I had a bad experience overall. Check in was at 7:00 because I signed up for the optional activity…read more"band." When I participated in this activity, all we did was walk around on a football field in the cold. The people were nice, thought. At least, except for this one Saxophone player who was attempting to tell me to "guide right", when he was 12 steps away. I do not have the ability to use my peripheral vision for that distance. That experience alone wants me to give this a 1 star experience. When I went to my next activity, "Theatre", I was greeted by this strangely active woman. Then, all we did was listen to a lecture about theatre and read from some paper that had some weird format. I believe she called it a "script". I have some mixed emotions about this, mostly confusion. Then, I was told to go to my next activity, called chemistry. There, we did do some interesting experiments, but afterwards, the instructor told us that we had to write about it. This is not what I signed up for. My next activity was called "Language Arts". Singing up for the class, I had assumed that I would learn how to create great works of art using only my voice. I had aspirations to become the next Bob Ross. Instead, all that we did was listen to the instructor tell us what nouns and pronouns are, and constantly tell us that some word wasn't a pronoun, it was some unpronounceable word which I had never before heard in my life. Then, we read this story about some talking coyote who makes horns for a talking bull. I believe the writer of this is on some sort of hallucinogenic drug. During this time, I was released to go eat lunch. The lunch line was just mass chaos, with no discernible pattern of movement for getting food. There was no line once in the kitchen. They had a large variety of salads and fruits, but those foods aren't really my style. The pizza there was in a rectangular shape, something which I had never seen before. The food was actually decent, considering the dietary restrictions the business is under. I did enjoy looking at the very interesting slide shows shown on the televisions. Then, the woman who was in charge of the place stood up and yelled at everyone to return to leave lunch. Seriously, just use bells. After this, I returned to Language Arts until I was released to go to my next activity. One thing I did find amazing was that the teacher had a clock on the wall that was perfectly in time. I mean not a second off. Next, I went to this class that was called "US History", however I am always being told that I am thinking of a different class. The instructor was a fairly nice guy, and somewhat humorous even. He does, upon occasion say that I am "Out of words". I do not fully understand what this means, and it appears to be some sort of inside joke. Finally, I was told to go to my final class, which consists of sitting around. There was a free food and beverage service there, though. It was limited, however. Finally, the only bell of the day rang, announcing I could go home. While I'm on the subject, there was no alarms or anything announcing movement from one activity to the other. Instead, we had to rely on simply looking at the clock. Apparently, they used to have these bell things that I experienced during the activity called "Academic Lab". They apparently rang at the end of each activity, but were removed this year due to reasons which no one can quite comprehend. Overall, the experience was not very good. It was always cold in every single classroom, and it's apparently that cold year round.

Watkins is a great school. It has safe procedures in place for dropping students off and picking…read morethem up. The staff is quite young but they are obviously a team in the effort. The school hosts lots of events to include families like Breakfast&books, PBS kickoff, and an annual talent show. Communication between teachers, parents, and students is solid.

This school is great. The current principal is really involved and seems to really appreciate her…read morestudents and faculty. Had a great experience with all of my child's teachers.

I would recommend PLA to anyone! These ladies are wonderful and loving. Its apparent that they…read moretruly love and care for every child in their care. I can't say enough amazing things about this special place.

As a former employee, and mom of two boys enrolled at PLA, I highly recommend this preschool, Ms…read more Vicki, and Ms. Carina.