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[quote=Anonymous]The owner used to have a school in California.  It failed.  I did some research on the owner before sending my children there.  She used to be an interim president for a company in Germany.  She tried to buy the company, but for some reason instead of selling out to her they decided it was better to close the company.  I reached out to a girl I know in China and asked her to find out about the daycare she runs there.  Apparently she also used to own two daycares in Beijing, both of which closed.  Apparently the owner also owns a center in Shanghai, which has had issues with keeping staff and customers.  She franchises out the daycares all over China, but none of the centers wanted to talk about anything.  I don't speak Chinese, but the lady I know has lived in China for 5 years, has a Master's Degree in Education and speaks fluent Chinese.  She got the feeling when she spoke with some of the franchises that they didn't want to speak anything negative, but that there was a lot of problems.  My friend asked if they had a teacher training facility to support the franchise owners.  All they had to say which gave any indication of those operations was that there used to be.  Apparently, just like the reviews here in our great city of Alexandria, that the good staff disappear.  One of the managers in a center from Shanghai said there used to be three expats which were actually doing good things for the franchisees.  One of them was well remembered by staff as a dedicated individual who would come by and help.  Then that person suddenly disappeared and when they asked about him the owner did not have nice things to say and that they simply needed to do things exactly as she said to have them done.  I also found out that the Chinese operations were franchised out from a company in Australia.

The research I did about the Australian company and their learning program seemed excellent.  Much different than other child development companies in existence and very promising.  I wish I could send my two children there.  I emailed them and mentioned that part of the description from Vinci seemed similar to their program.  I did not mention the Vinci name, so the response I got was very interesting.  They asked me if the description came from pamphlets given out to parents or from some other site than Vinci's website.  It was as if they knew and wanted me to provide some information they might be able to use.  Since I don't live far from the school, I went over and got all information I could and scanned it for them.  I can tell from the reviews and the investigation that I did that my children will not be going there.  I also went to the Virginia state website which monitors daycares and found some information there which also insured that my children's safety is better off elsewhere.  Out of the last 5 visits to the school I had to wonder why their permits were not taken from them after the third visit.  The 5th had no negative issues, but I suspect that will not last.  I hope for the safety of the children that the chemical and medicines are forever kept out of reach, but I don't count on it being the case.  I didn't check on the professional reviews that seem to posted as a matter of pride, but I suspect them to be the type that are not hard to come by.[/quote]

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