My Little Language School

Save your family time and heartache– go somewhere else.
My child attended MLLS I’m 2014 – 2015 and had a great experience. She was excited about Spanish and loved her teachers. In the 2015 – 2016 school year ALL but two teachers quit around the same time and the school closed suddenly due to «licensing issues.» Clearly this was a lie told to parents to give us a sense of false hope that the school would open shortly. The school has been closed for 2 months.
Before the school closed I noticed a vast decline in the education my daughter received. She was no longer happy at MLLS and she would cry when I dropped her off. It got so bad that the school even had to host meetings to have the parents air out concerns. I would have pulled her earlier but i really wanted to give the school a chance as she loved it so much last year.
I must say that, as a scholarship family, we were treated differently. Every chance he got, the owner would throw in my face that he is doing us a favor by giving a scholarship when he could throw my child out and accept another child who’s parents are willing to pay more. If this is the type of attitude he has then he shouldn’t give scholarships out. I even have this in writing FROM THE OWNER HIMSELF.
I maybe reporting the school to the BBB but I have yet to make that choice. My daughter has many friends here and I do not want them to suffer of the school reopens.
The bottom line: the owner treated me poorly as a scholarship family, my child was not happy, the teachers were not happy and all quit and the school was suddenly closed by state officials (I believe either the DOE or DOH).

Thank God that this school closed is was not only NOT a Montessori Pre-​K but served Hot Dogs 2X a week, did NOT teach the kids Spanish, had children sleeping during the 45 min «afternoon Montessori period» ect, ect. I pulled my son out after only 11 days. They had 4 teachers QUIT in November after they had not been paid and the school closed in DEC.

In response to the owner’s comment to my initial review: I have no personal relationship or bond with the previous director. My concern was the owners handling of staff and students. The owners’ behaviors prompted my review, nothing else.

We spent a year at MLLS and had a very, very good experience. We are not a Spanish speaking household and so I was a little concerned about how my son would adjust to a bilingual education, but he thrived there. The teachers are always kind, loving and supportive. My son blossomed from a child afraid to be away from me to an absolute social butterfly, making friends easily both with kids who are native English and native Spanish speaking. And watching him acquire a second language was just incredible (and has inspired me to start learning it as well!). The space is large and bright, and the playground is attached to the premises, which is nice. I’m now a huge fan of dual-​language education and feel that I’m helping give my child an early leg up in an increasingly multi-​cultural world.
In addition to a dual-​language environment, the school also offered extra programs, including Mad Science, piano and soccer. I definitely felt my son was mentally and physically stimulated every day, and I will miss MLLS as my son moves into grade school, but am grateful for the marvelous time he had and the friendships he’s made.

Our daughter attended MLLS from September 2013 to April 2014. Around Haloween 2013 the director was gone with no explanation. Soon after, they hired a new ‘director’, Lauren, who was a great administrator, but not qualified as a director. After many requests to the owners they finally declared the senior teacher of the older class Jenny, the ‘director’. Note, the director is a legally required role in a daycare.

Jenny left at the beginning of June, along with the lead teacher in the younger class at the end of May, then Lauren the administrator announced she was leaving in mid June. That’s three of the seven staff quitting in a month.
This left them in the dubious position of continuing operating with no director in place (did you read the link above?). Also left both classes without a senior teacher. The second teacher in each class was suddenly in charge and a revolving door of temporary staff were covering the gaps basically running an overpriced babysitting service, not a little language «school». To add insult to injury at this time when they should be letting the parents know what was going on, they then took down their electronic parent communication tool and started communicating by notes. We were never officially informed of any of these departures.
With no continuity in staffing my daughter started to hate going to the school.
On the positive side, the space they have is great, lots of light and their own private playground. The teachers they hired were great and in the few months they stuck around my daughter loved, loved, going to school. The former director did a great job setting up the curriculum and additional activities with Super Soccer Stars, Mad Science and piano lessons as examples.
There is a concept in corporate law that a company has separate ownership and control. Unfortunately, the owners of MLLS will not let the staff control the school and do the excellent job they surely could do, frustrating the staff to the point they quit.
I wanted to love the school, gave them a second chance even when I later heard the story about the original director but in the end the safety of my daughter is paramount and with no director and a revolving door of staff I could not give them any more chances.

The school is amazing after the owners hired a new director, the old director seemed to be biased against her staff and had favoritism on her sister in law being that she was also a teacher at the school. However, the school has been going through some bumpy road due to the fact that the old director wants to bring the school down in every possible way, its not going to happen. When you mix business with family it becomes an issue and that was one of the problems that MLLS was having. As of now, my student will be returning next year as his last year because he will be going to Kindergarden soon. Lastly, David and Melinda and to the teachers of 2013 – 2014 your hard work is noticed and thank you for guiding us into an excellence path. You are doing a great job!!!
BY THE WAY I POSTED THIS 3 WEEKS AGO BUT FOR SOME REASON IT KEEP GETTING DELETED… I WONDER WHY!!!