Three Oaks Montessori School

The preschool is now in a larger facility and has more students. The focus of the school is very much on doing individual "work" instead of playing and interacting with friends. My daughter complained that she could only interact with her friends during recess. The school was not very academic and there were children who clearly could not speak English. The classrooms were full to daycare capacity levels. Main teachers would be moved to fill in for other teachers. The school seemed to have very rigid rules and focus more on following the rules than challenging the students academically.
--Submitted by a parent

My daughter has attended Three Oaks for three years, and I would say that our experience has been good overall. I like the Montessori method of teaching, but dislike the rigidity that I sometimes find there. I also feel that the kindergarten program is somewhat aggressive, with spelling tests each week and several pages per day from a large binder of workbook pages. The children are encouraged to take the binder home on weekends, and are expected to study the spelling words at home during the week. The school has been accommodating about allowing me to cut out the spelling tests and excessive workbook pages for my daughter, so that has made it work for us. I like the extracurriculars -- yoga and Kindermusik this year; it varies every year. And I like most of the field trips they go on.
--Submitted by a parent