La Petite Academy, INC

I’ve had my son enrolled at La Petite for the past three years. I’ve witnessed what some of these comments mentioned and there was a time I wanted to pull. However, as time passed, much have changed. There’s a fairly new director now with caring staff. There were a couple children that I won’t label that caused some issues in my son’s class repeatedly. Then one day, whoosh neither attend anymore. And I haven’t gotten an incident report since. Theres children art on every wall and there’s fun music playing most times. I definitely don’t smell that pee scent anymore and I have a good rapport with my son’s teacher. Children seem to be more engaged when I walk through. I just had to give them that ..and I’m kinda happy I chose to stay.

La Petite Academy in Royal Palm Beach is a great daycare. They take excellent care of my three children from drop-off to after-school pick-up. Mrs. Keshia is a wonderful director, and Mrs. Laurie along with the teachers and staff are caring and supportive. I highly recommend this center.

It’s been a little time past but it’s been bothering me not to share this along with the next parent whom is in NEED of child care. I would never recommend this daycare to any parent. I personally witnessed a teacher named Jill throw my child against a chair while my daughter cried. I watched her yelling at my daughter, And slinging her onto the floor for time out Not to mention, supposedly timeout is not part of their disciplinary.When I reported this to the head director, instead of taking it seriously, she scheduled a meeting with a teacher who wasn’t even present during the incident.( I completely regret not writing a police report) Later that same day, when I picked up my daughter, there were four separate incident reports none of which mentioned what I saw on the cameras. When I informed the director that I’d be withdrawing my daughter, she simply asked, “Is it because of the teachers?” in the most dismissive way. (Took my girl out that same night) From the very first day my daughter started at this daycare, I was receiving daily incident reports labeling her as a “biter,” even though she had attended other daycares before and never had this issue(moved around) Not to mention, this is a learned behavior, She had previously been transferred from another daycare, not one biting incident report. Since transferring her OUT almost a month ago, she’s been thriving.No biting, no hitting, and no incident reports. Most importantly, she’s happy and safe. It’s heartbreaking to know that children are being mistreated under such poor supervision, and I truly hope no other parent has to experience what we did. The free diapers and the cameras will not guarantee a good staff. Hopeful Jill and I never run across paths, she seems very dangerous.

This preschool is AMAZING. The director Queshia is so kind and warm to everyone and the teachers are always engaging with the children. Shout out to Ms Jill who always lends a helping hand in both of my grandchildren’s classrooms. I absolutely love her energy!

Unfortunately, there has been too many issues; (1) I spoke to a few employees and they complained about the lack of support they receive. (2) due to the lack of support, the negligence of children was concerning to me. I’m usually easy going and I’m able to work through some things but there has been too many acts of negligence that lead me to pull my child out immediately. Strike #1: my child was coming home with unexplained marks; caregivers never knew how it happened and were usually ruled as mosquito bites (alright cool) Strike #2: I was wondering why my child was always sick: We are required to provide sippy cups for the toddlers, the director told me that caregivers are suppose to clean the sippy cups. After a few months of my child being in the toddler room, something told me to check her cup. There was mold in her cup which indicated that these cups are not washed properly. I let the director know, and she put a sign on the toddler door informing parents to take home bottles daily from now on (photo is below). Ever since this issue, my child hasn’t been sick since. Strike #3: my child came home with a huge red bite mark. My child was wearing a sweater that day, so the bite had to be hard (it’s been a week and she still has a scar). I brought up the issue the next day, with the assistant director. Long story short, absolutely none of the care givers could tell me or my mom what happened nor did they remember her crying. (For some context, my daughter is 2 and she obviously cries when she is hurt.) So everyone claiming they did not know or hear what happened , is kinda wild to me. That same day I withdrew her out of La Petite . I was also emailed a back dated incident report after I withdrew her from the center.