Montessori In Motion

The teachers and daycare providers are great and consistently communicate with parents providing a great place for children to explore, learn and grown. I really appreciate and love the teachers and wouldn't continue in the daycare if it weren't for them. The same cannot be side on the management side. For example, I've recieved bills for other parents explaining that they are past due. These kinds of errors cause a lot concern. The managing director of the daycare leaves parents in the dark, often guessing about key transition states. The severe lack of communication is difficult to address as she often makes herself hard to reach.

This is our 3rd daycare/preschool for our son and it’s by far the best. As a parent you know the difference between people who genuinely care about your child’s well being and loves them vs. Staff and teachers just collecting a check. There’s no where else I would want my child. Our only worry is having to find a kindergarten after this that has just as high of standards of education, creativity, and love.

My son got a great education here many years ago. Now his old classmates from the 90’s are sending their children to MIM. That alone speaks volumes for the school. It was the best Montessori school in the area then and still is today! Gotta love MIM!

We had 2 kids in this preschool over the last 5 years. The first 4 were great, Mrs Bree and Mrs Angela especially will always hold a special place in our hearts for the amazing care they provided our kids. In the last year or so there was a pretty dramatic change in the behaviors we saw being allowed here and the games that were being played on the playground (like “zombies” where the kids “kill” each other). Our youngest, 3 year old, started coming home talking about violence and killing, he was saying other kids were biting him and hitting him (came home with bite marks multiple times, we witnessed a few of these incidents at the family barbecue and when picking our child up). We talked to the teacher, Ms Hunter about these concerns and were repeatedly ignored and brushed off. We continued to bring these concerns up over the next 6-8 months, but were told they wouldn’t do anything about it because some of the kids have “special needs”. Eventually we went to Ms May (who is in charge) about our concerns. Our son’s teacher then began to retaliate against us and our son for drawing attention to these things, she would say things like “yah, well all the kids play this way” and when we showed her the bite marks she said that it is “probably happening to him at home, not at school”. We asked for him to be kept separate from these other kids, and the teacher’s response was, maybe you should just move him out of my room, Montessori isn’t the right place for him. We again spoke to Ms May who said there is nothing she can do regarding this, she refused to move him out of ms hunter’s room, and told us that if we didn’t like it, we could unenroll him. I asked what she would do if it was her child or grandchild and she said she would unenroll them and take them somewhere else. If the person in charge wouldn’t even have her own children or grandchildren here, how should anyone else feel comfortable with bringing their child here? We immediately unenrolled our child who now goes to another daycare in the area, and instantly his behavior and demeanor improved, he actually looks forward to going, and hasn’t had any problems with being bullied by older kids. It’s just sad that after having our children there for 5 years, they wouldn’t work with us to keep our child safe, and their only response was “if you don’t like it, leave”. I did give 2 stars only because we did have such a good experience with our first child there, and with our youngest in the infant and toddler rooms. I would just caution anyone considering this school, to look at other options instead. We later found out from one of the staff members, that several other kids have also recently unenrolled or moved out of for similar concerns.

Montessori in Motion is an amazing Montessori school! We have sent both our children here from infant to kindergarten. They’ve received a great education here and learned to be independent learners and kind members of this special community.