Anonymous wrote: 
This is for the merrifield location which is new. We went to open house and met Dr. Dan and really liked the school. We decided to go with this daycare and was told to come in for orientation with our daughter. Dr. Dan asked if I wanted to have my daughter assessed as she is close to 4 and they wanted to see if she should be in the 3-5 yr old class of 4-5 year old class. The regular person who did the assessment wasn’t there that day so we agreed the teacher would do it. She was coming into a new environment and the class of kids were staring at her. They split us up for the assessment. My fiancé and I were downstairs with the director of admissions and Dr. Dan getting things signed and getting our package of information together.
Dr. Dan asked us if she had any medical conditions and I told her about her genetic disorder which doesn’t develop symptoms until she hits puberty and I was explaining the disease as she had never heard of it before and that she goes through yearly assessments which all have come back that she was fine and developing normally.
Dr. Dan’s eyes got big and she left the room and brought back my daughter and asks to talk to one of us privately. I met with her one on one and she said the teacher couldn’t do the assessment because my daughter wasn’t cooperating and she did her own assessment (keeping in mine she was gone only a few minutes) and she felt that my daughter was developmentally delayed and should belong in the 2-3 year old class which she wouldn’t put her in because that would mess with her confidence and that we were not a good fit for their school.
Keeping in mind as we were having this conversation the director of admissions was getting my husband set up for the app to get keys to the door!! I was floored that my daughter was discriminated in this way.
There was no conversation about the assessment being the final say as to whether or not we were accepted and after sending the director of admissions a long email describing what happened he even admitted that these assessments were not meant to reject a child but mine was!! We just had an assessment with Fairfax county teacher who visits my daughter weekly as she has a speech delay (which I disclosed to Dr. Dan during the open house and orientation and was assured was fine). We also just had an assessment with a neurologist who said she was developing normally. Everything was fine until we disclosed her genetic disorder so it was a clear sign of discrimination.
Do yourself, your family and your child a favor — stay far far away. Any institution that would judge a 3 year old based on a bogus 15 min assessment and who would discriminate against a child isn’t a school that should be in business or would be accepting to different types of children. They talk a good talk but they don’t stand behind any of it!
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