Legacy Academy

My son has attended Legacy for the past 1.5yrs. He had a tough go of it with a few of the teachers but has really connected with his peers and is well taken care of. Teacher turn over is one of the toughest variables in this industry and the owners do a great job of communicating with parents when it happens and supporting the kids as well. They have a working garden, beautiful LARGE classrooms and a very clean environment. The playgrounds are fantastic too with a water feature for the kids to enjoy in the summer.

Just to follow up, we’ve been at our new daycare for a few months now and I was astonished to find out that my son does not actually dislike school – in fact he loves it. He cried every single day I took him to Legacy and literally has not cried even one time at his new school. I thought he just didn’t like school, I had no idea it was the particular school. He loves school now and sometimes doesn’t want to come home! After experiencing a different facility, I am more convinced than ever that Legacy is not quality care.

Not much of a five-​star experience…
We enrolled our 3y/​o here in a rush after the year had started. They had a really nice, brand new, infrastructure (though the playground has barely any shade), and we basically trusted the five star accreditation that is boldly displayed on their front gate.
We were not really impressed with the teachers from the start but tried to take things easy. As the days went by, it was evident that there were some out of control boys in the classroom that the teachers were unable to tame down. Just one week into this new preschool, our son arrived home one day to say «I’m so glad to be home, it feels safe here» big red flag! Although we tried speaking to the teacher and the school managers, it’s really hard to change the rules once a child has been used to get away with anything for weeks. I was able to see by myself one day as all the kids sang in a circle with the teachers, while this ‘odd couple’ would run and scream around the room doing whatever else, and nobody tried to stop them. Then my son starting putting a struggle every morning before going to school, and complaining about his classmates’ «violence».
Teaching preschoolers is really hard, it requires being sharp and fast, and very special skills for controlling behavior. The most important things for kids to learn at a preschool are behavior management and socializing, all the other stuff on the curriculum is just secondary. These people may have the best intentions, but they are sorely lacking the skills and training.
After about a month at Legacy Academy, we switched our son to the Kehillah Preschool and he loves it. The teachers are really sharp and focused, and the children are really sweet and well mannered. Now my kid is asking me to go to school on weekends!
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In response to management’s reply. I probably did not give the best example by citing the kids jumping and screaming around the circle but I was trying to be gentle with my review and to state just what I saw directly. But my child’s complaints (and I trust him fully not to lie to me on this) were pointing at outright bullying and violence in the classroom. He was beaten and shoved by the other kids; and as an extremely compassionate child, he got very upset when he saw these kids beating others, and even each other. He was having nightmares as weeks went on at his school. The last day I picked him up, the teacher was extremely nervous talking to me and she told me he had hit himself in the forehead, yet later that night he told me that it was one of the other kids who hit him in the head with one of the toys.
When you know you have special needs children, you know you should have especially trained teachers, and know to never leave them in a room with only one teacher.