My son has been going to AoPS Lexington for the past 3 years, and has nothing but great things to…read moresay about the classes and the teachers. The several courses he has taken in Math and Physics have helped him improve his problem-solving skills, critical thinking and conceptual depth in the individual areas. As a consequence, they have also prepared him immensely for contests outside of school.

Do not send young children here. The assessor who met with my child had zero experience with young…read morechildren. He was rude and abrupt and impatient. He obviously did not understand how children learn and what they need. It would be like entrusting your child to someone who spent all his time online and couldn't deal with people in real life.

I have been working with Liz over the past year during an extremely difficult and transitional time…read morein my life. I felt completely overwhelmed, lost, scared, and static. I came to her feeling like a shell of myself, not knowing what to do. From the beginning of working with her, she immediately made me feel safe, heard, and at peace. At times, I felt like my issues were too much, too much for her to even take in, but that anxiety completely went away with her comfort and understanding. Through her healing using brain integration, I have not only been able to cope with the recent traumatic events in my life, but also navigate through major depression and helplessness. Additionally, her healing sessions have had positive physical effects on my body - I no longer suffer from acid reflux and stomach ulcers, which I have had for over 25 years. I am currently in menopause and my joint pain symptoms have improved, and my insomnia has decreased. There aren't words that can express how thankful I am for her healing and care. Also, I live on the West Coast of the United States, so we work remotely. Energy healing works! Liz is proof.

I whole heartedly and most enthusiastically recommend Liz Elia…read more She is one of those special people who are both so incredibly skilled and very kind. She is very intuitive, and really knows her stuff. She is incredibly gentle and also very strong and not afraid to give you her perspective. She is the kind of person who makes you feel understood and who lets you be yourself. She celebrates who I am and who others are, and has a knack for empowering you to be fully yourself. She has a clear, kind way of seeing things and often sees things that I might miss. And she can give you this wisdom in a way that is respectful of your dignity. She has a stillness and peace about her that is very healing. She's very genuine and real. Since I started working with her I have been feeling much better emotionally, mentally, spiritually and physically. Her presence is loving and calm. She is a true healer, and I would recommend her to anyone and everyone seeking healing and well being. So grateful to her. Rabbi Shifra Freewoman

MDS is a highly stressful place to work. There is a lack of communication between management and…read moreemployees. There is no consistent schedule. I feel bad for the students who go here. There is a poor workplace culture. There is a lot of gossip. You can't trust your supervisors.

Honest review from a graduating High school senior:…read more This school isn't bad, but has a LOT of issues. Staff turnover has been seriously high ever since the pandemic. I believe the school is really prioritizing the managing of student social behavior and classes around those at the cost of really hiring effective teachers in sufficient roles to focus the students on academics and transitioning into the real world. As someone who is graduating senior year in a week, I find that a major fault of the school. It wasn't until recently where I realized I have forgotten a majority of basic Algebra 2 and did not learn enough of High school topics due to the lack of academic enforcement and general management by the higher-ups and admins. The diversity ratio is also disastrously low, and there is barely any diversity in the school, and they also would rather keep problematic, distracting students in the same classroom with high-attentive neurotypical students due to the school not knowing how to manage a situation that is their job to manage, and I believe it's very unprofessional. There were positives though, the staff are super friendly to get along with, they really become your friends in the school if you don't like the students, I also feel overtime I was given a good amount of emotional support to manage my anxiety, but when I got through that hurdle, I began to severely struggle academically, even though I had good grades in my classes. Overall, this school that has a lot of potential, but has gradually been going downward in the last few years since the pandemic, and if the turnover continues with the lack of heart & soul it used to have a few years ago, I fear this school will progressively get worse.

It is a great institute, instructors are professional. If you are serious and focused, you will be…read moreable to get your certificate same day you graduate and then you get to sit for your state exams - the instructors are great - it all depends on you. I got my certificates same day I finished. Thank you MCC.

Great school providing exceptional training in a short period of time. High quality instructors and…read morestaff makes your learning a breeze. Get qualified in no time to start earning today!!

We've been at EFGB in Cambridge with our two children since September 2017. It's been a wonderful…read moreexperience. All the teachers are native French speaking and the children are completely immersed in French. They spend their days drawing, playing, singing, reading, and everything you would expect in a high quality preschool. The teachers are warm and engaged. There's a playground attached to the school and they go out every day, even in bad weather. It's been great to get involved with a Francophone community. The schedule is less convenient than a typical daycare for working parents (more like a school schedule, no food provided) but for us, the loss of convenience is more than made up for by the quality of the school and unique ability to have our children's early years be completely bilingual.

