DISCLAIMER - this is based on my personal experience:…read more
Five stars for ABUSE and duplicity.
Zero stars for caring for children, honesty, integrity, accountability.
My 2 year old child knows the fear and havoc of ABUSE (physical and emotional) from this school and 'teachers'.
My 2 year old (two!!) has NIGHTMARES about this place and the ABUSE she suffered at the hands of the staff here in May of 2019. The abuse was covered up and denied (it is a family-run business).
My child detailed to me being hit, thrown, yelled at and threatened. The details were consistent, credible and enduring (over weeks and now months) and matched by the sudden onset of symptoms of PTSD (night terrors, screaming, heightened emotional states, moodiness, extra clingy, uncharacteristic outbursts, etc). Specifically, she did not want to participate in the 'graduation dance' practice and was trying to stay quietly hidden. My child has explained how the lead teacher snatched her arm, pulled her so hard she fell, while yelling at her, hit her across the chest and torso, then when my child was crying and screaming for her to stop, the teacher picked her up over her head and threw her, like a medicine ball, down on a wood-framed bench, she then told my child to repeat again and again that my child had tripped and fallen all on their own.
I confronted the staff and the perpetrator's husband (also a teacher there) provided additional confirming details, unsolicited, to me. The owner (and mother in law of the perpetrator) told me that this was 'just family'. As I told her then, this is absolutely not how you treat family - or anyone, especially children. I thought that would be obvious.
I ache for the children who are still there and am deeply concerned for their welfare. Please, please, please do not submit your children to this. These folks act one way in front of adults and parents and another when it's just children. I am ashamed and embarrassed we ever had our children in this place and were unaware of this sad and abysmal conduct for so long. We had other children there (over years) and after this incident asked I them if they had ever been abused or seen abuse. Thank God, both older kids had not been personally abused but both confirmed they had witnessed other incidents with other kids who had been hit, abused and threatened.
A police and child protective services report was made and investigations conducted but the family-staff denied any wrong doing. Did I mention that this is a family business - so ethics and money are deeply intertwined here (if they could be said to have any ethics). Sadly, my two year old was not able to be a witness due to age, and this facility does not have video cameras - now I know why. It was left at a 'he said-she said' case...but in this case one of those people is a 2 year old child who has no motives other than to return and reflect love.
The initial review was taken down due to 'lack of detail', I suspect after the business complained about the bad review (in fact a member of their family threatened me using this service!). I hope this suffices by providing more detail.
I recommend you do not go here. I hope police shut this place down. But until then, you can do it by not giving them your business. Ever.
Again, I disclaim that this is my personal opinion and experience with this business. I encourage you to make up your own mind, with the safety of your children foremost.
