North Tacoma Montessori Center

"We are here to share our experience with North Tacoma Montessori Center. Our children originally attended Our Innspiration (for 6 years) and NTMC bought the center when the previous owner retired in August of 2022. Our youngest child attended NTMC for 4 weeks under the new ownership. Our child attended the Ruston location; however this review reflects our experiences including executive administration for all 5 centers. These were our concerns: * Mandatory naptime length of 2.5 hours for children as old as 5 years old. * Security (lack of monitoring of people entering and leaving the center). * Parents not being allowed in the center to observe lessons and activities. Additionally, parents are not allowed into the classroom if it is after 9:00am. · Communication; specifically lack of communication between NTMC and parents during the first two weeks following the change in ownership. We expressed our concerns to building and executive administration but felt they were disregarded. As a result, we started to explore other childcare options. There was a misunderstanding in which NTMC thought we were recruiting for another childcare organization. We in fact had not done this at all and had only spoken with a few parents who had directly asked us our plans. Instead of talking with us to clarify what was happening, we were sent a termination of care email with one week notice until the last day of care. Our impression of NTMC is that it is run as a business first, and that the care of children, partnership with families, and quality of instruction are low priorities."

"My two children have been at the Proctor location, and all the the teachers have been so wonderful and helpful for them. My son is high needs and my daughter is very sensitive. I love that I know they are in good hands when I leave them at NTMC. Teacher Chaska is attentive and great at communicating. Teacher Lisa is amazing as a Montessori teacher. Teacher Jolene and Teacher Molly are so kind and helpful, my daughter misses being there with them. And Teacher Rebecca has so much fun creating fun activities for all of the kids. I love that the NTMC staff love their job and the kids that they are there everyday."

"NTMC is truly a family oriented establishment. I attended as a child for almost 10 years and came back to be an employee for almost 4 years now. I have never met a more amazing and intelligent group of people. The directors and teachers have supported me my entire life and I am so happy to call them my family. I am proud to be a teacher of NTMC. I wake up every morning happy to go to work and teach adorable kids who love to come to school and learn."

"It saddens me to have read such a negative review, regarding North Tacoma Montessori. We have had such a wonderful experience, my granddaughter started at 12 months to kindergarten and still attended the school age program! North Tacoma Montessori is not just a child care center, this school is full of wonderful Teachers and Staff and they become apart of your family as well as take the upmost pride and priority in giving quality care, along with Teaching Montessori values to our community. We all can perceive things so quickly without taking time to see things in a different perspective. Thank you North Tacoma Montessori for giving us so many wonderful years, you will always be highly recommended to our community!"

"My child has been attending NTMC since she was 1! She spent her toddler year at the Proctor location and did amazing! The teachers were fabulous and helped her grow so much! The amount of language she learned and how fast she potty-trained and what a positive experience was made all of the difference in the world for us. We still frequently stop by to say hi and the teachers still greet us with so much love and warmth! We love NTMC! I would recommend it above any place else!"