preschool teacher

teacher

child care teacher

daycare teacher

assistant teacher

KinderCare Learning Centers

Overall, I enjoyed my job working with the two's. This age is soooo fun, yet we all know it can be overwhelming at the same time. Which is why it is imperative to abide by state ratio guidelines. If you've worked at a center like mine, you know that they finesse on paper to pretend they are in compliance (having 30 two year olds in one room with two teachers and on paper making it seem like there is a third teacher when those who work there know that person is NOT in the classroom with you and is actually in another classroom or floating the halls and not consistently in a classroom at all). My extreme love for my kids is what kept me at the job for so long. Our classroom was always neglected because no one wanted to deal with "the zoo" of 30 two year olds. I noticed management had noooo problem "helping" the infant room. Because who doesn't want to grab a baby and take a load off in the rocking chair? Anytime someone would come in our room, they'd stay RIGHT BY THE DOOR and be clearly ready to leave as soon as they enter. 

There was a series of events that lead to me having to just leave. It was when I noticed "wow, management really does not care, they just need warm bodies to "teach" so they can stuff the room over capacity. It became apparent to me that everything they did revolved around money: accepting new children with NOT enough teachers to stay in ratio. Giving us increasingly less food just so they could save money by ordering less... there is no reason the parents pay soooo much money weekly for childcare yet my kids are saying "more, more, more" and I have to go fight for the food that some entitled teacher has set aside for herself in the kitchen. Having to bring my own supplies or "steal" from other classroom closets because getting new supplies was pretty rare and some teachers would be (rightfully, I guess?) selfish because it was the only glue/tape/border/paper available in the whole building.

When management knew they were getting a lot of side eyes for doing us teachers so wrong, they'd throw together a little breakfast like "here, we appreciate you, don't say we never do anything for you". They'd do the bare minimum to basically keep us from quitting. 

The first thing that made me really consider just walking out was when the air blew out in our room. Our complaints were met with VERY minimal effort (basically just called maintenance and that was the solution for the longest, "Well, we called so thats all we can do is wait". No ma'am, thats not good enough. It's 82 degrees in here. Going outside and staying inside felt THE SAME). Management called me out for sitting on the playground, meanwhile all of us were heat exhausted, even the two year olds were slowly moping around and not as energized or very cranky... we had to keep the lights off all day and keep low to the ground to maintain a sense of coolness. A parent ended up calling state and reporting it, to which we were moved a new classroom THE NEXT DAY. So you see how the teachers needs and requests are ignored, but they jump to attention as soon as the state gets involved????? It's just a bunch of pretending so the parents won't pull their kids. 

The next thing was when the director allowed an angry grandmother to confront me on the playground. I mean literally saw that she was ready to fight and ALLOWED her through the center, through the class, and out to the playground where she got pretty much nose to nose with me... I wasn't even the teacher she was trying to find. But it didn't matter to them. I felt soooooo in danger. I had just found out I was pregnant and the teacher with me knew and tried to get the grandmother to step away from me, but we were both IN THE MIDDLE of watching 30 children on the playground... so management put all my kids in danger by putting me in a situation where I feared for my safety, therefore couldn't properly watch my kids. Parents were coming to pick up and trying to see if I was okay. It was so embarrassing because from the outside looking in, those parents who trusted me with their kids could've perceived this as me NOT being someone they should trust with their kids. When I confronted management with this ambush, they did not take accountability at all. I couldn't believe not one person could say "I'm sorry". 

I left and I cried a lot. I still get really sad because those 2 year olds are now 4 going on 5 years old and when I fell in love with them, I fully intended on seeing them age up and learn and talk and flourish. All of a sudden the little people who would cheer and rush to me when I walked through the door and would cry when I left weren't apart of my life anymore. My KinderCare experience makes it really hard to try and find another job in this field because I don't trust that other management is fundamentally different. And it also makes me not want to put my 17 month old in daycare because I know from the inside that they put on a GREAAAAAT show to parents and even though they aren't EVIL to the children, it's still a lie. Maybe that's all daycares, but it just makes me feel like a liar, not genuine, and a little bit like a fraud. Especially hearing them lie to parents right in my face on tours. That was the worst part because so badly I wanted to interrupt and say "...that's a lie".

