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Yellow Brick Road Early Childhood Development Center

My experience at Yellow Brick Road has been the worst I've ever had in my childcare career. I honestly trusted the owners to have the staffs best interest at heart and it's far from it !!  The owners are more interested in opening up more location, then helping there directors find teachers to help with the shortage. The main reason this place has such a high turnover rate is that they treat there staff like little worker bees then actual humans. They break you down and make you feel like a horrible person for having a life outside of your job. You're expected to come in on the weekend to get any type of work done in your classrooms. Just because they are willing to pay a little bit more than most places doesn't mean they will treat you right.  They look at families like dollar signs and only worry about filling the classroom with children.  

The owners do not look out for the well being of there staff. In the 2years I worked for Yellow Brick Road, I've handed in notice three times but each time the owners would convince me that things would change. The consent lies about the changes, is what ultimately made me put in my notice and leave. It not a place for teachers or Directors who truly enjoy the early childhood field. 

THE MOST IMPORTANT THING IS ...DON'T SIGN THERE CONTRACT!  The owners will hold it over your head, once you finally throw in the towel. They will try to get out of paying unemployment, they will back you into a corner until both parties come to a mutual agreement and then will allow you to put in a 30-day notice. If you just want to quit, they will threaten to sue you for breach of contract. 

I couldn't in good faith not say something, to warn other childhood professionals about this company.  Just stay away!! They need to take a  serious look at there values and fix it before offering employment to anyone else !!!

The leadership at YBR lives out their core values, and live and breathe their mission of putting good humans into the world and leaving it better than they found it. A lot of companies just keep their core values on their web page and they don't have anything to do with how they make decisios and operate - but I've seen how this company actually cares about their employees and invest into them on a personal level, not just a corporate one.

I love what I do - yes, working with little humans is challenging, and may not be for everyone. But people who have a passion for caring for children and early childhood education understand the daily tasks and challenges. Every day has structure and routine but yet every day is different, with both rewarding and challenging moments. (A lot like parenting. :))  If you love being active, a variety of experiences on a daily basis, if you enjoy teaching and bringing a smile to the face of a child, if you hide a laugh at the cute things kids say, if you love playing peekaboo and reading stories and singing songs with little ones, if you take tears, defiance and tantrums in a stride and can still smile and appreciate how they are exploring their independence and how they are doing what developmentally comes naturally to them . . . if you work well as a team and enjoy customer service and bringing joy to a child and their parent's day . . . if you want to grow as a person and like being in a positive, appreciative environment with valuable feedback and career opportunities . .. this is the company for you!

I have been with YBR for about 6 months and I can truly say that taking the jump and accepting a job here was one of best things for me! I love coming to work every day knowing that I am opening up little minds and making a difference in a child’s life! 

We recently went through a lot of changes within the company as a whole (changes in our management team above and beyond our site’s Director) and I am seeing the positive changes actively happening daily! Our location is still very new and we are preparing for opening new rooms and welcoming new families like crazy... it’s so wonderful! 

Our Director is a person that truly cares about all employees and families as people, not just numbers in her center. I feel heard when I go in with concerns/requests. I feel supported when I need help. I feel encouraged on days that I am run down or just don’t have quite enough energy. 

My coworkers are great! We plan things outside of work, check in about home lives and support each other 100%! I truly feel like I don’t just have coworkers, but I have a family! And I LOVE it. 

Our center’s families are awesome, too! Parents are always keeping us in the loop of their awesome weekends they had together, and sharing pictures and stories of the adorable and/or goofy things that the kiddos do while not at school. 

I truly feel like coming to YBR was one of the best decisions I have made and I cannot wait to watch our center grow into the amazing place I know it will be! 

If you are looking for a fun, keeps you on your toes, new experience every day kind of place to work... this is the spot for you! Come join our YBR family!

Yellow Brick Road day-care center is the worst most stressful workplace I have ever experienced. I came from a previous day-care for many years and when I came to work for this company my mind was blown. 
Managment doesn't care one bit about their employees,  all they care about is making money. They have a MASSIVE turnover rate of teachers because it is unbearable to work for the company.  You are expected to work long hours,  get half hour breaks when your suppose to get an hour. Kids are shuffled around CONSTANTLY to meet ratios and center is overbooked with kids and management continues to enroll new children. 
This company not honest to their employees at all. They have been known to alter employees paychecks to benefit themselves. Such as not giving employees overtime they deserve. And not reimbursing teachers for classroom supplies like promised are just a couple examples. 
They get as many people as possible to sign a year long contract when they start and threaten they will sue you if you do not stay.  Having teachers in contracts is the only way they can get teachers to stay with them longer than a couple months. 

