Cadence Academy Preschool, Grapevine TX

I’ve been debating on whether or not to write a review but I do not like my character being played with. Kelsey Penn LIED! I was her son’s teacher at the time & I WAS NEVER ESCORTED OFF OF THE PREMISES. POLICE NEVER WALKED ME OUT OF THE SCHOOL. That is a bold face lie. The school never pressed charges on me for assault again that is a lie. Whoever come under the comments about what happened in May was not there nor had any information on what happened. It honestly wasn’t anybody’s business because NO CHILDREN WERE HARMED NOR DID ANY CHILD SEE A FIGHT! That’s thAt
I will say every since Michele left the school went downhill and an employee that still works there told me last week that it’s steady getting worse. I’m gonna come back to this comment in a few months but I will say ever since Ashley Collier became assistant she’s ran everything to the ground. She tries to make friends more than doing what’s best for the school. Linda lies about everything and act clueless when someone comes to her about issues. Michele would have never! The school itself failed me. I was attacked by an employee that was only there for 2 days. I went to both managers numerous of times and didn’t receive any help. I pray this school gets shut down or they find new management because it’s a mess there.
But once again I was never escorted off the premises for assault. I never went to jail or any of that. & no child saw a fight nor were they harmed in any way.

(8/26/23) A month later and still no one has reached out.

My experience at Cadence started off great. They have teachers who truly made an impact on my daughters life and she still talks about regularly. The problem isn’t the teachers, well not most of them. They have an handful of teachers that are GOLD! After a while I started to notice a lot of turn over in her class room, probably a new teacher every two months. Change is hard for roofless at that age, especially since they get attached to teachers. The turnover raised a flag but I ignored it because I know hiring good help can sometimes be difficult. When my daughter started I noticed she would bring home a lot of art work, we would get regular updates via the app and things you would expect from a normal daycare. After about a year we got an increase in tuition, which again normal. They stated it would help with the rising cost of inflation and it would help them hire more teachers and they would use the money towards bonuses for teachers and incentives. I thought wow this is great we can finally get some teachers that will stay, get some updates around the school maybe to the lunch menus and playground. Nope. Time continued and I waited on changes which never came. The playground is mainly just dirt and mosquitoes. The pool is suppose to be used for splash days but instead splash day is a water hose in the mud. The poor teachers at times have 15+ kids. They barely do events for the kids and families. Father’s Day was marketed as hot dogs and they have the dads a corn dog and a root beer. Mother’s Day was one tray of mini muffins and one tray of fruit with juice for moms and grandmas. The menu at they send weekly is different than what the kids actually eat, there were days my daughter would barely eat and get home starving. Cottage cheese topped with applesauce is not a snack for kids, sorry. A single popsicles for snack time isn’t enough for some kids who have to be there for most of the day. The classrooms need updates to toys, activities and books. The teachers aren’t aware of what’s going on, many times I’ve mentioned something that was in the weekly email and the teachers had no idea. My final straw was when they gave another increase and the school hadn’t gotten any updates and the teachers turnover was still high! I put in the two weeks and we weren’t asked why we were leaving but rather they assumed it was due to finances because of the increase. After I put in the notice of moving schools I saw the review of the “assault” that I had no idea of, the school never made parents aware that the school had an incident with the police involved. My daughter loved her friends there which made me reconsider leaving but when I saw their newest male teacher have kids SIT ON HIS LAP I knew I made the right choice. I truly feel bad for the teachers there and contemplated writing this because some of them are close to my heart but I couldn’t leave other parents in the dark.

Over priced, they do not follow the curriculum they tell the parents they do, my 3 year old son’s teacher was escorted off property by police for assault. They do not have consistent teachers, It advertises a pool, the kids never get to use. I will greatly miss my youngest sons infant teacher Ms Lakisha she is AMAZING. I wish I could take her with me. Herself, Ms Ashley the assistant director and Ms Rebecca will be greatly missed. Those 3 women are the hidden gems in this facility… those 3 women deserve 5 stars, the school, not so much. Again I repeat MY 3 year old sons teacher was ESCORTED off school premises DURING WORKING HOURS for a fight with another employee. Do you want ur kids to see that? I was horrified mine did.