You are right! I just gave my notice to end my employment at Tutor Time. I am a certified teacher with a 4 year degree and 18 credits toward my masters. I also have 13 years experience as a Pre-K teacher in a local prestigious preschool. Tutor time is an insane asylum and I would not choose them for day care or preschool if it were free. They say education is important but yet I was the only teacher with a degree. The supervisor of the area (above the director) was never an educator, she was a supervisor for Dunkin Donuts!. Their priorities are solely head counts and it shows. The supplies for the children are very limited, the lunches, breakfasts and snacks are meager and often time, not plentiful enough. If I see another bowl of corn flakes I'll die. The children have juice only 1 afternoon snack a week, the other days they drink water with their goldfish, or saltines. The saddest sight is a preschooler dipping his saltine in a cup of water to juice it up. Sadly, the children are not well prepared for kindergarten because the director does not check the schedule of the teacher before mandatory break periods. Many times I was either in the middle of circle time, story or art activity related to the theme of the day and some floater comes in to relieve me! I want to sit with them and direct the art activity or read the story I have chosen relating to the theme! I plan and put alot into my lessons, but the emphasis is NOT on education. The name tutor Time is a misnomer, it is DAYCARE, and not a very good one.
