Teremok Preschool

Couldn’t disagree with 1 star review more! We been there for a year– was Never asked for donations, trips to see the place coast us $ 5.00 per ticket… we paid $ 80.00 per month for 5 half days– we moved to Valencia and the same 5 half days would coast us $ 500.00 a month, not mention Teremok had 12kids and other preschool had 24kids!
We are moved back now and can’t wait to enroll our son in Teremok. His sister is 7 years old now and still talks about her preschool
They have a spring, summer and winter camps-​you can try it and see if it’s a good fit for your child! Best school with best price!!!

Top-​notch care and education for preschoolers! In every realm, from A-​Z, the educational programming, the outreach to the parents, the positive changes in the kids’ lives, it is the most wonderful environment to grow up in! The Teremok team run by Ana, the best leader I have ever seen in my life, is one you can trust 100% for the care of your kids, no doubt about it… and the food is great!

My son Evan went there and had an incredible experience. Every week they featured special classes in gymnastics, dance, science and nature. They cooked fresh food for the kids each day. I loved it there so much, I recommended it to my friends and two of my neighbors ended up sending their kids there. They also loved the school. We participated in a lot of community activities, like having our own float in the Chatsworth Christmas parade, and taking the kids to visit local businesses, like the dentist, a pizzaria, a candy store where the kids took a class in candy making. Anna is very involved in the community and sends helpful emails to the parents of things to do with their kids on the weekends, and how to handle challenging behaviors. I will be sending my grandson there as soon as he’s old enough.

My niece went here and my nephew had been going here until early March. While this school might be good for some kids, they are definitely doing things that I believe others need know when deciding where to send their kids.
The «director/​principal» and teachers put a lot of pressure on parents to donate money or items to the school (on top of tuition payments). Which might be okay if they were catering to rich families, but since they are part of the LAUP network and the students who attend come from families that can’t afford to constantly be giving them more money and items. The whole point of LAUP is to making preschool affordable to everyone.
I can’t be sure what sort of degrees or certificates the «teachers» have, but they definitely were not trained in special education and do not practice patience.
My nephew is a handful, I’m not denying that. It was obvious from the beginning of school (⁹⁄₂₀₁₂) to the director that he needed more help — and the process to get him special ed help from the school district began. Unfortunately this process took months and it wasn’t until just a few weeks ago that he was finally given special education benefits through the Autism category. In the meantime, though, he was not helped while attending Teremok. He was taken out of group activities, he was not redirected, and worst he was yelled at. His grandmother once witnessed as a teach scolded him for going down the slide in the backyard because there was a girl climbing up the slide. I don’t know if this is cultural, but I was always taught you go DOWN a slide, not up. In that situation the scolded child should have been the other.
Two things that happened in the month prior to his departure from the school shook me up and made me feel the need to review them.
The first was a Valentine’s Day party. They were having a small party one day and we received a call asking for us to pick my nephew up just 10 – 15 minutes before the party was to start. Blatantly excluding him from such a thing is simply wrong.
The 2^nd was when some people from LAUP were coming to observe the school the director asked my brother to keep my nephew home from school that day. As a former substitute teacher this just floored me! I can just imagine a principal asking all students with autism or behavioral problems to stay home because district officials are coming to observe them. Against my advice my brother kept him home that day. This director didn’t want the people who judge her and pay her to realize she is unable to deal with difficult children — basically DO HER JOB! A teacher needs to teach and part of that is working with students that have issues. Not every student will be a good listener. Students come in all shapes, sizes, abilities, difficulties.
My nephew didn’t fit into the mold she seems to want to cater to. It’s unfortunate. My nephew is in a much better situation now with teachers who are understanding and are actually working with him — not excluding him or making him feel left out. Before the change he didn’t want to go to school, now he can’t wait.
Take it as you will — but if you have a child who isn’t perfectly behaved or is autistic or has other behavioral issues you might want to take them somewhere else.