YMCA, Preschool University in Redlands needs to be closed down. I don't know why nothing has been done but it is a terrifying thought that this business is still open. Bad things are going on.
I personally witnessed Andrea Guevara, partake in greedy, money hungry behavior and other horrible things just to keep the center full. Deidre Gregory, was also complicit in these behaviors. Andrea is still in charge and the center is in grave danger.
Teachers get hit, spit on, punched, scratched and choked. Children who are not potty trained are allowed to go into age appropriate classes and they are still getting their diapers changed when they should not even be in the preschool class.
I witnessed children who were visibly sick not be sent home because Andrea didn't feel that they looked or were sick enough. When a child is sitting down looking terrible instead of running around playing like usual, their temperature needs to be taken right away and they need to be sent home right away. I personally witnessed this twice. One of the children was sent home 2 hours after I already knew they had a fever. On another occasion, a teacher had to go running with a child in their arms because the fever was so high and it was not checked because Andrea does not care. Children have threatened to bring guns to school and the same child threatened to come back and shoot up the classroom, but he was still allowed to come to the school. There were no consequences and the child ended up staying until after I left. Andrea, did nothing because she wanted to keep the money. Andrea, only cares about money and so many times children who were on full pay or assistance got to stay because she wanted that money. The concern for the children was not her first priority. I personally witnessed children hurting, biting, scratching, punching, choking other children. The children who were doing the hurting got to stay and nothing happened to them. The children had no consequences and the children who were being hurt had to endure the abuse. In certain classrooms, there were frequent biters and nothing was done. I was told I could not send home incident reports anymore regarding certain children because sending them incident reports would be discouraging to the families. Children who were hurt kept getting hurt because their families were not even told about it.
I personally witnessed on a few occasions a teacher being verbally cruel and taunting/teasing a student. Nothing was done, and the teacher got to stay. On another occasion, the same teacher was making children cry due to her mean comments. I wrote to Andrea again and she did nothing. After, all these things are horrible teacher did, I was removed from my classroom and made a greeter at the front door of the school. I have 36 years of experience and hundreds of references, yet, I was the one removed from my class. I told Andrea and Deidre how horrible my other teacher was and they did not care because she could work full time, again being consumed by money, not concerned for the children. I knew the teacher was incompetent and she ended up eventually being fired because she lost a child / she left a child on the playground when she brought her class in. Disgustingly, even though this teacher was fired for incompetence, she was working at another YMCA.
I gave out breaks in the classroom, and children were very disruptive and their behaviors were destructive. The teachers have no help and instead of being able to teach during lesson time, they spend it correcting behaviors. Certain children were repetitively disruptive and abusive to everyone but they got to stay. I work in Special Education but, there is a point when a child needs to be placed somewhere else that can better suit their needs. There were three children in a class at one time and all three of them were being uncontrollably disruptive on so many occasions. The teachers had no help and the students got to stay. There were no consequences and the teachers are suffering too. Andrea does not help the teachers because all she wants to do is keep the center full. It doesn't matter how hurt other children get or how many times a student hurts others.
A teacher in the classroom is horrible to the students, she is mean, blunt, and the way she talks to students is reprehensible.
A lot of classrooms are out of ratio because they can't get teachers to stay. Andrea, is so cheap. Why is nothing being done? So many complaints went to HR and nothing is done. Andrea sits there in her office and she is oblivious and so terrible for the things she lets happen at the center.
Teachers no longer look forward to going to work because they know the deplorable conditions they are going into. The pay is shameful. Teachers are complicit in Andrea's crimes because they are too scared to say anything. They have families and bills to pay, so they are silently suffering.
Andrea is a cold, mean and disgusting thing. Stay far away from here!! read more