Totalchild is one of the most hyped and marketed kindergarten in Taman Desa. I'll classify them as full of hot air with no substance. You can see some good reviews in the internet but mostly are comments made by their own people with vested interests.
They market themselves as following "an award winning" method from Australia, but from who or which institution, nobody knows. No real facts are given except one of the director claimed to be educated in Australia.
They promised arts and craft but actually it's only done accumulative - one project can last weeks, so in the end, throughout the whole year, you may only find 2 to 3 arts and craft projects done.
To save costs, they also ask parents to contribute to bring in teaching material, in the name of "sharing". Biweekly parents must bring something to the centre for the child to "share" with his/her classmates. Totalchild also "fully encourage" parents to donate, in other words - force donation. Whether the donation really reaches its intended recipient, nobody knows.
Drama and speech is also in the given schedule but only for show in the timetable - very seldom do they really have a period doing drama or speech. In fact, most of the time, drama and speech ends up as only reading from books.
They also market themselves as having parents-teacher meeting, but what was not mentioned is that during the parents-teacher meeting, each parent is allowed a maximum of 5 minutes! Yes, 5 minutes! I wonder what meaningful discussion can be discussed within 5 minutes.
Another thing is that Totalchild market themselves as parents-friendly preschool. This is totally not true. I have a friend who was scolded by the principal as they were labelled as "asking too many questions". Another case where a student hit another student. The complaint was dismissed and the case swept under the carpet and closed.
As you can see, Totalchild is very heavy on marketing. They use the right marketing bombastic key words to attract parents and students. Delivery on what they promised is very much lacking.
Conclusion: Totalchild Preschool is full of hype, hot air and no substance on delivery on what they promised to the parents.
