Great Beginnings Day Care Center Inc

Good news travels fast in the community. You can ask any parent with children attending Great Beginnings Day Care Center about their experience and I'm confident you will get a positive response. The owners and the director care deeply about the school, the children, the curriculum and it shows. They are constantly making improvements to the school (recently upgraded the playgrounds with pretty green rubber mulch) and the facility is really beautiful and clean. I have nothing bad to say. Keep up the good work!

We went to this daycare for 3 years, and loved it. Recently new owners purchased the facility. At first we were concerned as we had a great relationship with the old owners, but the new owners came in and made some fresh updates to the facility so we said great, all for it. Things were fine for the first 2 weeks......

BUT then they started cleaning house with the staff, 1 person gets let go you say okay there will be changes. I've worked for big corporations and with new leadership comes new policies and sometimes staff changes. My children are my first priority and one of the biggest reasons I chose this daycare 3 years ago was for the great teachers, who had tenure, strong child care backgrounds, and would provide stability for my kids. I went in and spoke with one of the owners about their plans and was assured over and over that they would not be letting anyone else go. I was told That they love Children to much to upset them like that,. Less then 2 weeks later they proceeded to get rid of 80% of the teachers. When I went back in to ask what was going on and who was taking care of my children, the answer I got was we have to do what is best for US. It was no longer about what is best for the Children. I immediately removed my children from their care.
Their Assistance Director can get on here and write a review telling you what a wonderful place Great Beginnings is but I as a parent who had 2 children who attended there will tell you this is not the case. 70% of the families who went to Great Beginnings, have now pulled out. Really a great place, things that make you go hmmmm.

Over the course of 3-4 weeks, that we were there with the new ownership I now know that I was lied to on many occasions. Some little like what are the children having for breakfast and others bigger.

I can tell you that my children started to shows signs of stress, came home physically upset a few times about things that had been said to them or happened to them while at daycare. About the 2nd week of the new ownership my children started to fight going to daycare each day that had never happened in the 3 years prior.
I can also tell you that we were not the only family that experienced being lied to, and manipulated, a majority of the families that were at this daycare are no longer there. Please keep in mind 80% of the teachers being let go is not a teacher issue it's a management issues, 70% of the families if not more leave a daycare it's not a parent issue it's a management issue.

Please think twice before you go here, because in my opinion there are much better and SAFER options out there then Great Beginnings.