They USED us good teachers as actors in their lies. They loved showing parents my great circle time on tours and how engaged the children were when I sang and read and did curriculum with them. But in reality, they could care less about anything but getting the money from tuition. 

During the interviewing process KinderCare was made out to be a place that I could see myself sending my child to. I put my two weeks notice and adviced the Center Director of my last at the job I held before starting at KinderCare, which was 10/19. I was advised that I would start, 10/22. Before my start date on 10/22 I contactee the CD on 10/19, inquiring about what time I should come. I was then adviced by the CD that  there had been a break-in and that she had an out of town family emergency and wouldn't be back at the site until the week of 10/29. No big deal, I understand things come up. Fast forward 10/26. I contact the CD to see when she would like for me to start. I was told I could start on 10/30. I show up for training on 10/30 and was greeted by the Co-Director.  

I felt a bit uneasy after sometime because the co-director even admitted that she was not comfortable training me as she didn't know how to train new employees and seemed to be very stressed out about. Keep in mind I was at this facility for about 3.5 hours and spend 2 of those hours "shadowing" in the infants and toddler 1 classroom before doing any actual training on the computer and even then I did only completed one training module.  Once I was finished, I was asked to leave since they didn't have anything else for me to do. After about and hour after I left, I recieved a phone call from the Co-Director saying that although I was employed by KinderCare that I wasn't in the system because they had not submitted my background check or my acceptance of the job. I didn't start my actual employment until the week of 11/12. 


I felt very confident going into starting employment here because the training and expectations the CD had during training were things that I look for in a facility. Little did I know it didn't meet those expectations. I was hired on work in the TOD 1/Infants classrooms. The only two classrooms that I had actually shadowed and trained in. When it was time to begin my actual work in a classroom, I was put into the TOD-2  class. It was very overwhelming nor because of the children but because of the teacher.  You could visibly tell that she was overwhelmed and stressed out.  I had also witnessed the teacher withhold food from a child because he didn't have shoes on and also had issolated another student. This happened all within my 10 minute break. When I brought it to her attention it was an excuse. I brought this to thr attention of the Co-director and she herself said that she noticed the teacher is overwhelmed and may need retraining. The following week once the CD was back in town I brought it to her attention.  



I had not been working for KC for a full month and I noticed terrible  behavior from certain teachers.  Unsanitary classrooms, a teacher using the same pair of gloves to change multiple children's diapers. The CD making promisses or telling newer parents that we can accommodate their children, knowing that this site was understaffed. One day I was so upset at the fact that parents are paying for Phonix but their children are not receiving the service. The parents are paying hundreds of dollars a week for their kids to be in a particular class but are being bounced around from claas to class because there aren't enough teachers.  


There were children left to sit in urine stained bothers because a teacher( the same teacher in both incidents) didn't acknowledge that the child urinated on themselves. Or a teacher dragging a child by the hood of their coat and another teacher leaving a student The CD was in and out of town for personal issues. The Co-Director was over whelmed, and not to mention there haf been another buglary/break in, in which they had not notified parents of. At this particular site I felt that management didn't have a care for the children, that they only wanted to meet numbers.  

I finally put my 2-weeks in after working there for a little over a month. I didn't even finish my 2 weeks because there was an incident with another teacher who had taken prescription drugs while on the clock. He became deliourious and not to mention the kids witnessed this. Keep in mind the parents were not informed about this incident either. The following day was my last day. 

