Children's World Montessori

Wonderful School, Fabulous Staff! more

I have thoroughly enjoyed our experience at Children's World. We have been there 5 years now. My oldest daughter completed the program and my other 2 are still going. They have always communicated with us from problems to progress that my children have made. Per a previous comment we have gone 2-3 days a week both 1/2 days and full days and never felt that we received any different treatment than those who attend full time. We have seen teachers come and go but everyone they hire to replace has been equally caring/competent. My girls have learned so much from the abcs, numbers, calendars, dinosaurs, bugs, the solar system gardening,organizing, cleaning up after themselves, and all in Spanish. I am so happy that we were able to find a bilingual and montessori preschool for our girls. The prices are reasonable and they have very flexible schedules to work with your needs. I couldn't have found that any where else in Anchorage. I give them an A+ as a preschool and can't thank them enough for all that they have done for my girls. If I had to do it all over again I would easily pick them hands down. more

I'm not sure what the situation was on the individuals commenting prior, but in my experience Children's World is the best care facility for kids in Anchorage. more

Children's World is the most dis organized school. The teachers and other staff does not know the rules of the school and this allows the owner of the school ""Maria"" to change them the way she wants. more

Our son was at this daycare for nearly a year before we received a phone call from Maria, the owner, that we had two weeks to find our son a new daycare. We were informed that our son was ""very bright"" and as a consequence would become bored and disruptive; requiring too much attention from the teachers. When we asked if we could move him to the 3 yr class she informed us that he wasn't ""emotionally mature enough"". Regardless, we never received any notice of behavioral issues or areas where he needed improvement. Everyday when we picked him up they said ""he had a good day"". We were completely dumbfounded. Now granted there could be a communication issue since neither my wife and I speak Spanish and many of the care providers had a limited proficiency with English. Then to add insult to injury, Maria completely forgot about our meeting to discuss our son's disposition and behavior. My wife and I both took off from work for this appointment only to be stood-up. Very unprofessional. It's clear that this daycare has very little concern for the children they care for. If they did, then they would have provided us with more feedback, a plan for addressing any issues and adequate time to find a new daycare for our son. Lastly, this is not an inexpensive daycare, so if you want to: pay $975/month, $100/semester for participation fees, provide classroom snacks (up to two times a month) for 14 children (plus daily lunch for your child), arrange your work schedule around the local school vacation schedule (so in essence you pay for 12 calender months but you get less than 11 months of daycare each year) for a program that doesn't assist with potty training, provides absolutely no feedback and can drop your child like a hot potato whenever they see fit...then this is your place. more

Son was dismissed due to behavior issues that we were never informed about. We made ourselves readily available to the school and we only ever received positive feedback. I feel they let us down by not involving us and they did a disservice to him. I also question what really happened due to them not informing us or ever having documented any problems. He attended for 1 year and it seemed everyone liked him-it didn't add up! I just pray something bad didn't happen and will probably never know. Cons: didn't involve/inform parents more