Government Street Baptist Church Day Care review: Autocratic Day Care Workers Terrorize the Kids! 13

Please do not send your kids to this daycare, they have a new director by the name of Michelle McCormick, she is deranged! I had 2 kids I had to pull out of there after being there since infants. I have heard rumors about her but it took for me to witness it myself, I walked down the hall and witnessed her grabbing and and profusively yelling at a child. Her attitude is awful, she has the most unpleasant attitude I've ever seen! I don't know y someone would hire this woman, she's a hypocrite that walks around using Gods name in vain, she's a very ungodly person, she was dismissed from her last job for similar reasons. So if u care anything about your child's wellbeing DO NOT SEND THEM TO THE HANDS OF MICHELLE MCCORMICK!

Beware These Teachers:

Queen Bee -- Ever wonder what happened to those vapid, self-centered, clique-obsessed prom queens after high school? If they couldn't let go of being the most popular girl in school, they became kindergarten teachers. The unconditional adoration from a classroom full of bright, shining faces is a powerful aphrodisiac. Unfortunately, these chicks run their classrooms like they ran their cliques. They play favorites, mock misfits, and are more focused on fulfilling their own self-esteem than nurturing your child. This describes Jennifer Baggett who teaches K-4 to a tee. She even wants doctors excuses if they miss school. It's K-4 and I am paying a LOT of money for you to be nice to my child and not play favorites which you do. I hope karma catches up with you real soon. If it weren't for it being the first of the school year and hundreds of dollars spent for uniforms, supplies and such I would move my child but unfortunately, financially, I am unable to pay a new school at this time for registration, supplies and uniforms. I am miserable every day and so is my child. I cry myself to sleep almost every night and am stressed out and losing weight. Mike Cook is the worst person I have ever met in my life and has no business overseeing a school. A daycare worker has informed me that they are losing students weekly at this school.

The other teachers follow into these categories:

Disinterested Delegator -- Most schools are desperate for volunteers, but some have such fantastic parental involvement, certain kindergarten teachers find it very easy to take advantage. While they sit at their desks freeing up their weekend by lesson-planning during the school day, or worse, wasting time playing on the Internet when they should be teaching, volunteers are left alone to fumble through on their own -- and the classroom becomes nothing more than a glorified babysitting service.

Military Mary Poppins -- Just because a student studies to become a middle-grade math teacher doesn't mean a position teaching that subject is available when the time comes, which results in educators stuck in classrooms they're unprepared for. Nowhere is this more evident than in the kindergarten classrooms of teachers untrained in Early Childhood Education. Frustrated with dozens of rugrats unfamiliar with school routines, these teachers opt for a hyper-disciplined, militant management style that often terrifies instead of teaches. Beware these über-strict kindergarten teachers, as they can destroy your child's first educational experience and scar your child.

Well, I am a parent of a 2y.o. at GSBCDC, and I absolutely LOVE IT! My child had learned so much, and her teacher gives her all the love in the world. My child loves to go to school, and asks where her teacher is on the weekend. She is well advanced for her age, and I think I can attribute that to the time and attention she is given from her teacher. She is able to recite her Bible verses, can recognize numbers and letters when presented to her, and can even sound out several letters of the alphabet. I have enough trouble watching my own child and one of her friends, while trying to maintain order. I can't imagine trying to keep order with several more. I have no complaints though. My child always comes home clean, and her teacher has assisted me tremendously with potty training. I am notified of all accidents (when my child is at fault, and when she is hurt by others) in a very timely manner. My child's teacher and the director took time out to schedule a conference with me to propose a discipline plan for my child, and I was 100% in control of the actions they would take in the case of a disciplinary issue. We also proposed a rewards system together, and this has changed my child tremendously. Mrs. Morgan (my child's teacher) is the best, and my baby cannot get enough of her! Oh yea... When my child is out sick, the director calls to check up on her, AND she does recognize and know her by name!