I would not recommend anyone work here or even send their children. The staff needs retraining and they need people in the managerial positions that are actually there on site  and not backfortj or just there to meet quotas. I worked in the TOD 1 class for one week and floated the rest of the time partly due to poor management and me being annoyed. I hope this helped.

I worked at this facility for a little over twenty-five years. I was treated terribly bad on the day that I retired. I had not been treated as I should over the years but I endured this due to the schedule that I needed. I was shown a cake that the director had purchased before the cake was cut by the other staff. I did not know that the cake had been cut until other employees were talking about eating cake and ice cream. I was offered some cake for the first time as I was leaving out of the door. A co-worker saw the gestures of kindness from other employees and families that were wonderful and she purchased a card for everyone to sign and a gift from her. The director gave me a flowering plant and she signed the card that the employee had purchased in the middle of the day. I was told by other employees that she had said that the company was buying cake and ice cream. Now I was not that needy for the cake that made me so furious. But the principle about the way that I was treated. Yes that hurt and will last forever. The only time that this director would show any gratitude is when she would use my tenure for advertisement when taking potential families around on a tour. The rocking chair in the infant room is so badly broken until the nuts and bolts are falling out on a daily basis.The changing table has  cracks and holes in it. There is one employee that does everything against center policy that goes from not having to comply with dress code to child neglect. She is rude to everyone and other employees do not want her to work with their infants. The management ignores all concerns addressed about this person from staff to families and will talk terribly to whom ever addresses the problem about what she is doing at the time. It is so bad the employees are wondering is she being treated like this when in fact she should have been terminated a long time ago is because she calls corporate when she get mad at center management. The center management does not know that the most valuable asset of a company is their staff. Next they do not realize that their families are the other stakeholders in the company along with the staff. If your staff is all leaving and your families are as well this should be red flag that something is drastically wrong with the way that you are managing your company. There is not any decent play mats for the infants to lye on. The crib sheets were so worn a parent that was there took it upon herself to go to Target and purchase four. The director finally one day saw them because they were to large and ordered some. She supposedly had been ordering sheets for almost a year. She told David when he was here from corporate that she had ordered sheets and they did not come. He told her to order them again and who to call if they did not come in. She did not.  If she had ordered those sheets they would have come in as quickly as they did when she ordered them.One day I had to come to work with Pshiatica and she did not notice what condition that I had been working in until I was clocking out an hour early to go to the hospital. The she helped me to my car and helped me in my car and went back in and told my co-workers what she had did. After making me wait until employees had went on break and prepared their plate from potluck to let me go. I told her :"No, I do not want any food to take with me. I just want to go to the hospital." There is no way that I should have had to come to work when in fact my son had to help me get dressed and into the car to go to work. I called her the night before and told her that something was wrong and I was in so much pain that I could not get in my bed without assistance. She informed me that one employee was leaving early to go to her grandson's baseball game in the playoffs and one employee was going to off for her birthday bur she would get me out early. This was the Friday before Mothers Day.I was a reliable employee. I seldom would call in.Usually if I had to call in I would try to the night before or the evening before if I was ill. I vowed that I would never do that again. This was to dangerous for both babies and myself. I could write a book about what is going on wrong in this center.

The positive: I really enjoy my coworkers and bosses. You have really good support at the center (director, assistant director, program specialist, and health and safety coordinator) that I work with. You're able to get what you need. The curriculum is really good, and you're not having to make up something just to stay hired like I had in other centers.

The dress code is pretty relaxed. You do have KinderCare shirts/pens that they give you upon being hired. The staff is wonderful and everyone works as a team. Pay is wonderful!

My boss believed in me, and took my education for consideration upon being hired. I've never had that happen with any other job. Most places want to give you minimum wage and that was my assumption. But not at this center. Helped while I was in college getting my associates and bachelors. They did work with my schedule which I appreciate it sometimes working two jobs to survive and they did not see that sometimes especially with my school schedule. But I tried to make it work especially if they needed additional help in the afternoon.

