ODENTON Christian school is a bad school one if there teachers who is white called my son the n…read moreword and when I reported it they did not reach back to me. This is unacceptable behavior for a Christian school and this isn't the first time they called him the n word. I do not recommend by the way odenton christian school is silencing other peoples reviews they removed 5 bad reviews don't trust them.

Odenton christian school is amazing . The curriculum is wonderful and challenging . My daughter…read morecan easily keep up with other private school kids where tuition is 4 times what they charge here ! The teachers are great. They really take their time wirh the kids and its shows. The teaching of the Bible is a much needed and added value that I am eternally grateful for .

Great school, with excellent and caring management. A true asset to the community and great…read morebilingual environment delivering a nurturing and fun environment.

I was very excited for my son to attend Arco Iris. He attended for two years. He enjoyed the first…read moreyear but the second year was not good. I think the school is beautiful and does a great job with marketing. However, I noticed that my son did not learn much. They told me that they use the Univ. of Maryland bilingual curriculum. My son did not learn basic numbers or alphabets in spanish,or much else. The center is also located in a professional building. My son had some behavioral challenges his second year there. He was fine the first year. I believe the owner was more focused on the noise level and the "image" of the school. I removed my son and placed him in a small bilingual center. He learned spanish numbers, colors and alphabet within about two months. His current teacher does not have any issues with his behavior and he loves school. Arco staff was friendly and professional, however I am not confident that they are up for the challenges of bilingual education of young children.

If you think something is fishy, it's because it is…read more Buyer beware: do not evaluate Mater Amoris solely by its beautiful grounds, polished messaging, or carefully crafted philosophy statements. Speak with current families. Speak with former families. Speak with former staff. Ask what happens when concerns are raised. Ask how incidents are documented. Ask how behavioral patterns are tracked. Ask what standards govern intervention. Ask whether difficult questions are welcomed or merely tolerated. Ask academic questions, too. Ask for specifics. Ask how reading progress is measured. Ask how parents know benchmarks have been met. Ask how classroom disruptions affect learning. Ask about staffing levels, turnover, support for guides, and the frequency of school closures, staff workdays, and other interruptions to instructional time. Ask whether the educational experience being delivered consistently reflects the tuition being charged. Most importantly, ask yourself a simple question: if a school cannot clearly explain how it protects children, measures academic progress, documents incidents, responds to legitimate concerns from parents, and delivers consistent instructional time, what exactly are you paying for? I ignored that one bad review about bullying and safety a few years ago when we enrolled. Thinking it would not be our experience, and here I am writing this review today.

Our kids started at Mater Amoris in 2018, and we have felt so fortunate to have this community be…read moretheir educational home in the years since. The school has many special traditions, an excellent Montessori curriculum, and wonderful faculty and staff. Our oldest is now on the middle school program for seventh and eighth graders, and is excited to tell us about his day which is a rare treat from a pre-teen! Our younger is in the upper elementary class that includes 4th, 5th, and 6th grades, and he is learning new skills daily while having the opportunity to help younger students while himself getting support from older students. The setting is idyllic and in winter the sledding hill is legendary. Highly recommend Mater Amoris.

Absolutely love AHCNS! From the amazing teachers to the community! This schools focus is play based…read morelearning which both my kids have loved and thrived in.

We just started this year in the two day per week class for 2/3 year olds. We LOVE it! It is a…read moreco-op, so expect to help out! It was a little overwhelming at first, but there is always someone to help and it all falls into place. My son's teacher is the best... she loves the kids and tells them so! They just have fun and at this age, that's exactly what I wanted for my son. We also got together a couple times before the school year started so the kids could get to know each other and get together on days when school is canceled (follow MCPS calendar).

