Bethlehem Lutheran Early Learning Center is a church daycare daycare located at 29675 Gratiot Ave, Roseville, Michigan MI. Find contact info, location details, and similar daycares nearby.
What Parents Say
Bethlehem Lutheran Early Learning Center has highly polarized reviews ranging from 5-star to 1-star ratings. Positive reviews praise the spacious facility, caring staff, and safe environment, while negative reviews raise serious concerns about discrimination against children with disabilities, alleged physical abuse, poor cleanliness, staffing issues, and unprofessional director behavior.
Highly recommend. My son has been here for 4 months. Everyone is super nice. You don’t get all the bells and whistles like you do at Kindercare(where my son was prior). No app with pictures or notifications. It was the biggest change with moving Daycare ‘s but it’s actually helping me not constantly be attached to my phone while I’m working. Any issues they call. I’ve had to pick up my son twice - low fever and once for getting sick. You bring food but they do offer snacks. Use to be a school. It’s huge. They have more toys, activities and games then they did it my last daycare. My son is still in the infants room. It’s 2.5 times bigger than kindercare and 1/3 less kids from our last place. I feel safe with him being there. The police station is right next door. You have to be buzzed in. They check and will not let anyone in without identification. Overall I’m very Satisfied. Staff is amazing and kind. My son is happy to go there. Last three reviews should be removed by Google. If you have a special needs child then you should locate a place that specializes in the care your child needs. Not post a one star because it’s not offered here!!!. Not every daycare is equipped or certified to care for a baby with special needs. The staff here is very caring and I feel safe leaving my son here.
This place was the last place I thought would ever discriminate due to being part of a religious community. But they did they told me my boys who I was up front about having disabilities could attend that it wasn’t a problem.(the disabilities are ASD and cerebral palsy) but you would never know bc it’s so mild but I wanted to be upfront. The director signed the CDC paperwork for my children and I turned it in to the state. I called to confirm that they could start on Monday and she stated oh well I was gonna call you we can’t take them bc we can’t accommodate their special needs. So I said oh okay and hung up. I called back later after having time to process it and I wanted to know why when literally you would never know they have disabilities if I wasn’t upfront with her and if the health appraisal didn’t say it, just by looking at them you wouldn’t ever know! She gave me different story and said oh the church board said they can’t go after she told me an hour before that, that her staff wasn’t trained to deal with my children. Her stories just didn’t add up! I want people to be aware of this bc as a mom I was heart broken that this center said they could go and that everything was fine and they even signed the CDC form for the state saying it was fine for them to deny them and the only reason I knew is because I called! Having two different stories is what throw a red flag for me! Discriminating against my babies was not right or being bias bc my baby’s have disabilities that u would never know they had bc the director didn’t wanna deal with them is obsurd. They are just like any other child my kids weren’t even given a far chance! Please be aware of this center if you have disabled children.!!!!!! Now I am left with no daycare bc they did this with only 1 day before my boys daycare they were at was closed for good.!! I would never recommend this place to anyone and reported them to the state as well!
Bitter sweet for me leaving this facility. My daughter goes 5 hours a day and I'm now being charged full price. I went from $28 to $55 for a day. Mrs. Caron is awesome with the 2 year olds and her aids. Staff is friendly and speak when you walk the halls. My daughter sings songs at home and love her classmates. Great place to take your children. I am really going to miss this place.
IF I COULD PUT ZERO STARTS I WOULD. My 3 KIDS HAVE BEEN GOING HERE I WILL SAY NOT EVEN A YEAR IT HAS BEEN PROBLEM AFTER PROBLEM. FIRST IM GOING TO SAY PLEASE DONT SEND YOUR KIDS HERE THIS IS SUPPOSED TO BE A CHRISTIAN PLACE NONE OF THEM ARE CHRISTIAN LINDA THE DIRECTOR IS A RUDE PIECE OF WORK SHE TALKED DOWN ON ME AND MY KIDS ARGUED WITH ME TELLING IM WRONG FOR BEING CONCERNED About my KIDS WELL BEING. EVERY OTHER DAY THEY WERE EITHER SHORT STAFFED OR TEACHERS SICK I COULDN’T GO TO WORK. ALSO LINDA DOES NOT CARE ABOUT THESE KIDS SHE ACT AS IF SHE DO SHE TALKED ABOUT MY KIDS SOO BAD SHE PUT MY SON OUT BECAUSE HE HAD ADHD ALL AND ON TOP OF THAT IF YALL WANT YALL KIDS TO GET HOT ON Because THEY ARE HYPER SEND THEM HERE. MY KIDS HAVE Complained TO ME SOO MANY TIMES THAT MS TAMEKA AND MS KAREN HAVE HIT THEM AND I CONFRONTED BOTH I WAS TOLD MY KIDS WERE LYING BECAUSE THEY FELT AS IF MY KIDS WERE TOO SLOW TO TELL ME. My kids are traumatized now because they think every daycare teacher is going to hit them. ALSO KAREN HAS A BASTY ATTITUDE SHE TALK TO ALL KIDS BAD AND ALL THEY DO IS GOASIP ABOUT EVERYONE QND THERE KIDS WHEN U GO IN AND OUT. THEY DO NOT CLEAN THE ROOMS EVERY TIME I GO IN MY KIDS ROOM ITS STILL FOOD ON FLOOR STUFF EVERYWHERE CARPWT NEVER LOOK CLEAN KIDS CONSTANTLY GOT SICK. Ms Brenda is the only good teacher. PLEASE YALL IF YOU DO NOT WANT TO BE TALKED TO ANY KIND OF WAY AND MENTAL ABUSED YOUR KIDS MENTALLY AND PHYSICALLY ABUSED DO NOT GO HERE. MY KIDS ARE SCARED ALL THEY DID WAS PUT THEM DOWN AND HIT ON THEM. THIS IS ALL FACTS I WILL NEVER EVER RECOMMEND THIS PLACE TO ANYONE I WILL SPREAD THIS THREW ALL SOCIAL MEDIA. MY LAST DAY WHEN I PULLED MY KIDS OUT I HAD A CONCERN ABOUT MS KAREN STARTING ME AND MY SON DOWN AS IF AHE WANTED TO KILL US I WAS SOO BOTHERED I WENT TO LINDA THE DIRECTOR AND SHE LEFT ME ON THE PHONE WITH KAREN IN THE BACK GORUND TALKING ABOUT ME AND THAT SHE WOULDN’T WANNA TALK TO ME I ALWAYS HAVE A PROBLEM AND SHE AGREE SHE WOULDN'T SAY ANYTHING TO ME AND ARGUED ME DOWN ON WHY I THINK THAT WAS VERY UNPROFESSIONAL AND THEY DONT CLEAN THESE BABIES ROOMS. I BEG YALL PLEASE FIND ANOTHER DAYCARE ANY MOMS THAT CURRENTLY HERE NOW ALL THEY DO IS TALK ABOUT YALL KIDS THEY ARE SOO UNPROFESSIONAL. I NEVER EVER SEEN NOTHING LIKE THIS BEFORE. IM SOO HAPPY THAT THEY WILL NO LONGER BE ABUSED AND NOT WANTED. IF YOUR KIDS HAVE A DISABILITY OR HYPER ADHD ANYTHING PLEASE DONT SEND THEM DONT SEND THEM AT ALL THEY NEED TO SHUT DOWN.
My children were unfairly discriminated for having disabilities and I don’t appreciate that at all and I am very saddened that a place like this would discriminate against my children who have disabilities! I don’t recommend if your children has disabilities.ADA is a real thing and section 504 is a well!!