TO NOTE: THIS DAYCARE EXCHANGES WAIVED FEES FOR POSITIVE REVIEWS…read moreThis daycare - run by Owner and Executive Director Crystal Tapia and her family members who are in all the administrative staff roles, is an overall disappointment, untrustworthy, unsafe and very clearly more interested in the money they are able to bring in instead of the families they are working with or children they are "caring for." The two main problems we experienced with this daycare - 1. there is a lot of dishonesty and shady behavior regarding money - it is clearly their sole concern and 2. children safety and supervision is severely lacking. First, the money. There were several instances in which we were given incorrect tuition and fee information, repeatedly, by administrative staff only to find out the fees were much more upon required payment. We were among many families who received this tuition information - which is a huge deciding factor when choosing a daycare - only to find out when payment was requested that the tuition was actually higher. No apologies were issued, no courtesy credits or compromises given to make things right for the families who had budgeted for the prior amount. We escalated this to Crystal, hoping she would offer some sort of a solution, explanation or further our understanding of the miscommunication and how it can be avoided moving forward. She offered no explanation or apology. She sat in our meeting with her arms crossed and a smirk on her face. She told us that if she were to honor the price we were given by her staff (on multiple, separate occasions over the course of several months) then SHE WOULD HAVE TO FIRE SOME OF HER TEACHERS at the center because she wouldn't be able to afford the $100-$200 dip in revenue per month. Her offered solution was if we didn't like the new secret price we could find a new daycare. This cold and dismissive response - along with the insulting, blatant lie about having to fire teachers to rectify the situation, from the Owner/Executive Director of the daycare (not to mention COUNCIL MEMBER OF THE EARLY CHILDHOOD EDUCATION AND CARE DEPARTMENT AND TREASURER OF THE NEW MEXICO CHILD CARE AND EDUCATION ASSOCIATION) was absolutely appalling. The dishonesty and lack of concern should have been insight enough as to the type of establishment this was -despite the beautiful quote about God leading the daycare in the entryway. But we found a way to pay the higher tuition since our child had already been established and we didn't want to uproot. Throughout our time there, we were consistently harassed to purchase expensive Gala tickets to support one of Crystal's causes, as well as 5k tickets and other fundraisers that I have a very low level of trust and confidence as to where the money was actually going, given our experience. Now, to the child safety and lack of supervision. Our young child was bullied often in the classroom as well as on the playground. In the classroom, there was one child in particular who hit, bit, shoved, screamed, etc, at our child among others. Of course, I am a parent and fully understand that these things happen with small children. The issue was brought to the attention of the teacher multiple times, as our child was consistently coming home with marks. We were told they would try to keep this child away from our child, but there wasn't much they could do. We were also told that the bully had autism and his behavior was CAUSED by our child, because our child was too loud and the bully was sensitive to noise. Our child also ran into some bullying on the playground, as the small children were let out on the playground at the same time as the older kids and after-school program kids. Again, nothing they could do. Crystal often had media on the daycare campus to interview her or promote one of her causes/fundraisers - often on the playground. I wonder if less effort went in to her self-promotion, and more effort went into the supervision of our children, if there would have been less incidents. I am grateful, however, for our experience with Crystal and her family/staff, as we have learned in great detail what we would like to avoid at all costs in future daycares and schools.

It appears that the previous review left by Mary was intended for the New Mexico Early Learning…read moreAcademy. As parents ourselves, we have had a similar experience with NMELA. We have noticed that the well-being and education of the children in their care is not their top priority and that they seem more focused on making money. We have also observed that NMELA mistreats their good teachers while putting poor-performing family members in charge of the facility. It is concerning that they do not have enough teachers to adequately watch over the children, despite advertising a low student-teacher ratio. We highly recommend entrusting your children's care to qualified professionals who prioritize their well-being and education. Unfortunately, NMELA appears to be more concerned with their public image than fulfilling their role as an educational institution. Noah's ark is professionally-managed. It is suspicious that reviews for NMELA are under Noah's Ark.

