The Phoenix Schools Private Preschool – Rocklin

I have had my daughters at Phoenix Schools for the last 7 years and I have nothing but good things to say. Before I found out about Phoenix Schools I was really anxious about leaving my 1^st daughter, being a first time mom it scared me. But Phoenix Schools made me feel so comfortable and I felt like they genuinely cared about my child and making me feel happy about leaving her in their care.
7 years later I have had both of my girls at Phoenix Schools and I wouldn’t have it any other way. I know most of the teachers, and adore them. I love it when they have a story to tell me about what my child did that day, it’s usually really funny. They genuinely love my children and this has given me and my family such peace of mind. Not only do they care for my children as if they were their own, but they educationally prepare them for school and my oldest child was more than ready for kindergarten. I know my youngest will get the very best care and preparation as well. My children love it at Phoenix School and have made lasting friendships as well.
Suzie the Director, and Ali the Assistant Director, are so sweet and friendly. They always make you feel welcome and comfortable. Also, they have always been so accommodating with our crazy schedule, thank goodness.
I highly recommend Phoenix Schools and want to thank them all from the bottom of my heart for everything they do.

Our children have gone to this Phoenix School location for almost 2 years. It was fine until my older daughter started in their kindergarten program. They hired a new teacher who started her class with little experience and oversight. She instituted a public clip chart behavior management system, tracking each individual’s student’s actions all day long (either working up toward «Super Student» or down to «Parent Contact»).
My daughter, who was so excited to started kindergarten, came home at the end of the first week with the wind sucked out of her sails. I asked what was wrong and she said she didn’t like the behavior tree. I had noticed the same handful of students seem to hit «Super Student» every day, while the others were scattered below. She felt like, no matter what she did, she could not be a «Super Student.» It was the first time I had seen my daughter feel down about school and like she was not good enough.
Not only was she not a «Super Student,» my daughter (who had never had behavior problems before and has not had them since) was moved down into the disciplinary sections of the tree multiple times for things such as «cheating» (when, as a kindergartener she doesn’t even know what that is). My daughter also told me of another child who was put on «Parent Contact» and publicly told that she was going to have a note sent home because of her behavior and a second note for crying about it.
All I heard from my daughter were negative stories about the behavior tree. My daughter started to not want to go to school and, needless to say, I was quite stressed and worried. I attempted to resolve my issues with the tree with the teacher and the school administration. We had no less than 5 meetings to discuss it, with the school either not responding, responding in a very tardy fashion and, when a response was received, it showed complete lack of understanding.
They instituted changes such as resetting each child’s clip to the starting position before parents came to pick up. Great, but that totally misses the issue, which is the child’s experience during the day. Instead of this, they clipped each child’s individual folder with where they ended up. What? It made it even more obvious to everyone where each child’s behavior ranked. They instituted a class reward when all students attained «Super Student» for a certain number of consecutive days. Wonderful. Then I started hearing about the individual students who were preventing the class from getting a party.
The experience of dealing with the teacher and school administration on this issue was so frustrating, we ultimately removed our daughter from their kindergarten program in the middle of the semester after trying to resolve issues for 6 weeks. It is still so upsetting to think about the lack of caring and responsiveness I experienced while trying to resolve this issue and so frustrating that a new teacher was allowed to run off with an upsetting behavior system with no oversight (when we first brought up the issue, the school administration had no clue what was going on in the classroom).
We ultimately transferred our daughter to the public kindergarten and it has been a night and day experience. Our daughter once again loves going to school and comes home talking about the cool new things she is learning, instead of the behavior system (which I NEVER hear about anymore!). We have reluctantly kept our other children at the school to avoid disrupting them ONLY because we do like the preschool teachers. I reluctantly recommend the preschool program and absolutely do not recommend the kindergarten program.