I cannot even express how grateful I am to Children's Academy. My son started going to daycare there as a young toddler, under 2. We've experienced nothing but love, nurturing, care, and positivity from his daycare experience. Daycare is his favorite place outside of home. He loves the other kids and the care providers. We've had great communication and he's grown in speech, independence, and confidence. I don't worry while I'm at work and he's sleeping and eating better as well. The routine and structure have been wonderful for him. read more

If I could give this place zero stars, I would. I can't believe there haven't been more reviews recently, but you're gonna see them soon. I worked here for 6 months, and reported staff and management behaviors to licensing and CPS. They are very rough with children. A teacher was recently fired for things she has been doing for years, but now there's video proof of her physically abusing a child. Teachers are not allowed to tell parents ANYTHING other than "they had a good day". Children who were very obviously experiencing abuse or neglect at home were reported by teachers to CPS, only to have the owner say everything was fine. Staff turn over is high because no one can stomach what happens here, and the state does nothing. If you love your children, do NOT send them here. read more

Very Clean and friendly staff. Really enjoy this place so far. However to the other comment about only saying they had a nice day I find that to be true. not one time have they said anything about how his day really was, nothing in depth just "he had a really good day". read more

I was a former parent that had my child enrolled at this horrendous daycare site. Last year, I pulled my son out of this day care due to CPS investigations and proven assaults' inflicted on children enrolled. Fortunately, the teacher hitting children was arrested for her crimes. Despite this, the director remained unpunished for her ignorance and incompetence in child care safety. The director denied knowing of the abuse that occurred in her facility despite being within proximity of the classroom in which the abuse occurred. For 17 + years, this director had a personal and professional relationship with the teacher (abuser) and turned a blind eye. Not only did this director demonstrate negligence to provide professional development to her staff, she failed to properly monitor her staff to ensure the safety of the children enrolled. There were many times, I called the daycare to check on my son and this director, who is still running this daycare currently today, was no where to be found. During the open investigation, I collaborated with CPS. It was sad to hear from the Social Worker that it was unlikely that this facility would be shut down due to "not being enough child care in the area." What does this tell you about the quality of services offered in Oak Harbor and the lack of ethics from DCYF, Oak Harbor? This is heart breaking and infuriating, to say the least! The community of Oak Harbor should be aware of the reality of these circumstances and difficult truth. As a parent, we all have an ethical and obligation to ensure the safety and well-being of our children. By placing your child in the care of this director and facility, your child is at risk of long-term psychological effects that may impact their development. Please, if you care about your child, follow your intuition as a parent and protect your child! FYI, this facility and director will attempt to change their management and facility name as they have in the past. Don't be fooled! read more

If there was a negative star I would give it to this place. I am very appalled of hearing about a young boy be mistreated by a employee who works there. I have never wanted to review a place until now. Hearing the Management is wanting to stay low as they always have been with their past so they can get money. Well, won't be long until it's shut down and they are stuck with nothing. To everyone who is thinking of sending your child here don't. This is why I will never send my kid there. They continue to lie and try to cover every single thing that has happened up. read more

i have been going here with all of my children for 15 yr. The owner Jan is a very caring person she was always there to help the children with whatever they need she's very responsive to the parents and helps the teachers throughout the day. The lead teacher Darlene is amazing my youngest daughter absolutely loves her she is so caring and loving to her Littles and has been with the business for well over the 15 years I've been coming. I highly recommend this place it is a very nice place with very caring teachers. read more

Just pulled my kid. DO NOT GO HERE! please don't make my mistake and send your kid here. I kept him there because I love his teacher in the infant room. But management are liars!!! read more

Nope... is there a negative star?? This is bad. Really bad. Kiro 7 did a story. I knew something like this was bound to happen.

I worked here briefly. The teachers fed the kids then put them down for a nap without letting them go out and burn off their energy. When they refused to lie still the teachers told them they wouldn't get a cookie. I lasted two days. There is a lot of negative reinforcement so you aren't going to see a lot of redirection or positive behavior here. Check DOL before putting your kids here. Take your kids to Montessori or the Christian School! read more

The allegations indicated above are true. The reason why the state couldn't prove that someone smoked marijuana in the preschool's bathroom is because management lied to the investigator. The investigator also investigated WEEKS after the incident, when it would be impossible to smell marijuana smoke in the bathroom. read more

This place is an absolute dump and needs to be shut down. They recently had a little girl sever a finger. You read that right sever a finger. We removed our children from their years ago due to unsanitary conditions and piss poor management. read more

As an ex-employee, I've seen a wide range of things. The biggest event was a teacher teaching from her chair, lost a child and when the mother came to pick up her child was completely frantic that nobody knew where she was. The little girl was in a stroller right behind the teacher and she didn't even know. As a teacher I was expected to change an 80-pound five-year-old on a garbage bag in the bottom building. I had up to 16 children, without an aide to help me, or a way to communicate with the other building. Having to change a diaper on a garbage bag in full view of all other children. These were normal expectations. I'm not necessarily a disgruntled employee, I got laid off because me teaching Spanish and sign language wasn't enough, they wanted the kids to learn French too. That teacher fire got quit within two weeks of them laying me off. Also I had two children in there, one10 years ago before I worked there. My child was two at the time and it was the other Children's Academy (1) building, he got hit in the head with a door on a couple occasions. They would open the door to the playground without checking to see if children were there first. Another time with my youngest child, she started off in the first Children's Academy. The teacher was feeding them bags of chips, in the one-two year old group. Even when I said I had packed her snacks that were healthy. I walked into the teacher allowing two little girls to make out. When I brought it up to her that they could be sharing germs, she replied that one of them had strep throat recently and laughed. I removed my child out of that one to Children's Academy 2, and at that one teacher turnaround was ridiculous, they would give my daughter one cup of milk to last her all day, even when I packed spares. I had to remind them numerous times a week, to empty out her milk after an hour and make her drink water the rest of the day. And I'm saying this happened everyday, my daughter was drinking sour milk all day. Then came time to potty train and they didn't follow through with any potty training plan that was set up. I would walk on to the grounds and see numerous teachers sitting on their phones ignoring the children, children screaming. I finally pulled my kid out, when they made me pay for an entire month's childcare and then threatened to kick her out after a week because I didn't use every single day that week. Would not give me back my money or prorate. Only reason I brought my children there is a figured after 10 years and the seven years since I had work there, that maybe things had changed. And when I started out there's things seem to be better. There are no options on the island for child care anymore. I've been on the list with numerous other child care centers for over a year now. Nobody ever puts their children in here unless it's a last resort. But somehow they are getting away with all this. I have made reports in the past, and have not been able to find any of them dot-dot-dot like they were deleted. I implore you guys not to bring your children there. read more