The Goddard School

My daughter has only been in this daycare for a little over 6 months, but the teachers and staff there are awesome. My daughter is always greeted with a smile and she loves the staff there.
They give you daily reports and pictures of your child and it is all done electronically. It is slightly inconsistent as to when you’ll get a picture of your kid, sometimes you’ll get nothing during the day, sometimes you’ll get 3, but it’s always nice to get a picture to see what they’re up to during the day. In fact, my wife looks forward to getting a picture during the work day.
On the daily report, they give you a list of things they did during the day so you know what your kid’s day was like. they also list out the meals that they had and bathroom type stuff. My daughter is an infant still, so we need that info!
As for cost, My wife and I went to Bright Horizons, Kinder Care, Crème de la Crème, a Montessori and Tutor Time before we settled on Goddard. Goddard’s price was the lowest out of all of them. We were quite impressed with the facility and their school curriculum and we decided that this was the best value for our daughter.
Probably the biggest problem we have with Goddard is that it felt like there was a revolving door of teachers in my daughter’s classroom. They went through a bad period where 2 of the 3 teachers had left the school, for different reasons, and none of which was because they didn’t like working there. It was quite a few months before they were able to fully fill the 2 empty positions. But during this time a lot of other teachers in the school would fill in and it felt like someone different was in the classroom everyday. I didn’t even know the name of the person taking care of my daughter at times.
However, regardless of who it was though, they were always very nice to me and my daughter and seemed to be very competent at doing their job. So while I wished there were some regularity with the teachers, it always seemed like she was in good hands. My daughter can be shy with strangers at times, but with all of the teachers at this school, she would always smile and hold out her arms to them to be held. So I know she knows them and at the very least likes them.
Overall, Goddard is a great place to send your child to daycare. It’s a great environment with wonderful people taking care of your child.

I have all the good things to say about this daycare. Both the directors are wonderful. Ms Donna goes above and beyond in every sense. My kids have been going here for last 3 years. Yes its expensive– like previous post mentioned. There is summer fee, sometimes teachers do leave and kids have to adjust to a new environment. Minor things happen. And thats true everywhere. I couldn’t have asked for more. Highly recommend this particular Goddard.

Money Money Money! That is what they all want.
My son used to go there when he was infant. We picked this place purely for the convenience and I thought they are a lot better that who they were. They were constantly counting kids to minimize the teacher counts.
I went pick up my son, they had his move to next classroom where he knows nobody. He was sitting at the corner of the room crying. There were two teachers chatting in the same room. I asked the teacher «You just let the kids cry like this?» one teacher answered ‘I just walk in… while other teacher looked other way and ignored.
Other time, my son was moved to two classes up with 30 other kids in the room. It was a chaos.
Now I remember even for the Halloween few of the «Directors» were wearing very provocative costumes with showing their boobs halfway. am not talk bigger this at all.
Another incident, was that they charge «Summer camp Fee» in January or February. I’ve told them my son will not be attending in Summer and transferring elsewhere, so not to charge the summer fee. They of course charge it to our credit card.
I am so glad that my son does not go there anymore. Very unfortunate that there are daycare this bad exist.