Abacus Children’s Academy

Do yourself and your children a favor and do not bring them here!!!
Where do I start?
— Tasleem signed me up for part time, and I paid up front thinking I wouldn’t be due for payment for another two weeks, then she charged me again for a full two weeks, just 4 days later!!! I was shocked that she would charge me a full two weeks for only 4 days and not disclose that information when I originally signed up. I would have waited until a new two weeks.
— I had a friend who worked here for a month before she quit from being disrespected and yelled at in front of children and teachers, she my friend told me that one day when my husband when to pick my kids up, the director made a copy of his DL and walked around the entire staff showing them and saying how ugly and weird he looked. unprofessional and violation of privacy!
— When I gave my notice that I was leaving, my door code was deactivated, and I was lied to and told that the door pin lock was broken! Meanwhile I had to sit in the lobby for at least two weeks and wait for them to bring my children to me, while other parents walked right past me with their pin codes to the door that was «broken.» Just be honest and tell me it is for safety, not lie.
— The male director once tried to argue with me in front on my 3 year old daughter. Raised voice, rude tone, and all! Unreal!
— My friend who worked there for a month told me the female director Tasleem calls children ugly and stupid, mostly the ones that can’t talk.
— The male director literally told me every day care lies!!! In response to when I told him no other daycare charges a full two weeks for just 4 days… they prorate. The director told me that when they came to this country and got a loan for this daycare that they were cheated out of 150 grand, and that all americans lie. My friend told me the directors use the term «stupid americans» a lot.
— I am sure I am forgetting to mention a few things… but honestly I have never met such dishonest, rude, disrespectful people, daycare setting or not.

The worst day care system I have ever come across. The owners do not know how to treat people with respect. They claim they are the best day care since sliced bread. I am quoting the owner (Tasleem) «Were not Tree House kids» day care.” Were better than them. Your kids will not be any smarter if you take them to abacus. The food they give their kids is horrible not up to par with health standards. Parents I urge you if you take your kid here to meet Tasleem the owner. If you do you will realize your child will be in better hands somewhere else.

This is the MOST ridiculous answer I have ever read! I never had problems paying! I always paid before the due day. I did talk to the owner about the teacher pinching my kid and she said she would never allow this kind of thing inside her school that was probably my kid who made it up. My school went 3 days a week. We were one of the first ones to get there!!! So that’s why I took my kid out of your school. My other son went to private school too and I never had any problems with them. He loved the other school and I choose to pay more at another school than cheaper at yours! My son was never behind on his curriculum. He is a very smart boy. Don’t blame me and my family for your bad management!!!

I am updating this review due to being contacted via message and the reply to this post.
I find the reply to my review quite humorous. The fact that there is a denial of me even calling or that I am a relative of another daycare. Really?! How about apologizing for the rudeness shown over the telephone.
The lack of responsibility taken for the actions in ALL negative reviews shows a lot about the person who is responsible for the Abacus Childrens Academy Unilocal account and from what I understand it is the owner of the daycare. I would NEVER put my children here. The lack of mature behavior shown here is really mind blowing and this is not something I would want my young and very impressionable children shown.
I was appalled at the service that was given to a potential customer back then and still am now. Never have I dealt with someone so unprofessional. Truly disappointed in the experience and from that alone I make the conclusion that I would NEVER put a child at this facility. If that type of unprofessionalism is shown on the phone to an adult I can only imagine what goes on when parents are not around. I will not be removing my post as requested in the private Unilocal message and do not recommend this child are facility to anyone. Beware!

My oldest son entered his 4^th week of public Kindergarten this week and his teacher has been so impressed with how well-​prepared he was! He is well ahead of many kids in his class, in reading, writing, math, etc. I also have to mention that not only does Abacus prepare the kids with all the fundamentals of a good education, the wonderful teachers (Hi Miss Tiffany!) also work on social and environmental development– teaching the kids to respect one another and public spaces and property, basics like tying their shoes, thorough handwashing, etc– things that carry over to every aspect of life are instilled in the kids for which I am so grateful. I recommend Abacus whenever I have the chance, for a school that is so much more than a daycare. My youngest son still attends and he is right behind my oldest to be on track for a succesful entrance to public school next year as well :)

I could have written the 3÷09÷12 review.
My child attended Abacus for a little less than a year, beginning when it was called Noah’s Ark Christian Pre School. The current owners/​directors had just recently bought it and later changed the name to its current Abacus Children’s Academy.
At the first meeting I was comfortable with the director, we toured the school and it was quite clean. She explained the school was ran and owned by her and her husband. He was the co director. And though the toys and equipment are a bit on the dated side, they are in good shape, clean and safe. We were told of there curriculum, and we were told once our child settled in, like 2 months the director suggested, we’d have a conference to finalize a curriculum designed just for my child. Neither of these things ever happened.
The director is extremely cold, often bordering on rude. She does block you from interacting with the staff (even her husband co-​director) and talks over them. On the very first day my child started there was an innocent mix up on pick up times. Even though I had an email from her, that proved I had been correct she refused to apologize she still acted like I was in the wrong. She does not subscribe to the customer is always right philosophy! I never felt comfortable with her after this. Another action of hers that didn’t sit well with me started after I had given them the proper notice we were pulling our child out. After they knew this, every time I came to pick up my kid, I found her sitting with her back against a wall, holding her lunchbox waiting for me. Not even a book to look at. I had to wonder how long had she been sitting there waiting. Gone were the days when she was helping a teacher or sitting at a table reading when I arrived. This lead up to the final incident that caused me to pull my daughter a week and a half early. The last day when i arrived at pick up time, my child wasnt sitting in her usual spot and no one was around. I walked back to her classroom as soon as i came to the windows that looked into the classroom i saw my child sitting what appeared to be alone in a dark room. I did not see anyone else in there with her but i didnt have full veiw of the room so it is possiable she wasnt alone. But it was completely dark and she again was just sitting there holding her lunchbox. At this point the director heard me and rushed ahead of me blocking me from entering the room and calling for my child to come out into the hallway instead. Her reaction was odd and made me extremely uncomfortable. We never returned to clean out our cubby.
Now her husband and co director, on the other hand is great. Very friendly and he seemed to have a good rapport with the kids. I never had any problems with him and found pick up was always better if he was there instead of her.
This could be a decent daycare, but from what our family has experienced this isn’t much of a Pre school program. Turn over rate is high even for day care work. Contact with your kids teacher is limited and controlled by the director, we were not even offered an email address or any way to contact the teacher with questions. This daycare does the bare minimum. It’s clean and safe, staff is competent. But don’t expect your child to bring home lots of crafts or worksheets. After a few months we stopped receiving the daily sheet, that gave us details about our little ones day. No explanation they just stopped. If my daughter had a runny nose I could NOT expect them to wipe it. At pick up she would have a snotty, green crusty nose. Also potty training was very unpleasant with Abacus. They insisted on pull ups well beyond when they were needed and the director made big deals out of minor pee accidents. She seemed almost flummoxed that 2.5 year olds in the midst of potty training had accidents. My daughter hold had less than 5 minor accidents the entire time she attended and sometimes the director was almost hostile when she informed me of them.
I would reccomend Abacus for infants or young toddlers. The baby teacher is a sweetheart and the staff they do retain aren’t bad. It’s clean, well maintained and security is very good. I would not reccomend it as a preschool or Pre k for all the reasons stated above this long review. And especially because the promised curriculum doesn’t seem to be followed. While part of Abacus I always felt we just weren’t getting our money’s worth and now that we’re attending a real Pre K program I realize just how far behind Abacus Children’s Academy is from what a Pre K program is supposed to be.