Montgomery Upper Middle School

This is an average elementary school. Students do well in this district because the parents are wealthy and pay for outside tutoring (see the FB group), therapy services, music lessons, etc. - even in elementary school. Students are given an evaluation at the beginning of the school year and their progresses is compared to that for the whole year (not against national standards). For example, if your student is the worst in the whole grade level at something, as long as they show continued improvement they will have a good parent/teacher conference, top marks on their report card, and no additional help or services offered from the school. There is no homework, so it is very hard to know what your child should be working on or where they might be struggling. No field trips- except to the woods behind the school. Once a month there is a day of play, where you send your child in with a non-electronic toy to play with. Teachers communicate via email, and often do not respond to them.

They hire anyone. They don’t care about the kids or their staff .

I have been a parent at Kid Connection since 2004 and I have my fourth child going through the program now. I investigated many local preschools schools before I enrolled my first child with the program. I chose Kid Connection because of their low staff turnover, their curriculum and their kind gentle souls. They always made my children feel welcome and loved. They also run a great Kindergarten Enrichment program that extends the public Kindergarten program to a full day. My children learned more in Kid Connection's Kindergarten Enrichment program than they did in their public kindergarten day. I would definitely recommend Kid Connection for any family.

I was emotionally abused by my teacher. I was belittled, shamed and put down on a daily basis. Food (lunch) was withheld as punishment along with other demeaning punishments. A swastika was drawn on one of my art works by another student and it was never addressed. Academic skills were not taught or emphasized I was really unprepared for public school in high school along with all of my former classmates who transitioned. Teachers are not trained to use modern teaching techniques and instead babbled on incoherently about Rudolf Steiner teaching and spirituality which was not age appropriate.