Glenwood Private School

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I have loved my daughter going to Glenwood! We recently moved and I'm sad to be leaving. Ms. Leah and Ms. Kiersten took a true interest in my daughter. They asked me questions about what I was doing at home so they could support that at school. The best thing these teachers did was show me that they genuinely cared about my child. It is so hard being a working mom but I felt much more at ease when my daughter joined their class.

My daughter just LOVES Glenwood. She has never enjoyed going to a daycare until now. As soon as we pull up she squeals with excitement and cannot wait to go in. My daughters teachers have always been SO caring and nice and they always take the time to tell me PERSONALLY how her day went. If ANYONE has issues with this school I am sorry they do because me along with countless others have had NOTHING BUT POSITIVE experiences here. I enjoy Glenwood and their staff and if you want an "feeling at home" experience I recommend this place to everyone

My child attended this school for a while. However my child is no longer there. This schools looks are deceiving. At first glance it looks fun, the teachers look and sound so caring and compassionate and I'm sure SOME are, it looks clean but doesn't always smell so clean. Once I started seeing these "red flags" I started taking a closer look and started being more observant. The teachers put on a good front but when you walk into the school at a not so normal pickup time the teachers aren't on their full guard. The tones of their voices are loud towards the kids. One teacher you could hear yelling from the classroom she was in as soon as I stepped into the door. The toys are obviously old, some broken, and some VERY dirty. On another day there was a child in one of the older classrooms, in time out. Crying upon my arriVal and still crying and in timeout upon my departure. I was there for a good ten minutes. If I'm not mistaken there is a timeout limit and ten minutes exceeds that limit. The child I'm speaking of was three or four years of age. There was also on several occasions teachers looking at and using their cell phone. How are you watching the children in your care while on your phone? I also witnessed a teacher yank a child down by their arm and sat them in a chair at their table. After evaluating all these things I decided my child would be better off in the care of a school that is ran more professionally. If I, as a parent can see these things happening why isn't the management seeing these things as well? I'm assuming because the owner and the manager both are busy teaching in their own classrooms they are too busy to be supervising and observing what actually takes place in this school. Or maybe they just don't care.

We were attending a trial period at Glenwood Private School where my son was excited about going. He is in the first grade and really enjoyed his first day there. I (mom) had lunch with him to get a feeling of how his day was going when I got to know some of the kiddos. I was extremely thankful to them (the children) for welcoming a new friend, and classmate. Each of the kids were especially excited about my son and me coming back. They wanted a guarantee that he would be attending and also expressed wanting me to visit. One little boy in particular was especially fond of me and kept expressing that. As I gathered my sons and my trash from lunch the little boy came up from behind me and gave me a tight hug. It caught me off guard for sure as it's not typical to hug strangers, but this kiddo meant no harm as he simply wanted to show some affection to the kind parent that had brought a thank you treat in for the entire class. I asked the teacher if I could take some pictures of the group to share with friends and family and she said of course. On my personal very private fb page I posted all about our wonderful experience and since hours later I was still in pain from that squeeze I added an innocent comment about how the little boy with the red jacket had hugged me like a boa-constrictor and it felt like he was killing me with his kindness because he hugged me with all his might, not really realizing his own strength. Sadly we still have grown up individuals that cannot separate something truly negative from a simple comment like for example, I went to my sons ball game and #7 is a heck of a home run hitter but my lip stopped the ball. Boy did that hurt.... There is nothing about my comment that deserved my son and me what would come next. I first receive a comment from an acquaintance who informs me of what I already was aware of and that is that the child is nice and happens to be family!!! Since she used exclamations I assumed she was taking my harmless comment personally (as irrational people do) and so I did the courteous thing and (wasted my time) sending her a private message assuring her that I knew the kiddo was sweet and that I obviously knew he meant no harm but that it was kind of concerning me that I was still in pain hence my commenting amongst my family and friends about it. Instead of COMMUNICATING like a civil grown woman she and her sister (the boys mother) decide to complain to the school. Now instead of anyone trying to contact me to rectify the situation they let my son and me show up at the scheduled 10:45 time for his second trial day. As we approached the door with big smiles and my son especially looking forward to seeing his new friends, the director Abby Brawner and the first grade teacher Mindy sort of rushed the door and immediately/abruptly announced "you are not welcome back this isn't the right fit for you." Instantly shocking both me and my son we look at each other then back at these two women for a reason and they tell me again RIGHT before the child that I had posted negative things about a child on fb and they went on and on while my son immediately began to cry as naturally all he was hearing was that he was not welcome back. They said it right to his face more than once. He ran off to the bushes while I asked them to please review my phone for themselves to confirm that I hadn't done anything malicious and was sorry if I had done something that wasn't acceptable to them. I immediately inquired about why they had confronted me right before my sons eyes. They said they didn't have my number which not only is absurd but concerning as well. I had filled out the paper work the day prior with my contact info as well as my email and as they had admitted they were on my fb so they had plenty of forms of contact that would not be of a confrontational nature.

Oh my goodness. Glenwood Private School is a wonderful, positive, and safe place for children. I toured one day and all of the faculty greeted me warmly as did the children. The center play area is soo neat- there is a big huge play house in the middle of the school. The entire school was very clean- I even peeked into the kitchen and was impressed. All of the children were so well behaved- I saw two year olds sitting in a group with their hands in their laps waiting for their teacher's instruction! At the same time in another class room, some of the parents were arriving to pick up their kids- and the kids did not wanna leave school for the day because they were in the middle of what looked like a really neat art project! I would recommend this school to any parent I meet. The owner Abbey is very professional and caring- and so was all the rest of the faculty. You can tell that the people running this school have high standards and that their hearts are in the right place.

-Amanda