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August 2023 by Tyee S.
Long story short... Bad headmaster (Panesar) in prior years due to she promised parents to make changes for our kids in new school year because of few incidents happened to our kids last year. However, when we attended the orientation couple days ago, nothing has changed. I am wondering if she documented all the incidents parents reported to her. Lots of parents are very disappointed because she is not honest what she promised to do. She is just a bad model for our kids. Not just that, she hurt my kid feeling, discouraging and lose self-esteem. I was about to change school but it wouldn't be fair to the kid. We love Challenger School so the person leaving the school should be her. Now I feel grateful our campus has a new headmaster this year. Otherwise I would have to look for alternative.
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July 2023 by Jyoti B.
This school is having fantastic curriculum for preschooler's. Teachers are amazing specially Mrs Smitha, Mrs Fatima and Mrs Bhuvaniya(I hope I have spelled right). My son went for 2years. When we started with 3yr preschool program. My son didn't know anything academically also he doesn't understand English. Therefore we were little concerned but after talking to the teacher, Mrs Smitha said very confidently that no worries he will be fine. It is my duty to teach him. We were so blessed that our kid got amazing teachers specially Mrs Smitha. She made my son first year so joyful. He learned so much in academically. During pick up time she would give quick update about my kiddo which was very helpful to ease our concerns. I can't thank enough to her. His joy for leaning still prevails therefore he enjoyed 4 year program too.
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January 2023 by Y. T.
If you have kid, boy or girl, never ever think about sending him/her to Challenger School Strawberry Park Campus. I am not a yelp reviewer fan, but this time I have to spend time to write down horrible fact for this school, Its all about BULLY and the teachers hiding BULLY facts.My daughter joined PreK A11 class in 2022 Nov 1st, and withdraw from this horrible school after a month, because she was bullied repeatedly by a boy. My daughter cried each time, and she told me same boy bullied her, and the classroom teacher knew it without any punishment or education. I was trying to have some communication with the classroom teacher to see how to prevent all these, but I can not, never. We called 911, the officer came for investigation, but the schoolmaster was not cooperative, she refused to tell the bully boy name to the police officer even, and she threatened us to withdraw from this school. The officer told us, everything weird happened in this school, but we make our own decision to leave or stay.Firstly, The school is using covid19 as excuse to not letting parents to go inside school anytime, when none of the teachers having masks on inside the campus, this give people impression that only parents can transmit covid19 in this school.Secondly, The preK/K director is the only person who talks with parents, and she is not letting parents to connect with the classroom teacher, and each time she will say the classroom teacher is not seeing anything. Some people mentioned about excellent curriculum and caring staff. Well, the curriculum is best always for the one who wants to learn english only :) , but for "Caring Staff" comments, its a totally fault one. Because its all what you heard in beautiful words, not what you saw in facts.My daughter got threatened not to eat her fav lunch by the same boy as I found she stop eating anything at school but starving right after arriving home, she told me the reason after a while finally, OMG...My daughter was pushed down to floor several times with allover body bruised by the same boy, this happened not only once, so I tried to talk to the director, first the director said there is no such boy if my daughter can not spell out his name. I have to mention, the school does not want to disclose a classmate name list for the new class to parents for any reason, and for 4 years old child, to spell out other unknown kid's name is impossible mission. Two more parents in same A11 classes they mentioned the same boy being bullying to their kids as well, and more feedback from more kids and families, and got to know the bully kid pronounce as "A****K" or "Ashfik" .The preK classes will be mixed up when going to K together, so this typical bullying student was encouraged very well by the teacher with no proper education, and the headmaster mentioned the bully student is a very nice boy to the police officer (All recorded in police report). I was just wondering, she is not the classroom teacher, not even the director, She is a headmaster not working in any classroom, not even know who is the boy acting how in the class daily...this is ridiculous answer. Such no credit persons ...So watch out! At least in 2023-2024, do not send your child to this Challenger Strawberry Park Campus in Kindergarten. Or try your luck to be the classmate with bullying student who protected by their "family" in school --you know what I mean!
