Stratford School

Reviews

• JC

  John Cancio

  Mar 22, 2023
  1.0
  It really pains me to write about a situation involving my son's experience at his FIRST school/childcare since the pandemic! My spouse and I have entrusted other adults to take care of our child, but we were basically forced to prematurely leave due to safety concerns. Our son woke us up on the morning of Wednesday 01/17/23 to tell us that his teacher, Sheetal Parekh, had pinched his ear because he wasn’t writing his name properly on his paper. Our son is only 3 years old and is literally learning how to properly hold a crayon and develop fine motor skills. In addition to not having the capacity to lie at his age, his memory is impeccable in retelling experiences and situations. The story remained consistent without any prompts, and he always pointed to the same ear (left) that his teacher had pinched. We met with the principal, Jasbir Rattan, and were told that it was surprising behavior and that in their 15 years of working together, there have been no complaints. However, parents of the other children in his class can corroborate that this is indeed false and were often met with condescending remarks and utter rudeness when expressing their own concerns, so we knew this claim of perfection to be false. As if this situation wasn't bad enough, they are still pursuing to charge us a 10% of the annual tuition early withdrawal fee despite the fact that we had withdrawn our son because of a very real concern for his safety - my son’s teacher put her hands on him! On top of physical abuse, his classmates and our son himself has told their parents / us that she would yell at him (for even something as simple as him putting his hands in glue - out of curiosity!!). I would NEVER recommend this school if you want to ensure the safety and well-being of your child; I would only hope that people would truly advocate for their children and not let a school's director bully them into paying MORE money out of coercion. They clearly only care about money over safety and concerns!
• II

  ithermadragon

  Nov 27, 2016
  5.0
  vg, sister went there, so tidy, so good
• NS

  Narayanan Singaram

  Nov 14, 2015
  4.0
  Good school, has preschool, pre-k and kindergarten classes. Staff is very nice. Parking lot is very small, sometimes parents has to wait little bit when picking up kids or when dropping them.
• ML

  Miessa Liang

  Aug 6, 2014
  4.0
  My son went there for pre-k and summer camp before Kindergarten. He was very happy there from day 1. I have nothing negative to say about them. The teachers, front desk people and principals, even the security guy are very professional and friendly. Their curriculum is the best, academically advanced while maintaining good variety. Yes it's pricy, but it's worth it for us. Since my son won the lottery to go to our neighborhood elementary school (a very good one), he won't be going to Stratford for kindergarten. Had he not won the lottery, I'd have seriously considered continuing there.