La Petite Academy

This school needs to be disinfected. My child stayed sick with colds, viruses, and pink eye. Every time my child would have a knot on his head they never knew what happened. They have too many kids for one teacher. They do not use filter water and only wash toys once a week.

The place is horrible! My kid screamed every morning for 5 weeks as I dropped him off. I thought he would transition in but the problem is the school not my kid. It needs to be disinfected, vacuumed daily and the care givers need to remember that they work in daycare not juvenile hall. Today at drop off one «teacher» had 13 kids in her room, all under 3 years old. One of the kids was sitting in his chair crying, he had only been there 20 minutes and said that the «teacher» had yelled at him. I will never take my baby back to those bullies.

my daughter has been attending LPA since the age of 2. she is now 5 and entering kindergarten. in all the years of her attending LPA she has learned a whole lot. She has been going full time since then and thanks to the dedicated staff & management she has been very well prepared for kindergarten. The teachers have been there for years, are friendly, and communicate well with the parents. My daughter, as well as myself, feel at home and consider La Petite Academy like extended family. The teachers and kids share a special bond and you can see it whenever you go in to pick up/​drop off your kids. I have friends and close loved ones that are child care providers/​teachers and they all say that La Petite Academy stands out on top! If you are looking for a clean environment for your children, a safe environment, caring teachers, and a great learning environment for your children/​your loved ones children then La Petite Academy is the place for you! I am truly grateful for all that the teachers have helped teach my daughter.

I have a 2yr old son that I enrolled into La Petite this past summer, it was close to my house, and he was only going to have to go a few days a week. We checked the school out, it seemed fine enough, I had visited others and this was not much different than some Montessori’s I had seen. Everything looked just fine for my little boy to go to. However, after a few weeks of him being there, aside from the pink eye or lice that he caught from there, I noticed he would just cry his eyes out when we would pull up to drop him off for the day. Then he would hold on to me like a leach to not let him go. This struck me as weird because we go to church, and he runs into class on his own with a simple «Bye mom» back at me, no problem going to class there. So with those 2 to compare I started to worry maybe this wasn’t the best fit, but didnt have a good reason why… until his last day he was there. I dropped him off, and hung out a minute to make sure he was ok, because he was screaming to not be left, and looked back to see one of the teachers Yelling at a little boy over a dropped banana. She had the very loud typical Mom voice any mom might get with their own child if they really did something bad like punch their sibling or what not… but this was a dropped banana. He didnt throw it at anyone, he wasnt being mean, but she yelled at him in front of the kids, then grabbed his wrist and jsut shy of slamming it on the table yelling «I told you to pick this up, all of it, put this down, and pick this all up, what did I tell you!» I am sorry I might be new at this, but I only talk to my son like that when he has really done something awful. And to put in to perspective, I have already started him at a new church daycare, by day 3 he was telling me «Bye mom» and giving his teachers hugs goodbye. It is like day and night the difference in how he is acting. I know what I pulled him for might not be completely tangible, aside from the banana incident, but he was obviously not connecting with someone at the school, possibly because the teacher I thought he started with isnt even there anymore, I was not introduced to all of the teachers, and it seems they change a little there. For moms that want a very loving, welcoming environment, this might not be the place. I do suppose everyones experience is different, but this was mine, and thought I should share for any other moms that are there and feeling uneasy, or any that might feel like me and maybe decide to just not attend there. Hope this helps.