Voa Grantee/Dolores Huerta Head Start

There were many problems while my child attended this preschool. A problem I noticed on the first day was the drinking fountain water tasting like plastic. I told the administrator and she said she knew about the problem, yet they haven't fixed it all summer long? It took them another two months to fix it. One of the teachers told my child to not poop at school and only poop at home because poop stinks. I noticed this because he would run home and go straight to the restroom to relieve himself, so when I asked why he hadn't gone at school he told me the reason. they have parent volunteers wash the nap bed sheets. When I asked about going easy on the suavitel because it makes my child itchy, the teachers got upset, after some discussion they told me I could wash my own sheets separately, which I did, but for some reason they would give me different sheets every week. One week they even gave me wet sheets. When I asked why the sheets were wet, they told me another child had wet them. I asked how they were wet with water or is this another child's urine? The teacher got upset and asked me if I wanted to wash my own sheets or not and this is what I was going to get. Switching sheets on me doesn't really make sense if I'm supposed to be washing my own sheets. They make the children brush their teeth but don't let them rinse out their mouth. I taught my child to rinse his own mouth and when he tried to rinse after brushing they reprimanded him for rinsing and told him not to do it. Apparently they want you to swallow toothpaste daily. My child peed at nap (12pm), woke up and told the assistant, who was pregnant at the time, that he had peed and she told him to sit down and she would get to him. I picked him up at 2:30 with wet pants, socks, shoes& shirt, smelling of urine. they hadn't changed him for almost 3 hours. When I was going to put him in the car seat I noticed, and took him back to school to show the teachers. They didn't apologize but said they would talk to the teacher in question. The next day I asked them if they talked to her and they told me that I was lying and his clothes were never wet. Even though I had taken him back with his wet clothes on they only questioned me the day after when he didn't have the wet clothes on any longer. I was naive enough to forgive them and overlooked all of these issues. In addition, I don't see the children doing anything fun or interesting, who knows where the funding$ is going. In the 8 months he's been there he's only brought home one painting and one stick figure, every other day has been a drawing on a half sheet of construction paper. Not fun.They notify you of picture day the day before. They are closed at least one random day every month for pupil free day, so if you work this may be important for you. The teachers unfortunately pick their favorite students and hug them and greet them when the children arrive, yet they greet other children differently. My last straw was when I reported a suspected case of child molestation and they told me to go home and fix my relationship with my husband instead of complaining. They also claim that my child was making up the story of the molestation incident. They may think it's okay, but it's not okay to ignore a child being molested. It's not okay and neither are the things that they did while my child was a student there. I repeat, not okay. NOT OK.

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