Should really have mental health check on the people you hire... And placing that teacher on…read moreLeave... What an idiotic thing to do.. He should have never had the option to resign..Fired on the spot. Total loss of all benefits..

This school is as good as it gets! The kids excel and they…read morelove being there. My son has made wonderful memories in this school. The staff and friends he's made are profound. The teachers are high caliber who support them in programs in and out of school.

We have been fortunate to have attended this school through most of the pandemic crisis because…read morethankfully, they have taken efforts to manage the virus very seriously. We hardly missed much in-person school in 2020/21, as protocols were put in place for students to attend safely and with great assurance for parents. Aside from this, we have had wonderful Kindergarten, First and Second grade teachers who show so much care and compassion for their students. Our son has thrived there, and has grown both socially and academically.

the teachers were weird and to restrictive of my child my child always said they didn't have a good…read moretime and that they wanted to change back to their old school just an overall bad expirence

One of the assistant teachers hit our 3 year old son, physically and verbally abused him. School's…read morereaction? None. The teacher is still there working with kids every day. We were forced to leave and nobody ever did as much as apologizing to us. Absolutely disgusting place and every parent with a special needs kid should think twice before putting their child here. It is dangerous.

Warm and nurturing school with amazing teachers and staff! My daughter cannot wait to be dropped…read moreoff each morning and is always smiling when we pick her up.

Graduated from here and loved it sooo much! The staff is so kind and cares a lot about the…read morestudents--many teachers even gave tutoring! The school has so much to offer and so many exciting events for their seniors !!! Highly recommend!

My experience at John Dewey High School overall was good. I transferred to John Dewey High School…read moreduring my sophomore year. I was drawn to the school's diversity. Everyone at John Dewey High School is very different. Many clubs and school events are organized mainly by the teachers and students to support each other. I like how the students try to understand what makes everyone unique rather than judging people for standing out.

My daughter arrived in Hudsonway at 8:55 am for the summer camp. When I picked her up, she had a…read morebruise on her left eye. I asked her what happened and immediately asked the school. I spoke to 4 different people and no one could explain what actually occurred. The teacher even initially claimed she came in with the bruise, which was still bleeding when I picked her up. I asked for a bandaid and requested the report. No one took this seriously- not the owners of the school or the admin there. They dismissed my inquiries. I will never bring my daughter back to that school

Hudsonway Immersion School (HWIS) has been a great experience for our family.  When looking for…read moreschools for our daughter to enter kindergarten we weren't looking for a private school.   We were determined to find our daughter a solid dual language Spanish program that offered the academic excellence, "true" language education/literacy, and the strong support system she deserved.  Many of the public schools we found did not meet our needs, but we found that HWIS hit all these marks and it opened our eyes to the possibilities for our daughter. Our daughter is shy, eager to learn, and takes time to be comfortable with new people.  Since the first day of school she adored her teacher, made friends, and seems to make new friends with the other children and staff members every week as she excitingly tells us stories about her day.  She comes home every day with a general sense of pride in what she learned. HWIS really focuses on building a strong culture,  nurturing a childs mind, and bringing phenomenal talent in the teachers and administration to ensure the school itself continue to improve. We feel that immersive education is far greater than other schools that teach other languages as an exercise of repetition and translation.  HWIS truly adheres to leverage the benefits of immersing the students with the language (Spanish /Mandarin) while teaching them the core  curriculum.  We feel we made the best possible choice for our daughter and have been extremely satisfied with her development and growth.

We transferred our daughter into AOSJ two years ago and it was the best decision we could have made…read morefor her. She has thrived in a nurturing and compassionate community of small classes and dedicated teachers that rivals or exceeds the best private school learning experiences in Manhattan. It is a Catholic school but by no means a restrictive environment; the teachers are dynamic and foster character building, creativity, and love of learning. It's a true gem in the heart of Greenwich Village.

AOSJ is an amazing school for kids who are gifted and talented. My kids were in a public school…read morelast year getting bullied and losing their love of learning. Now that they are in a school that is strong on compassion, character and competence (the motto), they are thriving. My son used to cry or play sick to try and get out of going to his public school. The happiness that I see in him now makes my heart feel so good and brings so much relief. My daughter loves having spanish everyday and swimming lessons at the Y. Both kids have probably learned more in the first 2 months at AOSJ than they learned at the public school in one year. They are very happy with the quick pace of learning and feel that they are finally being "seen" for who they are and the talents that they possess. There is tremendous room for academic and personal growth at AOSJ. It was a gem of a find!

Buckle My Shoe is more than just a day care, it's an early childhood development program that…read moreyou'll cherish for the rest of your life. My son has attended Buckle My Shoe for 1.5 years (he's currently enrolled in his 2nd of two full year programs and attended summer school.) He started as a 9 month old in September of 2015. In the infant class (3m-12m) the children have tummy time, explore new materials, colors, and shapes, learn to crawl and start to stand. Everyday the teachers write a report on what the class did which they post online (to a private, password protected location). They also post 50-100 photos per day of all the children to a private, password protected photo account. I have saved over a hundred heart-warming photos of my son learning, laughing, and playing. The kids also make arts and crafts together. Gluing, finger painting, and more. We get to take home dozens of gifts that our son made for us at the school over the last 18 months. In the toddler class everyone is walking and starting to talk. The kids go on field trips to trick or treat, cut a Christmas tree, see the fire department and firetrucks, and go to the park. While in school they do arts and crafts, learn Spanish and French, sing songs with a guitarist, and play together with toys that help them learn and develop (building train tracks, stacking blocks and legos, ABC's and 123's, reading books.) Parents are welcome anytime and we often drop in if we get off work early. Our son loves the school so much he refuses to leave when we pick him up! After looking at over a dozen schools, and visiting half that, I was nervous to pick a school for our little baby. I could not be happier that I chose Buckle My Shoe. BMS has become an invaluable part of my sons educational, social, and physical development. At this point, I don't know if I could live without them.