First Of All, I do not agree with the user : mac. mac. in. mobile or with any of the bitter, disrespectful, deliberate parents and former workers who are talkin about that the child daycare workers that they live in rundown homes and that they are single mothers and low life uneducated people havent your parents TAUGHT you Respect Before? I guess not ! Second, dont ever judge a person you don't know what kind of education that they have or what kind of life that they have lived you dont know them! third, your child is not no angels AT ALL! and you dont know what your child is doin! Also, if your unhappy with your child or your teacher word of advice:PULL YOUR CHILD OUT AND TAKE CARE OF YOUR CHILD AND RAISED THEM YOURSELF! Im Am so sick of yall disrestful people making stupid comments about that there not taking care of child 24/7, there lowlifes You Work There for a change and see i bet you you people wouldnt make it a whole day without quitting! So when your making these silly comments like this think about what your writing Shame on ya'll childish disrespectful people!

I agree that there are big problems with the program for two year old children. Two year olds' are a really tough group since they're so fussy and they tend to bite. Most licensed centers have a class of eight two year olds with two full time teachers. One teacher keeps four kids and the other teacher keeps the other four children. They can't be mixed in with other age groups. The kids become very stressed and they start biting each other. Alot of centers lose money on their two year old program since they have to have such low adult-student ratio's. Government Street Baptist Church places ten two-year-olds in a room with one full time adult. That one adult has to potty train all ten of the children. The director doesn't want anyone to be in diapers or pull-ups when they are in the two-year-old classes. The atmosphere is so stressful for the children that they act out and bite whenever they're given the opportunity. The teachers in those classes are mainly GED graduates who are single parents whose moms are also single parents. T hey are desperately poor and they live over in the McVay Drive-Michigan Avenue-Halls Mill Road neighborhoods. These teachers have led these hard-scrabble lives where the kids are supposed to sit still and be quiet and they're supposed to be completely obedient. Most educated adults know that two year olds are not going to sit still, be quiet, and be obedient unless they're scared to death of the adult who is hanging over them like a big, mean, vicious predatory animal. Watch that LaQuida or that KaMischa scream in your child's face to, "Get on your cot NOW!" and you'll know what i'm talking about. Those women just want to scare the dickens out of those children so they can get back to talking on their fancy IPhone 4's and to do their texting on their brand-new Android's. It makes me so mad that they can be so resentful of the children! What it is is they really don't want to work so they take it out on the kids that they would rather sit home and be stay-at-home-single-welfare-mothers.