I've had Parents ask me how I can handle working with school-age children. I told them that I enjoy my job and I wouldn't want to do anything else. My center is pretty lenient on planning. I only Implement one lesson. Since the kids are coming out of school from the buses. I only work for three or four hours depending if they are low staffed I can get more hours depending on my schedule.

 It seems like the center doesn't ask you to do things. They make the decision to tell you what they're planning to do. Then they won't even follow up with you based on if you're getting a new co-worker or not.

I like communication to be consistent and that's the only thing that bothers me. Overall, I really enjoy the kids and the parents at my center. It's a really a rewarding experience.

Cons: overtime I was transitioned to being the school age teacher, older two's teacher and a multi-classroom specialist. It worked for my schedule especially as I was finishing my degree but taking on a different role at the facility it was  not transparent. We had an incident and I was not informed which changed all the paperwork. They played favorites when bringing up lesson planning and yelling/ gaslighting about the place not being for me. Talked about my other job like things aren't the same and said that my co-teacher did everything right. All I would have asked was to get copies of the lesson and to get comfortable with the inclusion. I also did not like how my co-teacher ran the class giving technology to the kids for example a cell phone and the way they handle disciplining kids was awful. The disrespect was also pretty bad in the classroom. But they get a slap on the wrist even when they had a breakdown when I took time off. But with me they get upset when I stand up for myself and what's right. Glad I left and found a better opportunity taking the time off. The pain was decent because I was getting my degree . Had gotten a raise the first year I worked there and it continued during my anniversary. Unfortunately, they did not want to pay us for trainings that needed to be done and vaccinations. They said that they would but they never did. Had to fight them tooth and nail to get snow day pay that they conveniently forgot. Very disorganized the previous director was a lot better and New Management went downhill.

I will say, working with the children is amazing and for the year I've been with the company. Those kids are what keep me coming to work with a smile on my face. Childcare is a hard but rewarding line of work.

Let's start with the ugly side of the company. Kindercare is a dumping ground for DHS children and children who have been kicked out of other centers. Kindercare has a collections department where it takes forever for children to be kicked out of the center. Children will scratch, kick, bite, choke staff and peers with little consequences for their actions. The company really as no appreciation for the safety of their staff and that alone is a reason one shouldn't work for them. There were many days I left at the end of the day with bruises and scratch marks on my body. I also saw students rushed to the emergency room with a cracked open skull due to a repeating offender hitting another child with a toy, hand, or so forth. The center always runs out of incident reports making it hard for parents to trust their children are safe. 

Management refuses to be consistent with who get's overtime (and hours in general). Favoritism is very obvious among management and the mental load of dealing with the staff is hardest part of the job. I used to feel that I had support from my director and assistant director but that is no longer the case as the new director hired her friends to replace the current staff. The adults act worse then the children and will hide keys, office supplies, cleaning supplies, steal toys or decorations from other classrooms. The gossip is unhealthy and honestly, just draining as there is really no way to get away from it. The company is horrible about keeping up with safe training required by DHS but doesn't have a problem making up random virtual trainings that are worthless and won't help you keep your credentials. 

The most frustrating however, is how little funding the actual centers receive because of how much is eaten by the corporate ladder. I had to buy my own crayons while getting yelled at by my upper management that the students weren't staying on the curriculum. I could not afford (with my less than 10/hr. paycheck) to fund the center's activities. The toys found in the classrooms today were bought by the staff from thrift stores because our district manger cut funding. 

Now for some positives. Kindercare will invest in you if you want your CDA. They offer a program through TeachStone and will help you advance if you want to move forward. They pay time and half if you do get overtime and they they do offer somewhat of a "completive" wage considering it is... childcare. Everyday is a challenge and that is the fun part of the field. Kindercare provides an easy to fallow curriculum for teachers and offers an app for staff to send pictures and messages to parents. The classrooms are small and easy to clean. 

