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creme de la creme in Sterling

Discussion in 'Broadlands Community Issues' started by hberg, May 28, 2003.

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  1. Cakimmy

    Cakimmy New Member

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    I dont think it matters if she is a parent, we worked with Lisa everyday and when we see someone on here bashing somebody we trusted and loved as a boss we are going to say something about it. This board is not only for parents, show me one place where it says that.
    We have every right to post on this forum.
     
  2. concernedemployee

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    first of all i didnt say anything about a parent wanting to protect their children, i love the children as much as you do but the way i see it, i saw only a couple of statments about the children, and all of you claim its for them but all i seemed to notice is how much talk you made about lisa, seems like she wasnt the one with the prblem, lisa did everything that she could to make that center work and all you people did was be ungrateful and distasteful (due to all your comments) its horrible to know that as parents you would stoop that low and act like children yourselves. stop trying to ruin other peoples lives because you and the rest of the parents who made those comments think the world revolves only around them. act like adults please the next time you want to get on here and bash people for trying to do their job whether or not you may believe they did or not. now, with all due respect, everything that you have said, thats your opinion, and NOW this is MY OPINION. (thanx cakimmy)




     
  3. Concerned_Mom

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    I will defend any comment I make on this board. My child is my responsibility and I will not have her in a center that was functioning that way. Maybe Lisa did try everything she could do but that was not enough. Maybe Kristin was aware of what was going on. I don't care. All I know is that if I had not shown up at different times I would never have seen the things I had seen. Its when parents are unexpected that you see all the problems. I spoke to both the director and the asst. director many times expecting something to be done. Instead nothing was done and I received no apologies for the things that happened to my child.

    CONCERNED EMPLOYEE:

    "many of you have said that she was rude? well she wasnt, if she seemed stern in any way maybe it was because alot of you parents were rude and nasty anyways and just because you didnt get your way and COMPLAINED alot about stuff dont put it all on her. "
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    I was NEVER rude or nasty to anyone in that center. I may have been upset at times but what parent wouldn't be.

    "and to the people who have said many LIES!!!!!!!!!! (and i know which ones you are!) "
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    LIES???? The state has proven all of my statements to be correct. Call them. The state contacted me and was sickened by what he found. How come every other center in Ashburn are full? Why did all the teachers leave?

    "1) the comments made about ratios are wrong, there has never been 1 teacher with 8 infants "
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    Again Call the state. Don't come on here and tell me what I saw and what I didn't.

    "2)dont bash someone who wants to work because they cant speak english"
    RESPONSE:</u>
    I did not bash the lady. I however and many other parents have issues with toddlers learning to speak ENGLISH with a lady who has no idea what pee or potty is.

    "3)there is ALWAYS fruit for lunch "
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    Yes there was always fruit served to my child. Every lunch my daughter had fruit.

    "4)if u werent happy why dont you just leave."
    RESPONSE:
    I DID LEAVE.

    "so lastly the next time any of you want to get on here and say a whole bunch of lies, stop acting like babies or like your in highschool and go and try to be a center director."
    RESPONSE:
    You can't argue with the truth. If we were all lying how come the state found the same issues, how come the center was empty, how come so many parents have either removed their child or was planning on it.

    fightr4Nance:

    "No, these parents sat on here day after day after day, complaining because they did not get what they wanted. Whether it was their child being given bottles in the toddler room, which is against lisencing/policy,certain food served to them without an allergy form filled out by the family doctor, which is against policy, or the fact that their child has temper tantrums and does not get everything he/she wants, and seems unhappy for those 2 minutes, which is something every child at their age does, thats how they LEARN to do things like sharing and taking turns and being patient. So , when you put it all together, they are mad because the director was simply DOING HER JOB. "

    RESPONSE:

    I find it strange that some of this information is directly meant for me. My child was served a tuna fish sandwich when her file states in BLACK BOLD Print "ALL fish/ Shellfish products will create a severe allergic reaction. Death". Whether or not it was signed by a doctor or not. Can you read??? Is that a director or a teacher doing their job?
    As for temper tantrums, I hope you are not refering to my child. Yes she screamed when I was leaving. Now I know why. She is a well behaved QUIET toddler who barely moves around. She was not the toddler kicking and hitting other kids, she did not bite other kids, she did not run around the room telling others to shutup. Don't you dare come on her hiding behind a name and blame this all on me. Lisa lost her job and it was well deserved. This posting by LISA or whoever Fightr4Nance is proves how childish and unprofessional you are. Its extremely funny how the only person besides myself and the director were even aware of the allergy incident.

    I said I would take action and I did. Maybe next time you should have been nicer and listened to me when I told you about the issues. Maybe you should have done something about them. I told you the minute I walked in that door what kind of parent I was. At least I was honest. What can you say about yourself????




    Concerned_Mom
     
  4. JenCo

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    Seriously people, take it outside.

    This forum started as a good reference for people who are looking into child care & which ones people liked & why. It's gotten a little off track.

    I'd like to relist my question which got lost in the crossfire:

    [?]Does anyone know of a daycare or home provider that will watch a child only a few hours a week? Most daycares I've talked to have a minimum of 15 hours required every week. This may or may not be a direction I need to go in but if anyone has info, please let me know![?]

    Thanks!
     
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  6. teak

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    JenTimC, try getting an old copy of the community newsletter. I think there's a section for teens who post babysitting service.

    Wow this Creme de la creme thread is getting out of hand.

