Would/Did you give any negative feedback when leaving daycare?

[Anonymous]

We are about to transfer my son to a new daycare, after being at our current center for over a year and a half. Our main reasons for the switch are cost and location and it has always been our intention to move once we got a better placement. However, the timing of the switch was due in large part to my son moving up to a new class that has been extremely disappointing. We wanted to transfer earlier, but we were impressed by his previous teachers and DS seemed so happy that we hated to disrupt him. Then he moved up to the next class and the new teachers seem apathetic and uninterested in the kids. It's been such a jarring contrast to his previous two classes that we decided now was the time to change and were lucky enough that something opened up at a center where we had been waitlisted for a while.

I'm trying to decide if it's appropriate to discuss our dissatisfaction with the director. She's young and relatively new, so on the one hand, I think getting feedback might be useful. But I'm also sensitive to the fact that daycare teachers never make that much money and are probably getting criticism from demanding parents all the time, sometimes valid, maybe sometimes not. We don't have specific observations of clear health or safety problems just general bad impressions of the teachers' attitudes based on our experiences at dropoff/pickup over the past month (DS left in soiled diaper at pickup, teachers just sitting around not interacting with kids, poor communication, etc.). It's enough to bother DH and I a lot but I don't really want anyone to get fired, either.

If you were in my shoes, would you say something or just let it go since it won't be our problem anymore?

[Anonymous]

Let it go.

[Anonymous]

I would ask for a sit-down and politely express your feelings. A good director should appreciate the feed-back.

[Anonymous]

You should definitely give constructive feedback - you'd be doing the kids still stuck in the class a favor.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:You should definitely give constructive feedback - you'd be doing the kids still stuck in the class a favor.

+1