The people who have been there for while do love working with the children. Kindercare offers hour long breaks and provide other benefits. The application process is pretty easy and three hour nap time is a saving grace! They are willing to be flexible with school schedules and are more understanding of when "life" happens compared to other centers. 

Working here wasn’t terrible but it also wasn’t something I looked at as a long term goal. For the most part enjoyed my kiddos, families and friendships with my co workers. I however enjoy what I do and take pride in it so I was able to take initiative and make my time there worth it for my own expectations. The cons I suppose would have been the lack of freedom to be creative with your classroom or curriculum, everything down to your classroom walls have predefined and harshly regulated corporate expectations. Because of the corporate aspect of such a company little things like being able to dim the lights at nap time or use baby bouncers or rocking chairs in the baby room were often a shared con staff-wide. While they claim they do annual pay raises this is at best a goal. I saw teachers that worked there for a decade making less than some just being hired and I can’t really remember a time that myself or my co teachers were given funds to use for classroom supplies. Ultimately I probably spent a couple hundred a year on my classroom however that was my choice and neither a requirement or encouraged by management. Also, as it is a primarily female employed kind of business and there are children involved whom teachers naturally have established relationships for it is natural that new hires will go through some level of being uncomfortable and dealing with dramatics and/or gossip. In my experience, this passes and is simply their way of being protective of the kids they love. Turn over rate is next level and rules are strict and in stone at kindercare. Lots of state subsidy families and this can create a lot of painstaking extra work for teachers through accreditation requirements because they loose money when too many clients are state paid and accreditation allows them to earn grant money. People can say what they want about corporate greed but at the end of the day, it’s business and if they don’t turn a profit there is no business. Not to mention most people don’t realize how expensive liability unsuitable is for childcare centers, so yeah, child care is expensive but kindercare is averagely priced and do things like they do for a reason. Usually liability reasons lol. Classrooms are packed to the max if they hire enough teachers for the teacher:child ratios. i.e. 2 teachers: 14 or 20 kiddos kind of packing, which is standard but that many kids in a small space create quick teacher burn out. If I had to summarize my thoughts on working here I’d say it’s great for ppl who want to get some experience or get their CDA and training paid for, college students and especially parents who need to keep their kids in daycare but can’t afford to. You will get 50% off your $1,500/mo daycare bill which, if you are paying that out of pocket, that’s huge. Even on state subsidy you will get that discount. But unless you are content making minimum wage or interested in climbing the corporate ladder, probably not a long term employment solution. 

I only worked here a few months and it was the most terrible experience I've had thus far. At first I thought it would be fun and different from other jobs I've had. It sure was different, but in a bad way. 

I have over 12+ years of experience working with children, yet this egotistical, selfish director constantly made me feel like I was mentally incompetent. There are so many ridiculous rules as to what you can and cannot do, and none of them make any sense. Basically the children can act however they want and you can't do much about it. If you do try to separate them from others for doing something wrong or let them know what they are doing is wrong, you'll be told you can't do that. They expect you to be able to have an organized, structured classroom, but at the same time they'll shove 10 unruly kids in a room with 1 teacher, then complain that you didn't get 100 activities done that day. 

The management is completely horrible. I could give examples of this for days. Director picks favorite employees, treats those ones like gold and treats the others badly. She was constantly on my case about my classroom, always complained about the tiniest things, yet I would look at other people's classrooms that were filthy and had artwork up from months ago and they weren't being reprimanded. You're expected to work ridiculous shifts with long hours, yet if you get close to overtime all of a sudden they'll give you a long break or cut hours so you don't get that extra pay. Many times I was forced to work 8+ hour shifts with either no break or a very short one, always given some excuse as to why. 

Staff turnover is so high that teachers are leaving left and right, making the whole work atmosphere stressful and tense. I only worked here about 4 months, in that short time 5 employees quit, many of them right on the spot because working here sucked so bad. After being here only a few weeks the assistant director quit, leaving us with no assistant director for over a month.

