Here is a typical week with Kindercare, Monday I leave my happy supper excited healthy daughter to Kindercare in the morning, when I pick her up in the evening, she is so tired and just cant wait to go home. By Tuesday or Wed night, we find out that she has caught cold or flu or some bug from the daycare, i know nobody has that bug at home and we dont go out on weekdays so it has to be the daycare and there always 3-4 kids with running noses and/or coughing.. Next two or three days she recovers at home while I and my wife suffer thru the sleepless nights. By Sat or Sun, she is fully recovered and while we do not look forward to Monday to repeat the same over again we have very little choice. I see this happens at least 1-3 times very month.
What upsets me is us parents pay full fee in advance ~$245 a week, but we utilize their services for only half the week due to no fault of ours. We have to take time off of work to nurse the sick child, Kindercare will not refund the fee when child gets sick at their day care and has to stay home.
In addition, whats worst is when several kids are home and not enough students are left in the daycare, management tells some teachers to go home so they dont have to pay them money for those hours....WTH. Management collects full fee from parents for full five days, they dont take responsibility to make sure kids stay healthy there and on top they keep the money that should belong to teachers. This makes teachers very unhappy and no child should be under the care of unhappy teacher...management is horrible unfortunately most days care are just like that. I hate to get govt involved in this but there should be a law to govern their ridiculous policies.
Once the kid is 3-4 years old, then they are awesome for kids that age but not for anyone younger. read more