I LOVE THIS PLACE, my kids go here and they are always coming back home saying what a beautiful day…read morethey had and I love that they are happy, it fills my heart with joy.

Well my daughters goes there and she agrees that it has good education and it really pushes the…read morestudents to be the best they can be .

Ms. Patricia is amazing. The patience of an angel. We will go back in September. The girls can't…read morewait. Gena Abramov

I am giving this business one star as I have had a very bad experience. The pricing on the website…read morestated it was $36/half hour lesson per week with a non-refundable registration fee. I visited the facility and met with Dr. Bob Lawrence and was very impressed. I decided to go ahead and move forward. I provided my $50 registration fee, which he required before sending over a full agreement. The next day I was sent a document that stated it was $36/ half hour lesson, but there were additional fees added with only one option of automatic payments that were not disclosed prior. After expressing my disappointment due to the hidden fees not listed on the website, Dr. Lawrence refused to refund me my $50 due to technicalities. He then provided me a document stating I could contact his lawyer for further communication. Be aware that this company does not disclose all information on costs prior to the required registration fee. I am highly displeased with the entire interaction with this company.

For over 20 years, I have been going to the Craft Guild to learn new skills as an artist. The Guild…read moreis a well-run organization that offers hands on training for anyone wanting to learn new craft skills. I highly recommend taking a class. They are awesome!

I've taken metalsmithing classes at the Craft Guild for several years and have learned from…read moreincredible instructors. Highly recommended if you want to learn jewelry making techniques using state of the art equipment. The community of artist is amazing.

Amazing little preschool! It is small so all the teachers know every single student!…read more Kids enjoy music class as well as Spanish class. Perfect school for mothers looking to send their little ones.

Great School both my boys attended. I know the director has been working hard at making some much…read moreneeded updates to the facilities. The new playground looks great and it keeps the family friendly appeal of a small tight knit preschool.

The experience I have at the school is amazing! I totally recommend it…read more All the staff were very cozy with my 3 years of age son , which he is always pleased going to school every day! Also the teachers were really profesional and focus at the time of achieving the objetives of each student. The school is very professionally organized, very flexible and helpful when it comes to student and parents requests. The teachers are competent and responsive to the needs of the young students and the class size is not too big and the school makes sure that the level of the students is suitable. I am completely satisfied with Mona Montossori and highly recommend it!! Yaz Getahun

My daughter has been here over a year and she's flourishing in her education and the teachers are…read moreamazing

A wonderful camp that really knows how to do it right! My daughter loved Amercian Girl Doll and…read moreJunior Scientist Camp this summer in Dallas! Wow! Thank you for doing such an amazing job! We appreciate it.

My son went to camp for the first time to Lego WeDo Robotics. He is 8 and had the BEST time. The…read morecamp counselors greeted us with a smile at drop off/pick up & my son always shared how great they were throughout the day as well. I felt confident leaving my son there for the day. We will for sure be back! The Garland location was super convenient for us. The next one we are going to is all the way out in North Dallas so that drive won't be easy for us, but for this camp I do think it will be worth it. Grateful to have camp options like SciKidz!

I attended Parish from Pre-K through 6th grade. Please bare in mind that I am now in my early 20s,…read moreso this was awhile ago and for all I know the school has changed somewhat. Some of the teachers I had have since retired or moved on to different schools, but I believe Mr. Monaco, the head of school who replaced Gloria Snyder when I was in the elementary school, is still there, so I'm not entirely sure how different the school is. Parish for me was a toss-up when it came to academics: there were some incredibly kind and nurturing teachers who knew how to engage their students, and there were some teachers who should not have been in the classroom at all. What particularly stood out to me about the Parish system, and not in a good way, was how strictly the school wanted kids to adhere to their pace of learning: there was no room for personal intellectual growth. I have a couple examples of this. The first occurred in first grade, when my class had been placed into three distinct reading groups based on how they had scored on standardized tests. Despite being a pretty avid reader at home, I guess I didn't do as well as I should have, because I was placed in the middle-level one. There was a series of chapter books that I had really enjoyed reading at home, so I was overjoyed when my teacher got them for our class library. However, as soon as I pulled one out and started to read, my teacher came over and politely told me that I was not allowed to read those books because my standardized tests had deemed that I wasn't ready. I tried to explain to her that I had read the books at home and had no trouble with them, but to no avail. I don't want to blame the teacher in this instance because looking back, she was one of the better teachers I had at Parish, and I'm sure she was just doing what the school had instructed her to do. Looking back though, I think it's awful that a school would purposely hold a student back from more advanced work and pushing themselves (when they have the full capability to do so) just because a standardized test put them in a specific box. This issue occurred again in sixth grade, when I went to a summer camp for advanced students over the summer that taught me beginning calculus. My mom told my 6th grade math teacher about the camp, and the teacher proceeded to tell her she was wrong in sending me there, as the camp might advance me too much and I would be bored later on. No thought to the fact that I might be ready for more advanced math--just trying to hold me at the level that Parish thought I should be at. In this way, I really felt the school tried to put all its students in boxes of where they "should be" and not allow for individual learning paths. I noticed after the time I left, several kids I knew who were usually at the top of the class ended up transferring to schools like Hockaday and Greenhill, and I can't help but wonder if it was in part for that reason.

