Sunshine Montessori School Of Chino Hills

Although this school had a very good price comparing to other schools in the area, we decided not to enroll our 6 months old in this school mainly due to the lack of professionalism demonstrated by the school’s director/​owner Kamini. She was impatient, and unprofessional. She never returns your emails. When I asked if I can ask a couple of more questions over email, she said «I already talked to you for 20 minutes, why are you still asking more questions? We have a lot of applications, You don’t have to enroll here.» OK. If that’s the attitude towards parents prior to enrollment (i.e. before I give them my money), how can their attitude be any better after enrollment. If there are disputes or issues with the teachers, then I can’t even count on the director to resolve. Therefore, we decided not to bother with this school, no matter how cheap it is.

My daughters went to this school for less then 2 weeks then I pulled them out and left them at home even before their next school was ready even though this was the only school with no waiting list, this is the most horrible school I have experienced. 1^st, the owner parks in the handicapped spot every day, without being a handicap, that tells you something about her integrity. 2^nd, when we 1^st started, I was honest with the owner and told the owner that my daughters were on waiting lists waiting for openings at their new schools, so going to Sunshine Montessori of Chino Hills was a transition between old and new. Knowing that, the owner offered $ 600/​month for the girls’s education, which is very low and I see nothing wrong with, but then pushed me EVERYDAY to let the girls stay for long term, I told her that I had already made promises to the new schools, but her argument was her school is much cheaper, and since the other schools did not require deposits, promises aren’t important. It made me feel like all she cares about is money, not quality of education or the children. 3^rd, on the day I was supposed to pay the girls tuition, but my husband instead of me, dropped off the girls, the owner chased after him to ask him for tuition, and my husband responded that I would bring the check in at noon when I pick up the girls. The whole situation made him very uncomfortable. 4^th, because my girls just started going to this school, so they cried when I dropped them off in the mornings, I saw the teachers at the infant room were very attentive in attempting to calm my little one down, but the teacher at the 3yr old classroom came to the door to bring my daughter into the classroom the first day, then she just told me, while sitting down at a chair far from the door, to leave as I dropped off my daughter, while she was still crying. All the teacher said was my daughter was going to be ok once I leave. Which I believe, but there was no affection as of warm hugs or any sort of methods to calm her down. From an observer, I heard that teacher had left children who were new to the environment crying after the parents dropped them off and didn’t even get up from her seat to comfort the crying child. 5^th, the reason I quickly pulled my daughters out of that facility was because after the owner had tried to push me to leave the girls with her school, but I insisted on moving them to the next schools as scheduled, she suggested to me if I wasn’t if I wasn’t planning to let the girls stay full time, long term, I should pull the girls out. I’m pretty sure she wanted to get rid of us to sell the spot to others. So that’s the end of the journey to hopefully the last time we have to deal with such a horrible education facility! On the side note, everyday ‘s lunch contained a lot of can and processed food, such as hotdogs and canned vegetables. Even though that’s something I dislike, I know many schools offer meals like such, but our pediatrician suggests to avoid these types of foods for kids of such young age.

Love this school and the teachers!!! They are all caring and patient. The school focus a lot on academics and it shows. My oldest whom is now a Kindergarten student at an Elementary school is far beyond her peers. Unfortunately, my son only had two months into the Transitional Kinder program at Sunshine due to changes in our financial obligations, but you can tell he’s mastered a lot of the Kindergarten concepts. I would recommend this daycare/​preschool to anyone who is looking for a good facility.