La Petite Academy

ABSOLUTELY HORRIBLE. My two year old daughter went here for 6 months and it was a terrible experience we took her out of here and put her in a new daycare and she has been thriving ever since then. She was coming home every single day with random bruises, cuts and scratches. Not just little cuts and scratches, big cuts and big scratches. One her face, body, back, stomach etc... The teachers would have NO explaination for how they happened and would act surprised when I mentioned it to them. My daughter was speech delayed so she was not able to articulate to me what was going on which did not help the situation. She would be picked up on multiple occasions with soaking wet diapers, dirty diapers that she had been sitting in for so long that she would get terrible diaper rashes. She was neglected to say the least. I would HIGHLY recommend not sending your child there. I made multiple complaints to the highest person in charge about the terrible mistreatment my daughter was receiving and she was very nice about it, I will say that. Once we switched my daughter schools she has not came with one single bruise, cut, scratch or dirty/wet diaper. Every time I pick her up she is in a perfectly dry diaper.

My daughter has attended this La Petite for over a year now and I love it. The thing that really attracted me to this one is the diversity that I saw in the students and staff. As the mother of a biracial, bilingual child I was glad to find a place where I knew teachers would be empathetic to her needs and where she could learn to embrace the diversity of others. Last year her teacher was from Holland and bilingual, this year one of her teachers is Arabic and bilingual, and besides the mainstream American students she has class with Hindi, Nigerian, and European students. I did not want my daughter to grow up believing that she is supposed to be blonde-haired and blue-eyed (like all of the kids in her previous day cares) so now I found a place where I know multicultural education can be started from an early age. This is all aside from the fact that all of the staff has been very caring and kind to her and our family.