Treasures Of Joy Christian Learning Center INC. is a child daycare & preschools daycare located at 3500 S Alston Avenue, Durham, North Carolina NC. Find contact info, location details, and similar daycares nearby.
What Parents Say
Treasures of Joy has strong ratings with 5 positive reviews praising the caring staff, clean facilities, home-cooked meals, and loving environment. However, 2 negative reviews cite sudden closures without adequate notice, dismissive owner communication, and concerns about billing practices.
I absolutely love the owner and staff at Treasures of Joy Christian Learning Center. They are professional, caring, clean, communicative always and take great care of our precious babies. They take the time to teach the children and enrich their imaginations through art.
I’ve had my daughter enrolled here for 2 years! Such an Amazing and loving environment. Classrooms are clean and age appropriate for their different age groups of children.
Here’s my experience, My daughter started this daycare when she was about 5 months old. The daycare staff were all pretty nice for the most part. I felt that my daughter was being taken care of with no issues besides the time she had suppose to had “crawled into a baby swing that was turned on” this left a bruise on her forehead but, that’s neither here nor there. The overall operations of the daycare including the owner, thats where my negative review will focus on. Since my daughter started at the daycare, it has been three instances where the daycare will suddenly close without appropriate notice- it was always because a “parent” tested positive for Covid morning of causing the entire center to shut down same day. The third time this happened which was beginning of October, I arrived to the center preparing to drop my daughter off and another parent walks up to my car and says “ they are closed today”, that was the final straw for me. (I also had to be at work in 30 minutes, so it was no way possible to coordinate arrangements for her) I went home and called the director and expressed my concerns about this continuing to happen, before I could even get the rest of my words out to her she stopped me midway and said “ ma’am, I already know where you are headed with this and it’s not my fault a parent called 10 minutes before the center opens and tells me she test positive “ ( I was very kind to her, didn’t speech aggressive or use foul language) I listened to hear babble even though she didn’t let me speak, once she was done, I told her “ you have already told me this story the last time”, she then immediately got mad and said “ if you don’t like how I run my center, you can carry her somewhere else”, and then proceeded to hang the phone up. This was the worst daycare experience I have ever had. She spoke to me like a child, she was very nasty, rude and insensitive. If she was telling the truth or a lie, she should still give parents enough notice. Imagine headed to work and you arrive to your kids school and they are closed without notice, because again, this was the 3rd time this had happened, I knew she probably didn’t have any interest in running a daycare center. She just wants to close and still get paid. As another parent mentioned, she will collect your money and then say your child isn’t feeling well or, in my case “your daughter has runny stool” she was teething and transitioning to solid food. I had to get her doctor to write a letter saying she wasn’t sick that in fact she was teething. These are the issues I had ran into within a short period of my daughter going there. This is probably not the place you would want to send your child if you have a job and absolutely can’t afford to miss unexpected days from work because your childcare failed to send proper notice.
NOTE: This is our THIRD child and we have been through th daycare search/experience plenty of times. My daughter has been going here for about 4 months or so; she was18 mo when enrolled. We love this center. I'm currently pregnant and they are already excited about caring for our new baby. Her classroom and toys are always clean (speaking of dirt and germs, not neatness lol it is a 1 yr old claasroom after all), she doesn't scream when I drop her off, nor does she make a dash for the door when we come to pick her up. The children are all fed very well, fresh home-cooked meals by the owner (who is very often on-site) and her loving staff. The playground equipment is not in disarray or dirty. It's very spacious and gated outside with lots of shady spots for sunny days. The teachers and staff actually take the time to acknowledge and speak to parents. Even our older children like to go in when they come along. You can tell these are people who actually like caring for kids and aren't just in it for the money.
Shady!! Owner wants a personal check for daycare and now won’t provide statement for tax purposes. I pulled my children out bc after paying for daycare for the week on Monday she would call and claim one of my the kids were sick on Tuesday and have to stay out for 2 days but I’ve paid full price for the week!