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Kindercare In Peoria Il SUCCKs Corina Is a Fake HORRIBLE person!!	5/12/12
If I could give 0 stars I would. This bitch allowed her "teacher" to ABUSE my child. This place should not be allowed to be in business. THE LUNCH LADY QUIT BECAUSE OF ALL THE ABUSE THIS BITCH ALLOWED IN HER CENTER! This place should be shut down it is BY FAR THE WORST DAYCARE!! My daughter will be scarred for life because of this center.

5/18/12

I worked at kindercare in folcorft for a few months
What a joke that was. The director there is more into making friends then running the place
You had teachers that thought they ran the place and did whatever they wanted
Most of the time they just scream at the children
Why would you allow teachers to scream and bang on things to correct children is crazy. I couldn't wait to get in a real daycare

4/11/12

I am very unhappy with the management of the facility where my child goes. She has lost three different pairs of earings, of which two pairs were screw on. How can a 2yo unscrew her earings and take them out? Even though it was "addressed" it still happened 3 times. When she ran into a door, NO incident report was given to us. When another child pushed her and gave her a black eye, no incident report was given nor a phone call. When she had scratches on her face and down the length of her arm, no one noticed. When my husband got upset, he was told he can't pick her up anymore. Their negligence and lack of supervision is our fault. Strongly do not recommend Kindercare. Pay the extra $10-$20 a week and put them in a better facility.

sincere

3/21/12

I am an employee with Kindercare, as you can see, I work with KinderCare..not for them. I do not work for anyone but with them to help growth and development for myself and the company. I have had the opportunity to teach at a few kindercares and my experience have definitely help me to be where I am today. There are alot of centers where approach is not apporpriate, where...I would say teachers are being abused ( mentally, verbally and phsychologically) by management. While there are teachers who go above and beyond, there are some who don't care at all. I am currently in management and has taken it upon myself to make it happen. I say,when you have good excellent teachers, you must appreciate them, be honest and fair at all times. Sometimes you will be looked at like the bad one by being fair but the ones who is in for fairness will have no problem with that method. Having been a teacher, I have learnt that it is always best to experience what your staff encounter everyday in order to appreciate it.
There is too many directors and AD's out there that has never been in the classroom and sometimes it is not what the text book teaches you but experience and common sense. To all those teachers out there who is with kindercare that go above and beyond, keep it up, you will be rewarded in some way or ther other in life. and to those who don't care less, it backfires sometime or the other, go find a job that you have a passion for, it will make your life less miserable and more at peace.

I give Kindercare 3 stars because we need work and we need the right people to listen and the ones who talk, need to walk the walk and fight for what they believe in. I am doing it right now and I will fight for what is right and fair. The right person will eventually hear you and the contentness you will feel within yourself for the success you truly earn is a reward in itself. Sometimes it's the little things that kindercare misses, is the very thing that spells success. Treat your teachers well and they will stay and be motivated to stay with you. You can see a motivated teacher without searching for it. it's natural! Treat others like you would like to be treated.

Good luck to all.

very annoyed

2/15/12

the kindercare in sterling heights on ryan n 16 is the worst center ive ever seen in my life. the director was the rudest person i have ever met she was belittleling and a liar. i wouldnt recommend this center to any one. if you want to be treated like a 2 year old instead of an adult please attend!! amber is a rude, garbage amazon of a women and deserve to be sent to kindergarten again her self to learn how to be nice to people. she took the misery of her life out on others. she is a horrible leader as she has been slappeed in the face my a parent and left a child outside on the playground alone. she has so respect for the parents that come in and out of the center and should be repremanded for her lack of customer service.

Why isn't Kindercare on www.esgr.org? Why does kindercare refuse to hire m	12/14/11
Why isn't Kindercare on www.esgr.org? Why does kindercare refuse to hire me? I have experience, a degree and in the Army National Guard! When I come home from deployment I hope I can get a career with Kindercare.

A.K.

11/30/11

I am a teacher at a KinderCare in CT. I'm lucky to have great bosses and coworkers, but the treatment we get from corporate is unforgivable. I have been a full time preschool teacher for five years. I work very hard every day and have received numerous adknowledgements and awards. I make $12/hr and know that that's more than most of my coworkers. I worked a 9 hour shift today (ten, if you count the lunch hour I worked through) but can forget about being paid the legal rate for my overtime, since they use loopholes to evade it. I had to choose between paying the rent and the gas bill for the last three months. I am on food stamps. I pay for the most expensive healthcare plan KLC offers, and just found out that the dental work I need to repair a crown and end the chronic pain I'm having will cost $630 out of pocket, so simply can't get it. I shop at the dollar store each Christmas. I eat school lunch every day with the kids or I go hungry.