I went to this school it's a nice school but I remember a lot of bullies and mean kids from last…read moreyear and Ms.Ellie is the worst teacher ever also Brianna Burt they were horrible teachers but otherwise it's a great school!

I guess when your second grade kid comes home from school and says she is just so happy she can't…read morestop smiling you probably found the perfect environment. She absolutely loves her teacher, as do we all, and shows visible glee in doing her assignments. Over the years I've seen her confidence blossom by leaps and bounds. The assignments are fun meaningful and often engage the family. Working on these science, reading, and math projects on a regular basis has been a definite bonding experience for us. I've been on a couple field trips and the kids in Krystal's class seem really nice and friendly. The parents are very open, volunteer and participate in many of the extracurricular fundraisers and activities. I feel a sense of community that we are all very invested in.

In 2023, it was time to go back to work after having my daughter. I decided to enroll my daughter…read moreat this location. She was 6 months old, in the infant room. She did really well in there with Ms. Trista. When it came time to transition to the toddler classroom 12-18m it went well except her main teacher ended up leaving after a few months. Ms. Amber ended up being the lead teacher. My daughter the older she got was then in a classroom next door for 18-24m. This teacher also ended up transferring to a different location. Once my daughter was in the 2 year classroom (willow) I believe she was finally stable with two teachers and did well. Sadly the location and a few things my husband and I noticed with the school have led us to move our daughter to a school nearby our home. Out of all the staff, I have personally noticed these teachers go above and beyond for my daughter. Ms. Trista, Ms. Rosa & her 2 year old teacher in Willow. I can't remember her name. I felt they genuinely took care of my daughter like she was their own. There were a few teachers I didn't care for. Sadly due to events that happened to my child. When she was in the infant room. My daughter would sometimes be dropped off in the classroom across from her actual class. Around Christmas time a few years ago my mother in law picked up my daughter and had sent me photos of her. Earlier that day, I received a call from the school saying that my 8/9 month old had a bloody nose when she was in this other classroom. From the photos my mother in law took my baby had a gash in her cheek from what it looks like a deep scratch! It was so deep in her skin, she currently is almost 3 years old and it's a scar on her face. I think maybe the teacher scratched her on accident with her long nails. Yet they wrote on the report it was a "bloody nose". Yet my baby had a deep scratch on her cheek. You work with children and babies for gods sake. Some of the girls and teachers here had talons for nails. I forgot the teachers name in charge of her at that time but the front office staff said she was basically here for over 20 years so she knows what she's doing. Which is ridiculous! There were other incidents too where my daughter got bit twice in two weeks in the first toddler classroom. Clearly someone may not have been paying attention to my daughter if she was getting bit. Once my daughter got to the 2 year old classroom her teacher had very old school traditions with the kids and taught them to be independent. My husband and I enjoyed her being in there. She was starting to thrive again and enjoy being dropped off at school. Overall once I noticed the front admin changes. Things started to go downhill which was when my daughter was in the first toddler classroom with Ms. Amber. The front staff was less and less approachable and I felt speaking to them or addressing an issue to them I was walking on eggshells at times or they would be having personal conversations and I'd be interrupting. There were issues I've noticed that a few teachers would be on their phones. One time I dropped off my daughter in Ms. Trista's class and I look across at the babies on the other side and I seen through the window the same lady who was there over 20+ years, was on her phone while an infant baby was hysterically crying in the crib in the room across from Elm. Mind it was the same teacher that I believe scratched my child with her long nails. I had addressed this issue to the front staff and just by her lengthy time at Montessori nothing was done and they said teachers can be on their phones updating procare. Ok, I get that. But this baby was in need of her attention at the moment and as a mother that was sad to see. Tending to that child was more important than being on her phone. Another instance I've noticed was Ms. Amber was always on her phone as well for drop off but over time she actually got better not always being on it. I get they need to send updates on Procare but they mostly do that if the kids are on their nap time. Overall, the staff has a very high turnover with the admin, front staff and teachers. I am not sure why the dynamic in the front admin changed but it feels very different now. Also, just because someone has been a teacher for over 20+ years doesn't always mean they enjoy their job. This day and age, the longer the people are working in a job they get invincible and think discipline wouldn't / shouldn't be given to them. Positive changes need to happen here at Springstone with the staff! Attached are photos of before and after of my daughter with the scratch.

