Their regular programs at the YMCA are good but the after-school care (on a local school campus) seems to be highly understaffed both in quantity and quality. The kids run around right by the street with little or no supervision. One day while volunteering at the school after hours, I saw the one in charge of the after-school care come in with a 5-year-old boy. He had fallen off a piece of playground equipment and had hurt his arm. His teacher approached him to give him some attention that the YMCA staff was not giving him. The woman from the YMCA actually told the teacher not to pay him attention because "it would make him cry" and "he isn't really hurt". The parents rushed their child to the emergency room where he was diagnosed with a broken arm. There is no way I would ever put my kids in this program.
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