Montview Community Preschool & Kindergarten

This is our second year of preschool at Montview and we have had a fantastic experience. The play-​based, child-​centered philosophy gives the school a strong sense of mission that has been evident in all of our interactions with teachers and staff. Our daughter is engaged, happy, and developing a love for learning and a sense of wonder. The school is a Park Hill institution about to celebrate its 50^th anniversary, and I love hearing stories from my neighbors about their kids’ equally great years at Montview. We’ve also loved getting involved with the active parent community — it’s nice to feel you’re not alone in dealing with the challenges of raising 3 – 5 year old crazy kids!
This is a parent co-​op and both my husband and I work full-​time, demanding jobs. I encourage working parents to visit the school and not be deterred by the parent volunteer obligations — it is manageable, and having the chance to be the «helping parent» in the classroom about once a month has been a major highlight & has really drawn us into the school community — plus it is such a rewarding peek into our child’s world.
We are looking forward to sending our youngest daughter to Montview and we will be very sad to leave the school — our major priority for elementary school is finding an environment that feels like Montview, which is a testament to how much we’ve come to value this school & community.
I hope the wee alien clone from the prior review is having a great year at Montview as well! :)

I was going to wait until after my little alien clone actually STARTED this instructional facility in the fall before issuing this report, but since we’ve already had our first «wonderful» (read: crappy) interaction with their staff, I thought it necessary to communicate my findings thus far…
A few of your months ago, my Furon clones and I toured this school and were told many things about the school, teaching philosophy, staff hygiene competitions, volunteering requirements, ample saucer parking, goldfish washing, blood-​letting er… monthly fees, etc.
We decided that it would be a good fit for our little one and decided to enroll her. We were accepted a few weeks later (after all, who can blame them? Have you SEEN how shiny our coats are?)
Today (months later), we received a letter from the facility, telling us about how «excited» they were to announce that they were enrolling us into a *mandatory* payment program (unbeknownst to us) *AND* that the program had a $ 45 initiation fee (well that is, of course, unless we wanted to cough up the 2100 galactic clams to pay, in full, by August 15^th.
To be clear. I don’t mind there being an administrative fee. After all, the tuition collection overlords are not a charity and they need their pound of alien flesh, but it seems just a bit disingenuous (read: SHADY) to spring this on parents after the fees were explained and they’ve already been enrolled.
Apparently, we must have matched a criminal profile or were investigated by someone from the Future Crimes Division of the Temporal Police, because it seems like we’re being penalized for something that we haven’t even done yet.
This has set a WONDERFUL tone for our first year here. I can’t WAIT until our next interaction with their staff (read: I pity them.)‘
More to come… I’m sure…