We enrolled our son Mason (2, almost 3) at this preschool in august of 2014. The tour went great,…read morewe thought everything was going to fit our schedule.. I'm an EMT and my husband is a full time firefighter. They said they would work with us however needed. Our first clue should have been his behavior. They told us that most kids during thier first experience in daycare act that way, but I still had a bad feeling. I started to do more research, but they checked out online well. This was Masons first daycare experience and he also has attention problems. We clearly told them this and told them I was worried he might not adjust perfectly at first, but again, they told me he would be ok. By September, things were out of control. They kept telling us that he needed help, that he wouldn't sit ( again, at this point he had just turned 3) and a pile of other things. He was terrified to get out of the car in the morning, completely not normal, and was darkly emotional after my afternoon arrival. Eventually they said he MUST be potty trained, or he wouldn't be able to continue at that school. We abided by thier wishes, this was something we were trying anyway, and then they put him in a new classroom for 3 year olds. Things just got worse. They wouldn't greet him in the morning, or even get up off thier chairs, they complained of him every afternoon. On top of that, he was on a new medication to help with the attention difficulties. We THOUROGHLY explained that his Dr. said he might be a little drowsy the first two weeks. They manager of the school said, don't worry! We can work through it. A week later I get a call from his "teacher" stating Mason is interrupting class because he gets too tired at lunch and it's bad for the class. Also, he had escaped out the back half door, that had "lost" the childproof knob. By the way, the back door past the half gate leads out to a back field with a road beyond it and the door has no alram , if a three year old child was to open it. I expressed my concern about that many times and it was never fixed. We decided right then and there to pull him. I only wish we had sooner, who knows what he absorbed mentally there. We took Mason to a phyciatrist after this to make sure that we were in fact not over thinking thier actions. The Phyciatrist group in Livonia said it was not the first time they had heard the same senario unfortunately. They said we did the right thing.
Please, please pay attention to your child's behavior if you do go with this school. Mason was bit over 7 times in just two months, there were times when he had fecal matter still on his rear, and they talked about all of these downfalls and things they didn't like about him right in front of him. Children need a loving, nurturing environment in these developing years. In our experience, they treat each child like a object, not family. We just hope this reaches someone out there and makes a difference.