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Jenni Julander
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Jenni, It disturbs me that your experience with our center was less than excellent. I sincerely wish you had reached out to me personally to allow me to address your concerns and make it right. I know you have moved on but if you wish to discuss anymore of your experience, I would be happy to meet with you.
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EDIT: My son has been diagnosed with ADHD, which means he was being called "bad" for behaviors that were beyond his control at the time. This daycare failed to care for his needs, and two years later, we still deal with the emotional fallout of our time here. My son came home from this place every day asking me if he was a bad kid. It's taken months for us to help him reverse this thinking. Before attending this daycare, we never had any issues with behavior. But the teachers seemed to be imposing unrealistic expectations on the 4-year-olds, particularly the boys. Our son would act out every night after coming home, but this behavior stopped as soon as we found another childcare solution. The staff's only response to our son acting out during daycare was to write us a list of the things he did wrong during the day (such as struggling to share, being loud, or telling the teacher he didn't want to do something). They would grade him with a smiley face or a frowny face; if the list had even one thing on it, he'd had a "bad day" and I'd be pulled into the admin's office like a kid going to the Principal's. Each thing they listed took place over the course of a minute or so. At most, there were 5 things on the day's list. So they were telling me, in sum, that 1% of his day had been "bad." It seems wrong to grade a child's overall behavior based on 5 minutes of his day. Honestly, when they told me that my 4-yr-old couldn't come to this daycare anymore, I was relieved. (Though they told me my 2-yr-old could stay, which is just plain insulting). If they hadn't told us to stop coming, we would have stopped attending anyway--we were just waiting until we could find alternate childcare. I felt a lot of anger watching my son being treated this way, which is why I waited to post a review until now. It's disappointing that this was the way we were treated, especially since I explained to the school that we had just moved, our kids hadn't been in full-time daycare before, and they were used to being with family all day & missed their grandma. My impression was that the teacher just didn't want to do the work involved in helping a 4-yr-old boy acclimate to a new environment. If they kick out all the kids whose behavior they can't handle, I guess they have a lot less work to do.