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Clearwater,#2UPDATE Employee
Mon, August 04, 2008
First of all, let's say that as of 2008 the Director at the time is no longer at this facilitiy. She has been happily replaced!! YEAH!! So let's start with each paragraph of the accusations that the ex-employee states. She was hired for the preschool, and sent instead to the toddlers, yes, that's quite possible. The old Director unfortunately just hired people, she didn't care where they wanted to go, she just put people where she needed them. She unfortunately did that to a few of us. The new Director came right out and asked us what age we wanted and made it happen. Everyone is where they want to be or where they were hired for. The yelling/screaming teacher? Yeah, she's LONG gone, the new Director doesn't play with anything. She makes sure when you sign the Child Abuse/Neglect paperwork from the Licensing Board you know what you're signing. Apparently you didn't get that when you were hired. She tells you straight up that she will not tolerate anything that looks like abuse or neglect and if you see something even if you're not sure of it, you'd better make that abuse hotline call, because if you don't and she finds out that you knew about it, you just lost your job too. That's how much she doesn't play with abuse and neglect. The littlest thing, yelling, tone of voice, all of it, she's very serious. Same thing with the time out thing. She walks around constantly and checks on the rooms and watches. And lack of toys?? Yeah, the new Director found them all in the teacher's closests because those teachers didn't want to clean them up after the kids. They've been put out in the classrooms and the teachers have been told that they do NOT go back into the classrooms, up on top of cubbies, or anywhere else but on those toy shelves where they belong. And believe me....she checks! And yes, they are cleaned. Green snot from a kid? If every day care sent home a kid with green snot there would be no day cares because the parents would no longer be employed since they'd be home all of the time. There are rules and regulations for when a child HAS to be picked up. Do we tell the parents about green snot? Of course! What they do about it is up to them, we can't treat the child who has a parent that doesn't care. We just wipe thier green snot and hope for the best when we tell the parent that the child is sick. As for the sick child, I can guarentee that the AD called his parents. Not every parent is reachable. Thier cell-phone mail boxes are full, they don't answer thier cell phones for a million different reasons. Same thing with work phone numbers. I get this problem all the time. I tell the Director to call a parent, she does, but that parent is in a meeting, she left a message, they're not answering. It's not for lack of trying to get a hold of a parent. It's a 2 way street. And yes, those are the same parents that act all innocent and say stuff like, "why didn't you call me earlier" and then march up to the Director ready and prepared to yell just to be told that they were called, every number was called, the parent just didn't do thier part. Communication is a 2 way street with parents, they need to have numbers that we can use to get a hold of them when we DO call. As for 2 hour diaper rash? In my 10 years old child care, I've never seen a child get diaper rash after 2 hours unless they diaper rash PRIOR. It doesn't just 'happen' by magic. It's a building process. So if after 1 change you have a child who all of the sudden has diaper rash, then there might be something else going on there. Finally, as I stated in the beginning, if you signed the Child Abuse & Neglect paperwork you were given, you were REQUIRED to notify the Abuse hotline of anything you were concerned about. If you REALLY cared for children as you say you do, then I would have called someone, there's always a phone number posted in the bathroom, you could have even talked to another employee. Bunch of women are always good sources of information. Unfortunately this facility had bad management. However, there's new management and the facility is absolutely wonderful. The children are happy, the parents are happy. The center is clean and inviting, the Director and her new Assistant are always available when you need them for anything. I remember the person who first reported the nastiness of this center. I was hired LONG before her, and I am happy to say that I am still employed there and the changes at the center have been the best thing for it. Everyone should at least take a tour of the center. Just walk in, they supposedly have an 'open door policy' so there's no way for them to hide anything if they don't know you're coming. Ask for a tour of the center, all of the rooms, take a walk, take a look, it's worth it just to be proven right or wrong, good or bad.
Lizzy
Tucson,#3Consumer Comment
Fri, February 08, 2008
I recently took a tour of Kindercare and was impressed by what they had to say but when I came in with my registration papers filled out and the registration fee I took it upon myself to take another tour. It was then that I noticed that the facility seemed uncleanly and 8 out of 12 children in the toddler class had runny noses. I stayed for about a half an hour to observe and not one of these children were handed a kleenex or had their noses wiped. A lot of the children looked dirty and it just gave me the worst feeling. After seeing this I asked about the sick policy and was told that they are sent home after the fourth diarrhea diaper. That shocked me! I would hope that they would call me at the first sign of diarhea. And also they don't call the parents until the temp is above 101??? I must take my losses with the registration fee, I could never send me little man there!