Kids & Company Childcare Center Of Lee Street INC

(Concerning the Winterville location)When my son started there it was a very positive experience. He was a little over a year old. This was before the change of owners and public daycare assistance in that facility flung that door open. When he turned 3, it hit the fan! He would come home yelling, refusing to do anything my wife and I asked him to, pointing his finger and yelling at us, stomping his foot, crying and flinching at our slightest moves to hold his hand to remove him from situations in public places. I would pick him up and his daycare worker would say “He’s been bad, not listening and we are tired of his behaviors” when this started I would do surprise visits and would hear teachers yelling at kids. I even saw a teacher pick up a Child with Down Syndrome by the wrist 2 feet off the floor and walk her over to a seat and say “sit down and don’t move. Kids with Down syndrome have low muscle tone and more fragile bones. Anyway, He was picking the previous mentioned behaviors up from his teachers. His teacher called him the wrong name all the time mixing him up with another little Caucasian child. We were not sure if and when she gave us report at the end of the day she really was talking about our kid. He pronounced everything wrong like “street” and “straw” and started calling my wife “ma. And could not say more than a 3 word sentence. Sorry if this offends anyone. He was hitting us at home and having meltdowns. We got him out of this cesspool ASAP. Two weeks later in his new daycare. My child listens, is given reasons he can repeat to us for NOT hitting and yelling and he is holding conversations with us like “Daddy I’m going to listen to my teachers so I can go to the park today.” He does not hit he hugs. You are a product of the environment and company you keep. This environment is toxic!!!

My kids have been here for over a year now. We were there for the transition from Learning Ranch to Kids and Company. It was a rough time as change never comes easy. Finally, after months of turnover they have hired to right combination of staff. The director and Asst director are friendly and helpful. Both of my kids teachers live on my kids and genuinely seem happy to see them each morning. That makes this one happy momma!

(Kids & Company In Winterville) On Friday Dec. 11th I caught my son’s teacher grab and yanked him towards him by his leg sliding him across the floor on his bottom, In attempt to tie his shoe. As I kept watching the teacher let another child and my son fight over a book, at this point my child is crying as the teacher sat on the carpet just watching. I told the director everything I saw and she watched the video and the teacher just got wrote up. That’s all!!! Smh so when I goes to pack up all of my son things out of his cubby now all of a sudden they have a sheet up covering the window. That’s straight guilty, before this incident with my child it wasn’t nothing up to the window you was able to peek in from the outside window to look at your child and see what’s going on due to Covid-19 we are still not allowed in the building. I wouldn’t dare send my child back if someone paid me!!!