I agree and Disagree witp h these complaints... First, the director DOES not care about what happens in this facility. My child has been bitten 8 times by the same child, and the most that has been done is the child has been moved to another classroom for a brief period of time. When confronted about this issue, she tried to belittle me and talk down. Just yesterday i removed my 2 year old from GSB child learning center. For the fact she was bitten again, broke the skin, and when i went to the director she told me nothing was going to be done. She rolled her eyes at me, and tried to have an attitude. She tried to tell me it was my child's fault she kept getting bit. You cant fault a child! Especially a 2 year old, who is going to take toys away, books, food, cups! They don't grasp the concept of sharing until the age of 4! Just so you know... the child... the biter... is the pastors grandson... who in one day bit 4 different kids, and all that happened was he was moved briefly to another class!
Second, the teachers... I will say this, there are a few good ones, who honestly seem like they care about these kids. But i have witnessed texting, while the 2 year olds are plopped right in front of a TV... more then one occasion... Also, i went to check on my little girl, and when i turned the corner the teacher was pulling the mop bucket from another room across the hall while the kids were left unattended. She has come home with other kids diapers on... sent home with cups that weren't hers... and i understand it happens sometimes... But just so you know... When i had her belongings packed up she came home with 20 diapers that weren't hers, so if your missing diapers here recently we have them. Last, i was picking up my child's things one day and the teacher came in to talk to me... left the children on the by by buggy unattended, and one child got bit! The teacher didn't see who bit the child, but automatically placed blame on a child... hhmmmmm...
Third, when a mother asks you to only give their kid a certain type of milk, how hard is that? Lactose free, soy, heck coconut... that is what you are getting paid to do... Care for someones child! There were days my child would get home and start throwing up and it was curdled milk... And it only happens when she is giving something other than soy. Then when approached about it, she started going through a half gallon in 2 days! They were givingg her 4 or 5 8oz cups a day! When she was to have no more than 2! Once again, when approached with this, and it written down when she could have milk... they still gave it to her for other meals!
OK, lastly and my biggest point... DO NOT FAVOR A CHILD BECAUSE THEY ARE THE PASTORS GRANDSON! It is abuse and neglect to let children get bit, and come home with bruises from the same child over and over again! If this were him getting bit you best believe my child would have done been kicked out! Now after having to pull her from this facility i wish i would have taught her to bite him back. 2 years old take things from each other, if a child cant handle that and feels he needs to bite because of it he should be removed! If he has bitten my child 8 times, how many times has he bit another? I personally know ALOT because parents do talk!
Oh... When a mother removes her child, it is VERY unprofessional to discuss this matter with anyone who does not concern themselves with the daycare! His parents didn't need to know about me pulling my child out and nor did the child dad... the pastors son... have any business discussing it with teachers at your facility. I would not recommend placing your child in the care of this facility. It seems great, for the first month... If only the other parents knew what goes on...
I'm not a mad employee, or a mom that thinks my kid does no wrong! I'm a concerned mother who doesn't understand how a church continues to let this go on... A director, a pastor, anyone!

I agree that this school has some really mean women working in the daycare facility. They're mean and uneducated. They don't anything about early childhood education and child development. Several of the daycare workers I knew from there were high-school drop-outs who earned their GED's after they had a baby(s). Most of the workers are probably ex McDonalds employees or they used to be stay-at-home teenage welfare Moms. Well anyway, I'm a parent and I enrolled my children at this school. One day I was there to pick up my child and the parents have to sign kids in and out in the lobby using an electronic sign-in sign-out system. I was using the fingerprint 'sign-in and sign-out" system in the lobby and I could hear daycare teachers screaming at their kids in the classrooms down the hall. I could hear one lady who was really hollering loud at the kids and she made some fairly threatening remarks. I heard the lady say, "You keep running around like that and I'm gonna get cha! I'm gonna get cha' and I mean it!". I heard another lady yell at a child and she said, 'Now you're really making me mad!". She stetched it out really slow and said it like this, "You--are--reeeeeaaaalllly--really-REALLY-makin' me MAD!". It sounded like she was getting ready to punch the kid. When a director hires these angry, former fast food workers and former stay-at-home teenage welfare moms to be childcare teachers, the director shouldn't be surprised that these women aren't going to be loving and attentive to their young students.

I wish that they would have built that school with better visibility into the classrooms. They really needed to build the classrooms with a big two-way mirrored window into the classroom. The teachers have entirely too much privacy when they're supervising their children. Having one teacher with ten two-year-olds is crazy. The teacher is trying to potty train ten two-year-old children by herself? The teacher has to run the classroom on a really tight leash while she's potty training a big group like that. The two year olds who are in the potty training groups spend most of their school day waiting in line to go to the potty. They use those disgusting potty chairs. The bathroom has one toilet plus three little potties all lined up together. The kids who are waiting to go to the potty have to sit criss-cross on the rug quietly while groups of two or three are on the little potties. Those cold-natured, harsh, stern daycare teachers really keep those kids in line since they use all sorts of threats of various types of punishment. One of those ladies had my child standing in the corner with his nose to the wall for a solid ten minutes. Everytime he peeked around, she added more time to him standing in the corner. I saw all this when I was standing just outside that door watching through the window. Why did she make my two year old stand in the corner? It's because he said, "No!" to her when she told him to stay in his seat. Those daycare teachers at G Street Baptist Church are cold and unloving and I hated the way they treated my child.

