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[quote=Anonymous]Just wanted to let you know that the child referenced above (the one pouring the milk, grabbed by the shoulders, verbally demeaned) was my son.  I called and spoke with the licensing inspector, who confirmed it was my son, who told me he was publicly humiliated (he has a late september b-day, we're holding him back from Kindergarten and he's been having a hard time with that anyway, so this didn't help), that he was inconsolable, crying for several minutes and it took 2-3 staff to calm him down, and that other kids heard what the teacher had said and proceeded to talk about it in a way that may have felt like teasing to my son.

And if that weren't bad enough, no one told us about it.  We didn't even get a note to say "Your son had a rough day today).  I mean, knowing or not knowing about an inspection aside, we deserved to know immediately that he had a bad day.  It took two weeks, and the publishing of this report, before we knew of this incident.

During those two weeks our son regressed, started wetting the bed again, talking in baby talk, crying a lot, qand telling us he was a baby and begging to be with the big kids, and we had no idea what was going on or why.

The center director (who has since been reassigned) left us a very vague voicemail on our home phone (who calls a working parents home phone during the day?  You know to call our office numbers) saying that we might expect a call with licensinge, but telling us no information as to why.  When we called her back in a panic, wondering if something was wrong, she told us everything was fine, she was just calling parents to let them know licensing people might get in touch.

Now, the new management team that has been sent in to the center to try to "fix" things has apologized to us, told us that the former director was wrong and should never have left us a message like that and should have explained the situation when she called.  The teacher who humiliated our son has been fired.  The teachers in our classroom are, actually, really great teachers that I do love and trust, but I'm just done with this center.  We've sent them our notice that we're leaving.  My son still isn't ready for Kindergarten, but as it just so happens, our church has started a new transitional-K class, and they had room for us.

I feel really bad for the teachers that are left that are good teachers - but I want the center to fail.  They've had so many management problems, I don't honestly feel like they deserve to continue in business.  It's a prime spot for a daycare.  I feel like it's time to let a new company come in, and hopefully a new company will re-hire the awesome teachers taht are left.  Hopefully it will be a more positive place for them (the teachers) as well as better run place for the kids.[/quote]

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