Today I had a parent teacher conference in which a mom gushed about how important I am to her child and her family. I think my job is one of the most important jobs in the world.

Why can't I have some dignity in exchange?

well Duh	11/15/11
It looks as if everyone blames KinderCare for problems and events that happen to their most beloved entity... Perhaps if everyone really cared about their children, they wouldn't leave them with a stranger for 8 hours a day, and would take care of them themselves.

Courtney

10/28/11

BEWARE OF KINDERCARE! Enough said, I hate this daycare. Its the worst daycare I have ever seen. At first it was good then slowly started getting worse with the 4 different directors the place has had within the last two years. All you ever hear when you walk in is the teachers yelling at the kids. I could go on and on all day with all the reasons why Im switching my daughter to a different daycare, but if I did, i would have wrote an entire book. lol. Thats why Im giving them one star. Only because I have to. But if i had a choice, they wouldnt even get one..

Tom

10/27/11

To Whom It May Concern:

Are you looking for an experienced person? I believe that my qualifications along with my drive and determination would make me an excellent full time candidate for your organization. Among my qualifications for your organization are the following:

Earned Bachelor’s Degree in Liberal Arts from Governors State University in December 2006.

Currently I am a member of the Illinois Army National Guard.

I have job experience in the field.

I have strong leadership, positive attitude, organizational skills, and good communication. I am able to motivate, develop, and lead a team of experienced people. Also, I have an understanding of a person’s needs. Furthermore, I have several dynamic approaches. Also, I am willing to relocate for the right career position.

Please contact me at your earliest convenience so we may organize a brief phone conference or possible interview. I look forward to the opportunity to discuss an open position and how I might fit into your organization. I will initiate a follow-up call to your Human Resources Department within the next 48 hours on the progress of this resume.

Sincerely,

Thomas
Email: tgpii@yahoo.com
Online Resume: www.resumebucket.com/tgpii
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Clybourn Kindercare

10/4/11

When I noticed the review page for Kindercare's worldwide I knew most of the reviews were going to be negative. Most reviews only point out the negative aspects of a business, no matter what it is. I want to write a more positive review, however, this center does have some major issues that need to be fixed. I am very happy with my child's teachers at this center. They we are all hard working, bubbly teachers who always greet me and my child with smiles! I was happy with how everything was ran until I started picking my child up in not one, not two, but three different rooms in a weeks period! I got there one time while they were in the process of moving my child crying and screaming to another room! When I asked his teacher she said that he was in the middle of a bottle and management called and asked for "numbers" and when they heard there were only 3 children they told her to stop what she was doing and get her kids ready to be moved so they could put her(the teacher) somewhere else to work. I know the teacher was unhappy but she still forced a smile for my sake and did as she was instructed. I don't think any teacher should be forced to do something that they know is not good for the children they care for everyday! And if you are going to have them working under these conditions at least show them some appreciation! This company is successful because of the teachers NOT the management because its obvious they don't care about anything but money! I have witnessed parents coming in to find that their child has been moved. What management fails to inform them is that their child was woken out of their sleep to be moved! They treat these kids like a business! It sounds like a casino instead of a childcare center. All you hear is "how many babies do you have? Ok bump 2 to inf 1 and 1 to inf 2" etc. This is not what I want to hear when I come to pick up my child. Half the time we parents can't even talk to our child's teacher about how their day went even though they are still in the building! I wanted to post this review for the TEACHERS at the Clybourn Kindercare. This is a positive review for you guys who work through so much crap and stress and are unappreciated! Thank you for loving my baby! If corporate cares anything about its teachers or these children for that matter maybe you will do something about this issue!

Clybourn KinderCare

9/30/11

I am writing here to express my utmost disgust with KinderCare. From a parental standpoint I find it extremely awful that when I come to pick up my baby each day I don't know where to find her. As a new parent especially I feel like my daughters security and best interests are not a top priority. In the last few months I have noticed new furniture for the lobby area, new paint for the classrooms and a big screen tv. I have also seen broken and dirty toys that my child is touching and putting in her mouth. Tell me how a corporation such as this can afford new items for the waiting area but not provide new an clean toys for the children? Also, the menu is atrocious!! For the price I pay for "exceptional" care and "nutrious" meals, my daughter should be eating steak and lobster every day! Every time I walk into the center I can see the look of disinterest and lack of motivation on the teachers faces. How is that supposed to make me feel as a parent?? If the teachers are not motivated or treated with respect how are they supposed to give the best care to the children? I was a teacher before myself and I can tell you without a doubt that any school pulling the crap they pull at KinderCare would be shut down immediately. The center director at my daughters center is awful. Everyone on that management team is a joke. I have walked in on them just sitting around gossiping about the kids and sometimes the parents!! I think the people of KinderCare need to start thinking about their teachers and less about money.

