I have a toddler and a 4 year old that attend Children's Choice. The teachers come and go often - generally the good one's leave pretty quickly. The communication is inconsistent and sparse. We often receive random bits of news in the mail - but rarely is it informatitve specifically about my child. When my oldest child began attending the school they conducted performance based reporting based upon the cirriculum taught in the classroom - but I have not seen any of those reports in quite some time.\r
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My toddler frequently bites other children, and frequently gets bitten in his classroom. I realize this is a normal reaction for toddler's to have in frustrating situations - but after many ""incident reports"" it seems to me the staff would realize they need to keep a close eye on my child when he is active with other children considering his disposition to biting - but they usually have an excuse as to why incidient's continue to happen.\r
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The only reason my children attend this school is that I could find no other day care provider that would take an infant on a part-time basis, and I felt I had no other options at the time. (This is another story, as at initial enrollment they said they would take my infant part-time, but once my child was born the director said she could not take him. I eventually had to call the corporate office to get them to enroll my child.) \r
The school is clean, my children are safe and seem to have a reasonably good time. I have pulled a report on the school from the state child protetive servcies website and there have been no gross negligence reports. Most reports were in regards to student ratio violations - which seems to be fairly common as I looked at other schools reports to get a basis for comparisons.\r
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Considering that my family spent over $20K in child care last year ( and one of my children attends on a part-time basis!!) this school is not worth that kind of money. Keep looking...
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