My youngest daughter went here from 6-8 grades. It was a wonderful experience that she owes so much…read moreto. The administration is wonderful and it really put her on the path to success. Her classmates and she are off to college this year and this reunion brings them all together one last time before matriculation. They're all wearing T-shirts and other paraphernalia from their new schools. Timber Pizza is catering the event and it's a really nice family environment Weather is beautiful.

I visited my friend who is a teacher there and I was really impressed. Working in a middle school…read moremyself, I noticed some of the differences right away. Two Rivers, is a smaller than usual middle school that services a very diverse student population. The fact that they are smaller is a great benefit to the child as a whole. The teachers are very in tune with what's going on with each child there. They work in a "family-like" environment where the old adage of "it takes a village to raise a child" holds truth. The staff seemed very much in sync and appeared to be glad to be working there unlike other schools I have visited before. The building itself lends itself to be inviting and comfortable. From the types of desks they use to the color of the wall, this entire building stimulates you to want to learn. The walls are painted with a very warm blue so soothing and calming. each classroom has a teacher and a teacher helper which makes the student-to-teacher ratio very small. I took a tour and was impressed by the aesthetics such as the partial glass walls! But overall, everyone was very inviting and nice as I walked through the halls with my friend giving me a tour. From what my friend tells me everyone works very hard to get to know each child at a personal level and everyone is concerned about the child's well being. I would recommend parents who are looking for schools in the area to visit and maybe ask for a small guided tour to see the building. As someone who works in a middle school with about 1,100 students, I believe smaller settings are crucial especially at the middle school level and if you are looking for that then you need to go check out Two Rivers.

Two Rivers PCS, My…read morechild's first and last year. One would've thought after the new principal came onboard it would've got better, it got worse. First, Two Rivers starts at 8:15, and after 8:30 a student is considered late. You get15-minutes grace, but you'll sit on Benning Road for an half-hour just trying to get through the very busy, high- construction, congested intersection where all the schools in the area start at the same time. Two Rivers staff could do a better job with either starting school earlier, or having their staff to stand on 4th Street that will aid in a smoother traffic flow. There's one way in and one way out, and in the event of an emergency, time would definitely be a factor of life or death. Second, Ms. Chelsea, the new principal. Where do I begin? She has never formally introduced herself to the school-body. She's rarely at the school on-time, never accountable or available. She has failed many parents and is a disservice to the school. She's new to being a principal and it's more than evident that she was hired off familiarity. She probably was great in her other position at Two Rivers, but that's certainly not the case at Young. Maybe because she had two small children who knows, but she's way above her head in this position and the Two Rivers Community will suffer, because she'll never have enough integrity to own the fact that it's too much. Instead the school/students will fail. Third, the schools report card system. It's very subjective and holds no merit to the student or what's needed to excel with the standards of area public charter schools. It's evident that something is wrong, check out Two Rivers Report Card. No real preparation towards achieving in Science, Math, and Reading. What the teachers don't undertake, when their students fail, so do they! Fourth, the school is very racist! The schools grading system is in a scale of 1-5 with 5 being the highest. Very rare do children of color ever score 4-5s while for children of other races it's a norm. During showcases, the African-American children receive small parts while other children receive larger. Fifth, the school use Wednesday's for teacher-development days. It not only causes a very expensive after-school bill for parents. The teachers have not used the time wisely to improve themselves or students to become academic achievers. Basically, Wednesday's has become just another day and nothing has changed! In Two Rivers you'll get diversity, but that's it! Send your child(ren) to a school that'll challenge them academically and learning is fun. A school that'll challenge them to want to know/learn more because it's that exciting. A principal who will always go above and beyond to service the students, parents, and staff. A principal that is dedicated and accountable. All parents wants what is best for their children and their schools should mirror that! The same as parents should enjoy all of the comforts of being home, they should have this the same hidden nugget of cultural treasure within their school.

The faculty and staff truly care and want to help every student in need. There are not as many…read morefights as people seem to think. The counselors try their best to handle every situation. Definitely a good school for children in the area.

I like the school and the principal is chill and most of the teachers are nice and funny, the…read moremiddle school is fun and there isn't too much homework. There are many kids there and I had fun in all my 5 years.