Kindercare on Marcey St. Chicago

9/27/11

I used to work at that place for several years and noticed that the center is changing for bad. Employees hours are being cut on regular bases and ratios- especially in the mornings- are over. Less children is attending and it's because of poor customer service of center director and her assistants. District manager - Jennifer Robinson-prefers to give money to add new furniture's and big screen tv to the waiting area then add new toys and equipment to the classrooms. The teachers pay is TERRIBLE!!! They do not get any incentives and positive feedback from their employee. Forget about any kind of bonuses or decent teacher appreciation gift. There is no one they can turn into to get help cause they won't get it. I've been there and know from my personal experience!!!

pissed as hell

9/26/11

Kindercare is the worst school you can ever send your child to and i wouldn't recommend working there either! The center in Chicago IL, 1733 N Marcey is terribly ran! The directors are all careless airheads who think that new furniture that doesn't serve a purpose and doesn't even match is enough to make their center look better! Why dont you try treating your teachers with respect! Better yet, why dont you treat the kids with respect, and their families that you lie to everyday to cover your tracks! When you walk into the building the teachers look absolutely miserable! But how can you blame them when your hours are constantly being cut, kids are being moved from room to room, and when you come to work you don't know which room you are going to be in. As a parent, you do not want to find your child in a different room with a different teacher everyday! Think of how that effects the child! Or does that even matter? I mean after all its a CHILDCARE Center! God forbid the kids well being is put first! This company is all about money but everytime you turn around an unhappy teacher is leaving to nanny for a family who is willing to pay more because this very wealthy company refuses to pay them what they are worth! And the nerve of these damn directors! When i approached them about my child being moved all the time they had the nerve to tell me that it is a corporate thing! Well i'm putting this on CORPORATES website so CORPORATE can do something about this situation before even more families start pulling their kids out!

Past Employer.....

8/23/11

I worked at Kindercare for almost 8 years and I just could not stand it anymore.
All that it was there was cliques and taking about other staff, other children and even parents behind everyones back...including the managament(even they would talk about everyone, even families behind their backs).
The staff there were always just sitting in their classroom talking with their friends or other teacher and not paying attention to the children.
When it would be time to go outside, they would just stand around talking to each other again. It just makes me sick!!!!

9/7/11

True, true, true. I actually just got fired from there, like it was nothing, after being appointed Toddler teacher. The director is a joke, she has favorite teachers who get away with everything. We weren't dirty like other people say but they constantly enroll, with no room to put kids. 14 infants enrolled in a small room, with only 9 available cribs?? There is also constant shuffling of children, because of over-enrollment. I always thought they were one of the better centers, but I was wrong. The teachers are great, don't get me wrong, but KinderCare needs to take a look at its management.

n/a

7/22/11

The KinderCare in Franklin,Tn is becoming a nightmare. The director is fake and she is distroying the class rooms...im sorry she is making them look like prison cells. I don't see how the teachers put up with her and her crap. Kids were suppose to be moved 3 weeks ago and just did it. Coming into the center each morning was like going through a maze. The kids cubbies would be in different classes and its very irratating. The teachers deserve a better director cause she does not care, you can see it in her attitude. The asst. director is wonderful she is always so helpful and the teachers are great I really feel sorry for them.

Paying $800 Monthy (Child leaves with Black Eye)

7/24/11

The KinderCare location I sent my 5 year old child to is located in Fishers Indiana. My child went to school on last Thursday perfectly health, When I want to pick my child up she had a huge swollen black eye. I was totally caught off guard and very angry. No one at the school bothered to contact me and report that my daughter had an accident and her eye was completely swollen shut. The director blamed the teacher and the teacher blamed the secretary and no one took responsibility to contact me. There have been times in the past when I have been in a rush and forgot to pay the morning tuition was due and the staff would continuously call my cell, house, and work line, until I came in the afternoon to pay. I was really shocked that the school is more focused on the money than the care of my child. If they would have contacted me earlier I could have got my daughter to the doctor and avoided much of the swelling. My child is last name is Moore if anyone at the corporate level even bothers to investigate this situation.

Kindercare is horrible!