As a former employee and parent of a former daycare child...Parents BEWARE! The workers ARE on the phone as much as they can get away with. Not all but the vast majority of the teachers are very cruel to the children. Not only physically but verbally. These poor kids are talked to like dogs. Again not all the teachers. There are some wonderful loving teachers at this facility but it only takes that one to hurt your child one time to make you feel differently about leaving them.

I also have issues with GSBCDC. After my child was in the center for about three days I caught an employee screaming at him. I reported it, and the girl got fired. Also, One teacher left my child in a diaper all day. When I picked him up I realized he still had on the same diaper that I brought him to school in. That employee was also terminated. The director is very good with handling complaints and she usually takes care of things in a timely matter. The teachers do not always tell you when your child was hurt nor do they write an accident report. My child busted his nose and I had to complain before I got an accident report. But if that was a disgruntled employee that wrote that, what if she is telling the truth? That makes me think twice about this center. I am sure it was the director that wrote that second comment. The director does not know the children personally like the last center he was in did. I feel that the director should know the children. To the comment about the childrens warehouse. That is not true. That place is always clean, there are 10 kids per room unless the rooms are combined with two teachers. The daycare is not all bad, but that first comment does concern me.

My husband teaches in the Government Street school and is able to "pop" in the classrooms at any time. I have never seen a worker with a cell phone, much less texting warning people that the director is coming. We have have had very loving teachers and most are very excited about the psycological growth of my children. They are excited when the kids try new things and, if a child gets hurt by another child or an accident, they are very concerned and appologetic. I have not been at all disappoited with the character of the teachers and have never heard any yelling at kids. If a bad teacher does charm their way through the interview process, the staff takes the care to correct it... like the one that posted this complaint. Yes, cameras in the classroom are great, and if someone wants to donate that cameras, equipment and maintenace costs for them, I would welcome it! The teachers aren't trying to hide anything. However, with a toddler and a baby going to the Child Development Center, I cannot affort the extra charges. There are few places in the area with such a great staff, hot lunches included, such good hours and responsiveness to any complaints. My kids come home happy everyday, and we consider ourselves lucky to be there.

I have to tell you that I have a very, very big concern with Government Street Baptist Day Care; it's the fact that this incredibly large day care center has no video surveillance of the classrooms. There must be 100 or more children in this center who are under the age of three! It's like a warehouse to store very young children! With so many children in so many little classrooms, you would think that they would want video surveillance of classrooms for this vulnerable infant through three age group. There are three very long hallways with lots of little classrooms and they only have a small window in the hall door for observation. How does a parent know how their child is being treated when there isn't a way to observe the classrooms without the day care worker knowing about it? The day care workers just send each other text messages with warnings whenever the director is on the hall. They "straighten up" and act all animated and happy whenever the director is listening in from the hallway. When the director is away, the workers start hollering at the children and they go back to their strict and angry ways. I would never place my child in such a large day care when there are no cameras in the classrooms. I would want to be able to observe my child's class from the directors office when the day care worker doesn't know I am watching. In this age of technology, why does this center not have cameras in the classrooms? These young children don't have voices of their own to report maltreatment by underqualified and overworked day care workers. My point is this; it's up to the adults to have the methods in place so that the managers and parents can be the voice for the voiceless.

First of all, the above comment came from a disgruntled employee who was fired after 2 weeks on the job for her inability to properly care for a class of two-year olds. Secondly, GSB CDC employees do not use any type of physical discipline, including spanking. There are plenty of windows for observation of the classrooms. The director regularly and frequently visits the classrooms to observe and to help as needed. Employees do not spank, jerk, pop, scare, or yell harshly at the children. There is no harsh discipline or punishment at this loving, safe center. People, you shouldn't believe everything you hear.