Horrible place to put your kid in and even a more horrible place to work at. They make you do extra work off the clock but don't pay overtime/extra. I worked at Puffin for more than five years because the location was convenient for me, but I left a few months ago because I got tired of getting mistreated.
The two directors are barely there and when they are, they are useless. Parents have complained multiple times that they always see one of the directors always smoking near the premises where the kids are. And it is true, you will always see her, every twenty minutes, having a cigarette outside. And the security is nonexistent, since most of the time there is no one at the front, anyone can just come in into the building and no one will stop you. Your kid is not safe in that place.
The communication is even worse. If your kid gets scratched or bit, they will tell you your kid looked like that in the morning when it was dropped off. Teachers will have the kids in front of a screen for hours, watching shows, movies, etc... and most of the teachers working there do not even speak English, which would not be a problem if there was someone there to translate but that is not the case. How would you know why your kid is all scratched, dirty, crying, if they can't even explain it themselves? And when you ask to see the camera footage, they will give you excuses to not do it.
And another thing is that they will say your kid is sick, has diarrhea, is vomiting, has a fever and will demand you to go pick them up. But suddenly their symptoms will disappear as soon as you get there, very weird. If you have a consistent job, and picking up your kid after 2 hours of having dropped him/her off is not a good thing for you, do not sign them up for that school.
The place is cluttered, dirty and unsafe. A few days ago a friend of mine that has her kid there, called me to tell me that the staff were "mopping" the floors while the kids where still at the school, around 5:30. (Leaving them unattended) You are supposed to clean deep clean after the children are gone. Half of the time the meals are not edible and if you do not pack a lunch for your kid, they will starve. Since the previous owner passed, that place has not been the same. The new owner does not even know how bad the place is, since he never there. read more