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

Although BHCC has its strong points, my honest advice would be to consider a nanny cam or thin digital recorder in a backpack compartment to clear up whether you 'won' one of the many quick-turnover staff members who either have problems within themselves or problems with management's corporate responsibility-over-parents (but with a Norman Bates politeness as managers). In my experience, much of it unfortunate, those butting heads with management directly are worn down as they are made to feel they are to look the other way on safety plan improvements, better environmental practices, hardline approaches to ensuring zero cigarette butts on playgrounds (i.e., going to city meetings, installing cameras, coordinating with law enforcement, etc.), zero tolerance policy on employees counseled regarding lack of supervision incidents or hard-handling of children (yelling, grabbing by the arm, name-calling,, etc). There was one assistant teacher who was rumored to have had her baby once removed from her home by Maryland social services. This may be false -- my source was a lead teacher who went to work for Headstart who turned out to be the root of a lot of BS stories about people. Her favorite was trying to turn parents against other lead teachers by using assistant teachers to spread stories that came from her. She turned teachers against parents. One was a pregnant woman that she left fake notes for that were supposed to be from a dad-parent, notes stating he would like to purchase breast milk for his 3 year old daughter. The pregnant teacher tripped over things trying to avoid this parent until she finally quit. The parents were told that the teacher spread rumors about them. There are more incidents, a lot of drama -- best thing is to call a parents' meeting and ask for HR to provide a number count of all the employees who quit or were fired since the center opened about five years ago. Compare the number with the some 24 or so teachers they might have there at a given time. It's alarming. Request that a site for parents that logs every incident and accident be made available to them. [/quote]

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