La Petite - Fairview

Choosing La Petite Academy was the best decision for our family. As a first-time parent, I was nervous about the transition, but the staff made us feel at home immediately. They are incredibly transparent and use a daily app to keep us updated on meals, naps, and activities. Knowing my child is safe and loved allows me to focus at work with total peace of mind. Highly recommend! We now have two children that attend the daycare program and they absolutely love it!!

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ A Truly Wonderful Place Both of my daughters have been at La Petite for years, and we’ve had such a great experience. The teachers really know my girls and take time with them, and it shows in how much they’ve learned and how excited they are to go every day. The staff is always kind, helpful, and communicative, and I’ve always felt my kids were safe and loved. Every family is different, but for us, La Petite has been an absolute blessing. 💜✨

Not a good place to work. The kids are great and I loved my class as well as other classes, I tried to stay as long as I could for the kids.. However, management is terrible! Your children are not their top priority, they can’t keep staff (with good reason), the director has no idea what she is doing, staff members have corrected her multiple times on licensing and state regulations. I had a kid pass out in my classroom, out of the blue, and Cynthia refused to call mom. Thankfully I caught mom at the window and told her what happened. He was pulled the following day. Cynthia is not an honest person and will tell you what you want to hear to get you out of the office, even if it’s not true. She doesn’t take any responsibility for her mistakes and blames others. She over enrolled kids at La Petite, despite staff members coming to her with concern about the low staff to the number of kids, it got so bad she had kids (infant to PreK) piled in the hallway running all over the place. She’s lied to parents multiple times about the location of their child (this baby was in the hallway) she told them they were outside. Cynthia put a baby on the floor under the desk, the baby cried for over 40 minutes, it was so bad my kids asked why they weren’t doing anything. Stable groups were not a thing until just recently after licensing caught them. They had rooms combining to nap, combined in the mornings and afternoons. Jr. K capacity is 20 kids...they were always over and put infants in that room. They stopped moving kids over on the britewheel app as well so you couldn’t see how many kids were in a room. If you were interested in working here beware. If we got our 10 minute breaks it was a miracle! Let alone trying to go to the bathroom, you literally couldn’t, we didn’t have any extra staff to allow us to go to the bathroom. Teachers were puking in their rooms and were unable to go home because we didn’t have enough staff to cover. EDIT*** I called the number left by “the owner” it was a general number for customer service and they did not care about the situation.

It has taken me a while to leave this review because recalling the trauma my son endured has been incredibly difficult. The teacher, Lindsay, and another staff member in my son's class when he was two were cruel and have left him permanently traumatized. From the start, I noticed red flags. When enrolling my son, I saw that most children's water bottles were placed high up in cubbies, completely out of their reach. I explained that my son drinks a lot of water and needs access to it, but the teacher assured me they provide water frequently. I reluctantly accepted that. My son was only enrolled for two days, and here’s what happened: Day One: I called twice to check on my son, and both times, they told me he was doing great—playing, laughing, eating, and enjoying school. However, I had no camera access that day because they claimed it takes 24 hours to process. I now believe they deliberately misled me about his well-being. Day Two: The moment I dropped him off, I logged into the cameras immediately. However, the video feed lagged so badly that it wasn’t a live view—it would freeze for 10-15 seconds and then skip. While watching, I saw something horrifying: my son was standing in the back corner, completely terrified, screaming and crying for over an hour. Not a single staff member comforted him, checked his diaper, or even acknowledged him. While they all went outside to play on the playground, my son was screaming in the corner, alone. I called the school to ask how he was doing, and they BLOCKED my number, so I called on a friend's phone and it crazy enough rang perfectly fine, and SOMEONE PICKED UP! And once again, they lied—telling me he was doing fine, playing, and adjusting well. They had no idea I was watching the cameras and could see the truth for myself, and that my son was ALONE in his class while EVERYONE else was outside. I couldn’t take it. I immediately went back to pick him up. When I arrived, I found him trembling, shaken, and smelling horrid. I realized he must have pooped when I dropped him off, and no one had bothered to change him. When we got home, I discovered a severe rash all over his private area and deep bruises covering his arms. I reached out to friends and family, and they pointed out that the bruising looked like second-day bruising. That’s when it hit me—on day one, when I had no camera access, the staff assured me that my son had a great day. But the reality was likely much different. I now believe he was mistreated that first day, which is why he was so terrified on day two. The bruises on his arms were clearly from fingers gripping him too hard. I asked my son what happened, and in his 2-and-a-half-year-old words, he told me: “Teacher.” When I asked which one, he said, “Purple hair.” He knew exactly who hurt him. I then asked, “Why?” and he responded, “I tried to go outside on the playground, and she ripped me.” This school needs to be shut down. No one should ever lay a hand on a child—ever. I unenrolled my son immediately and had to keep him out of school for over two years due to the trauma La Petite Academy on Fairview caused him. Do not send your babies here.

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ A Truly Wonderful Place Both of my daughters have been at La Petite for years, and we’ve had such a great experience. The teachers really know my girls and take time with them, and it shows...