Commonwealth Academy promotes itself as a school that has expertise in ADHD and executive…read morefunctioning. Our experience there this last year with our son (12) was the opposite, and the staff was extremely unwilling to work with us on his needs. It gets worse. In the end, a false report of child abuse and neglect was filed against us, we believe and have strong evidence to back it up by senior school staff in retaliation for disputes we had with them. In my opinion, the place is not safe for your kids or you. We enrolled mid-year, when our local school was having issues meeting his needs. He has a learning profile that includes ADHD, language processing difficulties, and executive function difficulties. When we interviewed the school, which is billed as particularly suited for a child of his profile, we were very excited about the approach and attention to executive function, and the admissions head similarly felt it would be a great fit for our son. For a school that supposedly focuses on executive function skills, they offered him almost nothing in the way of support there, and made it very difficult for him (and us) to figure out what his assignments even were. There was no consistent place where or how assignments were listed; some were online, some were via emails, and some were given in class. This is a nightmare for someone with executive function difficulties, and only set him up for failure. The school was also slow to implement an assisted listening device, provided by us, that has greatly helped our son in his previous school. We had discussed using the device with CA prior to enrollment and they had agreed in principle. It took them over three months to actually begin using it. One of us is a licensed counselor and former teacher with years of professional expertise and success in helping children with learning profiles similar to our son's. With this expertise, we tried very hard to work with the school on how best to serve our son, and offered specific interventions to help him access the curriculum and get through the day. The school presented considerable resistance and foot-dragging and at one point, the head of the middle school told us that we were no longer welcome to email them. They were not only not interested in the resources we offered, they at times seemed offended by it. Another dispute centered around repeated and inappropriate suggestions from certain staff that we should get medical diagnoses and/or therapy for our son. For our son's privacy, I am not going to discuss the nature of these requests, but we have in fact involved his health care providers in addressing his in-school challenges, and we provided evidence of this in the form of doctor's notes to the staff on multiple occasions. After about the third time these requests were made, we complained to the head of school, who responded very supportively and agreed the staff had been inappropriate. It was two days after this that the false report to DC CFSA was made. The report included the allegation that we "refused" to take our son to the doctor, and other disturbing allegations that were simply made up out of whole cloth. After 35 days the report was ruled Unfounded by DC CFSA, which means a report they consider untrue. Based on the timing and the content of the allegations in the report as communicated to us by the social workers, we believe it's almost a certainly that it was made by one of three people there, two of whom are still there and are fairly senior in the school's administration. We removed him from the school the day the report was filed and home schooled him for the remainder of the year. The school was uncooperative in providing assignments and materials during this time, and was uncooperative in our investigation of who filed the false report. They have also not provided materials needed for applications to other schools, obstructing our efforts to find a new placement for him. Parents considering Commonwealth Academy should be aware that (1) it is not what it claims to be in terms of support for ADHD and executive function, and (2) it apparently employs people who are willing to weaponize Child and Family Services against parents by filing false and malicious reports accusing them of child abuse and neglect.

If I could give it zero stars I would. Every time I came to…read morepick up my son, he was wet. Extra clothes were provided to staff for a reason. I don't see why my child has to sit in wet clothes and why nobody is paying enough attention to him to notice that he has had an accident. I did not appreciate the way my grandma was disregarded when asked if the staff could also ask my son every so often if he needed to potty. The sheet that was provided for me at the end of the day never made sense and it was never filled out correctly. His last filled out potty break was always at 11am, but we would not be picked up after 3pm. It always said that he took a two-hour nap, but he would come home so exhausted he would nap them. Whoever the women are that he was with at the end of the day are not professional. The way the walk to the children is very inappropriate. There is not reason why they should be raising their voices at toddlers. They also need to WAKE UP and pay attention to what is going on around them and with the children. My husband called one day to ask if my son was okay because he was crying when his dad left and immediately got the answer, "he is fine, he's not crying". I did not appreciate that the time was not taken to call the classroom and check on him, that is very unprofessional. This is not a safe space for any child. His water shoes were never returned to me along with his sunscreen but they were being requested AGAIN in the sheet that was sent home. This facility is nothing like it is made out to be. Needless to say he is no longer attending. They could not even get back to me in a timely manner about the withdrawal.

This is a wonderful preschool. My son loves coming every day and is learning alot. The teachers…read moreare fantastic and there are great activities.

Wow, with a caboose outside one's door I'd want to go to school. You've got the Duncan Library…read moreacross the alley and a fun park on the side.

My child went here. There are some happy memories, and some decidedly very unhappy ones. I have…read moreto give more than one star, because some of the teachers here are dedicated to their jobs, and they are good teachers and decent human beings. I pity them, because they are in the company of some others who are cynical, burned out, going through the motions, and heavy handed in dealing with the children. If you're not happy teaching, choose another profession, and don't inflict yourself on innocent little ones. My child used to love going to the school until entering the class of one teacher, who turned going to school into an ordeal for many of the students. If this is the crystallization of what a teacher achieves -- making children hate school -- then they are a failure and they need to look for a different line of work. This school needs to move such teachers out the door -- and in our experience, it doesn't. The school held lots of meetings with parents about policy changes. Whenever they went about changing the dress code, the attendance schedule, etc., they'd go through the motions of seeking input from the parents. In retrospect, in my perception, whatever decisions this school's administrator(s) had come to were inevitably actualized, making the meetings a mere pretense, a hoop the school had to jump through so it could check off the box that it had held such meetings. I had better things to do with my time than attend "input meetings" that I don't believe ever really respected or wanted my input. The school leans hard Left, getting the littles ones initiated in the "Diversity Agenda," the "Social Justice Agenda," equity training, etc. If there are different facets for some of these issues, you'd never know it from the messaging posted on the hallways, fencing and bulletin boards. This propagandizing, presented as "The Truth," sits comfortably in the perches provided by Alexandria and similarly "progressive" cities across the country. Some of the instruction provided was "Good Touch, Bad Touch" training, which was promptly actualized when my child -- who resembles nothing so much as a Teletubby -- tugged on another child's clothing. This resulted in accusations, hysteria, denunciations, outrage, phone calls, meetings, and lots of similarly horrifying tumult. When this ordeal first began, I came running, to find my child had been ejected into a hallway and was sitting there alone, sobbing, devastated, thoroughly traumatized. Aside from the teacher, who certainly handled this situation idiotically, the school office staff, which had known my child even as a toddler, did little to nothing to intervene and stop what was happening. In the midst of it all, seven words kept coming into my mind: "This is some kind of political theater." It did not matter that we all knew we were witnessing and participating in foolishness; despite the school's advertised maxims about altruism and fairness, the machinery grinding up my innocent child had to be allowed to run its course. I was thoroughly appalled. And I was further appalled that there was no shame in them for doing this. Such things happen in a lifetime, and you deal with them as best you're able, and then move on. But you don't forget. The other actors in such events forget them, but you don't. And neither does your child.