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April 2022 by Qiuju D.
Our son attended preschool at the Strawberry Park Campus in a class taught by Ms. Kakoli and Ms. Catherine . We are extremely satisfied with our son's development. At first he could neither understand nor speak English, but several months later, He has made a lot of progress in reading, writing, counting and art skills. The teachers are wonderful, patient and very caring, and our son is very happy to interact with them. He is very happy with the playtime and entertainment activities organized for the students. He always tells us that he likes his teachers and classmates very much.Challenger is one of the best schools in the neighborhood. It has very solid curriculum set up for young kids, including phonics, math and art. Every day, my son brings home his paperworks, which indicates he is learning a lot at school. Meanwhile, we never heard about his complaint about too much paperworks or so. Instead, he enjoys all school activities with his teachers and feels proud of being praised when doing great jobs at school.
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March 2022 by Qi W.
My son is in second grade and he has been studying at Challenger for over two years. We like Challenger a lot because of their excellent curriculum and caring staff. We had Ms. Ebel at first grade. She's savvy, knowledgeable and my son still talked about her and thought of her after a year. This past year, we are also very lucky to have Ms. Kamala as our teacher. She truly knows and cares about her students. I can't thank her enough for the positive impacts she had made for my children. Challenger is one of the best schools in the neighborhood. I recommend it to all the parents hands down.
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May 2021 by Bogdan A.
Our daughter attended preschool at the Strawberry Park campus in a class taught by Ms. Kakoli and Ms. Poornima. We are extremely satisfied with our daughter's development. Over a short period of time, she has made a lot of progress in reading, writing, counting and numbers skills. She also learned many useful and interesting facts on a large number of topics. Our daughter is always very excited to tell us about the latest things she learned about in school. She is also very happy with the playtime and entertainment activities organized for the students. The teachers are wonderful, our daughter is very happy to interact with them. They also kept us updated regularly of her progress. The administrative staff is also great to work with. We have had a great experience and are planning to continue our daughter's education at the same Challenger School campus.
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March 2021 by Elena L.
Both of my kids attend pre-school in Challenger Strawberry Park. When they came here in August, they could neither understand nor speak English, let alone read or do something more complicated in the language which is not their native. Six months later they can read simple books, do some maths, try to speak English with each other. What's more important to me, my kids are happy to be at this school. The teachers (Ms Shikha and Ms Priyanka) are very caring and supportive. If you are looking for a place for your child in this area, I highly recommend you to stop in for a tour.
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December 2018 by Tr P
Having a great experience at Challenger school Strawberry Park with my kid.Wonderful curriculum.Teachers are very good and dedicated for the kids. Want to give couple of suggestions : Field trip should be a part of curriculum as it gives exposure to the kids to the practical world and other is to introduce more extra curricular activities needed for overall development like music ,instruments, sports etc. Also regarding the hot lunch service ,I wish if they can customize the menu as per population preference. Depending upon the population more Indian /vegetarian options should be included.
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December 2018 by Palanivel D
I don't know what is the majic they are doing, kids are learning fast, speaking lot, kids are become too smart.
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December 2017 by Brianna Su
Mr.Kawaye is a teacher in first grade and he is the best and funny and did I mention silly.
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December 2016 by naveen bashyam
Challenger is a okay school, but there are a lot of things wrong about the school. Firstly , there is a very bad catering and lunch service/ it is ripped of. Some teachers are biased towards some students and dont help the struggeling . Also the math curriculum is very easy compared to the grammar curriculum .
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December 2016 by Jennifer Liu
The school has an excellent curriculum. However, the school lunch is... worse than it seems when you purchase it online. However, overall... The school's a good learning experience.You just have to see if you're fit for the school or not. It isn't as bad as other reviews say... But in all honesty, I only know what the middle school is like, and it isn't that bad.You have to trust other reviews for their opinion on elementary school.