My son attended EFB in the 2021 school year. He had previously attended a French-language…read morepreschool in Lexington, but that school closed as a consequence of the pandemic. After a year of no school, my wife and I enrolled him at EFB, in the hope we could pick up where we had left off. Biggest mistake of my life - and one which had real consequences for my son. As far as I ever learned, his teacher, whom I had met previously when she worked with animals at Massachusetts Veterinary Referral Hospital in Woburn, had had no prior experience working with children. Her primary job qualification appeared to be that she was a native French speaker. She was extremely ill-equipped to work with young children, never mind a child such as my son who had been out of school for a year and who had spent that year largely secluded with his parents. And she was not alone: while there were a handful of people at the school who took their responsibilities seriously (I shall always be indebted in particular to Isabelle Ward), too many were unwilling, or unable, to respond to the singular demands of either that particular moment in history - the reopening of the world following a pandemic - or of their students. I was astounded, for example, during a video orientation with the school counselor prior to the start of the school year, that no thought had been given to how this rentrée, after the entire world had been closed for more than a year, was going to be different from any other. No thought was given to how to accommodate students whose whole worlds had been turned upside down when they were still learning to walk, and who were now trying to get their sea legs on a ship - the world! - still in the process of righting itself. When my son started to shut down in this environment of sheer thoughtlessness, he was treated as a problem, with little or no attempt to understand where he was coming from, or what the school should undertake to try to help him (again, there were one or two exceptions, including Isabelle Ward, whom I once again acknowledge and thank). At one point, his teacher noted, in a conference with my wife and me, that my son said he hated school, something that she seemed to think made him some kind of school shooter in the bud. Any time a "teacher" makes such a suggestion about a 4 (!) year old who weighed all of 40 lbs soaking wet, it says something about her and the school she represents, and nothing at all about the kid. To be fair: no one had any experience navigating a rentrée like 2021. Instead of recognizing this massively obvious fact, however, EFB just wanted to go on as if nothing had happened. I understand this desire; I even succumbed to it myself when I enrolled my son at EFB, as if it could be an adequate substitute for the school where he had thrived prior to the pandemic and which no longer existed. Succumbing to this desire, however, had real consequences for my son - consequences for which I hold myself responsible first of all, but also EFB, for its unwillingness or inability to adapt in the least way when those consequences began to emerge. My wife and I pulled my son out of EFB when we realized how harmful it was for him. But the months he spent there left scars that will last a lifetime. I have waited 5 years to write this review, and do so now only because my son disclosed last night, for the first time, how harshly he was once disparaged at EFB for taking an empty toilet paper roll out of the bathroom. Suddenly, I understood something that had happened at EFB and had hitherto been a mystery: my son, who has been toilet trained since the age of 2, suddenly stopped using the bathroom at EFB, to the point of repeatedly peeing his pants at school, at the end of the day when he could no longer hold it in anymore. I had never understood why - until he recounted this story. I can't think of a more damning anecdote about this school.

If your situation is "typical", then perhaps your experience will be different and this will be a…read morefine provider of services. The testing itself, once you get it, appears to be done well, with competent and friendly doctors and the suggestions that result can be helpful. However, if you have any kind of unique situation, either in the symptomatology of your child, or if the parents disagree about the causes or presentation of the issues present, their approach and systems here are utterly incapable, by design, to handle that. They struggled to handle our bespoke situation and the outcomes of that were harmful for my child. These issues were also frustrating, caused extra costs, and ultimately required external intervention to get the very basic testing required for things beyond the academic testing which was all they initially sought to do. I wish to also second the review that found their billing practices questionable. I strongly disliked dealing with this organization and found the outcomes sub-optimal, more expensive with insurance coverage than simply going to an out-of-network provider would have been and required immense efforts to get issues resolved, some of which never were and that led to further conflict and harm for my child. It felt like my observations or issues were either ignored or disregarded. I regret using this organization.

Update: well they were so good for their own part, I can ignore the referral to a less-stellar…read moreservice provider, and figured in retrospect to change these guys to 5 stars. They deserve it.

We are proud of our son and grateful for his admission to Bentley University. However, calling it…read more"a top university with a significant merit scholarship" is an obvious attempt to inflate the outcome. A $10,000 merit award is fairly common among Lexington High School seniors. Our son's dream school was Babson College, and that was the goal we worked toward for years. After several years of working with Livius, his final SAT score was 1350. That is not a terrible score, but it is not impressive in Lexington, especially among Asian students. We ultimately sought additional support elsewhere. It is inappropriate to now imply that the entire result is solely your achievement. The core issue remains the sales process. We were strongly persuaded to purchase a large prepaid package, and were told at the time that it might even be insufficient for what our son would need. Based on that representation, we signed the so-called "non-refundable" agreement. After years of services, we still have more than 10 unused hours left. That alone speaks for itself. When we recently inquired about the remaining balance, the response was dismissive and focused only on the contract clause, without any acknowledgment of the inaccurate projections used to sell the package. Repeating "you signed a contract" while ignoring the context is not customer care -- it is deflection. Using ambiguous language to magnify results and take credit, while dismissing legitimate concerns about unused prepaid services, reflects poorly on a company that charges premium prices. We stand by our review.

Not good. Unimpressive instructors, poor customer service when issues. Expensive…read more If we had to do it over again we'd have gone in a different direction.

It is impossible to say enough wonderful things about Waltham Childcare Center. For the past 5…read moreyears, I have seen nothing but a staff of loving caregivers and brilliant teachers who are genuinely invested in every child's growth and happiness. The classroom space is organized, positive and always stimulates and enriches their learning; from the interactive reading of CAPS where students got to practice balancing hats on their heads, to the excitement of playing in the 'big gym' at the Boys and Girls club and of course, the creative art projects that involve him painting his hands to make imprints or making homemade slime or experimenting with the fizzy properties of baking soda! The staff is always engaging with students, checking-in, and making them feel heard and seen. Waltham Childcare Center is also dedicated to preparing their students for Kindergarten. My son, who will be 5-years-old this October, has made tremendous gains in his social-emotional learning, counting, letter identification and speech. As a teacher myself, their curriculum and learning instruction are outstanding and I have no doubts that my son will enter Kindergarten hitting every benchmark and then some. In fact, they are often able visit the library which has enabled my son to develop a love for books. Waltham Childcare Center is a rare gem and I am so grateful that they have been able to provide an amazing childcare experience for both my children. I highly recommend them to any parent-you will not be disappointed and neither will your child.

My son has attended this childcare center for over a year, and the entire team provides a…read moresupportive environment with age-appropriate learning, an emphasis on manners, and guidance on how to be a good friend. They follow a consistent schedule, which has made coming to school a joy for him and has given me peace of mind as a parent going to work knowing he is in a safe, caring place.