Escondido Community Child Development Center

My son attends the clothier sight on valley pkwy, he’s been going their for less than a year. He has learned his ABC’s, Numbers, and various songs. His teachers are the best, their friendly and very helpful. His vocabulary has very much improved. He has also learned how to say thank you, excuse me & so on. I feel very at peace while I’m at work, because I know he’s in good hands. Robert, julie (she no longer works there:() & Mariela are very kind and helpful. I do recommend you bringing your child here.

Worst place to take your child. When I first brought my two year old here I was in school and desperate for help with child care so my only option was to apply for low income day care. They’re location on citrus was great clean environment teachers were awesome, then I had to transfer my child to the clothier location and that’s when my son started to have an incident report every single day and I heard nothing else but negative behaviors of biting ext, at home my son did fine I did not have those behaviors at home, had many conversations with the teachers about what we could do to help the behavior, they said they would continue to work with him then I started to get a call to my job every day that they needed him to get picked up early because of his «behavior» I would ask what had happened nobody seemed to have answers for it they continued to say «Bad behavior» as a single mom living on my own new grad and recently employed I could not be getting off work early to pick up my two year old son for «bad behavior» one morning I went to drop him off on my way to work and the teacher said he was «excluded for the day» so he could not attend for the day due to not picking him up the four days prior when they called. They did not give me a call the day before, they did not send a letter home the day before, so I had no time to find back up child care to go to work that day. By far the most unprofessional place to deal with. The teachers are not properly trained to work with the children in my point of view if they shadowed the kids who bite then it should be able to be prevented but even then I find it strange my son never bites at home. I heard it from many parents to avoid this place, but now I am sure that it is not well maintained. On top of all of this I’ve had to sign over ten citations from licensing in the one year my son attended. As well as an incident report from a teacher for scratches on my sons back that are reportedly from one of the teachers trying to pick him up. Clearly the teacher that was never named to me had long acrylic nails on which shouldn’t be allowed while working with children. I am gladly moving my son out of this program. I personally know people who have worked here and there is no background check for their employees no drug tests and no requirements with prior child development experience.

If I had the choice to rate this place it would be with a negative star.
This place does not treat their employees right. The Director on Lincoln, no good. To much preference.
The executive director over all. No good. Selfish and greedy. My wife is glad, happy, stress free to be away from this place.
This place advertises good on helping out their employees with a little extra but my wife never received hers. My wife was suppose to receive $ 50 for each person she referred and never received one dime even when she asked many times.
It’s funny how the executive director from this place called me a bully for speaking up for my wife and the teachers here that couldn’t and was scared to speak up for themselves. He is right because I bully those that bully innocent people.
The teachers here need to know about government agencies that can help them when they need it.
1) Equal Employment Opportunity Commission.
2) Department of Labor and division. (For wages that are owed to you by hours missing from the pay period. They cannot make you wait until the next pay period.)
3) Department of fair housing and employment.
4) Licensing (For the children that get injured here.)
I just wanted add that if you feel that this company is taking advantage of you, your pay hours, or preference (descrimination) I will be more than happy to help point you to the right direction.
To Truth T. Yes my wife too does not come home crying anymore. She works for an awesome company that takes great pride and joy in taking care of their staff. Like I told the executive director at ECCDC When my wife won’t be heard she will always have me to speak up for her. This place took advantage of her. The teachers there deserve more than what they receive from administration at ECCDC. They don’t know how to keep their good teachers. They lost a lot of them.
They need to get rid of all the administration there and just start fresh.
REMEMBER!
Some company’s in some point in time will learn that there will be one person that will come along and will not be stepped on and will stand up for what is right sometimes, at all cost but, it will pay off at the end.

Megan K.
It takes a person with genuine integrity to post a review as brutally honest as this one, especially when it comes down to those who care for our children. I know, that I want to know all of the nitty gritty before selecting a place for my child to grow. I know it’s a conflict on how we do things these days, you don’t want to hurt anyone’s feelings, don’t want to step on toes. But children? They are a precious commodity and should be treated as such.
It takes an embarrassment of human being to create a fake name (you know who you are) and bash the latter AND the child. You should be ashamed.
As a business owner myself, I know that it would takes a great deal to keep my tongue quite should I ever have an upset customer. However, I own the business, I have the greater burden to up hold good customer service. I would be humiliated to my core if I ever deserved a review like the above.
Megan, Thank you for your time, and honesty. Truth hurts, hopefully this will prevent others children and parents from being so mistreated.

