As a father there're a few things we may overlook and deal with when it comes to our kids, not that we are not as loving or caring but we have more of a - "oh he/she will be fine " type of attitude. However at Houston kidz there was just too much I could not overlook. When my wife and I found this place we were ecstatic! Not far from home, great playground outside and even the halls and classrooms were very much up to par with security cameras in every classroom!! At the one month mark we started noticing our child biting nails when being picked up , at 4 years old this behavior was never expressed. Kids will be lined up in hallways told to be quiet sitting for what I would have to say for at least an hour waiting to be picked up/ not doing activities or anything at the end of the day was the just the beginning. We started noticing other aggressive behavior from his classmates- as I would drop him off in the morning I would spend about 5 minutes in his classroom and would see kids literally putting other kids in head locks for whatever toy or item they were fighting over - even kids crying in the corner not being attended to. At the two month mark we started getting reports about our child being aggressive - now this behavior was never an issue with our child, day care is not new, they know and understand the rules - no touching, hitting ect . This was a huge concern, we then started asking about the security cameras , how can we log in and watch, we were told the feed was not available at the time, this was never fixed. Asking again we were then told we can come in at anytime to watch his classroom in the office, a huge inconvenience but I took a day off because I felt something was off/wrong. I went into the office and started monitoring his classroom - however it was on a loop, switching from class to class every few seconds, I asked if they can just set one of the monitors to that specific classroom they told
Me they couldn't do that- with no real explanation of why- frustrating I kept watching , and came to find out other parents talking and feeling the same way about this place Even swapping stories - Going into the 3rd month my wife experience something no parent with a child in daycare and or school should ever have to experience - walking into the school to pick up your child and witnessing them being hit on by another child while 2 teachers just watch. Long story short - this place is chaotic - children have multiple teachers and when I say teachers I mean teenagers watching over them at times , his real teacher was never there in the morning and will be gone before my child was picked up - daily reports were not existent . We would ask how they did and about the day and we were told " I don't know, I wasn't his teacher today" my child had about 3-4 different people . We are not moving out the area anytime soon so I hope they change the staff, work on core values and fundamentals on what a daycare/school really is and understand that this is more than just a place to drop off our kids to us parents , this is their future and that's something I just can't overlook . read more