I had the worst experience with Springfield KinderCare. On November 20th I had the most horrific…read moreexperience of my life. I am only writing about this now because I am now slowly making my way to dealing with what happened emotionally. It's still even very hard to talk about. On November 19th I reached out to the school director Shiela , explaining to her how I was struggling financially to keep my son in the pre school program. I walked in with a lump in my throat and tears in my eyes. It was hard enough to deal with money problems but then to make them public for my sons pre school made it worse. She explained to me that she couldn't do anything that she needed two weeks notice. And offered me a "deal" to pay for that week and half of the following week but he could not attend next week and then he could be pulled from the program. Seeing as that's all they said they could do I understood and left feeling crappy about the whole thing. The very next day my son goes back to KinderCare. I missed a call from the school because I was at work and didn't have my phone on me. Then I received a call from my child's father at work saying that there was an accident at school. My son had smashed his face and lost two teeth. The assistant Director Ms Chris couldn't even tell me what happened. Stating that no teacher saw what happened. She kept changing her story from he fell and hit his mouth on the end of the slide to he bumped into a class mate. The teacher Ms Zarmina who was suppose to be watching the kids play on the playground saw nothing. When I questioned her about what happened she stated "there are too many kids". How is it possible that I am suppose to trust a Kindercare to watch my son when the teacher is even saying there is too many kids. All of a sudden Ms . Chris the assistant director was able to clear my invoice for that week and the following week. Now there was no problem pulling him from the program. It took my son smashing his face to be able to pull him from the program. I felt no compassion from Ms . Chris for what had happened to my son. He had the biggest wounds in his gums two teeth came right out all the way to the root. When I asked my son what happened he stated that his teacher Ms Zarmina was talking and not watching him and his friends play. He actually fell down the stairs and smashed his mouth. His gums were all bruised and all Ms.Chris could tell me is "boys will be boys " and " accidents happen". I am a vet tech and I have better bed side manner than that. There was no compassion. Can you imagine dropping off your four year old to preschool only to pick him up with a bloody bruised mouth and two teeth missing. He is going to lose a third tooth as well it's very loose. He was put on a course of antibiotics and pain medication. Luckily they are his baby teeth and he will have teeth come in eventually but his dentist states they won't come in for another two years !! My son won't have teeth for two years. And it is not Aweee he's so cute he lost his teeth , I see my son with out those teeth and think about how he lost them. How I trusted KinderCare and how I let my son down for trusting them. I would not recommend this location to anybody at all. The only positive thing I have to say about this KinderCare is that one of the teachers Ms. Michelle actually cares. She was not present for his accident but gave me most compassion that not even the school director nor assistant director could give. My son is spending the holidays and his 5th birthday with no teeth because of KinderCare. My family and I could not be more disappointed, and hurt by what happened.

I've had my kid there for the past year. This was out 1st daycare and everyone loves my son and he…read moreloves them. Check out the Open house on April 21 from 1-3pm. If you mention my name you will get a $200 credit! Set up a time to take a tour! My son,napped the 1st day. They are so helpful with my son's picky eating. They have food and you can see the menu. The bathrooms are in the classroom so kids can go when they want vs going into a hallway. They have karate and soccer that comes in during the school day. You can pay with discover. Can download the form online for FSA. They are open most holidays. If you take a vacation for a week they'll take half off.. They also can drop off and pick up school age children. They have parents night out on April 27th from 6:30 to 9:30 it's only $35 for one child in 24 the second one. So you already know them you know that they're with other kids instead of you trying to find a babysitter enough time for dinner and a movie. My hubby was weary as well so we toured different places and he gave it a thumbs up which means alot!

My son went to CLC for the past 2 years. From the very beginning they have been amazing. This was…read moreour first time dealing with daycare so my husband and I were very unsure. However, the love and care they showed my son was beyond what I ever imagined. The teachers were great. They made learning fun. We really love this place. This was his last year and I am so sad that he had to leave. If you want to send your child somewhere you know they are safe and will be treated with care CLC is the place.

My son went to this school and loved it. Miss Web and Miss Karla were very sweet and excellent…read moreteachers. Unfortunately we moved from the area and took him out. But highly recommend this place. Very clean facility.