Perkins Playhouse & Learning Center is a child daycare & preschools daycare located at 1700 Courtright Rd, Columbus, Ohio OH. Find contact info, location details, and similar daycares nearby.
What Parents Say
Perkins Playhouse has mixed reviews with strong polarization. Five parents gave 5-star ratings praising the caring, professional staff, educational activities, and safe environment. However, two parents gave 1-star ratings citing communication issues with management, concerns about child safety and peer interactions, inconsistent staff behavior, and poor responsiveness after withdrawal.
Everything was fine until it wasn’t! I didn’t like how I was made to feel as if I couldn’t address any issues about my child to the “ Director”. She told me one day that everytime she turns around someone is doing “something” to my daughter!!!! That was the first time I had ever addressed something to her and I wasn’t even rude about it. They didn’t listen to me from the beginning anyways and forced me to put my daughter with kids a little older than her. She was two when she first came so of course I felt more comfortable with her being with the other two year olds but because she was advanced they said it would be better for her with the other kids. I didn’t like that because she never been around a lot of kids before. Some of the stuff seemed OFF! Like some days they were full of sunshine and fun and other days it was like they barely wanted to speak which I thought was so weird. They have the longest naps, from 12:45pm to 3:00 pm, if I picked my daughter up at 3:15 or 3:30, sometimes some of them kids would still be asleep. I was told that my daughter had an issue of trying to insert herself into groups of kids that were already playing!!! Like WTH, aren’t kids supposed to play with each other. I came by one day to look at them outside playing, they make them play in the parking lot with side walk chalk! And my daughter was playing alone, I didn’t like that. I guess she wasn’t allowed to insert herself with the other kids that day because kids should all be playing with each other. I knew I was going to put her somewhere else, it was just taking me longer to find a new daycare. Then she would cry everyday to now go, she some other kids where being mean to her and of course they made me feel like she was lying when I brought it up! Last straw was my daughter kept saying of the teachers scream in her ear! Not sure exactly what happened but I told them she didn’t like loud noises. I stopped taking her when someone from there called me and told me they was being mean to my daughter! I never talked to this person like that, to confirm with my daughter had been tell me, made me so angry. After I told them she wasn’t coming back, it was like they didn’t have anything to say to me which to me shows guilt. I went to get her things and her teacher asked why I was taking her out, I just said anything that came to mind because all they would’ve did was deny it and I don’t do well with lairs. It was better that I just got her things and left. The “Director” was quiet the whole time, Had me sign a piece of paper and told me she was gonna email me a paper stating how much I pay while she was there. Until today I have not Received that email. Of course I’ve emailed and asked about it and they won’t even reply to my email. That just shows how immature they are as a company, you would rather ruin your reputation then to be professional. And I have never came off at them rude not one time during this entire ordeal. When I read this Review, They will finally know exactly why she left. This is exactly was I didn’t want to do daycare, you never know what they’re doing to your kids. Next time if the place doesn’t have cameras, I’m not using them.
My child was there and it went really well. They wore mask and my child was always happy. I am very happy with the level of service that I got. I know this business has been well run for more than three decades and I hope it goes forward another 6 decades. My infant child was treated with the utmost care. I found everyone to be very professional and patient with my child. They where very understanding of my schedule and helped me where they could. I have no complaints. It wasn't hard to find. The price was affordable and the care was excellent. This black business was impressive. I see some other complaints but I wonder if it's bad kids leads to bad days which ends in a short stint because they don't need that headache that there child was. I appreciate that they won't tolerate children who are not well behaved ( so I know my child is safe) or immature parents ( so I know my child is safe) . I notice that they deal with both really well when I go to pick up my child - Again, I salute the professionalism and patience I see them exercise with parents and children . I liked Perkins and you will to!
I had family take their kids here and I definitely would not recommend.
They are really friendly to you and your children. They are also very involved with your children while they attend. The activities they create and initiate with the children are also very educational. Its not like most daycares where they take you child and just have them sitting in a room
Best staff ever nice and genuinely sweet....my son has been going there for 2 and half years ...I highly recommend sending your kids there