Review: Goddard School

Our son attends the Ashburn Goddard School and we like our teacher Ms. Barbara. She has over fifteen years of preschool experience and is extremely talented with children. We are very fortune to have find a preschool with so much love and care. Thank you Ms. Madhu (owner).

We are very blessed to have found the Goddard School. The teachers are very loving and caring. The programs that are offered are high quality such as yoga, sign language, manners, building language. These are in addition to the cognitive, fine and gross motor development.
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The Goddard School is a wonderful preschool however, they pay there teachers $11-$13 an hour with very poor health insurance 80% paid by teachers 20% paid by the employer. The school prides itself on college educated teachers but cheap labor prevails with an extremely high turn over rate which is unfortunate for the children. Teachers beg for raises but are told that the school can't afford to give them. Is this just another form of greed? With such high cost of tuition of an average of $1200 per child a month and a class of 20. You do the math!

I do NOT reccomend sending a child to the Goddard School in Ashburn, VA. The turn over rate there is outrageous!! The school has been through two directors in just a few months. In addition, the entire office staff has changed within the last two months. Whenever I try to address an issue with the owner of the school (since she has been there the longest) she refers me to the NEW office staff, who doesn't know me or my child.
As far as the school being a "safe" place, think again! I recently dropped my daughter off and found an electric sander plugged in and ready to run on the playground. What was worse, kids were hovering near it, ready to turn it on. Another time, I picked my daughter up and she was in a classroom with 12 other toddlers and only one teacher. I was told when I signed my daughter up, that the ratio was 1:5. So, the teacher was clearly out of ratio. The list could go on...Please don't make the same mistake I made by believing the lies the owner of the school tells you during your first visit. Find another school where those in charge care about the kids, not the money they bring into the school.

Not a good pre-school. Turn over rate is way too high for my child.

My daughter has been attending this school since 8/2007. Yes, there have been turnover issues, we have struggled through a few of them but.. I have looked around it is the same all around the area. I would love for more of our tuition on to go directly to the teachers and there benefits.I have loved all of my dd teachers. They are smart, kind people and if those are the ones that are staying than the management is doing the right thing. Just my opinion.