    -Teak
     
  7. Bubbaboog

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    My child has been enrolled at CWLC in the Broadland's for over 18 mos now. I have to admit that it does bother me that there is a non-english speaking teacher in his room. However, that would be my only complaint. I feel that Lisa has done a great job thus far. Every morning when I come to drop my child off, I am always greeted with a smiling face and the reassurance that my son will be in the hands of people who care. I love all the teachers that I've met. And of course there is going to be high turn-around, but what can you expect when the teachers are still being paid on a 1975 wage scale? Any parents out there looking for daycare, I'm not</u> going to say not to enroll your child at this center, just keep in mind that it is going through very serious changes, including teacher changes since a lot of them don't agree with the termination of Lisa. And I can't help but understand their frustration. Good Luck to all you girls actively seeking new employment and I hope you're able to find a boss that will treat you with as much respect and admiration that Lisa did.:)
     
  8. Surprised Mom

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    I agree with you, this is getting way too personal and very distasteful. Let's definately try to keep personal feelings out of this. By the way, Concerned Mom, you are directing comments directly to Lisa. She is a personal friend of mine and I have discussed this website with her. She has not put one single comment on here. The people who have made comments are employees and parents.

     
  9. fightr4Nance

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    Concerned_Mom, I was just wondering, when did you EVER see your child being served tuna? Just because they served it at the center, does not mean your child received it. Also, I was not directing the comment about fits towards you and your daughter. Your daughter was very sweet, but you never seemed to give many people a chance.



    No matter what any supporters of Lisa do or say, we can not get her back into the center. So, lets do the site a favor and kinda keep it on the light side as far as bashing goes. it is ashame that when these few select people were bashing Lisa, it was jjuusstt fine. However, when we are voicing our opinions and trying to defend our side, it just so happens to overpower the amount of talk against Lisa, so now we have to keep it quiet and clean. Whatever the site wants, I'll abide to. I am not about to abuse this right, at least this was the only way to get the chance to defend ourselves, since most of the parents could only have the guts to do it this way, when nobody could defend for themselves until it was too late.
     
  10. concernedemployee

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    to EVERYONE (meaning the 3 or 4 parents plus 2 staff members): concerned mom im not goin to even bother with a respond about that. you obivously could care less what me and the other GOOD employees have to say. and another thing stop acting like the comments i made were only directed at you, they were directed at the other 3 or 4 parents and 2 employees. as for your daughetr, we did nothing to her, we liked her very much and was a very sweet little girl. i wish her the best.

    Again like i said, i know you all could care less, but we all have are own opinions just like all the rest of you and for all of you to sit there and act like me and my co workers can have no say in this, like are feelings dont matter is very ignorant. we workred with lisa everyday and loved her as a person and a director. we saw nothing wrong with the way she did her job. With all due respect,the few of you need to stop speaking for EVERYONE! you would probably be surprised to know how many parents ive talked to that are very upset and hurt by what happened. like i said before, not everyone felt or feels the way that you guys do. so dont make US all out to be the bad guys because we're not AND NEITHER WAS LISA!. we all work very very hard everyday that we are there. enough of the drama. it happened, its over, it done. lets all just get on with our lives instead of getting on here and creating more problems/drama. im done, ive finished all that ive had to say.
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  11. Concerned_Mom

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    I am not insulting the director as a person or as a mother. I am not stating that she was not a loving caregiver. As a director, it is your job to speak to parents and fix the concerns they have. Maybe the director did talk to Kristin but if that was not working the director should have went to someone higher up. I am sure it was not an easy job but all of this comes with the responsibility of being the director of a daycare.
    I did try my hardest to give this center a chance. I did speak multiple times to the director and the asst. director and nothing was done. Nothing changed.
    I never stated that all the teachers there were bad. I actually thought some of you were wonderful and I am sad to hear that this has caused problems for everyone. But as a parent and someone who believes that all childcare should be a priority something needed to happen. There are no second chances when it comes to little children.

    "Concerned_Mom, I was just wondering, when did you EVER see your child being served tuna? Just because they served it at the center, does not mean your child received it. "

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    I was told she was given a tuna fish sandwich. I asked what she ate for lunch and the teacher said "tuna sandwich". When I freaked out is only when the teacher found out about the allergies. Again this was not the teachers fault. The teacher should have been told about my daughters allergies and how serious they were.


    Anyways, You are all correct. This is not the place to be constantly complaining. My first intention was to inform the parents about things they may not have known about. Even though all the statements I made are correct I do wish all the teachers the best. Some of your are wonderful people.

    For the people looking for part-time childcare. Check out the ads in the Easterner(comes in the mail). There are plenty of people in Ashburn that have part-time rates. You can also call the county you live in for registered home child care.

    Concerned_Mom
     
  12. xianghua71

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    Having to face with the dilemma of sending my first born to a daycare center was very difficult. The Chesterbrook Academy in Cascades was the first one that we visited and it has been my son's school since he was a year and a half. His friends are kids he knows for 4 years. His class only lose kids when they move to another city not because the parents pulled them out. The staff is very caring and the Principal and Assistant Principal are very good to the kids, parents, and staff. When we moved to Ashburn last Thanksgiving, it was a very difficult decision for us but we thought that commuting him to Sterling was the best for him even though my husband and I both work here. There are parents from Leesburg who commute their kids to this school. The reason we did this is very simple. We couldn't find a daycare center that gave us the warm and fuzzies the way Cascades Chesterbrook did.

    As of last week, my son started at the Ashburn Chesterbrook. I know and heard all of the issues about this school. I have seen them myself because I did my own research. But the Assistant Principal of Cascades Chesterbrook was recently promoted to Principal in Ashburn. We really like him and my son is very comfortable with the idea that Mr. Ed will be at his new school. My husband and I are very aware of the issues that needs to be addressed and we have shared them with Ed. We trust that he can make the improvements we hope for.

    So far my son has been very happy with his new school. So if you are looking for one, try talking to Ed and check out the Chesterbrook in Ashburn off Hemingway in Farmwell Hunt.
     
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