Melrose KinderCare

This review is for their preschool class and Especifically for Miss Donna. My daughter went their for two days and in those two days these are the things I have noticed:
1. There was a little boy who wrote on another boy’s paper and Miss Donna shouted at this 2 year old boy, «Why would you write on his paper. go get your own paper…» and then she rolled her eyes — this is not how you talk to kids.
2. The next day when I was dropping off my daughter, the other kids were finishing up doing some activities and it was cleanup time. Three kids reached to the box and tried to put the toys inside the box and this Miss Donna pushed the kids with her arm and threw the toys back at them and said, «Go BACK… I didnt come to you» — I just don’t understand. everywhere else I have seen, when its cleanup time, everybody (including the teachers) pickup the toys and put them inside a box themselves. Nobody waits for someone to come get the toys from the kids’ hands.
3. After the cleanup time was over, the kids were waiting to go back to their tables. There was a little boy who was saying something to the kid standing next to him. Miss Donna looked at him and said, «You TALK. YOU TALK ALL THE TIME. NOT GOOD» — Why should the kid not talk!!! They are supposed to be quite only during their nap/​quite time not the whole day.
When I reported these incidents to the director Melissa, she told me that I was the first one to complain and Miss Donna has been working there for four years and nobody complained before. Also the center directors never noticed any such behavior with Miss Donna before. I couldn’t believe her. Either this kind of behavior is acceptable to them or they just don’t care. I saw two other teachers in the same classroom and they were nice. So, if you are planning to go with this daycare, please go spend at least half a day and observer the class before enrolling your kids.

The staff of Kindercare Melrose completely subvert the notion that a large corporation dictates the way a please like this school runs. They have been patient, kind and helpful. Unlike some of the other day care places that keep local school snow days, they weathered the Winter of 2015 with only one or two closings, allowing us to get to work and carry on as normally as possible.
Our son has been extremely well looked after and has really enjoyed his time. I am pretty sure that he will miss the patience and care that the staff showed him as he enters the brutal world of kindergarten

My daughter has been attending the Melrose KinderCare for three years. The teachers are very nice and take good care of my daughter. I am very happy with the Melrose Kindercare! As a full time working mother, it is important to me that my mind is at ease when she is at Kindercare!

PROS: The teachers are nice. The building, class materials and facilities are wonderful for the kids. The building is kept clean. It is in general an organized and safe place for kids. They have very interesting curriculum/​topics that they cover with kids like earth, math, numbers that they present in a very creative way.
CONS: Teachers are not really attentive to kids. Their attitude is that they use the yard to bring the energy down of the kids but they don’t really engage them in activities. I found them leaving the kids on their own and teachers sit down on a bench to let the day just go by and they are just having social teachers reunion there. This is fine to some extend but not when you pick up your kid and find that the diaper hasn’t been change in a while. I also didn’t find appropriate that KC has creative ways to make parents pay for extra teachers, or breaks by naming them as workshops. I think that for the price paid that should be covered in the core curriculum. Prices go up every year there and tuition is a bit up the average. Some of the teachers are experienced but others look like trainees.