One of the biggest problems that I had was with the kids who went there. A lot of them acted like…read morelittle children (in the same manner a lower schooler would act) and were extremely immature and annoying. I remember the teacher telling students to walk down a hallway without acting out, which we had to redo. At lunch period during my senior year, they were running around & were completely out of control. When we read Shakespeare, some of the kids in my class would read it in a Jamaican accent & they would start laughing. Almost everybody would constantly laugh at things that were said & certain words in Hamlet which weren't funny. I don't think it was fair that I had to be in the same classroom as the rest of them. One of the most embarrassing things to deal with was at my time at KTHS was going to field trips. Some people would laugh at us because of the way some people acted. They also seemed to have never grown up. A lot of them liked to talk about things that I stopped being interested in when I was 11 or 12. When I was waiting at the bus stop, my classmates would throw Cheetos & sticks on the road & laugh when somebody ran over it. And don't get me started on the outbursts during class. I gave specific examples of what I had to deal with, but it was all day, every day, a lot all the time. For most of my day I had to deal with either somebody acting out, being disrespectful & rude, or just being annoying. The staff were almost as bad because they were unable to properly discipline students. I don't remember kids being kicked out of class, which should have happened all the time. Sometimes support staff came into our classroom to support other students & would sit there & stare at me. They & other teaching assistants would go around the classroom & look over my shoulder at what I was working on & make sure I was doing it correctly, as if I was too stupid to do work by myself & was a little. My math teacher would yell & get angry for getting a question wrong, for not understanding something, or for other things without good cause. Everybody got very little out of math classes due to the way we were taught. During classes, I was pulled out to speak with a therapist even though I didn't want to. One of them came up to me out of the blue and angrily told me that it was my fault for my social situation because I didn't interact with the students enough. I was also taken out of the class with another student to watch tv shows to comment on what was going on as if I was too stupid to understand what was happening and one semester, most the class was taken out for speech class. During my last year, I was taken out of lunch once a week to participate in an awkward group therapy session, which was almost as bad as dealing with the students at lunch. The academics were a complete joke. A lot of the work was the same type of work that I did when I was in middle & lower school & was completely dumbed down. For instance, in my health class, the teacher gave us a paper with a human body & 4 major organs and our assignment was to label the major organs. A couple of years before when I was at a different school, I had a health teacher who taught us at a high school level, & it was extremely frustrating to go from a high school level of being taught at a lower school level. In English class we barely wrote anything and in my government class, everything was too simplified. For my history exam & quizzes there were questions such as "find California on the map" and "who made the I had a dream speech". I did not do any studying for exams. In some instances, I received high grades without trying. I remember getting a 99 percent on one of my history exams. The only exception was my math exam, which isn't surprising since I wasn't properly taught math & felt uncomfortable all of class. BTW, I really enjoyed taking Geometry & Algebra II while my younger brother (who was in middle school at the same time) was doing the exact same thing as I was. The only class that I felt was somewhat at my grade level was chemistry. I remember getting a B on my exam without studying but I don't think I received a decent chemistry education. I studied so little at KTHS that I felt guilty I passed without doing any work. I had to take a math test to graduate high school and while I was taking it, I was angry & stressed out about what was going on around me & was unable to focus and think properly. I ended up failing & had to retake the test. Thanks to KTHS, I was robbed of a high school education & a high school experience. I do not believe that I deserved to have graduated from high school because I didn't do the proper work. When I look back & think about my time at KTHS, I regret that I didn't quit high school. I now know that quitting high school would have been a better route for me, because there was no point in sitting there & not learning anything while dealing with annoying students & staff.

This is a school that legitimately cares about, and gets to know, each student who learns beneath…read moretheir roof. Staff current and past, students, and families become extended family and often return to the school after they no longer attend or work there. Genuinely good people all around: staff, students, admin, and families.

My son is a 6th grader at White Oak Middle School and I recently called up there for assistance…read morewith something and the front office was super helpful and efficient. I was amazed at how quickly they were able to get me to the right place and get me the information I needed.

The staff is very kind but it's really dirty. I went to the bathroom and I found Cheerios in the…read moretoilet. Some students even put lead in the outlet.

Wonderful staff and care. The children come first. The pre school doesn't seem to advertise much,…read more but families seem to stay year after year as siblings come in as infants or toddlers and stay to "graduate" from the Kinder-prep program. The only thing missing is a before and after school program for the local Howard county public school. The costs are reasonable and the program and care are excellent

Three of my kids attended this school and we loved the school and the teachers, especially Ms…read more Kathy and Ms. Stephanie. But I'm only giving 3 stars because of their cancellation policy. We cancelled 60 days prior to our youngest started school in September, but lost two months worth of tuition deposit, which was $1,540. We explained our situation to the director, Damita Robinson, that we had to cancel due to our PCS to a different state, but she gave zero refund simply saying that she cannot deviate from the contract. They do not have a prorated refund policy. If you cancel after a certain date, you will lose all of your deposit. In my honest opinion, the school's cancellation policy is unjust and unethical. Why did I have to lose all of $1,540 for no school attended? It disheartens me to only give 3 stars to a school that our three kids loved so much.

My three daughters graduated from Mount De Sales and I have granddaughters there now. This is an…read moreexcellent environment. The school is staffed by the Nashville Dominican sisters which in itself is a huge asset! Mount de Sales is a gift!

the school itself is beautiful however the students are completely disrespectful and present the…read moreschool in a very negative way. we have never played a team with such bad sportsmanship and are horribly rude.