California Montessori Project

CMP Carmichael was a big disappointment. We brought our child here with high hopes of a caring environment. After only three weeks we are taking him out due to bullying and flat out abuse. The reaction from the staff when we brought up the many incidents was pathetic. This school is not interested in actually supporting children on their academic path. I would not recommend taking your child here, especally if they are new to the 7^th and 8^th grade program as there will be no support for the new kid whatsoever. To tolerate a child being abused by other children when the ratio is so small is beyond unacceptable.

The Carmichael Campus of the California Montessori Project is horrible! The school is extremely disorganized. Communication between the administration is lacking and what you do get is guarded. Things are changed at the last minute, without giving parents any advanced notice. They emphasize a small class size to get you in, but then increase the class size a few weeks into the school year by closing one class and distributing it among other classrooms. At that point you are stuck there. The principle Ms. Kim is disrespectful and condescending to the parents and many of the teachers. There is a very high turnover of teachers. Ms. Kim runs this school like a dictatorship, she doesn’t care about parent or teacher opinions.

OK… so…our daughter started out in Kindergarten there. Her teacher was fantastic and the school community was a pleasure. First and Second grades were pretty much the same story. We noted that their alternate language training was to provide them with a Rosetta Stone account and… well that was it. No follow up or guaranteed exposure in class. Then they moved to the new campus… and OMG
We would here ‘Mrs Kim’s’ voice mails every night on the phone «Good evening Carmichael Parents… I am the good fairy princess.». They have reorganized their parking loops and traffic flows 8 – 10 times in the time that we have been there. They even began controlling the way you exit the parking lot… yes redirecting traffic on public roads. The administrators cordened off all parking spots for themselves… forcing parents to park a block away if they want to walk there younger child in. They even started making the kids wait in the cold, out in the breezeways until 10 minutes prior to class so that their ‘facilitators’ had preparation time.
Yes…facilitators…not teachers. My daughter was one of 30+ kids in a single class from three different grades, and not one was on the same lesson. The one teacher never had one on one time with her, and very little time to speak to even her grade as a whole. Essentially, the way they have organized it there, is that your kid is in a correspondence course, and with a bit of luck they get a visit from a teacher.
They say it works for some.