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Tender Care Learning Center

What is the best part of working at the company?
the parents and children are easily the best part of tendercare.

What is the most stressful part about working at the company?
its a high school environment with grown women. more gossip and bullying then actually caring for children. 

What is the work environment and culture like at the company?
hostile to say the least. and enabling. management allows their teachers to belittle one another, scream at children and infants, basically everything you sign a contract telling you that you can not do, they allow. 

What is a typical day like for you at the company?
being stressed about who is talking about you & causing drama that given day. you are given little to no help from other teachers/management. its hard to focus on the children 100% in that type of environment.

I would not recommend Tender Care to anyone searching for a job. There is clear favoritism of the staff members and their access to materials and resources. There was no support from management to get help in the areas needed. If you wanted to leave early for some reason there was always attitude from management, saying that they were not able to process your request. Clock out times would be different every day, even if you worked full-time and clocked in at the same time everyday. They’d get you out at 4:00 on one day and make you stay until 6:00 another day. It’s hard to get a consistent lunch schedule. One day would be eating lunch at 11:30 and another day you”ll be the last one eating your lunch (2:00)  The schedule was not consistent and the work environments were not consistent. 

Decent Childcare job. One of the higher paying childcare centers, yet almost unlivable wages. Benefits package is sub parr and a lot of "forced" overtime due to inadequate staffing and loading the center with child enrollment. Poor ratio of teachers to children. Enroll too many children with special needs without adequate staffing or training for staff to handle the children with special needs (majority of behavioral needs). Outrageous expectations placed on poorly paid teachers. Management is pressured to keep staff low and enrollment high for the financial benefit of the company.

It’s pretty clear they care more about how an employee reacts to children being in a dangerous situation, than the safety of the children. I worked there for a few months before being let go because I pulled a child away from something he was doing that was basically hurting other kids. The work culture was ok. I basically always got overtime because they didn’t schedule wisely for end of the day. And, the one time I asked to leave early-heck not even that early, I think I asked to be out before 6, I was basically laughed at by management. 

I worked at this daycare for almost 2 years. I didn’t appreciate how my last two months employed here was at all. The director said she cared about my well being, but she never did. She was a liar and a manipulator to the staff, to me and to the parents. I got treated like I was replaceable, so that was when I was fed up and got a new job. I hated leaving because I cared deeply about these kids because I saw them 10 hours a day for 4 days. But it was time to move on because I was fed up more coming home and never wanted to go to work.

Tender Care Learning centers is a horrible company to work for! Management does not appreciate their employees and have a horrible turn over rate! Also the directors/ assistant directors do not back up the employees and care only about the parents/ enrollment and money! They over enroll classrooms and always have teachers over ratio! Never have a consistent amount of art supplies and are always running out of important supplies like cups/napkins/toilet paper etc.

Overall, a decent place to work. The children are lovely and fun. The agency wants to be recognized as a "school" but most parents and public view employees more as babysitters not educators. Pay is decent for the job but still not enough. Always stuck working more than 8 hrs a day which is nice for overtime pay but leads to burnout. Not many days off. Requesting time off is often met with displeasure from management.

My typical day at work, I come in at 7:30, I have circle time with the little toddlers, We do lots of fun stuff with them, and keep them entertained, I love all the employees I work with, we joke around and have fun ontop of getting the job done, the hardest part is being in a room with more than 5 children by yourself, its not easy, the most enjoyable part of the day, is listening to the kids laugh and watching them play, also knowing that they are learning at the same time,

What is the best part of working at the company?
Teamwork atmosphere and awesome kids and parents.


What is the most stressful part about working at the company?
Other than the day to day dealing with children and the stress of that, there isn't any stress from the company.

What is the work environment and culture like at the company?
The best place I have ever worked. (I've worked a lot of places).

What is a typical day like for you at the company?
Fast paced, challenging but also routine.

I have worked for this company twice. The second time was much worse than the first. The current director constantly put her employees down, and the ratio of children to teachers are absurd. Teachers always have more students in their classrooms than what state allows. Age groups are mixed, there is no structure, and no curriculum. Kids are allowed to run around like crazy screaming hitting other students and staff members.

Top Job Titles	Average Salary
Assistant director 3 salaries reported	$17.00 per hour
Preschool teacher 2 salaries reported	$14.75 per hour
Director 2 salaries reported	$50,000 per year
Childcare provider 2 salaries reported	$15.25 per hour
Van driver 1 salary reported	$16.50 per hour

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