The Children’s Courtyard

Awesome director Michelle with 26 yrs of experience and loves her job and really loves kids. Doesn’t take long to discern that. We instantly decided on admitting our daughter.

This place is an absolute joke. The only word I can find to describe this «private school» is disorganized.
My daughter has been going here for a little over two years. We have only had one consistent teacher while there and that teacher is no longer with the school. When we first started there, Mrs. Nicki was the director. Mrs. Nicki was an ok director but you could never get a straight or honest answer out of her. Then came the current director, Mrs. Michelle, she was doing good. I even told Mrs. Michelle that she had started to turn the school around and we could tell a difference. But over the past two months it has gone downhill fast.
They have started to call themselves a private school, that is a joke in its self. They have no set curriculum, no matter what they tell you. The teachers do not know who your child is, unless they have been there since your child started. At one point, they started to give out homework, which my daughter loved, then they stop and then started again. One day, I asked the assistant director who my daughters teacher was, her answer was «I don’t know, hopefully they show up today». You can only believe how secure that made me feel.
Since then my daughter’s friends have started going to other schools and we have talked to other parents that are disappointed with the school. We have started our search for a new school and hope to start next week.
Long story short… Too late. Unless it is a must, do not choose this school. They are unorganized and there are much better options out there.

My son went to CCY for pre school and we had very little problems.
Now going into 3^rd grade, we enrolled him for the summer. They told us to register online … you can’t register online. We filled out the paper work and they lost it so we filled out another set. They lost our first check, so we gave them another one. It seems that when I have a question, they can’t answer it.
So! I work part time. Part time daycare at CCY is 4 hours a day (any 4 hours during the day). We paid the required amount for summer fees which included field trips. Well, they have a monthly schedule that lists the names of the places they’ll go on field trips, but there are no times (and on some, there’s nothing that tells you what the place is, or where it is… etc but that wasn’t my biggest problem.). So if he’s going on a field trip, our 4 hours could be from 8a-​noon for some field trips, and noon-​3p for others. But Im supposed to be able to arrange my work schedule around those hours for him to be able to go. Well, not many people can tell their boss every week what time they plan on working the next week. I’ve asked for field trip times on multiple occasions to multiple people at CCY so I can at least give my boss the schedule more than a week out. They have continued to promise me that information since we registered but have managed to put it off until we’re at the end of summer. Apparently it isn’t important to them. It just seems like they should have a better system for part time care since again, most people can’t just rearrange their schedule week by week around field trips. We’ve had to miss a couple which is frustrating because we paid for them.
My son is also coming home every day telling me about some REALLY aggressive fights that go on (one day it was a child biting another … again, they’re the older kids so they’re 6 – 9. This week it was a kid throwing toys in anger so hard it left marks on three different kids, and another kid today having a tantrum and throwing toys and swinging a sign on a pole at another kid) so it seems like the class is out of control as well.
I think I’ll have to make other arrangments next summer b/​c they seem to be VERY unorganized.