Awesome school well worth it! I couldn't watch my nephew for a day so I called SpringStone and I…read moregot everything I needed for acceptance and they watched him this is a great school

I am a former student from this school. My experience at Amy bhiel was not good, even after I left…read morethe school. They are not a college prep school, but they skip many credits required to graduate that other schools require. Additionally, when I moved schools, a lot of the classes that I took at Amy Bhiel didn't count as credits and I had to do a lot more work during my senior year of high school. I also missed out on a lot of high school experiences because they do not have sports, they have extremely limited clubs, and not a lot of non-academic extra-curriculars. The school size was too small, and there were only a small handful of students throughout each class that I had. They did not prepare me or teach me things I needed to know, and I found myself falling behind the academic level most students at other schools were at. There are little to no AP classes and the area the school is located is sketchy and unsafe, especially for teenagers. I would not recommend this school to anybody, and if you do attend Amy Bhiel, I recommend staying for all 4 years of high school because of how badly their classes will screw you over when switching.

Im a former student. all of the teachers were amazing and so kind but the administration needs ALOT…read moreof work. I was unaware i wasnt supposed to come back with my friends because i wasnt enrolled (even though i wasnt hiding and everyone knew me) i tried getting a visitor pass but couldnt due to not having my id. i only went because i had no ride home and one of my friends was my ride. i went to my friends first period and the teacher knew me and was fine with me there. I was not disruptive or disrespectful in any way. then I got pulled into Hallies office and got told i was trespassing and i tried explaining my situation and i wanted to see if i could get a visitor pass, i was very respectful and she was VERY rude and disrespectful to me, She kicked me out and told me to walk to the public library i had told her i wasnt good with streets because im not familiar with the area and she replied with "Well maybe you should learn". VERY DISRESPECTFUL. Mind you im a MINOR, ALONE, on the streets of central. i walked across the street to look up directions and i got catcalled IMMEDIATELY. THANKFULLY, a security guard from SIMS came up to me and took me into his building. but even he said it was dangerous to be walking alone and he told me not to walk to the library because it would be unsafe. if i did decide to walk to the library im 100% sure something would have happened. They DID NOT care for my saftey AT ALL, reguardless if im a student or not they could have handled it in a better way and atleast made me wait in the office. They put me in danger when i was unaware and i don't tolerate that. besides the administrators the teachers are wonderful, if you want good teachers id recommend this school but for saftey for your child i would NOT recommend this school trust worthy. if its THAT easy to walk in the doors who knows who can just come in.

I am the writer of that horribly written negative review. That was written when I was much younger,…read moreand I have a much different and a better view of this whole situation now so I will write a better review. I went to that school from preschool (they called it k-4 when I was in it) all the way up until 8th grade. There were many different principals while I was there but my experience with one of them, Mrs. Cordova, was the most memorable and was my main reason for such a hateful review. She would often take advantage of the fact that I was not only stupid as a preteen, but that I was always the one being walked all over. She had been my 2nd grade teacher, and not long after became the principal. She tried to get me to be a mediator for a group of girls in my class that caused the most issues and were the main bullies in the school at the time. She also never suggested solutions or helped in any way when it came to academic problems. At the time, the math teacher was one of her close friends and she would, in fact, "play the devils advocate" whenever anyone said any sort of issue they had with the math teacher, including with her own son. Different children have different needs and some are more sensitive than others. It was not helpful or kind of her to always try and pin the blame on me for not understanding what the teacher was teaching. They would suggest tutoring but a middle schooler and a high schooler being put together for tutoring doesn't work well OFTEN. High schoolers can and DO get distracted easily, especially in an environment where they are not allowed to get distracted or talk much with their friends until lunchtime which was when tutoring was. This school was not helpful unless you were one of the really academically strong kids, and that was my issue. It also was not a very okay environment to be gay in, especially when it was covid and it felt like the world was ending. It was not a good experience for me overall, but I would like to apologize about the hateful and disrespectful review. It doesn't reflect the person that I am now. Please just be mindful of your children and remember, every sin is seen the same in God's eyes and we don't chastise or intimidate our children and relatives for eating bacon like we have gay people for being gay. Truly love each other and do not judge, we do not have the right to only God can. Luke 6:37 "Judge not, and you will not be judged; condemn not, and you will not be condemned; forgive, and you will be forgiven;"

