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| - I hate to be negative and write this review, but I am really disappointed with how things turned out.
The school's director knew my son was only going to be attending for 3 months max- we exchanged emails and she made some sort of exception to let my son attend school here for the duration of our stay. Husband's military orders got moved up and had to leave a month early and I was involved in a car accident first week in Vegas and sustained spinal damage. It's relevant bc I needed to get a surgical procedure in DC to have time to recover.
I asked if I could have some prorated tuition back for November since my son attended 2 days in Nov and we had to leave and
She (school director) cited the contract stating certainly no refunds (my family has been using this school for YEARS maybe like 8-9 years). It wasn't like we were strangers per say.
Son went to school for 2 days in Nov and they said, sorry. Thanks for supporting the troops! I understand they have a business to run, but they knew my situation and I communicated with them the entire time. They even initially asked me for a supply fee of 250.00 knowing that he'd be there a very short time. This was waived, but i thought it was silly to even ask for knowing he wasn't going to use 250.00 in supplies!!!
I think she could have come to some sort of an agreement knowing i wasn't really operating on a contract bc we were only there temporarily.
I'd take her to court to get my money back, but it's apparent that's how they run their business sporting a Marine Corps Eagle Globe and Anchor on their license plate and then not doing the right thing or meeting in the middle.
Pros: my son academically excelled, small classes, peer mentoring
Cons: play area is tiny and inadequate (it is a backyard essentially)
some teachers did not receive their degrees from US and I feel that make a difference. My son's teacher was kinda hot tempered and her English was very broken. That bothered me bc I could not often understand what she was saying and I know for sure he couldn't either.
Integration of somewhat low functioning autistic kids in regular classrooms. My son was getting called the F word and getting spat at almost daily bc a child there was "different" as they explained.
It doesn't feel like private school, they are renovated homes in a neighborhood.
I am pissed about the loss of a month's tuition, but I'll get over it.
These people are really nice people, but it's more about the $ which I get in today's struggling economy, but still not right.
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