I don't have anything positive to say about this company or the management/owner of ALL Yellow Brick Roads. Working for this company was my worst experience I have ever had in my life.

YBR has worked tirelessly the past few months to turn around their culture. There has been an air of positivity that has surrounded the management team, which has trickled down into the direct staff. 
Managers are onsite daily to help support staff both professionally, and personally, and are implementing new procedures to make sure they are upholding the best core values.
All of the changes that YBR has implemented, have improved the program immensely, and it shows. There are more smiles than we've ever seen before, more families enrolling, more community partners that are noticing the positivity, and overall HAPPY CENTERS.
As with all childcare, there are hard days; however, the support of the immediate and upper management teams is graceful, kind, and immediate. The teams you work with are always there for you at a moment's notice, and it's more like a family than a workspace. 
Families truly make all of the difference. The communication has increased tenfold, and the overall environment is family-oriented. 

It's amazing how much appreciation and love our teachers get. We all feel it, and we all cherish the time working together and with these families. We couldn't do it without the support of our managers, and we are so grateful.

Definitely join this team. You won't regret it!

Starts out fantastic, then goes bad. 

You’ll be expected to work long hours with not great pay and zero chance for any type of raise based on merit. There is zero communication from management when you are needed later than your agreed upon ratio. Should someone call in ill, you’re expected to move kids all over without any notice to parents. 

Most people have to work their day off just to be able to cover their bills. 

If you’re having a difficult day, management and owners do not care. They’re all friends, so any concerns you bring are met with anger and disgust or they are simply ignored. If you do bring your concerns to their attention it quickly becomes a hostile work environment. 

If you’re alone in a room, management will ignore any restroom break sign unless you’re a “favorite.” This happens daily. Our kitchen chef shouldn’t have to cover those as she delivers breakfast, lunch, or snack. 

Monthly mandatory meetings turn into a complaint session with zero solutions to any problems you or others are experiencing. 

Unless you have very thick skin, or can handle drama from those in power, I’d look elsewhere for employment. 



I have worked in childcare for 3 years, and understand how difficult it can be. Yellow Brick Road was the worst childcare facility I have seen. The management and staff would harass me and other members of staff who they did not like and nothing was done about it as all of the people in charge are friends with one another. There is an extreme lack of supplies, art supplies and toys. The toys that are in classrooms are broken and requests for new toys or materials go unnoticed. Children also do not get enough food to eat, and if children ask for more we are told to tell them more because they do not make enough food for all of the children. It is sad but true, most of the teachers at Yellow Brick Road sit on their phones and play games or watch movies throughout the day and no consequences are put into place. I was only with Yellow Brick Road for about a month and I can honestly say it is the worst daycare I have ever worked for and I wouldn’t recommend it as a job or for families to bring their children too. 

When you begin at this company, you will believe this is a dream come true position. It will feel as if you are one big family.
Once the company feels you are hooked, the real company becomes a nightmare.

No planning time, despite increasing demand for additional documentation
Dirty environment 
Bad language
 O management support
No recognition 
You will be
Responsible for all supplies
Management plays favorites
Changing rules often
Poor communication
Dishonesty - my coworkers would be told one thing and I another
Micromanaging 
No follow through
Expectations to work far more than your scheduled times
Lack of staff

No pros here! It really turned out to be a nightmare.  They require a 2 week notice for leaving, but they will have you leave the first day of
Giving notice and not pay you for the
Required 2 week notice.

They also make you sign off on the YBR manual, but you wo t receive it, but you are expected to know the rules.

Yellow Brick Road likes to paint a pretty picture of what it’s like to be at their centers, and that’s all it is, a pretty picture. The reality of what goes down here is quite different. The way management handles themselves when dealing with clients, employees, day to day things, and overall running of their business? Completely unethical and unorganized. There is zero appreciation of us hard working staff who put our whole lives into our classrooms and families we work for. Instead, we are overworked, short staffed, forced to run out of ratio, and asked to paint a pretty picture to the parents to band-aid everything that goes down. Management likes to lie, cover things up, and makes us feel completely inadequate when the root of their issues stems from them.

If you enjoy being over ratio on a daily basis, having your lunch break at 2 or 3pm,having to use the student bathrooms in your classrooms, and not being able to take time off for appointments such as the dictor or dentist, this may be the place for you. Directors are always in a "team meeting" and assist directors are always in a classroom leaving no one to run the center. They will also have you stay and work extra hours everyday, but instead of paying you for them they will make you take incredibly long lunch breaks, often over an hour, or send you home super early causing someone else to have to go into over time hours. I'd skip this if you expect to have a life with your family or children while working here. 

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Child care teacher 3 salaries reported	$15.17 per hour
Early childhood teacher 1 salary reported	$18.50 per hour

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