Peabody aftercare chaos

[Anonymous]

I have been at Stanton Park a few times since school started, and I have been pretty appalled by the lack of supervision of the kids in Peabody's aftercare. I thought parents would want to know. There are easily 40 Peabody children on the playground (they all arrive in groups which is how I know) and very few adults supervising. The adults don't see a lot of stuff (I witnessed several incidents today with no adult in sight) and don't seem to even know which kids they are supposed to be watching. I watched them scold a kid today who isn't even in aftercare at Peabody (and who didn't do anything wrong). It is incredibly chaotic, and with so little supervision, a child could easily get hurt (a kid got hit by another kid today, a kid was chasing another kid with a stick - nobody noticed) or wander away. And before anyone jumps on me as being a toddler parent, I have older kids. But yes, several toddlers got mowed down.

This is a public park that they're using for private aftercare. I am all for older kids getting to use the playground. But the least they could do is hire enough staff to adequately watch the kids.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I have been at Stanton Park a few times since school started, and I have been pretty appalled by the lack of supervision of the kids in Peabody's aftercare. I thought parents would want to know. There are easily 40 Peabody children on the playground (they all arrive in groups which is how I know) and very few adults supervising. The adults don't see a lot of stuff (I witnessed several incidents today with no adult in sight) and don't seem to even know which kids they are supposed to be watching. I watched them scold a kid today who isn't even in aftercare at Peabody (and who didn't do anything wrong). It is incredibly chaotic, and with so little supervision, a child could easily get hurt (a kid got hit by another kid today, a kid was chasing another kid with a stick - nobody noticed) or wander away. And before anyone jumps on me as being a toddler parent, I have older kids. But yes, several toddlers got mowed down.

This is a public park that they're using for private aftercare. I am all for older kids getting to use the playground. But the least they could do is hire enough staff to adequately watch the kids.

This has been going on for 10+ years.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I have been at Stanton Park a few times since school started, and I have been pretty appalled by the lack of supervision of the kids in Peabody's aftercare. I thought parents would want to know. There are easily 40 Peabody children on the playground (they all arrive in groups which is how I know) and very few adults supervising. The adults don't see a lot of stuff (I witnessed several incidents today with no adult in sight) and don't seem to even know which kids they are supposed to be watching. I watched them scold a kid today who isn't even in aftercare at Peabody (and who didn't do anything wrong). It is incredibly chaotic, and with so little supervision, a child could easily get hurt (a kid got hit by another kid today, a kid was chasing another kid with a stick - nobody noticed) or wander away. And before anyone jumps on me as being a toddler parent, I have older kids. But yes, several toddlers got mowed down.

This is a public park that they're using for private aftercare. I am all for older kids getting to use the playground. But the least they could do is hire enough staff to adequately watch the kids.

This has been going on for 10+ years.

Yes it has. I've seen worse than what OP describes, including 3 year-olds with bloody noses (from falling off the sea-saw) left to fend for themselves. Parents of Peabody kids in aftercare really ought to organize to complain.

[Anonymous]

The problem is that the only people who see this are the parents who do not have their kids in Peabody aftercare! We just leave the playground area when they arrive.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The problem is that the only people who see this are the parents who do not have their kids in Peabody aftercare! We just leave the playground area when they arrive.

You couldn't use your smartphones and film a few minutes - and share at a PTA meeting?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

This is a public park that they're using for private aftercare. I am all for older kids getting to use the playground. But the least they could do is hire enough staff to adequately watch the kids.

So what; our kids aftercare uses a public park as well.

[Anonymous]

it is bad. But like someone said earlier this has been going on since at least 08. Our daughter was in it back then. It has gotten worse.

[Anonymous]

Hush OP, this is our kids' version of the 70s free range childhood. They'll be fine.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Hush OP, this is our kids' version of the 70s free range childhood. They'll be fine.

Those kids are really wild and often hurt the toddlers playing there.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Hush OP, this is our kids' version of the 70s free range childhood. They'll be fine.

Those kids are really wild and often hurt the toddlers playing there.

protip: don't take your toddlers to a small park with 150 big kids.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Hush OP, this is our kids' version of the 70s free range childhood. They'll be fine.

Those kids are really wild and often hurt the toddlers playing there.

FFS. 3, 4 and 5 year-old son are that hurtful to toddlers? They are energetic. We were there more than 10 years ago, and it was a unstructured but rarely were kids really hurt.

It's a bit like toddler parents giving older kids the side-eye at Watkins playground, you know one designed specifically for older kids, 6-11. Get over your precious selves.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Hush OP, this is our kids' version of the 70s free range childhood. They'll be fine.

Those kids are really wild and often hurt the toddlers playing there.

Peabody also has their own beautiful playground that they don't open to the public, which makes it especially obnoxious that they farm their out of control aftercare out to Stanton.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Hush OP, this is our kids' version of the 70s free range childhood. They'll be fine.

Those kids are really wild and often hurt the toddlers playing there.

Peabody also has their own beautiful playground that they don't open to the public, which makes it especially obnoxious that they farm their out of control aftercare out to Stanton.

+ 10000000

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Hush OP, this is our kids' version of the 70s free range childhood. They'll be fine.

Those kids are really wild and often hurt the toddlers playing there.

Peabody also has their own beautiful playground that they don't open to the public, which makes it especially obnoxious that they farm their out of control aftercare out to Stanton.

Why don't they use their own playground (serious question)?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Hush OP, this is our kids' version of the 70s free range childhood. They'll be fine.

Those kids are really wild and often hurt the toddlers playing there.

Peabody also has their own beautiful playground that they don't open to the public, which makes it especially obnoxious that they farm their out of control aftercare out to Stanton.

Why don't they use their own playground (serious question)?

Probably liability. They know there is limited supervision so they don't want the risk.