I am a parent of a 3-year-old girl who was attending discovery point in Cumming, Ga, on Bethelview road. My girl was at home for 3 years with me until recently I put her into this day care 7 weeks ago. Also, she did not have any play time with other kids before because we don't have any family here. In our family we speak 3 languages, that's why she is a little behind in starting speaking English as well as other languages. She only can say couple of word together not whole sentences.
During first month my daughter didn't eat there at all, because she did not use to sit at a big table with a group of other kids. She was just hungry for 11 hours during the day, sitting in a small chair by the wall. Nobody cared about that, they did not try to feed her by other ways, not at that big table. Also, she doesn't understand in English yet, that why teachers were mad and they always grabbed her by her hand and put her in a chair, so she doesn't bother them during their normal activities. Instead of making a child interested in different activities with other kinds, they were constantly pushing her away (literally, I saw it on camera) or putting her in a chair by the wall. I saw on camera that a teacher grabbed her by her hand, pulled her up into the air and put in that chair.
Also, they never paid attention to her because she did not understand, so they decided just to ignore her and push her away. I saw on camera how my daughter fell asleep in that chair in the morning sitting. Her head was on her knees, she was clearly uncomfortable. I called them, and they said nothing they can do, they can't put her on mattress because it is not a nap time.
Also they keep sending an activity emails daily, that says how many hours a child sleeps and how much eats. The email says one thing, and when I ask the teacher she tells me completely different thing.
Every time I picked her up, I listened to complains that she doesn't do anything just sitting in that chair (they put her there and she was scared to get up). Couple weeks later, she started sitting at that table to eat with everybody, and again I had to listen to complains that she takes food from other kids, and she carries her water bottle around that is not allowed.
One day I came to pick her up, the teacher started to complain that my baby was opening other kinds little boxes with their staff, and other parents are not happy about that. I was told all that in a very loud form in front of other 3 parents.
Later, the teacher stopped to complain and was saying that my daughter had a good day and even started to call her by her name. So I was happy and thought that everything was fine until today. Today I picked her up and was taken to the office by the receptionist Patty. She gave me a bunch of complains/accident reports on my child. She called her aggressive and said that other parents are not happy about my daughter being with their kids. Those reports said that my baby kicked somebody in a face, through somebody's head against the door, hit somebody in the face, and threw scissors into somebody. The receptionist told me that they didn't give it to me before because they thought she is new and she has a language barrier. All those accidents were dated the same date. Patty called by daughter aggressive and said that she has a language barrier. Who saw it happened or they just listened to other kids' words?
The receptionist told me that they will keep doing those accident reports and eventually suspend my daughter from this day care.
She told me all that in the evening during a very heavy rain. I could not see the road because of the heavy rain and after I left the day care, I was so upset and almost crying that I could have an accident.
The next day, she called my husband telling him they don't want my daughter in there day care because of a language barrier. This is a discrimination. And we are American citizens.
When my husband came to pick her up, she was outside wearing only a small t-shirt on a cold November evening, although she had a sweater and a jacket in her bag.
Today morning I told another receptionist Chris not to let my daughter run around with her blanket because she can fall down. After an hour I checked the camera, and she was playing with her blanket. I had to call them and tell them to take a blanket away from her.
We took her out from that hell, where teachers are unprofessional and careless. Nobody cares about kids who are not convenient for them. They don't want to work and pay attention to kids who need it. read more
