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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Hello,
My son went for about 5 months. It was a disaster. He barely learned anything. We transferred to our local public school and by the end of the year was thankfully on target with his peers. That is thanks to our and his hard work. I know a few parents with similar stories. They claimed we were bad parents, he was a special needs child in need of therapy. Multiple doctors and real teachers disagree. The worst part is how they made me and my family feel. It took me over a year to really accept that this wasn't our fault. Now many of the founding families are coming to the same conclusion. I hope they shut down as they are not qualified to be teachers. 
I AM JILL! I am not Anonymous![/quote]

New poster here.  I know Jill and what she says is accurate.  Her experience also wasn't unique.  Other children who had behavioral or academic challenges in that environment were ...forcefully... referred to therapy or medical assessment by the lead teacher, some even as a condition of continued enrollment.  Parents talk to each other (even when the school tells us we shouldn't).  I know of at least 8 cases.  They were wrong about my kid as well.

Also, Jill is outing herself enthusiastically at the bottom because Silver Oaks had a yelp review she left of them taken down based on her using an account that wasn't attached to her name.  This was discussed at a board meeting.  Being censored tends to make people more angry... it was a poor move on the leadership's part.  Better to own up to failings and try to improve.    [/quote]

If kids are having behavioral or academic issues it makes sense to have them evaluated. [/quote]

I would tend to agree, except I was also given a laundry list of things my kid should see a doctor about including the perfectly normal way his new teeth were erupting.  This was fine, it was easy to blow off as an over concerned teacher or just an uninformed one, but I was also told my kid's hands shake all the time, an issue we never witnessed at home. This was very concerning but what was more concerning was that the teacher only mentioned this in a quarterly report card and during the parent teacher conference, not before, despite the fact that she saw me daily and we were inclined to chat on days I was in the classroom as part of my co-oping duties.  At the parent-teacher conference the teacher said I should see a pediatrician and report back to her, but after I asked the director about the issue and she said it was nothing to worry about since it was probably small motor muscle fatigue.   My issue isn't really that the teacher reported that she saw my kid's hands shake, I appreciate that she was looking out for my kid, my concern was that she saw what she considered an urgent medical issue and waited for a quarterly report to tell me about it.  At the same conference the teacher also hinted that my son might have a learning disability because he was behind in reading, not really considering that their balanced literacy program might be part of the problem (his reading is much improved using a pure phonics based curriculum). Again, I didn't mind being informed but it started to seem like any kid that was an outlier from the norm the school established was quickly pathologized at a school that purports to embrace individualized learning for kids.[/quote]

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