OK first off not condoning people being gay doesn't mean you're homophobic doesn't mean I'm afraid…read moreof gay people the last thing on the planet I'm afraid of is gay people. Doesn't mean I hate them or anything like that. I wish them the best I really do just like anybody else who sins we're all born into it. The two really hateful reviews are from people who don't know Jesus and sent their kids to the school simply so that they could use their children as a crutch to write bad reviews, and the only review they have written is about the school they opened up an account just to write a bad review That being said, my son has straight, A's knows more about the Bible than I do knows a lot about math a lot about history a lot about science is great in PE and that's not mentioning how big he is. He's the biggest kid there by far in his grade there are a few things just like any other school that worry me a little Bit And it doesn't mean the schools bad it just means some of the teachers need to get their act together. I really hope some of them don't play favorites but I'm sure that many of the people that write these horrible reviews about this wonderful school have that favorite game they play to I'm sure they played every day at work. They play it on the road they played at home. They play it with their friends. This place is a wonderful school to send your child a little expensive but it's far less expensive than the other schools that are charging 12 and $13,000 For your child ago I paid $6800 a year and yes it's a little bit harder because I had to take a massive pay cut to move from Seattle to New Mexico but my son is happy very happy. I hope that people make it an assessment for themselves, rather than listening to the horrible reviews that were written from normal people that don't get employed by the school there's literally only four reviews. Including this one don't work here I'm a plumber. Everybody knows me is the big red bearded man. I'm more friendly than I ever have been because my family is happy. My sons education is paramount. This is an accredited school. He's gonna go far despite what some of the haters say. Have a nice day everybody great place to send your child. And trump is great. He's flawed just like the rest of us.

I would not recommend this location at all. I put my son in here and started noticing immediate…read morebehavioral changes. He was trying to run out of the class and started to seem unhappy. I started noticing marks on him. I started to question him. He told me that his teacher Cynthia slapped him in the face and punched him and he told me that his teacher touched his private part and he showed me exactly what she did. Cynthia has had previous allegations. I heard the director talking to another teacher saying that this was not the first time Cynthia had done this, but most parents were too scared to report her. I filed a police report and I am pursuing pressing charges. I would never trust this location to watch your children. Cynthia has something against the director Dianna and that's why she's not being fired. I told Dianna that I had issues with Cynthia and she did not seem surprised at all. She was dismissive about what had happened with my son even tho he had the same story and had the parks to prove it. The teachers are constantly on their phone. Cynthia tries to bully you as a parent and she didn't like it when she could not bully me so she started giving me dirty looks, however I will say the kinder care in eagle ranch is amazing the director runs it very different and they are amazing and do amazing with the kids.

This is a great place for Kids. The teachers help the…read morechildren with homework. The Teachers are very nice and respectful. They have a cooking class for the Kids every Wednesday when you pay a fee for the supplies. This has really helped build my 8 year old Grandsons self esteem. He made Pizza for the family we brought it home a cooked it. They made sushi Rolls, crepes and meatballs. He was so excited that he made food for the family and loves the cooking class. Thank you, Martha Armijo

I really like my kids school Los Padilla's elementary..The staff is really friendly and helpful..I…read morealways love volunteering at the school so much fun my kids also enjoy their school and teachers...

Great school teachers that love and care about our kids success..our oldest son has been here for…read morea few years and he has done great with all the help from his amazing teachers (mr. Taylor) and others. This is matias's first year and he has mrs layba and mrs. Chavez..love this school and niece and nephew went here as well....