My friend got hired at Tutor Time in Shelton CT. She has a BA in Child Education and a fantastic mother. I was going to bring my children there until she told me what goes on. Oh my goodness! First off coworkers told her some staff member have come in hung over. The child/teacher ratio IS out of ratio sometimes, they just lie over the intercom. The kids get swapped to different classrooms if they're misbehaving or if the teacher doesn't feel like "putting up" with that one. I heard they had a child constrained to a highchair for biting another child and left in it half the day while the other kids played. Your "daily reports" that the parents get are completely made up! they will say "oh johnny had a great day and enjoyed ___" oh no no no. They are lying to all the parents. They can not put anything negative down on the report so if your child is hitting, you will not know about it. They minimize all accidents at all costs. They let the kids "play" all day. There were no balls or toys on the playground, the kids just stood there, sitting in poop, biting, and hitting and not learning anything on their curriculum. The 8 step diaper change seems to be too many steps for the staff so they skip some, they only do it correctly if the state comes in. Same with crafts. She has seen teachers do the children's "crafts" during nap time to say the kids did them. Their idea of a "learning activity" was feeding the children cold cool whip! I was completely disgusted. They give the children their lunches only to have them stolen by the other children and they don't do anything because "they need to share" and they let the kids eat off the floor just so they can tell the parents they ate. During her "training" they tried to shove papers in her face while attending children. She said watching the children are her priority and that she'd like to sign the training papers after class and they terminated her when she complained about the children not getting proper attention. It was okay because she was going to quit anyways. The teachers before her never stayed for more than 2 weeks. I think it's really sad and I feel bad that the children are not getting a proper education. I checked it out myself, the staff was very rude to me, they make it look nice when you drop them off and when your pick them up but in between it's a nightmare. I did not enroll my children and I will remember the horror stories of this daycare.