6/7/11

RUN FAST!!! This is the worst place you could ever bring your children. The student to teacher ratio is ridiculously high! They go OVER state ratio, as I worked there and had my child attend with me. He was 2 years old and SMARTER THAN HIS TEACHER! He would actually correct her! How sad! They treat their employees like crap, and the kids too. It's all about enrollment. The regional district manager, Michael Decoufle is a flaming moron! The kitchens are filthy and filled with bugs and improperly stored food! The classrooms and carpets never get cleaned!! It's so disgusting. You have to ask to sanitize toys, and they get all huffy with you if you do. BAD, BAD, BAD. Their teacher turnover rate is outrageous because REAL, good teacher would never stay!!

n/a	5/31/11
Kindercare in matteson is boring. I miss the old director Ms. Mitchell. She was a good and fun director. The new director is boring and i can tell the teachers don't like her. She is always in the office with the door close, on the computer or on the phone. It has definetly changed.

laura

5/26/11

These people are right. Everything they are saying is true. But thats not the half of it.If you work there or as a parent hung around long enough. You would see these exact things going on. The sad part is the children are the ones losing out. Everything is false about them. They advertise falsely and expect you to cover-up their lies. The managers and directors are told to enroll, enroll, enroll. We need more kids is all you hear from them, that means more money. The food is limited to the children, they are shoved around from room to room everyday. Some of the directors show special favoritetisim to certain children while other children are made to feel bad about themselves.What a bunch of liers.

5/27/11

My Kids have been attending Kindercare for a few years. I love ALOT of thier teachers but recently it has not been the same. Kids are being placed together in the morning classroom that should never be. My 3year olds is in with 5th graders that are running arround getting ready for school. Some goes for in the afternoon, as child ratio numbers dropped kids are thrown together to cut cost. Teachers in the school age rooms are much to bust talking to one and other, playing on cell phones, and doing paper work to pay attention to the kids. It is a chaotic enviorment with extensive amounts of bulling. My son cried till we cut his hair because other students in the class kept picking on him and calling him a girl. My oldest son was picked up for school with hand prints onhis neck for a teachers child at the center... AND I HAD TO ASK for a incident report to be wrote up!

Kindercare in Bolingbrook

5/27/11

My 3 year old's class has recently undergone a change. One of the teachers has my kid in tears constantly, this part is normal. It gets better! We have been given a new teacher. You can tell the lady isn't quite right. She is always yelling at the kids and she can't even read to them. You should hear her, my dog could read better. I am all for hiring people with disabilities but come on, in a preschool? Can't we find her a job at McDonalds?

Michael

5/20/11

I removed my child from Kindercare recently. The teachers are amazing and they love and care for the children. However, the management is abysmal. The school is understaffed and the children are shuffled from one room to another to maintain teacher/child ratios. Additionally, the teachers are moved around as well and this creates an environment for the children that makes them feel insecure due to the inconsistent care. They maintain the absolute maximum classroom size while also having the largest teacher/student ratios allowed by the state of Texas. These maximums are frequently surpassed due to under-staffing in the morning hours as children arrive combining multiple age groups into a single room. It is not uncommon to find 14 children ages 6 months to 3 years in a room with only one teacher. Children cannot thrive and develop in an environment this chaotic.

Hire more teachers. Reduce the class sizes. Pay your teachers more and stop cutting their hours. Also, fire that awful director, Stephanie. The place has gone downhill from the moment she took over. She cares more about staffing hours and enrollment numbers than she does about the quality of care for the children. She wants to maximized dollars instead maximizing care. That may be the way to run a business, but it's not how you should raise children.

As a side note, I sent my daughter to a school that has a maximum class size of 18 with three full time teachers, a 6:1 ratio. Kindercare? 22 kids, 2 teachers which is a 11:1 ratio. The new school only costs $9 more a week and it's worth every single penny.

marie

4/13/11

I was an employrer with kindercare and at first it was great it looked like the directeors really cared and corporate too. In fact i felt like i was part of a team who really cared about the children and parents. But then everything changed and things started to happen like chidren being shuffled from room to room like cattle and treating children like just a number from the management. Also not providing us with the supplies needed to do the job and then when we would spend our own money to make the class rooms looks appropreate no thank oyu from anyone. They want us to give it our all 100% plus percent but are not willing to respect us in return. To stingy to pay what we are worth and give teachers the respect they deserve then theres the forcing teachers to come to work even when they are sick or injured. The demands of this job is high enough and you have to have areal love for the children to do this job well. But not at the expences of being human beings to me all they care about is the money IT TO BAD THE PARENTS DONT KNOW ABOUT ALL THE HUSH,HUSH THAT THEY TELL THE TEACHERS TO HAVE IN ORDER TO WORK FOR THEM.

Sharon

3/1/11

The kids are treated as if they were in the military, all you hear is, "How many do you have?", "Ten? Okay I'm sending two over!" I walked in on that many times. I've also seen teachers constantly doing paperwork and trying to watch the kids at the same time, I don't know if corporate members have children but multi-tasking with one child is hard enough, let alone more than one! Some of my favorite teachers have quit because of low pay, pay the employees more so our children can keep learning with the teachers they love and stop changing teachers on them, that does affect a child! I thought I would really enjoy KinderCare but I wasn't pleased, nor are many other parents, ask your parents and employees what changes they would like to see! Maybe not all centers are this way but I didn't enjoy my experience with you.