National Pediatric Support

I happened to work at the HQ for this company. Dr Senter is a troubled woman, her office was a mess, mouse droppings all over the place, extremely unclean and her office, well that’s what you call hoarding. It was a total mess and filthy. I only worked for a while there and couldn’t take it anymore. I was even told by one of her staff members at one of her schools that she herself wouldn’t ever have enrolled her daughter there. It’s that bad. Its a shame but this woman doesn’t seem to care, as long as she is getting her $$$$. She also has a scam going with her dance school events, having people pay $ 300 for entrance to compete and then given a cheap plastic trophy. It’s a disgrace and people should know about this.
Why the health dept isn’t inspecting these schools and her office, no idea. Maybe this is a case of «greasing the hands» if you know what I mean.

Please do not send your children to a school started or maintained by National Pediatric Support Services. Their daycare centers are mainly populated with kids whose parents get free daycare from the government, and while I don’t have a problem with that it does mean that every time the winds of change blow the centers are restaffed, the kids are moved around, the teachers’ schedules are changed, and it all does a drastic disservice to the kids. When Schwarzenegger cut funding last year our school lost 75% of its kids– where does that leave the others?
Now that we’ve found that our local branch (Aliso Viejo) is being sold, the center is being run on a shoestring budget, my 4 year old daughter is being kept in a room with 2 year olds, teachers are only working 3 hours a day to save money and all of the toys and resources are being removed from the classrooms and gutted. We haven’t received a written report– which is guaranteed in the contract– in over a month. Totally unprofessional, but exactly what I’ve come to expect from Dr. Senter, who is in it for the money and nothing else. Never even saw her at the school unless it was for a fundraiser– and that brings up another issue– it’s nearly a thousand dollars a month for daycare AND I have to show up and be guilted into buying churros for $ 4 apiece too? No thanks. Let the kids who don’t pay anything and their families do the fundraising.
Please DO NOT send your kids to a NPSS preschool, it’s been an utterly arduous experience after the first 3 months which, were, while the school was new, admittedly great. Our daughter, who has been in day care since the age of 11 months, and who used to love school passionately, now cries every day upon learning she «has to go back there». Please stay far, far away.