Southgate Preschool

I was like any first time parent who cringed at the thought of putting your first born child into a preschool but my child was growing and ready to be in a school-​type setting. First, I enrolled my child a month before she turned 3 years old — it wasn’t a month long due to uncontrollable circumstances I had to remove her. A year later, I enrolled my child again and this time she was 4 years of age. We had the best experience with Southgate Preshool! I must say I was expecting a daily report from her teacher which was with Ms Gloria or the other teachers who would oversee the children during play but would never receive one. I was frustrated and grew resentment on how they conducted their business but thought outside of the box and one day, started to initiate my questions such as «How was my child’s day?», «Is there anything you see she needs improvement on?». Then when the school conducted a parent-​teacher conference/​report that’s where I asked all the questions: «Does she get along well with children or does she play alone?», «What can I do as a parent to help blossom her growth and learning developments?». One valuable feedback Ms Gloria shared with me is that most parents expect that teachers to teach their child everything from reading and literacy to socialization development but the key is parent involvement at home.
My child loved and look forward to attending preschool daily. And even after almost two years later, my child would beg for me us to visit Ms Gloria and the preschool. The entire staff from Ms Gloria, Ms Maria, Ms Christina, Ms Emmie, and Ms Lo were wonderful to my child and our family. We were very connected to the staff and was communicative, I strongly believed this helped me feel at ease with the school and their staff. I especially enjoyed the daily project and artwork my child would bring home, she was definitely flourishing!
The down fall is not the staff or the lessons they learned. It was that the place is small for a very packed preschool. I think they need to move to a place with more space. It gets stuffy with a bunch of preschoolers in one room. There is no option for part time care. Food is supplied which is great but if you are looking for organic ingredients served, this is not the place to enroll your child. However, they are cognizant of the food pyramid and apply that to their daily menu. Otherwise, I enjoyed attending and volunteering for any holiday party or lunch potluck they may have. I also enjoyed the Christmas Holiday performance! It was well organized and well-​thought out. You’ll be so proud and surprised how these teachers are able to get the children to behave and grab their attention. Keep up the extraordinary work Ms Gloria and staff! THANK YOU SO MUCH!!!

These women have raised both of our girls and we love them like family. They are strict when they need to be, but loving all the same. We love our Ms. Gloria, Christina, Maria, Lo and Emi!

It all started beginning of this year and my son was 2 ½ years old at that time (my son started going to school there when he just turned 2 on August of 2013)
Ms. Gloria which is the school administrator mentioned to me that they are having problem with my son because he doesn’t listen and she said that my son is so defiant. My son is 2 ½ I will be concerned if he doesn’t interact at all and around that age I understand that they are on their terrible 2. I would think that they are more understanding and more experienced because on their website they accept as young as 2 years old even if they are not potty trained (which is perfect for both working parents).
Weeks passed and they keep telling me the same thing that they are having problem with my son because he doesn’t listen and when they put him in time out it doesn’t look like my son is bothered about it. So I worked my Ms. Gloria and her staff during summer that I will be picking up my son twice a week, earlier than the usual time we pick him up.
When summer was done we followed up with her and recommend that maybe my son is too young to go to school or maybe the ration on their class is too big for my son. So I felt that all my effort and times that I worked with them was just gone to waist. Mind you that all this time also we got stricter to my son and more time out at home. It was not easy for me to do that and I truly feel that my son is just being a regular 2 ½ years old. Also at this time I felt that I was just pushing to put my son to unhappy place because I have no choice and i know they don’t want him there anymore.
What made me made up my mind when the time I hear nothing but complaints. But they did not hear anything about me when I see bruise on my son’s face and «NO ONE» knew what happened. When the substitute teacher apparently did not realized that he put my son’s pants back with poop all over it (I still have the picture too).
All I’m saying, I think they could have handled the situation better because supposedly they are the professionals that accepts 2 year old toddler. And made it seems like that they never encountered someone like my son and made me feel like I have a problem child. I feel like they just gave up on my son and that broke my heart.
And this is the conversation that I had last night with my son.
Mom: Do you want to go back to school?
Son: No, Mommy.
Mom: Why son?
Son: Because teacher is mad, because I’m a bad boy.
Imagine hearing this to your own child (he is now 3). Hopefully this won’t traumatized my son for life, but this is truly heartbreaking for a parent :(

Really don’t want to review because then it will become so crowded I won’t be able to get my youngest enrolled. hahaha
Great caring teachers that you can trust with your little ones.

I really love this school. All the teachers there are nice and friendly especially Ms. Gloria. We enrolled our son here last week and didn’t even finish this week. Was only there for half a day on Wednesday. Had to take him to his doctor because they told me he still isn’t feeling well. Well anyways long story short my mother-​in-​law wanted him out of there. Just because he got sick from that school. It’s gonna happen no matter what. I have no choice but to take him out. My mother in law is the one paying :(if I had the money he’s definitely staying no matter what she says :) it was the perfect school, perfect location (a minute away from home), and the tuition was very reasonable.

My son went here when he was 2.5 years old. Before I decided on this place I called and visited 7 other facilities. My BFF highly recommended this place. My son accompanied me to Southgate pre-​shool on our first visit. Ms. Gloria the school director greeted us warmly, my son right away was drawn to her and the other teachers. After the tour my little guy refused to leave. He’s now 6yrs. old I am very grateful for these teachers Ms. Gloria, Ms. Lou& Ms. Winnie (prepared all the hot meals and snacks), Ms. Christine, Ms. Carmen, Ms. Maria whom have the patience, talent and their nurturing ways to educate my son for 10 hrs. while I was at work.(it breaks my heart to know I was not in his presence for that many hours) whats great about Southgate is that they always have an open door policy. I often pop in at diff rent hours. He’s now in 1^st grade, and thanks to the wonderful teachers, he’s well prepared for the future. I definitely would enroll my youngest one, but sadly we had to move. We still on occasions stop by to say Hello (my son’s request when we are in the area.)