dates in BOLD or CAPS letter in an email since that is the first thing I open up (before the newsletter). They did a great job with reminding us of festive days like Valentine's Day and Easter, as well as, teacher's appreciation week. Looking forward to another year at Merryhill.

My three year old son attended this preschool for only 30days. Under my conception the teachers were not well prepared. My son speaks only spanish and we only speak spanish at home. The teachers suggested me to talk ONLY in english to my son so he will not have problems at school. I was surprised by this because they supposed not know that when a child does not speak english they can use other ways to teach. Also studies shows, specially in this county were kids speaks more than one lenguage that kids can get confused when both lenguages are mix. Teachers are young, not well prepared and some of them rude. I will not recommend this school.

Best school ever

Mashallah this is a great school.