Bare Foot Gymnastics Club and Montessori Preschool

My daughter loves her tumbling coach and we’ve loved it here until today. When she started I was asked if I would prefer to pay for her class each week or put a card on file. I told the gal I would prefer to pay each week. Last week there wasn’t anyone at the front desk, so I just left my form on the desk. It’s happened before and i was called for a phone payment. Today I got a text saying we hadn’t paid for last week (as there was no one at the desk). I texted back saying I could pay when I was in today, or pay over the phone. I was asked to call in because waiting an hour and a half for payment was apparently not going to cut it. After I gave my credit card info, the lady said the card was now saved to my account. WHAT?! That’s not the arrangement I had made and I did not authorize it. When I took my daughter in I tried talking to the new lady at the front desk. She was extremely rude and would talk over me anytime I started saying something. I actually had to ask her to allow me to finish a sentence. She argued with me about how I had things arranged and got snippy with me when I asked if the card was removed from my daughters account. She told me it was not saved. Funny how I received an email saying that it was saved, just wouldn’t be used for recurring payments just minutes after I was assured that it was NOT saved. There’s not much I like less than being lied to. I almost walked out with my daughter. If she didn’t love her coach so much, I would have. I will be looking for another option, though.

My daughter loves it here and all of her teachers. She has had bad experiences with past daycares so I was nervous about sending her to preschool but she has been doing great here and I can tell she’s learning a lot! she’s already starting to sound out letters in simple words and seems to know a new song every other week. She also attends gymnastics here in the evenings and looks forward to that.

Gymnastics with Barefoot has been a great experience for us. My son is autistic and needs additional support, and the coaches have all been so great at helping him. They are patient with redirecting him and finding ways to modify activities so he can participate to the best of his abilities. He feels loved here, he's gained confidence here, and the progress he's made has carried over to every other part of his life. Highly recommend to anyone!

My daughter loved going to school and having gymnastics during school time. Miss Sarah was her teacher and we just loved her. The only reason I didn’t give it 5 starts is because we didn’t appreciate the way they handled schooling when COVID hit. They opened up way before any other school and didn’t care to get parents opinions on how to go about it-and were rude when we unenrolled because of it.

One of my favorite places to have a Birthday Party. Why, you might ask??? They take care of it all!!! Their instructors entertain, while you get to enjoy and take pictures. They play games, jump in the pit, and even bring out the parachute. My daughter had a blast with her Preschool class. My favorite part... You have the place to yourself. You don't have to stress about crowds!

I wanted to love this gym. Our daughter went through mommy and me there then transferred up to the young solo class when she turned 3. The owner is amazing and we had an overall good experience with the parent tot. My daughter was excelling at it and loved class. When we switched over the first day of being in there alone was great. The next week it all went to hell. The coach skipped her through both obstacle courses (about 30 min of a 45 min class) because she wasn’t sitting criss cross apple sauce perfectly. If you can imagine with a very very high energy 3 year old that has only ever been required to do that for 30 sec at a time in the parent tot classes this didn’t go well. By the end she was in full blown hysterics. From that day on the coach treated her horribly. The kicker is the coach (who had her for 6 months in parent tot) literally was calling my daughter by the wrong name that entire class and the next one then blaming her for not listening. It was so bad my daughter stopped wanting to go to class. She went from going across the high beam kicking her feet out solo to not wanting to even participate and refusing to do something as simple as a forward roll (which she had been jumping into before with perfect form). I can’t even explain on here how bad it was. Complete mental abuse on the part of the coach. We switched to another coach and that was going great, but then she couldn’t do mornings and they put the old coach back over her!!! It was horrible all over again. We switched gyms and will never look back. Since then I have found out about four other families with similar experiences. I reported the problems multiple times and nothing was done. Because of this we will not be doing any lessons there ever. If they would just take parents complaints seriously and remove coaches that are not being professional they would be amazing.

My three children attended Barefoot for several years each. We have loved their Montessori, Gymnastics, Swimming, Birthday and Summer Programs. Their staff is positive and dedicated to helping their students achieve academic, physical and emotional success while maintaining balance. We have had the best experiences and memories at Barefoot Montessori and Gymnastics.

My daughter attended Barefoot Montessori for 2 years. She loved the preschool and the teachers. Ms Kelly is wonderful and really took an interest in helping my daughter to learn and succeed. My daughter will be going into kindergarten reading and doing beginning math. Thank you Ms Kelly and Barefoot Montessori!

I can not say enough great things about Montessori Preschool and Gymnastics! My son absolutely excelled this year learning from his all-star preschool teachers. I couldn't believe how much he learned-- counting to 100, writing and knowing the sounds to all the letters, sign language, dozens and dozens of songs about our solar system, holidays, colors, hygiene...I highly, highly, highly recommend this school to parents who want their children to get the best start and foundation for learning! I wish I had known about this school when my daughter was this age. A++++++

This is the only gym my daughter had been to, so it's difficult to compare. Overall, the gym is clean and nice. The instructors seem to be involved.