Building Blocks Early Learning Center is a child daycare & preschools daycare located at 3327 Fairbanks Street, Anchorage, Alaska AK. Find contact info, location details, and similar daycares nearby.
What Parents Say
Building Blocks Early Learning Center has highly polarized reviews. Positive reviews praise staff members by name (Kyle, Tracy McGuffin, Mr. Lukas, Mr. Ricky) for their attentiveness, communication, and patience with children. However, negative reviews cite serious concerns including inadequate supervision ratios, licensing violations, safety incidents (biting, pushing), poor incident reporting, staff management issues, and unpaid employee paychecks.
My kids have been going here since September 2018! & it was hard for me to let my daughter go, but with my 50 calls a day Kyle made the transition so much easier. He takes time to gain my daughters trust & learn what she likes. Same with my nephew! He has a heart of GOLD! & I would recommend this daycare to EVERYONE!
I highly recommend Building Blocks Academy. They are so good with children. And I have personally worked with one of the owners Tracy McGuffin. And her work ethics and patience is outstanding. And she only surrounds herself with those that have the same work ethics. She is amazing with kids. I would recommend this childrens care to anyone!
My daughters been going there since spring of 2016. She loves her teachers Mr. Lukas & Mr. Ricky. There really good with communicating with me on how she does throughout her day. The owner Mr kyle is really cool and easy to talk to.
Building Blocks Academy is a disgrace to the Early Childhood Education field. Between the terrible management, blatant disregard for licensing protocols, and staff that is overworked/under trained/ and unappreciated this place is abysmal. The previous owner had built a wonderful center with excellent staff. The new owner has run this business to the ground. She ran all of the great teachers away, without hiring new staff, therefore your children were not being supervised appropriately according to licensing. I do not recommend this facility for your children, and I most certainly do not recommend this facility for employment. Otherwise, you risk not getting paid and/or pay checks bouncing in your account, verbal abuse, and a completely toxic work environment. This establishment should be closed or go back to the original owner. 👌🏻 I will also note that I posted this review on their Facebook page, which they then proceeded to delete within 5 hours. This place is not a legitimate nor safe business. I give this place ZERO stars and DO NOT recommend.
My daughter was going there, she got bit 3 different times on her face, 2 broke skin. I've asked 4 different employees what's their policy in this kind of behavior, none of them knew. My daughter was pushed on a Friday, after they told me and had me sign a statement of the incident, Monday, they told me that actually maybe she wasnt pushed. Extremely poor communication skills. The ratio of kids to care givers is over the limit. I couldn't get a hold of the manager for 3 days when my daughter was first bitten. The manager has not tried to contact me at all for any of this. I found out in January during a random inspection, they had bleach on the counter in reach of children and the ratio of kids to care givers was over the max allowed. I would NOT BRING YOUR KIDS HERE.