Many ridiculous expectations such as forcing me to drive to work in a snow storm, one day snow was so bad it took me over an hour to get home and I almost crashed my car three times. Director has no empathy or care about any of the employees, all she cares about is that there's a body in a room making ratio. Children are CONSTANTLY being shuffled around from room to room to make ratio work or to let another teacher home, they couldn't care less about the child's age or the fact that it isn't even their main classroom, as long as "ratio" works then everything is A-ok in their eyes. Director wouldn't even offer to step in the room if a teacher had to go to the bathroom. Spent most of the time in her office up front eating and pretending to enroll new children on the computer. Always was leaving early or taking days off, yet if we ever needed a day off or called out sick it was the end of the world. I had laryngitis and had to miss work for 2 days, she actually called me at home complaining about it and asked when I would be back. Seriously?

I could go on and on for days about how bad this place is. I'd rather work at McDonald's then ever go to this place. I'd never send my kid here, either. Awful.

I know this is lengthy, but PLEASE read in its entirety. 

Pros: KinderCare has great parents & children & great benefits (you can get your CDA for FREE & they have good scholarships, incentives & rewards. They have good dental, medical, and vision benefits but they are EXPENSIVE & can take a huge chunk out of your check every two weeks; medical can be $100+ & can change every year usually never in a cheaper route). They support teachers going back to school financially & even do tuition reimbursement. My co workers are like family and we are very close & have to have each other’s backs because management won’t sometimes. Free training such as Professional Development Day & CPR, one hour lunches depending on your shift, and free food. 

Cons: You are stuck in a classroom with no restroom breaks. Someone has to “relieve” you in order to go & that can be hectic because they forget, are caught up in another classroom or on a tour. Management can be no help sometimes because they love to sit in the office all day behind the computer. They will not let you leave to go home on time even if you always come to work on time. You may be stuck in the classroom with over 10 kids & it is time for your shift to end & you leave 5-10 minutes late because management is trying to figure out how to let you go & where to place kids because you’re over. No supplies (construction paper, art supplies, paper, laptops to print out work needed for the classroom, etc.) are ever in the classrooms. You always have to borrow from other teachers in the building. No time to lesson plan except for off the clock but you get chastised for that. A KinderCare no no. Old, dilapidated building infested with bugs especially roaches. The parents pay great money to have their kids there so why are the buildings so old & infested with roaches!?! Corporate uses an exterminator but the bugs just multiply. No raises! Even with a CDA you only get 50 cents. Smh. You get PTO/sick leave in one year which you should get within 90 days because parents love to bring their sick children to school. Your hours WILL be cut if you do not have enough children in your class which means if you are the first teacher (morning shift), have 10 or under kids in your class & there is no other need for you in the school they WILL SEND YOU HOME. My center pays for overtime but some will not so if you stay an hour over one day they will send you home an hour early the next. Corporate does not care about the kids or the teachers so your complaints fall on deaf ears. Tuition is EXPENSIVE! The infant room is $300/infant which causes drops in enrollment since parents can not afford it which will affect the teachers & this tuition goes up every year. No phones in classrooms in case of emergencies or walkie-talkies. No cameras only on the outside of the building. KinderCares are too spread out which means you may have to travel 30+ minutes to work. You will be lucky if you can find a center close to your home.

Coworkers are great but management and corporate are a nightmare. Every year they will give you a 1.5% unless the director has a personal relationship with you and likes you. No matter how hard you work or how punctual you are with attendance you will get a 1.5% raise every year making it difficult to be motivated. Even if you ask for a raise they will say you make too much.

