Frederick V. Pankow Center

Racism is real. I had two chosen experience it at this school. Utterly disgusting.

This school is absolutely terrible, especially if you have a bipoc or disabled kid. Most of the staff is MAGA and act like it. They covered up a teacher saying the N word and let her keep her job and she stayed in the classroom with kids (the main teacher, principal and board said there was no rule about a white teacher saying the N word and she said it more than once at a field trip to me and another white parent thinking she was safe). They are very ableist and pretend that having a asd kid in the classroom is something they have to endure not learn about and update their teaching practices to expand knowledge of their learning base. I have pulled my son from this place but a friend also said how they had the “bad kids who didn’t earn a Holliday party” sitting in chairs in front of the room watching the other kids have a Holliday party. They do nothing about bullying or inappropriate touching. This place had trump supporting signs out front for weeks after the election with no care to the feeling of an unsafe environment towards their bipoc students. The special education teacher YELLED at a child walking to his car because the mother told him to go start the car while she zipped her other child’s coat, like didn’t even try to talk to the kid just yelled while the mother was right there. My kid has asd and was screaming for me to not make him go in their and he is NOT like that. Their psychologist for owls is absolutely horrible as well. Please save your kid if you can. (Shout out to the speech and math extra help teachers and ms Jordan though yall are amazing!)

Was great at first. Switch happens, the school turns into a toxic pile with absurd changes being made every year that the students never have a say in.

We absolutely love Montessori Stepping Stones. Our kids have been attending Montessori Stepping Stones for over 7 years, and we are so impressed with the Montessori theory of education. For example, I am so impressed how Montessori can take abstract Math concepts and make them concrete.