Montessori Schools of Snohomish County

Best private school ever. My children attended for a few of their elementary school years and they still talk about how great it was today. My children are now 16 and 14 and remember their time at MSSC fondly. We are now considering enrolling my 14 year old in their high school program and I am impressed with what they offer compared to other schools. I am forever grateful that they are here!

My daughter was in daycare here for 6 months, beginning at 8 months of age. Our family had a wonderful experience at MSSC. The teachers were warm, calm, and professional. We felt perfectly safe with her in their care and appreciated the family-​like environment they created. They honored any special requests related to her care and the routines we had prior to beginning daycare. Her development was nurtured and new skills were taught or reinforced. We especially noticed big advancements in her language acquisition and positive attachments to other adults and children. The director Mrs. Gunnell was kind, flexible, and easy to communicate with. We will certainly miss MSSC!!!

You have to be realistic regarding Everett, we are all working class families and you have range of children from advanced to kids who are learning how to socialize for the first time, a great environment to prepare them as kindergarten will be much more difficult. I have seen my son Winston blossom at the school bringing home skills and good habits reinforced daily. In turn we do our best at home to do the same, it has not been easy at it is very hard work raising children as best you can. It is team effort, please don’t expect to drop your kid off and have them emerge changed. Work with the teachers, ask them how your kids did that day, if they tell you «I hope they have a better day tomorrow» you need to reinforce the discipline at home. That can be timeout, toys being kept until the next day assuming you hear they had a better day. Today I saw Mrs. Gunnell work with two teachers to calm a hysterical angry child in a constructive and calm way. I don’t know how these amazing teachers do it every day, it is hard enough when it is your own child and they are your blood.

I attended this school as part of my junior high school education. It was a very disappointing school, especially since the Montessori school i attended for 1−6^th grade was such a wonderful school. They fed us sugary snacks all day which I don’t think were ideal for the younger kids, the main teacher at the time, Mrs. Short, who is now retired had some anger issues that she took out on the students. She talked to the junior high kids like we were five year olds and we felt disrespected. It was not a welcoming or safe environment. Also, the same science and history curriculum is taught over and over to the junior high/​high school kids year after year, so how were we supposed to learn anything new in those subjects? This was not a very good school, and I am thankful my parents realized that and pulled me out after my first year, many of the other junior high kids were pulled out too. Do not go here, there are much better Montessori schools out there.

This place is called Montessori Schools of Snohomish County, not of Washington. It’s the most irresponsible day care I have ever seen. My 14 months old daughter fell badly on her nose and forehead TWO days in a row at day care. The first accident, I didn’t get a phone call but a shock when picking my baby up after work. Her nose was bloody and scratched. The teacher replied me that my baby fell on the concrete pavement suddenly. So my husband and I just thought she’s clumsy. However, accident happened again. The next day, also without a phone call, I was shocked to see another bloody nose and forehead on my daughter. Her nose was seriously scratched with blood on the front side, and left side nose has blood still wet. Her forehead has a bump with an area about 2“X1.5″ and scratched with little blood. The wound is more serious than the day before because the new injury makes the existing wound worst. I asked why she fell on the concrete again, the teacher never mention the details until I question. They did not call me as the primary emergency contact person after the accident happened either, and I won’t know until I pick her up. I was mad, so I wrote a formal letter to the principal to request an incident report. Two days after my request letter, I received a letter so-​called incident report, report only has only one sentence to describe the accident on each day. The rest are documented the conversations between me and the teachers after I picked up my daughter. The principal did not mention when, where, how, and what was happened of the accident. But just said, «My daughter fell outside and hit her nose and forehead.» It’s really lack of evidence and supportive description.
I’m not satisfied with a «one sentence» report, so I was planning to move her out to another day care but all day cares are full until early Sept. In the mean time of my searching, The principal called to my office phone and asked if I want to move my baby out to another day care by end of this month (it was 5/​27, and she wants me to move my baby out by ⁵⁄₃₁???). She wants to refund me the tuition and registration fee to make me happy, but it sounds like she want to kick her out. I told her it’s not grocery shopping, I can switch day care like shopping at different stores. I really need time to look around. But I’m very unhappy with this because I just requested an incident report, I didn’t make it a big deal at all. Now I will consider make it a big deal…
I decided to keep my baby home until I find a suitable one, but definitely not returning to that day care at all. I want to warn any parents who love their kids, should consider other day care facilities but not this one!