Teachers are responsible for not only watching and teaching the kids. There are no janitors or nurses at the branch I worked at so teachers were responsible for dealing with injuries, illnesses, and bathroom/classroom sanitation maintenance. Ratios are often ignored, I've been left alone with 20 3-5 year olds with the director and AD being fully aware of this. Classrooms are stuffed with children, we didn't even have enough lockers for all children enrolled. If a child soiled their pants you have to change the child in a bathroom and leave the rest of your class unattended which was extremely dangerous.

Tablets. With the introduction of KinderCare tablets, morning lessons are basically staged photo shoots were you are tasked with taking a picture and writing an observation sentence or two for each child in your classroom DURING the lesson making it impossible to teach anything. If you did not have picture of each child by 12pm you would be reprimanded.

Portfolios. Portfolios for children were very thorough which is a good thing but they did not give teachers enough time to complete them. Each child had to have: 2 pictures and 3 observations in 6 different learning areas (cognitive, creative, executive, language and literacy, physical, and social/emotional) 
so if i had a class of 16 (which I did) that would be 192 pictures and 288 observations. This is do-able except the managers are too busy to print this volume of pictures and they only give you one hour a day to work on while making sure children are okay sleeping, preparing lessons and cleaning the classroom. Many teachers I worked with were forced to complete portfolios on their own unpaid time.

Supplies. On numerous occasions we would not have tissues, paper towels, spoons, or promised fresh food on calendars that are sent to the parents. Parents were often charged for food their child didn't get to enjoy and they would have no way of knowing. Food we did have was either frozen or expired, there were these English muffins that tasted so bad I can still smell them but we were told to feed the children that. It's a shame that basic supplies for children wasn't a priority but they seem to have enough money for 10+ brand new Ipad tablets

Overall it was good experience but a teacher should be focused 100% on education of children not cleaning bathrooms or having our faces glued to tablets in fear of being reprimanded. KinderCare needs to act like more of a daycare instead of a large corporation collecting money anyway they can. It's not just about making sure the customer is happy but employees and children as well.

management wasn't the best. I was hired as full time but only received part time hours after being told my hours would eventually go up. I was extremely punctual and would always cover or come in earlier or later as needed. I noticed that I was always one of 3 teachers who would constantly sit on the floor with the children and no one else would. I was CONSTANTLY moved from classroom to classroom as a floater when that wasn't in my contract (though I'm happy to help but this was every single day) and my boss would then get frustrated that I didn't know every routine for each classroom. I worked maybe 3 and a half hours a day 5 days a week (I live with my parents so the salary didnt need to support me)  But i wouldn't have a problem with knowing routine if I was just in one classroom daily. There were a couple of times where my boss completely forgot to write my name on the schedule for the next day. (She did daily schedules, not weekly ones) I would then get 10pm texts to come in early the following day if I could, and I was always okay with making extra money and coming in if someone else was out. My boss then told me that other teachers have issues with me not knowing anything and asking too many questions about routine when each classroom is a different age group and they all run things a certain way. i explained to my boss the times when I've psychically had a child on my lap while I read to them and I'm pulled out of that class and put into another to cover ratios. At the end of each day, they would mesh classes and put different age groups together to release other teachers that have been there since early that morning. They showed favoritism and almost all my co workers were fluent in spanish and they would speak it to each other all the time and in a few instances, I would hear my name which I thought was unprofessional. My boss hadn't worked with children prior to getting the center director job so I felt that nothing about this place was for the kids, it was all just about money and numbers. Everything was how many numbers we had in the classroom and I was always on top of it, but it wasn't always for the well being of the child. They care more about money than how the kids are learning and developing. There was no nurturing process, there was just a stern look and a "talking to" I know of three other teachers who I would see hug the kids other than me when they were upset or got in trouble. I've worked with kids for 6 years professionally and they have to learn to trust you even when you want to discipline them and there was lack of trust with some teachers which then made the kids lash out. Overall, I wouldn't go back to this particular location. I've thought about rejoining the company, but as a whole, I don't think it would be the best fit for me. if I ever decide to go back, I hope it's better than what I experienced here.

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