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BrightPath Kids

This is a company that truly does not care about you. 
The center I worked at we were provided with minimal resources and no support financially or even mentally/emotionally, and we were absolutely put out of ratio with our classrooms quite frequently due to understaffing and the negligence and ignorance of the management staff. 
Pay is absolutely laughable for all the work that had to be done and for all the responsibilities taken on by each employee.
Oh, and if you do get a raise then good luck actually seeing it! There is a chance you just might not get it when you are supposed to; and then backpay for the time you worked a role you were promoted to and doing the extra workload for? NO WAY. That’s not an option. 
Management is rude, condescending, and they bully and make fun of employees to OTHER employees.
They are incredibly incompetent and not present very often at the center I worked at.
They run through employees and wonder why no one will stay, it’s because teachers are putting their own time, effort, and money into a job that won’t show them the same back.
There is no work/life balance. Absolutely none. 
The culture is terrible because again, management gossips about other employees to OTHER employees.
Not to mention all the gossip between employees, speaking ill of children.
Do not even consider working here if you have ANY kind of disability as you will not be accommodated. 
Would not recommend working here, not to ANYONE ever. Oh, and if you were to decide to work here and had issues don’t even BOTHER contacting HR or anyone above management because again they DO NOT care about you & no one will actually help you.

While I enjoy all of the people at the job as well as the kids, the location I’m at is so understaffed that organization can go quite array, and you end up doing more work than I initially anticipated. Unfortunately, Busy Bees just enacted a policy where no phones or smart watches are allowed to be had by teachers in classrooms. While I’ve had jobs where phones of course are asked to be put away, they’ve never had us sign a policy on such, and Busy Bees has. It’s quite odd as classrooms are already monitored via camera, so if it became an issue with an employee it could be brought up. I feel quite anxious at work at times because this leads to me often being alone with kids with nothing but an iPad and a wall phone. If anything happened on the ground and I needed to tend to children, the phone on the wall is 5 ish feet tall, and I work with 2 year olds. it’s unlikely that I could have any of the kids help with calling. I also feel quite worried to know I have no contact with the outside world while in the class. If anything happens at my home and someone needs to call, the only option they have is to call our school, and often no one is at the front desk at times due to the understaffing, and phones ring unanswered w so I would have no clue. I also often am told to move around 10 min or less before the fact, which can make for a harder transition for the kids as they have to deal with people coming in and out a lot

While being a salaried employee, working an 8 hour shift, it is expected to be available from 6am-6pm.  With my role, and the extreme lack of time I can spend with the managers in the center the preferred schedule was 6am-3/4 pm so I could spend time with the directors. Most of the time by 8-9 am they were in ratio for a majority of the day.
I was hired in a fairly new role, as part of the operations team, but there were several other peers in the role and not one of us completed the same tasks.  Most of the time I was made to feel like a glorified secretary or administrative assistant.  
The culture of the company is make profit. It was not about maintaining licensing regulations, following state and federal policies, or the education of young children. It is solely enroll, enroll, enroll.  (Which don’t get me wrong you need to enroll to make money but staffing the center should not be at the bottom of the list)
I came to BP with over 28 yrs of ECE experience and thrown into a position to “learn as I go”. I was hired under one manager and within 2 weeks was passed off to another one.  My emails were barely read and I was never supported operationally to ensure we met licensing regulations or company policy.  This made my job almost impossible to be successful and ultimately caused me to resign. 

A typical day is very busy, especially if you are in the classroom! You are expected to prep as much as possible beforehand and they don't want you to prep outside of time you are punched out, which I kind of respected but also, it's sometimes hard to get everything done, especially when it comes to lesson planning. The curriculum is pretty straightforward, but requires some adaptation and creative thinking in order to prevent it from becoming too repetitive with each unit/theme, depending on how old your kids are. Be careful as there are a LOT of rules especially regarding materials that you can use in the classrooms and you may get reprimanded if you do not follow them, even if your intentions are in the best interest of the children (ie, preventing them from becoming bored and engaging in unsafe behaviors, ect). The app is a bit challenging to use at first but once you get the hang of it, you're pretty good (same goes with the lesson planning). 

As always, the business depends on the number of children enrolled. Be mindful when starting at a brand new center, for if they do not get their numbers up in a certain amount of time, they will cut hours and positions. 

What is the best part of working at the company?
The kids and some coworkers, not much else. 

What is the most stressful part about working at the company?
No support from directors, allow children with severe behaviors, some staff is incompetent therefore everything falls on competent staff. 

