Catepillar Academy Daycare Preschool

My daughter has being for 2 years now. The staff is wonderful, she loves them. She has learned so much in a short time. They do alot of activities with the children. Absolutely great

Found this daycare by chance, and I am overall very happy with the caregivers, director and cleanliness. When a child first enters a daycare, they can be expected to get sick frequently, since their immune systems are weak and have not been previously exposed. Luckily for our family, this has been infrequent. I can also access the cameras at any time, and have been able to see what our children are up to. They typically do not get 'thinking time', but when they have I've always understood why. I also feel that my children are excelling and will be ready for grade school in no time.

My daughter suffered child abuse in this daycare. The infant’s teacher put my daughter, a 10-month-old baby in time out on a high chair because she accidentally hit another child with a toy that she had on her hand. She said that she told my daughter that we don’t hit others and my daughter was looking at her waiting for food not knowing that she was being punished for that.nnAlso, they broke my daughter’s privacy when the teacher told the grandmother of the child that she hit accidentally on his forehead. The grandmother told me that she was very sad that my daughter hit his grandson; from that day, she started looking at my daughter in a mean way. The next day, I picked up my 10-month-old baby from the daycare, and I saw that she was being isolated from the other babies.nnI requested to have the web camera application to be installed on my phone since I was feeling already unsecured on my daughter’s safety. The second day with the application on my phone, I was at work watching at my daughter from the daycare’s web camera and I noticed that there was 1 teacher taking care of 5 to 6 babies. They went out of ratio when by the Department of Children and Families there are regulations that they should be 1 teacher per 4 babies. I also saw the bathroom door open and the toilet as well. The first thing that came into my mind was what if a baby like my daughter, crawls to the bathroom and tries to stand by the toilet and falls into it.nnAs soon as I notify my concerns to the principle’s assistant named Lizeth Velez, she told me that if they gave me access to see my daughter on the web cameras by my phone it was not to criticize the school. I told her that I thought I have the right to see my daughter since this application was being offered by the school. She said that the owner, principle of the school named Miss Cristi can just block the access for me to continue seeing my daughter by the cameras. It was already enough for me to take her unprofessional and unethical way of taking constructive criticism to better improve the safety of the children and therefore for their business. I immediately removed my daughter from this daycare.nnThe teachers for 1 year old babies are very rough with them and as you as you come in to the daycare all you can hear is the children crying being unhappy with the treatment of the teachers. I picked up my daughter one day with a bruise on her face, I asked the teacher what happened and she said she didn't know. They do not do body checks on the babies or reports injuries that happens in the daycare. There are lots of negative things from this daycare. All I can say is that do not get foolish by the way the school looks or how clean it looks because what it matters the most is that your baby is being taking care of in an ethical manner and under the Florida statutes established for the daycares.

After day 3 of daycare my daughter was diagnosed with croup day 6 of daycare she is in hospital with flu, ear infection , pneumonia , & RSV we are now in day 5 ICU.

Very good I am very happy the teachers very affectionate Everything is clean and very cozy the best I found in everything Hialeah I highly recommend it I am happy and calm