We’ve been at the Goddard school in Clackamas for over a year and are very disappointed. We’ve recently moved our children to another local school and are much happier. Here is what we found;\r
Our kids were moved between classes on average 3 times a day and as much as 6 times a day! Imagine trying to learn anything when you are being moved from room to room all day. The management is not at all forthcoming regarding this issue. Finally we resorted to checking the sign in/out sheet (which they have to keep by law) to see how many times our kids were “bounced”. When we asked why our kids (and it’s not just our kids it’s everyone) keep getting bounced the only real explanation we were offered is “she volunteered”. What? She’s too young to volunteer! \r
On teacher in service days you’ll find the owners and director have their school age kids in the school and will occasionally find them “helping”. Uh, no.\r
Teachers are young, as the other reviewer mentioned. I have not found this to be a problem. I find them caring and hard working. After more digging I found that they are very low paid and the staff turn-over is ridiculous! We’ve been fortunate enough to get some of the more long term main teachers but the assistants and secondary teachers in the room change very frequently.\r
Our concerns about the bouncing, teacher turn-over etc. fell on deaf ears. \r
The Goddard School is very expensive and ultimately we found that it was not worth what we paid. \r
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