What is the work environment and culture like at the company?
Toxic environment. Directors are cliquey. They talk down to you but don’t support you and act like buying lunch every once in a while fixes that. The worst part is it all filters down to the kids. If the staff is burnt out and not supported then the kids are not supported to the best of our ability. There had been times where I expressed to my directors I did not feel like I could keep the class safe due to violent behaviors of a child and I was in tears. I was told they weren’t gonna just send the kid home despite kids getting injured. Then they went on to tell us they were no longer coming in the classrooms to help us. Most staff has said I would never want my kids going here. 

What is a typical day like for you at the company?
Come in to chaos. 
Open play
Snack
Circle
Centers
Gym/outside/open play
Lunch
Bathrooms 
Nap
Snack
Open play/gym/outside

I have worked for Kids Country daycare by Bright path for a little over four years and I am very happy at my job. I am the lead M.A.P.S. teacher and I work very hard and everything I do in teaching children to succeed into kindergarten. We are in nature based school, where the children learn real life skills in daily life. They also have class pets in every classroom that the children learn to take care of. We have special parent events for children in our care. We also offer parent involvement activities to watch their children learn. We are an amazing program with teamwork skills between teachers. We learn every day through observation of the children and understanding their way of learning. If you are looking for a school, where your children are learning and what they need to know in every day life,  along with what they need to prepare themselves for the real world and a big step into the public schools, being ready for kindergarten. This is the school that will prepare your child! 

Staff is over worked and underpaid. Busy bees/ bright path expects high expectations from staff, wants a ton of ridiculous amount of work done without the time or supplies to do it. They are very money hungry tuition comes in but it definitely doesn’t go back into the center for materials, supplies or to the staff for raises and such. It definitely goes back into bright paths pockets. Took away a lot of our paid holidays off like Presidents’ Day, Martin Luther king day, Good Friday and of course the historic solar eclipse event coming up that they claim we are not allowed to view cause they refuse to close their centers. There is also very little bathroom breaks given to staff through out the day that I’ve even seriously considered wearing depends to work due to this. And classrooms are out of ratios almost every morning sometimes a classroom might have 18 kids and 1 teacher when that ratio is supposed to be 1 teacher to 12 children! This company is a joke and treats their staff poorly I’d run as far away as possible from and job they list !!

Very exhilarating and lively place to work with our children and colleagues. I have learned to be more patient, flexible , understanding towards others point of view . Management is super cool , empathetic , unbiased , relentless seniors working tirelessly to make the children learn and grow, always sharing new ideas with their staff , every so growing gruop of individuals. The most enjoyable part of the job is to work with our adorable children and see them grow , learn , dance and do various activities like yoga , movement outdoors in the playground with them ( and still retaining the child in ourselves) , as this age is the most pure , innocent and remarkable stage of life . The hardest part is at times to try doing a bit less , or in a restrained manner for my children ( as it causes comparison for others ) . The workplace culture is more like a family , with long term bonds , and lifelong friendships inspite of being professional at work place . 

Very exhilarating and lively place to work with our children and colleagues. I have learned to be more patient, flexible , understanding towards others point of view . Management is super cool , empathetic , unbiased , relentless seniors working tirelessly to make the children learn and grow, always sharing new ideas with their staff , every so growing group of individuals. The most enjoyable part of the job is to work with our adorable children and see them grow , learn , dance and do various activities like yoga , movement outdoors in the playground with them ( and still retaining the child in ourselves) , as this age is the most pure , innocent and remarkable stage of life . The hardest part is at times to try doing a bit less , or in a restrained manner for my children ( as it causes comparison for others ) . The workplace culture is more like a family , with long term bonds , and lifelong friendships inspite of being professional at work place . 

9 hour days and a 3 hour mandatory staff meeting every month as well as mandatory cleaning days and other mandatory training. Expect to give up at least one Saturday and a few nights a month along with your regular shift.
Barely enough staff to meet ratio. Often stay late because ratio does not allow you to leave. 
Pay is never correct and take multiple pay periods to correct. HR is impossible to get a hold of and never return emails and voicemail is always full.
Pays minimum wage with a government wage enhancement. No raises. 
Policy is always changing. Sleep time ratios are not followed, medicine is not locked up, sand not changed, never enough neccesities like gloves or paper towels. 
Follows Frog St curiculum which is as far from emergent as you can get. 
You have to spend your own money and then are reimbursed for budget money except that reimbursement takes months.

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