A Bright Beginning-Ankeny First United Methodist Preschool

04-Jan-12
Amber T

First, last year I would have given Bright Beginnings a five star rating. I loved the program and all the teachers, but not now. There has been a staff change and a program change away from child-led play to an institutional structure. The preschool teachers are not only rude to the parents, but also the children. My child went from loving preschool one year to my having to drag him after the first week of the next. I did the responsible thing and set up a meeting with the preschool director, who is also a teacher and two other board members, to try and solve this issue as well as a few others. The director and board members then proceeded to blame me and my husband for our child not wanting to go to preschool. Very unprofessional. Things continued to go downhill from there. The teachers were still very rude. It became more and more apparent that my child was being punished because of the meeting. Needless to say we did not finish out the first half of the preschool semester.