The Growing Stick Learning Center, INC. is a child daycare & preschools daycare located at 2700 Willard Dr, Tyler, Texas TX. Find contact info, location details, and similar daycares nearby.
What Parents Say
The Growing Stick Learning Center receives highly polarized reviews. Positive reviews praise the caring staff, engaging activities, and nurturing environment, particularly for pre-K programs. However, negative reviews document serious safety and management concerns, including inadequate supervision, failure to address repeated incidents of child-to-child violence, poor communication with parents, and alleged mishandling of injuries.
My daughter attended The Growing Stick from age 2 through pre-K, and she now even comes back for their summer program. This place has been an absolute blessing to our family over the years. The staff have been nothing short of amazing—always so kind, supportive, and genuinely caring. It’s clear how much they truly care about the kids, helping each one thrive and grow. I’m so grateful for everything they’ve done and I highly recommend The Growing Stick to anyone looking for a nurturing and supportive environment for their kiddos.
My daughter Athena absolutely loves this school they do so many activities with her and she comes home telling me how great her day was pre k teacher Mrs Andrea is the nicest person and Mrs Susan is such an amazing help I highly recommend this daycare for all parents
My son attended pre k at the growing stick and what a blessing it has been. He has learned so much and they definitely keep the kids busy with fun activities/field trips. I don’t know where they found these group of ladies but everyone from the owner to the teachers/ office staff are all so kind. Would highly recommend !!
My child suffered permanent brain damage from this place due to multiple mistakes that were made all at one time. I was notified over an hour after the incident and was asked if it was normal for my child to “twitch”. The owner did not take proper responsibility nor remove the caretaker and stated that the camera watching over her at the time was “out due to a recent storm”; I told her there was no recent storm and she said it was a while back and that she was waiting on her husband to fix the camera because she didn’t have the money to hire someone to fix it because she’s “running a business”. It was VERY obvious that the incident was so bad that if anyone had gotten hold of that video she would have been buried by it. BEWARE!
My son has been in Denton, Plano, and now Tyler daycares. Denton and Plano daycares were wonderful! We picked this one when we moved to Tyler because it was honestly our last resort and seemed the best out of what we had to choose from. Which was very little! We have been on waiting lists at 3 churches here for months. Since my son has started there he has had more bruises and cuts and scrapes on him than any daycare he's ever been to. At first he liked it. But now he fights us and yells and cries not to go every morning. He says that 2 kids hit him all the time. We have brought it up countless times with them and they just don't care. The girl that works the front rolls her eyes and is extremely rude! The owner is never there, and her daughter runs it. The Daughter has told me countless times the owner would contact me, but she never has! They apparently think they are child psychs and are helping these kids that hit and say "they have come a long way." Well great! Wish I had known you take in terrible problem kids and let them hit and hit and never once report it to the parents of the kid being hit! They say "they exhaust all of their resources before they kick a kid out." So I guess they have to kill another kid to get the boot!? My wife has witnessed both of those kids fighting numerous times. One of them hit a little girl in the face while my wife was standing there. Now they say they want to move my son up to a older class to get him away from the 2 problem children. Yet it's been 3 weeks and she's still "working it out." But what about the other poor kids that have to deal with these 2 problem kids? And why move my kid up with older kids? He hasn't done anything wrong! I can't send him to a school that lets kids hit him and have a clear conscience about it. Not only that his teacher ate his lunch the other day! Wth!? This is the last straw for me. Worst daycare he's ever attended. Tyler needs better daycares and more of them! I'm sure people think their kids are safe there, but they think that because nothing gets reported to them. We have never once received an incident report from them about anything! They said "they are working on that." But in the same sentence they claim they are "highly trained." Ha! 20 years and you're still working on a simple incident report form!? Wow! The saddest part is they will stay full of kids only because there are really no other options for parents in Tyler.