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How is the KinderCare in Arlington
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hzega
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| My husband and I just did a walk through of the Kindercare in Arlington. If anyone has had experience with this child care can you please tell me what you thought of it? Thanks! |
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| I wish I could help more, but we never got in off the wait list. We signed up a year in advance, but when it came time for our spot that they swore up and down would be "no problem," suddenly we were 10th on the list, and we never seemed to move up as the people from each month that didn't get in ended up in front of us. Maybe ask for a spot 2-3 months before you really need it? I did hear good things about the infant rooms, thought, which was why we were interested in a spot there, but we just didn't have any luck or didn't call enough or didn't do whatever it was that we were supposed to do to move up the list. I hope you have better luck with the wait than we did. |
Anonymous
| I'm interested in this center as well. Does anyone have any feedback? |
Anonymous
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On first impression I thought the place was small, cramped and no one was really that receptive to us. The director stood in the doorway leaning against the door jamb and answered our questions. She didn't explain each age groups activities for the day. When we went into the one year old room, she just stood there and said, "this is it." We didn't even get a tour of the whole center. But after leaving I still wanted to put my name on their list because of my panic of not finding a daycare and the convenience of the place.
BUT!!!! I have visited two other centers since, the places seemed like mini schools, they explained each classroom, their curriculum/activities for the day, how they transition the child from one classroom to the next. We started off the tour in infants and finished in kindergarten. Each tour lasted about an hour and was very informative, the teachers in all the classrooms acknowleged us and the kids all said hi. In the Arlington Kindercare, it seemed as if we were a burden to be there. Like they really don't care if you like the school or not, you are paying for the convenience of it's location right in Clarendon and they will always fill the spot. That was my impression of Kindercare vs. the other schools. All in all and to put it bluntly, I would never send my kid there after seeing several other daycares. First impression means a lot, the teachers were cold, the director was aloof and acted like she was doing us a favor, and the classrooms were cramped. |