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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Has anyone had any experience or heard of any experiences with Bright Horizons in Crystal City?

A friend who has an infant at the BHCC told me that she noticed infants crying for long periods of time and not being attended to, which she found very disturbing. Does anyone else have any positive or negative reviews about the infant classrooms at BHCC?[/quote]

Quite honestly, I've wanted to love BHCC since its groundbreaking around 2007/8. Afterall, it's conveniently located, boasts a modern location, appears bright and pleasant on the surface, seems to have its learning routines which indicates an educational plan based on a philosophy, and it's always great to see happy children paraded in front of windows. I have listened to colleagues and associates who have disagreed with elements of policies, procedures, and or the "fakeness" of BHCC staff members and administrators (the cook/nutritionist was always well-liked, it seemed). However, for lack of better placements and convenient commutes for their children, many continued to entrust their children to BHCC while actively searching for other learning centers. It sometimes boiled down to parents wanting or needing to reassure themselves of giving their children the best by paying very high prices. A few decided to focus on a few simple, happy observations and decided that ignorance was bliss and to deny, deny, deny that in their parent social connections that no valid concerns crossed their path. But as a new parent who has been to the circus (tour), I have to say that I can certainly see the merit in the complaints and the decisions to look the other way on certain things.

It IS very much a publicly-traded corporation which places responsibility to shareholders over responsibility to consumers of their goods/services (the children). Why would I make such a serious assertion? Make no mistake here, but whatever anyone can possibly attempt to well-argue on BHCC's behalf, ask yourself where the BHCC revenue is going and why the majority of recruited staff collectively take up a significantly small percentage of that revenue. For example, I found that in a classroom of 9 toddlers, the lead teacher and two associate teachers together made less than the revenue brought in by 3 of the 9 toddlers' tuition and fees. And while there are business expenses, the fact remains that BHCC could afford to ensure that safety was overriding -- no toys from China/no toys with PCBs and lead paint, water quality test results provided to parents, livestream cameras in classrooms for parents to see the education they are paying for, a guarantee of organic fruit and vegetables where skins are very porous, no milk served from hormone-injected cows, some sort of coherent policy on genetically-modified foods (if researchers don't know what it does to children's development, why experiment?), toys washed in peroxide rather than bleach, etc. [/quote]

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