My kids have been there over a decade. Parish has been a SPECTACULAR experience. The diverse and…read moreinclusive community fosters students who are academically strong while being socially and emotionally healthy. I hope one day my grandchildren will be there, too!

My daughter started going to Mathnasium in September and she is doing so well. She said it's a lot…read moreof fun and looks forward to going there twice a week for her math tutoring.

They did a great job helping my daughter get to the next level in her math skills. The games and…read moreincentives they have for the kids really helped motivate my kid.

As an experienced musician myself, I searched for the perfect music teacher for my own budding…read moreyoung musicians. I am beyond thrilled with the Suzuki Music Institute of Dallas. This school has phenomenal teachers, fabulous group music classes, and unparallelled theory and composition training. All their students study individually with instructors as well as in ensemble settings, and all take separate theory classes. They perform at least 4 times per year, which is great practice! It's a wonderful music community, one I only experienced when I got to college! I wish they had had a school like this when I was a child! We are not planning for our children to be professional musicians (and indeed I am not, either), but I appreciate that my children are in an environment that maximizes their potential. My children play piano, and it has always been fun, move-at-your-own-pace, and encouraging. My little ones are pretty sensitive, so negative pressure or stress would really turn them off--but they love this place and all their teachers, and happily skip into the building each week! The classes and the practice are definitely a time commitment, but the kids love it, and we are committed to making music an integral part of their lives. There is excellent instruction for all levels, from pre-schoolers and young children (like mine) through high school. Some of their recent graduates have gone on to study music at Juilliard and the Eastman School of Music.

I have had two children enrolled for several years and I have found that this school is…read moreextraordinary. It is an excellent experience for children, from 18 months to 18 years, and the music education is incomparable. Suzuki Music Institute of Dallas offers music lessons to children and their families. The instruments taught are violin, viola, cello, bass, piano, harp and organ. The teachers are committed, caring and extremely well trained. The school's history is long and its core mission has remained unchanged since it was first founded over 45 years ago. For the youngest students, SMID has the "Kodomo" class that is very good and unique. Imagine a circle of two-year-olds and their parents being led in song and rhythmic play by a teacher who has decades of music pedagogy experience, then add another equally knowledgeable and talented musician accompanying those children on a grand piano. This excellent class is affordable and meets on Saturday mornings. Instrument lessons are available for children age 3 and up. In addition to a weekly private lesson, there is a weekly group class and a theory class. Children, working a little each day with their parents, progress quickly and can do very impressive things musically. It is not unusual for children as young as 5 or 6 to be proficient music readers. The students love their teachers. It is possible, and not uncommon, for a student to have the same teacher for several years at a time. This long, caring relationship between teacher, student AND the parent, has a way of propelling children to do great things. Children are taught as individuals and the program is paced to each child's needs and abilities. Despite what other posters might have said, this school is the opposite of competitive! There are many special-needs children who are in the program, learning and growing. The spirit of non-competitiveness is actually intrinsic to the method; it was baked-in by Shinichi Suzuki himself and is carefully maintained at the school through ongoing parent and student education. I believe that the eduction my children are receiving at SMID will give a number of skills that will help them throughout their lives. They will probably not be professional musicians, but that is not the goal. The real goals for my children include learning that disciplined practice (work) can bring exciting and valuable skills, that effective collaboration with others is possible and rewarding, and that music can be beautiful and fun. Though a great value in my opinion, this is not the cheapest or easiest of music programs. There are other places where parents can simply drop off their children for instrument lessons and not have to be bothered with anything other that listening to the occasional practice. However, for those families who wish to do something more than "check the box" of getting music lessons for their kid, to instead actively pursue the rewards that a quality music education can give, this is the very best place for them.

