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| - The classrooms and playgrounds are well-maintained and always clean at Seton. They have good play structures, a music space and a garden for the children, but this is merely window dressing. Where this school struggles is with staff and student diversity, and a modern approach to early education. The art my child comes home with is "pretty" and "predictable" but rather cookie-cutter. I'd prefer less pristine projects that actually look like they were done by a creatively engaged child. This presentation for parents is a big part of the "Academy" marketing in my view, and a bit old vanguard for 2014. The director and leadership are not informed by the current era. While the teachers seem pleasant and sufficient, it was very hard to engage any of them in a real dialogue about how my daughter was actually doing without seeming like a bother. I didn't find this school to be as embracing of difference as I would have hoped, and did not feel the curriculum approach was on par with what they promise, way behind the times in my view. There is more than abc's and 123's to make children passionate about learning. The assistant teachers were the most accomodating of all at Seton, the Director needs 21st century training. That said, my child misses her previous pre-school that closed, and did not make the same bonds at Seton, neither did I as a parent.
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