Saint Mark Umc Child Development Center

Absolutely loved St. Mark CDC. My child was in the infant, creepers, 1’s and 2’s class while attending there and all of his teachers were caring, fun, attentive, and so nice. Communication was always great, classrooms are clean, they also offer jump bunch at a certain age which is a great program! We are always getting compliments about how our child knows how to do SO many things, we have the teachers here to thank. He is so smart and has learned so much from them. We miss and love this facility so much!

We had a horrible experience at St. Mark's. My daughter at the time 2 years old was miserable there and ignored by the teachers. Teachers in her class were not welcoming or loving. On many occasions I found her sitting on the playground by herself and the teachers just talking to each other. She would beg me not to go and this is a child that LOVES school and has been going to school since she was 6 months old. She would say "mommy I love you don't you love me just please don't bring me here!" and my heart would break. I thought maybe I need to give it time so I gave a week and still nothing. Then many times I also noticed when picking her up the teacher on her cell phone while the kids were just sitting at the tables. The rooms were dark and did not seem conducive to a good learning child education room. I was determined and found another school which I was much more impressed with...it was clean, the teachers very welcoming, with a good learning environment, offered a loving environment, etc. From the moment she walked into the new school my daughter was a different kid! She was happy and smiled walking in. The second day there was no telling me "mommy please don't leave me here". Instead she recalled her teachers names and her friends names and said "I will go play with....and you will pick me up later?" I was relieved!!!! The reason we had this experience is because we were new to the area and did not have time to explore. Both my husband and I work full time demanding jobs and from the initial outlook of st Marks it seemed good to get us by until the bigger schools we were looking into had an opening. Little did we know! While there another mom also withdrew her daughter from class for suspicion of some potential verbal abuse which I can forsee from the teacher leading that room. I feel heartbroken for that one week my daughter had to try to adjust at St. Marks and felt guilty for a long time after. When I told the administration about leaving they were very rude and told me I was making a mistake and that my daughter just needed to toughen up. I was flabbergasted at their response when they did not know how mature and strong she was for her age and how when she moved to the other school she was absolutely fine! I am not a mom that defends her child no matter what the issue is I respect teachers and educators highly! I do NOT recommend St. Marks no matter how desperate you need childcare! I was ready to quit my job if we were not going to find something else and I would have done it! Best of luck to you as you are on your journey to finding a place that fits your child!

My daughter has been attending StMarks for 3 years now. I have never had any problems there. The teachers are very friendly and the Director is very nice. She learned well and is ready for kindergarten. I love that they teach the kids to pray and have a session at the chapel weekly. Also when I was going thru a tough time, they were very patient with me and even helped me with extra diapers. I very much appreciate them. I would more than recommend St Marks day care

One day my wife walked into the Child Development Center to get our child and the teacher did not see her standing at the door. While observing the teacher our son was standing by her and he took a couple of steps away from her to try and grab another kids milk cup. Instead of her telling him no-no, she then grabbed the back of shirt collar and yanked him so hard it left red marks around his neck. (Yes we have pics.) My wife then said "hey" and she said "oh hey, I was trying to keep him from getting that milk." My wife said OK. My wife then got our son and immediately addressed what she saw to the assistant director. The AD said she would address it. The next day the director stopped my wife and asked her what did we want them to do about the situation? We both met with the AD and stated we didn't want the teacher fired, but we would leave it was up to her, the Director. The next morning my wife got a call from the Director stating they fired her. We wanted some type of restitution (not someone loosing their job) so we asked to meet the Pastor. He declined to meet with us. We never got a, we are sorry or anything of the sort. We weren't looking for a million dollar law suit, just a, hey, we're sorry this happened, I'll (the Pastor) will pray for us all. Often our sons diapers would go missing. The Assistance Director said they have had people from the church come in the classrooms and take possesion of the diapers, but the daycare nor the church ever offered to replace them, not once! We hate to say this, but we cannot recommend their CDC!

I would not recommend this place to anyone. A lady named Ms. QT is very unprofessional and should not be working with children. Every time I go to pick up my daughter she is snapping at the kids for every little thing. She has zero patience. My daughter told me she made her hold her arms up until she couldn't anymore because she spoke to another child. I had a similar issue with this at another facility here in Columbus. I addressed it to the assistant director and she explained that they only do that if the parents allow them to. I never authorized anyone to punish my child. I would show up and still see Ms. QT being short tempered with the kids. She allows the other children to bully. Today my daughters sandle broke and she tried to tell Ms. QT and she yelled at my child to sit down. Really?? How about you call the parent and let them bring a new pair of shoes? I finally had it with them and knew they weren't going to do a thing about that lady, so I pulled my daughter out of their program today. I feel bad for the other children having to deal with that. No wonder some of them are bullies, the adults enable that behaviour. Maybe the assistant director should spend more time holding her staff accountable instead of trying to be friends. Kind of hard to be the boss when you are worried about speaking up. I shouldn't be getting dirty looks from Ms. QT because I speak up about her unprofessionalism, but I did every time I would pick up my daughter. I would ask her a question and she was very rude. I plan on reporting this higher.