I absolutely love this place. My son gets excited every single time I ask him if he's ready to "go play with his friends." He knows exactly where he's going and everyone there is so compassionate towards the children, as well as the families of the kids. read more

My kids have been attending Discovery Kids since 2015. I take pride in making sure my kids are safe and without a doubt, Discovery Kids has provided this 100%. The teachers I have been involved with for the last 4 years have shown my kids care and compassion. Great place! read more

My daughter was enrolled in Stepping Stones and changed ownership about 6-8months later. There were 2 different incidents. I picked up my daughter from daycare and told that she wasn't feeling good and had an unusually long nap. She was 2 years old at the time. When I put her in her car seat I knew immediately. As I shifted her arm to put her seatbelt on she screamed in pain. I got out of the car and called to the intern who was still outside and asked her what happened. She told me that all she did was pick her up and take her across the playground. I took her to the emergency room and the doctor confirmed that she had a dislocated elbow. This is common in young children and is referred to as "nurse maid's elbow". When I asked to see the cameras it showed that the intern had picked her up above the elbows and walked her across the play yard. The timestamp on the camera showed 10am. I picked her up at 5:30pm. She spent all day with a dislocated elbow for nearly 8 hours! The cameras showed her also eating her lunch with one arm. This was reported to CPS. Knowing that it is a very common injury and children under the age of five I can understand if something like this happens. We arranged for my daughter to go into the next class up and not to be in the same classroom with the same intern. Mesa County has very limited daycare available and at the time being a single mother I felt trapped. But I was somewhat relieved that she was not with the same intern. When I say intern it's because this was not the teacher that runs the class. It's an intern. Everything seem to be going great and it seems like my daughter really liked the new class. Until one day I picked her up at 5:30 PM and her feet were completely scrubbed raw. As I walked into the classroom I heard her crying. I went around the corner and she was sitting on the floor with both of her feet beet red just crying hysterically. The teacher went on to explain herself. She said that she had been looking for a permanent marker all day and couldn't find it. My daughter had found it and she had colored all over her feet. So we tried our best to get it off. She had thought that maybe my daughter was going through an allergic reaction. I told her why didn't you just leave it alone there's no reason to scrub the marker off. It comes off eventually. I took her to the ER again immediately. The doctor there reported the incident to CPS. Regardless of losing my job or not, I pulled her out immediately. The facts show that both the teacher and the intern in this classroom worked together with a towel and hand soap to get the mark her off her feet with excessive force. The facts show that they weren't watching the kids well enough. My daughter was able to take her shoes and socks off, find a marker and color all over herself. I feel that they were desperate to get that marker off to cover up that they neglected to watch the children as closely as they should. I couldn't put socks and shoes on her for over a week. She was in so much pain the night that I brought her home that when she was done with her dinner, she asked me to carry her to the couch. I spoke to the director about the situation and told him that it was unacceptable. Kirk Huddleston is the director. He said to me is " we have the Department of Child services coming here on Monday. How would you feel if you were that teacher?" He had a complete lack of sympathy or remorse for the fact that his staff took matters into their own hands and neglected to do their job by caring for my child. He still to this day does not feel that these Teachers and interns Are to blame for their own actions. I currently have my child at a different facility. We have been there a year now. I have not had any problems with them whatsoever. If my daughter is ever feeling a little bit out of the blue or gets hurt even a little bit they call and they let me know and they let me decide what action needs to be taken. Just a little side note to you Kirk, both these incidences are the only times I have EVER needed to call CPS. When I called them, they told me each time that the case was already being investigated. Word spreads fast. You can keep telling people around town that I'm a CPS caller and that they need to watch out for me. It just shows everyone your true character. I haven't intentionally gone out of my way to bad mouth you to everyone I speak to. Im not sure why you don't think that the treatment my child received at your facility didn't grant an investigation either time. Both times I took her into the doctor, for her arm and for her feet, they reported it before I even had a chance to. I did call and report each incident, but not before I spoke to SEVERAL professionals from different walks of life to make sure that I was doing the right thing. What my child when through in your care is UNACCEPTABLE. No. I will not take this review down this time. Do not contact me try to talk me out of placing this review here this time read more

Discovery Kids Learning Center - Abuse and neglect from this facility. UNACCEPTABLE. Disgusting that they do not take responsibility! - Preschools Near Me - Grand Junction, Colorado