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[quote=Anonymous]We left FB CDC last September after one year in one of the two-year old classrooms.  I don't think we realized how bad it was until we left and had something to compare it to.  I'll admit that it may not be equally bad for everyone, but we discovered that the teacher(s) singled out our daughter for extra harsh treatment (other parents shocked us by what they told us they had seen done to our daughter).  The teachers went so far as to suggest that our daughter had developmental problems (coming from someone totally unqualified to make the determination).  We took this seriously, but found out later from people qualified to know that this was total hogwash.  We didn't confront the school because we had already decided to leave.  As I say, I know others have had a better experience, but it shouldn't happen to any child.  Also, FB has more or less given up on any serious effort to renew its now expired NAEYC accreditation.  In part, this is because it seems to hard for them to meet the teacher education requirements.  But even in the ways they tried to meet certain standards (e.g., like having a real curriculum), I think they failed.  For example, we'd get the monthly lesson plan (complete with spelling errors) about halfway to three quarters of the way through the month, giving us no opportunity to share in our daughter's activities by reinforcing at home.  Even at that, the activities were pretty mundane (e.g., "cooking week" was making lemonaide on Wednesday).  The purpose of basically every activity was "to improve gross/fine motor skills".  It just seemed so reflexive to say that that we wondered if anyone knew what they were talking about.  Parent teacher communication was a wreck (in our particular classroom) with notices about plans or needed supplies often going out at 6pm the day before you were expected to take off work to chaperone, pay money, or provide X.  On the flip side, I'd get phone calls at work telling me that my daughter (I kid you not) had a hangnail.  I once got a call telling me that I needed to have a talk with my daughter because she had a potty training accident and that she did it on purpose and it was unacceptable.  Really?  The list goes on.  My daughter started putting herself in time-out at home because she was disciplined so frequently at school that she expected it (she now has no disciplinary problems at her new school).  I just think I would think long and hard about sending my child there.  It's close, cheap and convenient, but our experience was pretty dang awful.  In many ways, I'd call it custodial care as opposed to anything else.  In other words, they make sure the kids are dry and fed and don't kill each other--nothing more.  Nap times are way longer than necessary and that is for the teachers' convenience.  The kids were never brought outside as often as is required by DC regulations (2 hours a day).  I feel like I could go on, but I think I've made my point.  I didn't know it could be better or else I would never have left my daughter there as long as I did.  I would keep looking if I were you.[/quote]

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