The Learning Zone is a child daycare & preschools daycare located at 61 Dewitt Ave, Mattoon, Illinois IL. Find contact info, location details, and similar daycares nearby.
What Parents Say
The Learning Zone receives mixed reviews. Most parents praise the staff, director Angie, and quality care, reporting their children thrived there. However, two parents reported sudden dismissals of their children, citing inadequate handling of behavioral issues and unprofessional communication from management.
Review from Isabel and Sean Fischer For our child Niall Fischer We love this preschool! All of the teachers are wonderful! The owner Ms Angie is amazing, the manager Ms Mandy is excellent. Ms Montanna and Ms Shawna is the best! And honestly ALL the teachers are excellent We love you guys so much!
Absolutely love this daycare! Love the staff and the Angie the director. My son is 3 and has been going there since he was 1 and my daughter is 16 months and has been going since she was 6 wks old. Everyone at the Learning zone have become like family to us. We Absolutely could not ask for a better daycare and staff.
We loved this daycare! All of the teachers are so kind and they worked with my daughter’s allergies. We only switched daycares because we got accepted into one that was closer to our home. Highly recommend!
This is the BEST daycare around coles county!! The owner goes over and beyond to make sure the children learn what the state requires, does MANY weekend activities for kids,parents,grandparents and public to enjoy.spending her own money and time! She is the most caring person and the staff is just as amazing as she is!!
I have a handful of issues. 4 Teachers apparently have “threatened to walk out” due to my oldest (I have three children). Which, I had spoken to Angie and we agreed that due to her issues, we would find something better for her and keep my other two enrolled. I had gotten a call on Monday stating my oldest was kicked out for 2 days, meaning she would finish out her week as a Thursday til Thursday; giving me time to find alternative plans for childcare. I assumed we had an understanding as I expressed to her that I had been unable to work at least one or two days out of every week due to them sending my oldest home. I also tried to brainstorm what may be causing her tantrums (or triggering her DID). One thing about me is that I am communicative and always try to find a solution AS ANYBODY SHOULD. My oldest went back the following Thursday after suspension with no issues and I continued work as normal. Come Friday, at 5 pm I received a call that she would be kicked out Mon-Wed for biting two teachers.. which is completely understandable BUT I wanted to speak to Angie so we could figure something out that would help me in terms of getting back to work since I was already trying to find plans for my daughter, and because I had already missed a weeks worth of work. Being sole provider to your kids and having unreliable daycare service isn’t okay. Because of this, I said the words “I really need to talk to somebody when I get there because that’s absolutely unacceptable” for myself, and Angie took that as “disrespect” (her words), towards the staff and said they would be unenrolling my youngest two, which is retaliation. She literally said “now YOU’RE the problem” because I was trying to discuss alternative methods of actions and was actually trying to WORK with them. But because I said the words “absolutely unacceptable”, that is an issue. We had a heated argument to which I even asked for at LEAST a week extension for my youngest two, which she agreed until after she mentioned her workers walking out, I said “if staff has the power to walk out due to child behaviors then you need to reevaluate your staff”. Afterwards she said “well, they’re kicked out of the program and that’s without a week”. Retaliation tells me a couple things as a parent and this is truly unacceptable as well as unprofessional behavior being a program administrator for ANY environment. If somebody can withdraw care over a parent bringing their concerns, then that tells you where the value lies. I never claimed that my children were perfect as I know they aren’t. I’m a single parent. We are healing from a traumatic situation as a family unit, and I made it known from day one the certain medical issues my oldest had (dissociative identity disorder, autism). None of this was truly taken into consideration, and that is what this situation tells me. Furthermore, if you aren’t equipped to handle these issues, this needs to be made clear FROM DAY ONE, as these issues are even listed on paperwork before they were enrolled to begin with. If your child is *anything* but perfect, do not enroll here. I am reporting them to the state and I do not suggest anybody else has their kids here. This is just the tip of the iceberg. All this to say to not enroll your children here. You can talk to them until you’re blue in the face and they STILL DO NOT CARE.