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[quote=Anonymous]PP here - Triangle Tots is where we landed.  It's better than 1111 from what I've seen (again, not as a full time kid, so maybe false comparison), but not without issues.  A new director came in a year ago, prompting a slew of staff departures.  It looked a bit like it was imploding for a moment there...  The departures stabilized, but didn't stop (presumably what continued was normal turnover?), but there continued to be staffing problems - open positions for which hiring seemed to take forever or never happened, staff switches just as staffing in a room stabilized, so then kids were back to getting regular floaters with only one consistent staff.  And it seems it became - permanently or temporarily - a far less pleasant place to work for some of the staff.  I'm not really privy to that as a parent, so no idea whether it's improved.  My overall sense is BHs at sites downtown may be really really struggling overall just from comments I've heard on staffing/other fires the regional director was putting out, etc.  Triangle Tots does have it's own playground, which I felt was important, and big rooms.   Staffing/sizing is different though - most BH's have 2:8 staffing until 2.5 and then go 2:16.  TT goes 2:8 to 2-3:12 (I don't recall if its 2 or 3 teachers) around 2ish, and then 3:16 from 2.5ish to 3, and then 2:16 from 3 on.   If that matters at all.  They do parents nights out which is cool.  I liked many, though not all, of the staff I encountered (but for a time would have left in a heartbeat if our lead teacher had left because it would have been chaos otherwise).  There's a parent board and association.  It's cheaper than other BH's.  But has more days off than a non-fed center (not excessively so, just a PITA in the moment for the professional development days).  Overall, it seems better than some of the other options.  Maybe I'm just a grouch though - hopefully others will chime in, I'd hate for you to take us (or what we've experienced as a drop in or heard as rumor) as the only data point.  I think people have different tolerances for different things.  But there are a ton of daycares around here - a number of non-BH, which might be worth looking at as well.  And it gets much easier to move (from a finding a spot perspective) as a kid gets older - 2.5+ seems the sweet spot - so you'd likely have options if whatever you chose wasn't working.  We stayed despite, and I didn't see parents fleeing in droves either.  We may have been spoiled by our first daycare (out of state) and the options in that area (which across the board seemed better than what I saw of the options in downtown at least). [/quote]

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