When you apply to Buckle My Shoe the ever so smiling head teacher, Linda, and the other equally…read moresmiling, impossibly enthusiastic teachers make you feel so welcome. And, more importantly, they fill your head with just how excellent and superior Buckle My Shoe is. They use the Reggio Emilio Technique, they are expensive because they hire only the best of the best, etc... The truth however is more sinister... Buckle My Shoe claims to adhere to the highest standards of education, but many teachers have trouble spelling basic words. For instance, 'bibs' was spelled 'bibes' and 'Dr Seuss' was 'Dr Seuse.' I pulled my child out after one year, so let me tell you about the infant classroom. The head of the class, Miss Debra, does absolutely nothing, barely interacts with the children and rarely enters their class room. Even though she introduces herself as the head of the infant class, you will learn that you are paying her to sit all day by the front door eating non stop. Which is probably for the best since her level of education is such that she cannot string together one grammatically correct sentence. I'm not kidding when I say that at times the woman spoke 'street.' Isn't the whole point of 'street' that you learn it on the street, not from teachers in high paying schools such as Buckle My Shoe?! Oh and she's been there for 25 years, so is not likely to be going anywhere soon. And of course you, the parent, are paying high prices to keep her (and probably her union) happy. The remaining infant class teachers are sweet, though extremely forgetful it seems, so be sure to label everything, or your kid will repeatedly go home wearing someone else's clothes, with some other kid's bottles or bibs (bibes) or spoons etc. Here's another thing, you may supply all the diapers you like but they disappear at a rate of knots. And they're not all ending up on your child. Several times, baffled by the incredible diaper disappearance, I scoured the room for myself only to find half empty packets of my kid's diapers (all labelled with her name) strewn about the place, lost under a crib, stuffed in some other kid's cubbyhole, dropped behind a shelf. The place was an absolute mess. Oh and we're not talking about 30 kids here, that year the infant classroom had just 6. The teachers, sweet as they are, seem to have trouble retaining even the most basic information. I frequently wondered why my child had diaper rash after a day at school, only to learn that the teachers were never applying the diaper rash cream that I had supplied. I repeatedly reminded them that every diaper change needed to be accompanied by a generous application of diaper rash cream, yet it NEVER happened. Each day my child would come home with a red butt. I would apply generous amounts of cream, only to send her to Buckle My Shoe the next day for another round of painfully red butt. It was frustrating. When my child's birthday came around, I threw a party and invited the other kids in the class. No one showed up. Weeks later I bumped into another parent who told me that no one had showed up to her child's birthday party either. It turned out that the 'genius' teachers had forgotten to distribute our invitations to the other parents! Did they apologize when I confronted them. No. They just blamed one another. And here's the worst part. Don't bother complaining to the smiling head teacher about anything, as you will quickly learn that you, the paying parent, are the enemy. I shuddered as I watched that sugary smile vanish, only to be replaced by a wall of callous, sociopathic hatred and hard eyes. I was traumatized for days by the transformation from sweet to cold in that woman's face, when I had informed her about all the spelling errors. Her response was "It's just one spelling mistake. Don't be so nasty." Unfortunately I only had photographic evidence of one spelling error (it hadn't occurred to me to photograph prior ones). I did mention that there had been more than one spelling mistake, but she wasn't interested, and was dead set on defending her staff against me, the paying enemy. After that, I was no longer treated to the sugary smile, when I dropped off and collected my child. Remember you, the parent are paying top dollar for this level of service. Speaking of top dollar for absolutely nothing, once your child becomes ready for toilet training, I have heard from parents of older children, that Buckle My Shoe makes no attempt to help with your toilet training routine. The classes are small, yet Buckle My Shoe claim that they can't collaborate with you. Every other school I have interviewed (that is less expensive, provides longer hours and has larger classes), said that of course they would collaborate with parents in their toilet training efforts.

I am the owner of Premier Chess, which has run a program at Waterfront Montessori for 5 years now…read more I love working with the administration and seeing the students progress with their chess learning. 5 Stars school.

Both my sons have been at the Waterfront Montessori since they were 3. My oldest is graduating from…read more8th grade this year! The Waterfront Montessori offers a great learning and nurturing environment for children. The teachers are true educators focusing on academics, soft skills, life skills, independence and instilling intellectual curiosity. The staff is very supportive and the school has a great community atmosphere. As young pre-schoolers, my children developed strong linguistic and functional skills at a young age. When my oldest was applying to high schools, the school counselor was very supportive and guided us throughout the process. The music and theatre curriculum is excellent and has been a tremendous compliment to my children's education. It has been a great decision for me to enroll and keep my children at the school. Strongly recommend!