Totem Preschool

Happy P. is obviously the owners trying to pad their ratings. They post that the same day I make my post, what a joke. Don’t fall for it. Happy P is obviously not a real parent. A real parent wouldn’t send their kid to this place!!!

Attending this preschool has been a somewhat sad experience. The teachers seemed nice when I visited with my child for the day, then they showed their real colors after we gave the check. One of the two teachers was extremely cold the first few months and does not often look happy to be teaching at all… just going through the routine it seems.
There is no way to meet other parents because you have to drop your kid off at the door and the teachers grab them and bring them in quickly, sometimes without saying good morning to my child and rarely acknowledging me. I know they’re in a rush, but common courtesy would not be hard. There is no hallway outside the class to wait for the children and meet other parents… The email communication is short and there is, overall, little sense of community.
My child is learning a good amount in the gymnastics section which is nice, but the academic section is mediocre. They mostly seem to read a scholastic magazine and do those activities as a group, then they do crafts. They have done some interesting crafts once in a while and they have had some good field trips to two plays and some theme lessons, but now they are just doing the alphabet which isn’t a challenge or super engaging and there are a lot of worksheets/​coloring book type pages.
There is no place to wash hands, so they give the kids hand sanitizer before snack, and the snack is a dixie cup of water and a graham cracker or animal crackers. One day they gave the kids only marshmallows for a birthday, and this is after kids jumping around for an hour in gymnastics.
Overall I have been very sad with this whole experience and am looking forward to sending my child somewhere else. BEfore this we had only positive experiences in programs/​classes with teachers that seem to love little ones and teaching them; I have never written a review on one of these things, but I felt it was my duty to post since I only saw two positive posts when I was looking and was sadly mistaken to send my child here.