KinderCare Education

These incidents occurred between Feb 9 - Feb 13 2017. Although I contacted head office they didn't care to look into the matter further. I worked at Kindercare for about a week and in that short time I saw children pulled by the shirt, shoulders squeezed, the director intimidating, shaming and humiliating the children with her words. She yelled at them. they were terrified of her. The only reason they listened to her is because they were afraid she was going to hurt them. She liked that she had power over them, I think. She told a couple kids on two different occasions (and I only worked there 3 shifts so who knows how many times she tells them) that they were not going to do well in Kindergarten, that they probably wouldn't be allowed in Kindergarten. She said the other kids were going to do great but not them. She also interrogated the kids when an incident happened while she was out of the room. They had run around the room, screaming and not listening to the other teacher. So when she got back she insisted each child tell her why they were screaming. when the child told her that they weren't she would ask them in the tone a police officer would use to try to break a criminal down "WHY were YOU screaming?" and she repeated it over and over again to each child. The fear in their eyes was heartbreaking. She is stomping on these children's self esteem. When they had cupcakes as a desert she told some kids that they were too bad, they weren't getting any. The other teacher I worked with on my last day was super controlling. She wouldn't let me sit by a little girl who asked me to rub her back to help her fall asleep. I started to but the teacher told me to move the little girl's cot next to her instead because the little girl wasn't going to stop 'playing me'. Basically she insinuated that the little girl was manipulating me into rubbing her back, that she had no intention of falling asleep. She also got mad because I wanted to give a little boy a bagel who had come in just after 8:30, the cut off for breakfast. Another boy was sitting having breakfast so this boy is not going to understand why he can't also have some. The teacher told the boy she'd get him one but 15 minutes later she hadn't so i went searching for one and I was reprimanded for leaving her alone in the classroom. She then said he could not eat. breakfast was over. There is problem in their training . they are so understaffed that they don't have time to properly train their staff. I wasn't ever told I could not leave the room until that teacher told me. During that shift a little boy fell on another little boy and an incident report had to be written because the boy who had been fallen on had surgery to his hip. I had never written an incident report. I didn't even know how to fill one out. She just motioned to the wall and said they are there. I started filling it out on my own and then the director came in and said i couldn't write down names. I couldn't write down who had fallen on the boy. I said to her ' well she (the teacher) just said fill out a report. I have no idea how to do that'. Also, at lunch she made the kids eat everything on their plates before they could have seconds of part of the meal. That has been proven to lead to overweight children. she doesn't work in the prek class usually and in that class they don't make the kids finish everything on their plates. They make them take a 'no thank you bite' of what they think they don't like and then that's it. Well there were a bunch of upset kids during that lunch. They wanted more veges and I couldn't give it to them because they didn't finish their ravioli. If I had known they had to finish everything on their plates, I would have given them two raviolis instead of 4 or 5. It's a depressing place to work. There is nothing cheerful about it.