Sara’s Pre-School

My wife and I have had a great experience with Sara’s pre-​school. I’m a high school level educator, so pardon the bias, or maybe the professional understanding. Although I’m an educator by profession, I’m a parent first. I understand parents so much more at my job now that I’m a parent myself. Parents in 2016 are sensitive, protective and sometimes too involved. Sorry… Even at this stage (I have a 5 year old and a 3 year old) you have to let them make mistakes and yes, as hard as it is, let little kids solve some little problems. With respect to the only other review on here, it is not really fair or accurate in my opinion. In the past four years with Sara’s, I have never felt uninformed… ever! Regarding «bullies», well, first of all I think it is hard for me to imagine a «bully» in the «walkers» room or in a Kindergarten class with a student to teacher ratio of 9 – 1. There are teachers everywhere in that building and the thought of a bully in Sara’s pre-​school is honestly laughable. I don’t mean to offend anyone, but seriously as a 14 year educator and author of a doctoral dissertation on bullying, I’m telling you that the pieces to that puzzle don’t fit at Sara’s. If I had one small nit-​picky concern at Sara’s, it would be the food menu. It’s fine, pizza on Friday, mac n’ cheese one day, pbj another. Sara is a private enterprise, not state funded. So listen, as a «veteran pre-​school parent» OMG, I’m getting old… one is likely to find at least one thing they don’t personally like at any given pre-​school and the ‘perfect’ pre-​school is out of your commuting path or too far or whatever. What really matters in my experience? My kids are safe! My kids are very happy! My kids smile when I see them at pick up, drop off is a breeze, they have friends, share birthday parties on the weekends, heck, one teacher invited the whole school to her wedding! All of the kids were mesmerized and thought she looked like a princess ;-) They have a Halloween parade, a Holiday party with Santa giving presents, awesome school pictures, a mother’s day tea party, a father’s day soda pop party, etc. So listen, Sara is firm, but she is running a school… That is what you want! She and I have had a few closed door meetings that I have asked for. She listened to my concerns when i used to have them (as a junior parent) and she always speaks straight forward about any issue, and I felt good about that. The teachers are great about communicating with parents and give our kids hugs and kisses. It’s a wonderful place, small, with that Americana home town feel.

Sara and most of teachers are very cold.
They never want to talk with parents. The worst
Thing is even if your kid is not happy they will never let you
Know and even if you ask, they will just say he or she is
Doing well. Never send your kids there since you never know
What is going on. They do nothing about bully.