All Stars Montessori, LLC

I highly don't recommend this daycare. As an ex-teacher and parent, this place has ruined all daycare facilities for me. I worked here on and off for the better part of a decade and have watched it grow in different ways. It has gotten better with some things and stayed the same or worsened in others.

There are a few AMAZING teacher's in this Montessori, but they are being drowned out by the awful management. The amount of emotional and mental abuse that goes on in that building is horrifying. Management has shown once again their true colors during the Global Pandemic.

They were getting reported to the state liscening board multiple times (and more so this last year), and they suspected an employee was beyond the reports. So more then once they screamed and in threatening manners, questioned every employee (either in person or over the phone) demanding to know who was making these claims. They also had the director of the Montessori coach a handful of the employees on what they were supposed to say to licensing and parents, whether it was true or not.

On countless occasions we've been told we are not aloud to miss work even when our children are sick. I recall at least 5 different teachers, multiple times, having to bring their child/children who have fevers, are vomiting, positive with strep or influenza, into this building so that they would have enough teachers. I refused and was yelled at and had to have a talk when I returned to work about "my work ethic and attitude" because I told them I wasn't coming in with a sick child. I was also asked, "in a joking manner" for proof of a fever and pictures, so they could see if I was lying.

TOXIC.

Management has repeatedly shown how they only care about appearance and money, not the students or staff. Coaching and forcing teachers to put on a front for tours (so we look appealing and educational to new families) just for the classes to go back to "normal" once the tours are over. I have seen a couple teachers way to aggressively pick up a child and slam them on their butts when they won't sit (and yes I'm choosing my words carefully), scream in the children's faces, pull children by their arms and also pick the small ones up by their arms to move them. I've seen kids forced fed or babies with soiled diapers ignored because they're annoying that day, and kids whose lunch gotten thrown out after 2 bites because their being naughty.

Teachers have been told, depending on the situation, when to lie to parents to cover the schools butt, and how to manipulate the child about a situation so they don't run to tell their parents. Teachers have repeatedly been told they're unable to use the little PTO (payed time off) they've earned, if they won't come into work when weather conditions are unsafe during winter months, and are gaslighted whenever they try and voice their concerns.

Being a grown adult and yelled at and humiliated in the middle of the building or in they're class room infront of whoever might be near, including the children, because an owner is having a bad day is only a single reason why most staff go home a cry themselves to sleep. They're plenty more issues with this facility, these are just a few but needed to be said.

My heart feels for the families that are enrolled here and the teachers who are still working here. Families are being lied to and most of the teachers are being muzzled. Just about half of the staff have openly admitted to lying to liscening and parents to save the school from shut down, and the other half must hide about being truthful for at risk of being in trouble.

The director is an amazing people person and has the appropriate skill of making everyone they meet a friend. But they use that skill to control the narrative and manipulate the entire facility, parents and liscening. Telling people that these accusations are untrue is easy and will probably happen so this can be swept under the rug like everything else; but the nepotism and toxic management I felt had to be told.