Primrose School at St. Johns Forest I have two babies that grew up in primrose school at St. Johns Forest. They love being there. I have watched my son and daughter blossom and grow with the amazing teachers and Management to guide them through many different milestones. They show my children love and kindness every time they see them. That means a lot to me and my husband. There simply wonderful and for that, one of the reasons I'm a teacher there as well. Nothing feels better knowing your child is safe and is learning valuable lessons each and every day. They truly deliver the best and most trusted early education to my babies and help families any chance they get. I'm just sad that my children will eventually leave but happy to know that they are leaving with the ability to learn and succeed in school and in life because of primrose.

The people are rude working there The people are rude working there. They get upset if you are few minutes early dropping off your child. They also get upset if you pick up your child few minutes late and charge you extra. Would not recommend.

Don´t trust them with your kids Don´t trust them with your kids, don´t trust a word they say. They coach kids into saying everything is well and that they are having lots of fun. Kids, teachers and staff abused and neglected a child with special needs, denied him basic care - food and hygiene, refused him help, left him to be bullied and on his own, disciplined him with rough methods supposedly not allowed in the institution (yelling, punishing, humiliating is NOT positive reinforcement). Assured us everything was well - he cried, he yelled, he asked for us. Our son is in speech therapy, he has very limited vocabulary. They knew it and abused that. These people disciplinary methods, moral and mental health are far from assertive. We taught him to yell for help so the teachers could hear him and they punished him for that. On his last day, after we shared with Mrs. Shirkey on the phone our son concerns and how sad he was she pulled out violently his arm while Mrs. Murdock, the new aspiring director took away all his toys and told him to seat. THEY ASKED HIM NOT TO TELL HIS PARENTS. Mrs. Orr is very used to get away with it by playing the motherly character who knows best to parents. They leave kids on their own, teach them to suck it all in and pretend everything is ok and punish them until they say to parents they are ok. If a kid needs a hug they call staff, not a kind word, explanation, nothing. Our son was very excited with school. Staff and the director Mrs. Emily personally insisted on a zero bully policy. Mrs. Orr did not receive well my son, she said `You know everyone has jobs here`. The first two days my son went he kept saying naughty kids and naughty teachers. There was one girl with him who had bullied him who was apparently his new `best friend` recommended by the teacher Mrs Haught. I shared our son is not fully able to speak up for himself or recognize true friends. That day he had food all over his face and he was very hungry right after lunch. We complained he had been coming on a daily basis very dirty with dry food all over his face and dirty clothes. I noticed he was refusing to talk or sing. When we left him next day he started crying when I made my way out. I believe it was on this same day I saw Mrs. Shirkey with her arm on her chest. I questioned my son. Apparently some violent episode took place and no one told us. On his 5th day when we were driving him to school when he saw the building he started crying and yelling. He kept saying `naughty kids, naughty teachers, very loud`. He was hiding behind us from the teacher. He was terrified of Mrs. Haught. After running from me to my wife several times and begging us not to leave we left him with a very serious and rude teacher and a bunch of looking sad kids. We already asked him to forgive us. That day we called twice to check on him, shared his thoughts and asked them to make sure he would eat properly. All those days he acted like he didn t like or trusted his teachers. When we picked him up he had a little smile and Mrs. Orr again told me everything went great as usual. While talking with him in the car the other teacher Mrs. Haught comes to our car and refuses to leave trying to force an answer on him like she had done the last days asking him if it was fun. She constantly harassed him into saying it was fun. My son looked angry at the floor. That day he told us he was hungry and asked Mrs. Orr for more and she refused him. He also showed us he was being physically and psychologically bullied by kids supposed to be his friends - pinched him, imitate him, called him names and that the teachers yelled at him and other kids. He specifically told us NONE of the teachers HELPED him deal with other kids, that they helped him sometimes with other things but not with that. In 5 school days he went from a happy cheerful confident child to a sad confused low self-esteem refusing to talk and sing child. The director said he did not had enough time to adapt to change! We are glad he didn´t. That would be a change to physical, psychological and emotional abuse he never had before. He was very clear - he wants to go to another school.

Your job is to be open. Your job is to be open. Working parents work on snow days. Working parents need a dependable schedule. Snow days and staff sick calls are no excuse to close. The tuition cost does not indicate a shoestring budget. Your job is to be open!

Mangotsfield made my child… Mangotsfield made my child unrecongnisable, she started acting violent so she had to go to therapy to calm down