Linda’s Preschool

I have had nothing but good experiences here. Linda, Denise, and Shelly are very loving and caring towards the children. The home is super clean and well organized. My son couldn’t wait to go to school everyday and always had a great time while he was there. He came home with art projects, papers showing what he had learned that week, and they even brought in some people to teach the kids how to brush their teeth. Linda has a strong personality and a very strict standard of care. She does not baby the kids nor does she sugarcoat a child’s behavior. She employs strict cleaning schedules for the staff, and hand washing with the kids. They love the children they care for and that is exemplified in how happy my son is when he is there, how excited he gets when it’s time to go to school and simply in how I see her interact with the kids. She has rules, much like any family, and she expects children to learn from and abide by them. I don’t want to bring my son to a place where he is baby’d and doesn’t learn basic rules of society. She is a fantastic provider and I wouldn’t take my children anywhere else. If they can’t be home with me, nothing makes me happier than to have them with her.

DO NOT SEND YOUR CHILD HERE! My husband and our 4 year old have recently moved to Carson City from Chicago, and we needed to find a preschool that was accepting students in the middle of the year, and this was one of the only places accepting children, (now we know why). First of all, Linda’s preschool is anything but a preschool. I wouldn’t even call it a daycare. First of all It is run out of an old woman’s home, and the «classroom» is an old garage. I’m 99% certain that education of any type does not occur here. Nearly every time I dropped my child off and picked him up, the kids were all just huddled around a television in the owner’s living room. I was only presented with actual school work my child had done once, and it was far below the level at which mid four year old should be. Daily complaints were made that my child had a listening issue. Sorry, folks, he is a 4 year old, and this isn’t charm school. What really was the icing on the cake was when I arrived to pick my child up from the establishment and saw that the owner, Linda, was grabbing my child by the chin, questioning him on the location of his jacket. I was speechless. In hindsight, I wish I would’ve ripped her a new one at that moment, but I held my composure. She subsequently asked me, for the tenth time, if my child has a listening problem, to which I replied «Well, I don’t think grabbing his chin isn’t the way to do it.» Linda called me later that evening and informed me that she was offended that I didn’t back her up and that she was trying to raise my child, and I would have to find a new place to send my child. A preschool’s role is not raising children, but providing them with an education and helping improve their social skills in a setting with other children their age. This was obviously an attempt to bury the incident. This was a blessing in disguise, because I was in fear that my child was regressing academically. However I’m in utter disbelief at the way my family was treated.