Children Of America Stafford

I agree with Jeff and CannDi, DO NOT TAKE YOUR KIDS HERE!
We had our school aged child in care here for two summers. The first summer was ok. Not wonderful, but ok. He went for one week this year, and we had to pull him out due to racial issues. My son is white and a few of the black kids in his class were calling him names, pushing him, picking on him, etc. At one point, they would not let him play with them because «he was white.» The teachers did NOTHING to stop this and they did not report it to the Director (at least according to her).
At one point, the kid in question (who they did not remove from the facility) asked a teacher if she could pick a knife or gun so that he could «get this kid» (referring to the other white student). NOTHING was done about this and I was not told about it till I picked my son up and HE told me. I addressed this with the director and she said she would take care of it.
I truly think the director wanted to help, but her teachers are out of control. They do not report things to her and when they do they downplay everything. Another issue was at one point my son told a teacher he did not feel safe there and wanted to call home and she would not let him. STUFF LIKE THIS IS NOT OK!
We pulled our son out and took him to the Minnieland right behind COA. He has only been there for a week, but so far we are super happy. Check out my review on them. STAY AWAY FROM COA. FAR FAR AWAY. They might be cheaper, but you pay for what you get.

I absolutely agree with Jeff H. Our daughter attended COA not long enough and had received scratches and bruises and no one can tell her father and I about. I raised hell and called the and spoke to the Corporate staff and of course they acted like my daughter may have caused these scratches in her sleep etc. I was furious when I picked up my daughter up and noticed the scratches all over her face. When I asked the young girls (who called themselves teachers) that works in the classroom the afternoon when I picked her up, their answer to me was…“I don’t know”, are you kidding me?” was my question back to her (wanting to slapped the saliva out of her mouth right then and there). I then said to her, «I don’t know» is unacceptable to me! I demand an answer otherwise I will cause all of your heads to spin in this place. We IMMEDIATELY removed our child from this place! No one EVER told us what happened to our daughter and all they cared about is that we pay the two notice fee. Please DO NOT take your child/​children to this in-​experienced place. They are irresponsible, dishonest and negligent!

My granchild is in children’s of America in Stafford an it is great place. My granchild loves it better then home child care, which we had a very bad experience, the money is worth It, and my grandchild’s happiness is worth more.

If you care about your child, you will NOT place them here. We did a lot of research before deciding to enroll our child in this school and initially, we felt that we made the right decision. Once there was a change in directors, everything went downhill. Our son is a type one Diabetic and the director at the time bent over backwards to accomodate his needs. Once a new director came in, however, it was painfully obvious that our son attending there was more of an inconvenience than they were willing to take on. It started with subtle things like; «we need these forms signed my your doctor before your son can come back.» and they present them to us on a Friday night knowing full well that we weren’t going to get any response over the weekend. To «losing» our son. Classes were consolidated on a few occasions and the «teachers» we was placed with had no clue that he was diabetic (he was 3 – 4 then!!!). We set up diabetic training by educators from the local hospital for the entire staff and the directors FORBADE any staff from attending other than key staff! The final straw came when we picked up our son from COA and he mentioned, «My teacher hit me today.» When we probed further he said that he was having problems falling asleep during «nap time» and the teacher shook his mat and hit him because he wouldn’t go to sleep. Of course I immediately called the director and demanded an investigation. She calls me back on a conference call with the corporate office and stated, «We have determined that an incident occurred between your son and the teacher however concluded that he was not physically struck. Due to this and previous issues with your son, we have decided to disenroll him.» I was sitting at the airport, getting ready to fly across country on a business trip and my wife was at work when they made this «determination». The callousness, the covering up of abuse by their staff, their disorganization… the list goes on and on… I mean, they put on a good show with their cameras and «fun zones» however the reality of COA is: they have a bunch of minimium wage babysitters working there as «teachers» who work for a company that only cares about the bottom line… It’s a warehouse for your kids… nothing more… Please, for your kid’s sake… look elsewhere.