I'm about to go to 5th grade at Hockaday. Although I'm new, I'm excited and know that It'll be…read moregood. I love the uniform and campus. Virtue through knowledge!

As a parent, I will be as honest as I can. We were deciding between Hockaday, Ursuline and a coed…read moreschool. Our daughter got into all three. We ultimately decided on Hockaday because of what we were told by the administration. They left out very important pieces. First, they are again looking for another Head of school. They have a leadership problem for sure. Secondly, the upper school parents are given actual grades only twice a year. Mid year (when it is too late to do anything about 25% of their grades) and the final grade at the end of the year. There is not computer access to test scores or even scheduled parent teacher conferences. You are expected to have your child do all of this with the help of their advisor. Their advisor is a teacher at the school who has to work with all the teachers that the girls do not like. The advisors tell the girls things like "whatever your teacher says, is the final decision." This is in regards to things like what class your child can take next year. If your child has amazing test scores from other schools and on all her standardized tests but this one teacher who has only known your child for months says your kid can't do the work, your child will be demoted. This is true for all Math classes, Science classes and Foreign language classes. The biggest kicker is we are paying over $35,000.00 a year for this school - not our daughter and not the teachers. Hockaday does not see to understand that we are the clients. The teacher shortage also means that the administration supports the teachers who should not be working at a top tier private school. Ask any girl and they will list 5 teachers who everyone dislikes. The administration doesn't care. In fact, they specifically say that the girls can ask for schedule changes for any reason except they don't want the teacher they are assigned. Seems odd they would ever have to put that if all the teachers were as good as they claim. The parents pay more tuition than state colleges but the girls are not allowed to pick their classes or teachers. Think about that for a minute. So how about that epic education? Nope, they have so many days off for holidays and random stuff that the classes are rushed and the girls are stressed more than the boys at their brother school St. Mark's. In fact, St.Marks continues to be in the top 5 for schools nationwide and Hockaday is about 150. I personally think it is because my child was an A student at her other schools but Hockaday is a completely different story. For the first time, my child gets c's. This is in classes like English, History and Spanish. The teachers first will give special privileges to lifer hockaday students because those girls "already know how we do things here at hockaday". Interesting because those are the girls who never score as high as the new students who have to actually have the scores and intelligence to get into Hockaday at High School. Everyone is accepted in Kindergarten - as long as you can pay. The English teachers feel you can only get an A if you see them every day and are their little pet. That is not possible if your child has extra curricular activities for the 3 hours required by coaches every single day. The kids make appointments during their breaks and rarely eat because they use lunch time as a conference time. Yes, all the teachers want you to be in their class constantly. A good teacher, teaches the complete lesson in the time allotted. It's called time management and consideration for other people. Spanish is ridiculously hard. Take Latin or French if you want an A. My best advice is don't be stupid like us and pay $35,000 a year (plus all of the fundraising requests) to a school that will cause your child to not get into an Ivy League or top tier school. Luckily, the college counselors who have never been accepted to an Ivy will give you suggestions like Gettysburg college. Also, they spend a huge portion of their money towards sports. We have all kinds of sports fields going in and not a single reason why we should not take our daughter out of school. Luckily, they have some random woman who requires the girls to spend hours doing things like pretending they are poor, talking about being privileged, and forced community service to whatever is the most humiliating. They have spoken to the girls for hours this month about being stressed. THEY ARE THE ONES STRESSING everyone out. The girls NEED their Y hours to visit teachers and do the 7 pages of homework on the internal organs in Spanish 2 not discussing how the counselors made really bad decisions they regret. Also, we buy the lap tops and everything else. Books are not included in tuition. So add another $600 a year. At this point, I think I will be in AA soon if my kid stays at this school.