The Phoenix Schools Private Preschool – Antelope

We went here because we had a great experience at the one in Carmichael. They warned us that there were a lot of voucher students and I didn’t think much of it. I think its great to have my child exposed to all socioeconomic backgrounds and cultures. The facility needs a good hard deep clean and paint job. I have never had anyone be so disrespectful to me about choices for my son than the lady at the front desk. Mind you all I wanted was for my son to not have juice, fruit cocktail, or the milk they serve. This woman did not have a degree in nutrition or even a certificate and she was pushing for my son to have juice so they could get paid for their government meal program. She treated me like absolute garbage. Sugar is sugar no matter what form it comes in and I don’t want my son to be unhealthy and as a parent that is my choice and should be respected. Then we had issues with my son always coming home hurt or being pushed or bit from the other kids in his class. I know this happens which normal kids do but not as aggressive as I had seen there. A lot of the kids come and their parents don’t take care of them and their lack of attention at home came on to them taking it out on my son. They raise the tuition while the other kids going for free or at a discount are pushing my son around and even sometimes show up to daycare with his clothes on. I am so disgusted that I trusted the Phoenix Schools and that I had my son in this daycare for as long as we did. Ghetto may not be socially acceptable but that is what it is and it sucks because I know there are a few teachers that really did care about my son.

I hate that I left my son here. Apparently they are really great with toddlers and up but if you have an infant find other child are! I’d pop in randomly on my lunch break from school to check on him and the toddlers (who were suppose to be separated) were always trying to touch him or lean on him for balance (my son was 4 months old so a 2 year old leaning on him is not ok with me). And when I’d pick him up, almost every time without fail, a teacher would say «I was just about to change him». I quickly realized they probably weren’t changing him often enough once I saw how many diapers he had.
Another thing I notice was one toddler ALWAYS had a snotty nose, like thick green «I’m sick» snot hanging out, which happens I understand. Kids gets sick, it’s life. BUT my issue was that multiple times, I witness him just walk around with it hanging out and not one teacher wiped his nose UNTIL his mom was going to pick him up. I heard «lets clean you up your mom will be here soon.» So it looks to me like they re making things appear as they are not.
The final straw.. .I picked him up one day to find him with some other baby’s pacifier! And another sick baby was wrapped up in my son’s blanket. I was livid. There are 4 – 6 babies and two teachers and you can’t keep track of their belongings?! All my son’s stuff was labeled with his name! He spend maybe two more days there until I could find other child care.
The regular staff was great (weird to say after such a negative rant right?) I think the problem was the staff that gave breaks. But I have heard great things about older kids at the school not having problems. But again I recommend finding another child care if you have an infant.
Oh! Last thing, my son seemed to only have «blow outs» at daycare.