This is a low to middle income joint, so it’s not like a lot of us have a lot of choice on where to take our children, but if you can, avoid this place at all costs. They’re already in trouble with the daycare licencing board (you can search the SD Tribune for the neglect that’s going on there) and they’re still just as negligent, despite continually claiming that they’re «improving.»
My child has been bit more times than I can count. At one point, they said she had at 1:00 (one person said the morning) she had a fever and, in their words, «a scarily fast heartbeat,» but they didn’t call me until 2:30. They didn’t think a child with a pre-​existing condition (asthma) experiencing tachycardia and a fever was an urgent matter, apparently.
She’s come home with scratches all over her face. Her incident report said they were noticed when they were on the way back to the classroom and that she was observed playing with branches earlier. When I asked the next day why they would let her play with branches without watching her (she was 18-​months-​old) they changed their story to she ran into child-​sized bushes and they saw it happened.
It’s horrible. This place is horrible. I wish I had the money to take her to a better place, a safer place. But I don’t. And even though these guys are on probation, even though they continue to get citations, it’s not likely they’ll close down. So what will we have? Just kids that continue to get hurt. What’s it going to take, ECCDC? What’s it going to take for you to change and care? Clearly nothing.
EDIT: The morning after I wrote this, they terminated her without warning. I was late to drop her off (9:30) and said that although she had breakfast, she’d probably be hungry. They told me that breakfast was from 9 – 9:30, so I had to go down to the kitchen, which was fine.
And then the director Jim stopped me while we were waiting for food. He told me that he was «disturbed» by my post (meaning Unilocal review) last night and so he was in the process of terminating Athena’s contract. I said that I just felt like I wrote the truth and that they were negligent and changed their stories in many instances where my daughter got injured. He then told me I was negligent because I left her there — uh, ok. And then he changed the story that it was because they couldn’t meet meet my daughter’s needs or my expectations (of her having any supervision at all?). He also says that this happens at EVERY daycare, which I know to be not true since I’m not the only mom I know. And then he told me that they were on probation because of «people like you» who continue to report incidents to licensing.
He also said I was «hiding behind social media» despite my many face-​to-​face meetings with teachers, him, and other staff to solve the problem of my child getting beat up by other kids and coming home with unreported bites and scratches.
So, we’ll no longer be going there because I wrote a negative Unilocal review telling the truth about their absolute lack of supervision and poor decision making. Time to find a better daycare, because I know they’re out there.
Julie (front desk), Robert (front desk), Sam (supervisor), and teacher Nikki are the highlights of this place. May they find better places to work. I appreciate their kindness towards me and Athena. They did their best with a daycare organization with many, many problems.
To the anonymous poster, «Germaine,» there weren’t children on the playground at the time. Yes, I did say «bullshit» and I was upset. I’m sure you would be, too, if your child who had been neglected and beat up at daycare and was terminated suddenly because of a Unilocal review on a day you had to work. That’s cool that the daycare is working out for you — really, I’m glad — but to name me personally when you haven’t walked a day in mine or my daughter’s shoes and act like you know what’s going on is, well, a little odd. Also, hi, Jim.

This daycare is horrible! My child didn’t learn anything there beside that he got really bad behaviors like kicking pushing etc! It’s bad! The teachers are unhappy and will never tell you anything good about ur child! Don’t ever trust ur kid there!!!

Great place to take your children.

Funny how all of these amazing reviews pop up about Marcela and this school after a terrible and true review. My original review was to the directors and people who over see this school not parents or friends of Marcela, who are obviously writing these reviews. Staff and board of directors should take this seriously and investigate.

Not sure what happened here, bad teacher or just a bad school. My son became quite and withdrawn, totally abnormal behavior. He’s four and learned NOTHING!!! Now he goes to a private school and in the past two months he can count to 50, say his vowels, he knows the alphabet by site and the list goes on.
My daughter was fine, but she’s two.
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