Chesterbrook Academy

Oh where do I begin! First the front office is very disorganized. They do not communicate very well with the parents and leave it up to my child's teachers. Second the playground is a disaster. There are holes everywhere and now they have a sandbox that they leave uncovered. The playground equipment to me is not safe. The building though it had been "renovated" still looks cheap, dirty and old. I have not seen any new toys as they also look very worn. We are paying enough money so where is the money going. I do not even bother to do the fundraisers either since again no proof of where the money is going. As a whole this place is just daycare and their curriculum is similar to other schools that we have looked at recently. This place is going down hill fast and you can see it on the teacher's and the constant excuses from the office staff.

Little regard to child care ratios. My child's room has 14 two year olds. I have came in to my child's classroom to find a teacher asleep listening to music and the lead being by herself with the 14 children. On the playground teachers are just sitting down talking and stand in one place with one child. There is only one teacher that moves around. So sad and quite frankly it bothers me and my husband.

Lack of supervision: chatting on playground, cell phone use, I could go on. My child has not seemed to be learning this summer and the teachers have treated summer camp like a vacation. I know a family that left because of this and soon we will be too. It seems like there is a high turnover in the office that has dragged down morale, communication and organization.