Little Explorers Preschool & Childcare

So, we’ve since moved Little C out of this daycare/​preschool. Here are a few reasons.
1) One of the teachers was consistantly late (ranging from pulling in the parking lot at 6 to being 25 minutes late) to open the center, which should be open and ready to take kids at 6am. Director told numerous times and left documented on the sign-​in sheet.
2) The TV watching. Sigh. Okay, so every morning before the rest of the teachers get there, the TV is turned on and a movie or show is put in. TV every once in a while for a special occasion is one thing, but every morning… No. C would say, «I watch scooby-​do mama!?» We limit his kids TV watching to but a few shows, Team UmiZoomi and Wallykazam. So you can guess where he was watching scooby-​do.
2.1) TV continued — I walked in one morning to drop C off to see the teacher (funny, the same one that is habitually late), have Nick and Nora’s Infinite Playlist on the tv. WAY INAPPROPRIATE to be showing a bunch of children. I mentioned this to the director once. Another time i walked in to see them showing Maleficent. Having never seen the movie, you can still tell it’s pretty dark. I talked to the director about it a day later, and apparently PG (maybe PG13. cant remember exactly) rating or less, they’ll play it. C had nightmares for the next few nights. The director said, «Oh i wouldnt figure he’d have problems with nightmares.» SMH.
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TV-​PG Parental Guidance Suggested
This program contains material that parents may find unsuitable for younger children. Many parents may want to watch it with their younger children. The theme itself may call for parental guidance and/​or the program may contain one or more of the following: some suggestive dialogue (D), infrequent coarse language (L), some sexual situations (S), or moderate violence (V).
3) Teacher/​Child ratios. Little C was 2 at the time he last attended LE. A lot of the times, I’d come to pick him up and he’d be in the room with the older kids (kids ages 3+, including school age). Why? Cause they had too many in the 1s-​2s room. I do believe this is against state guidelines.
4) It was discovered C had staph due to scratching all day long at a mosquito bite. Was told the following day by the teacher that he had said he had an owie all day, after the fact. Did she even look to see what the owie was? No. Otherwise she would have seen C’s leg was red and swollen from foot to past his knee. Thankfully he wasn’t running a fever, or that negligence could have proved disastrous.
5) Most of the teachers there speak broken English. This proved to be the reason why C was not improving with his speech.
Are they an affordable center? Yes.
But at what price to your child’s safety and development.

My 21 month old son has been attending Little Explorers since Oct 2014 and we LOVE it here! He’s excited to go to ‘school’ everyday and loves his teachers. His teachers are very caring and they each know all the kids by name. He’s brought home several projects he’s been learning about– dinosaurs, sea creatures and seasonal projects. He enjoys the nutritious and varied meals they prepare and eats every last crumb! We couldn’t be happier with Little Explorers!