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Address and Contact Info
Sterling, MA 01564 Contact: Rick Perkins Phone: (978) 422-7222 Child Care Provider Profile Description: Child Care Center Capacity: 25 License #: 291234431 Languages Spoken: English Website: http://www.amazingkidscdc.com |
As a licensed educator, psychologist, and mom, I can't warn people enough about this disgraceful excuse for a child care center. The director is unstable, downright nasty, and only views the center as a business. She has ZERO interest in children and families. Her staff are afraid of her and she censors what they are allowed to convey to parents about their own children. She even falsified documents in my son's file.The director has her husband run interference for her, too, because she is such an obnoxious person. Our child was there for less than two weeks before we pulled him and filed child abuse charges against them with DCF. The investigator was unable to substantiate the charges, but he was not surprised and said that making charges stick in an institutional investigation is very difficult. He did convey that he believed us. We also filed a formal complaint with EEC, who indicated that there have been numerous complaints filed about this center and numerous licensing violations (though the director will tell you that EEC has never found anything wrong with their center). The director is a pathological liar. The final straw was the day that the director accosted me in front of several staff and children, denigrating me and my child as he stood by my side. The day we terminated their services, the director insisted that she did nothing of the sort and claimed that I had followed her through the center making threats. Seriously?! The day we pulled our son, they refused to allow us to go to our child's classroom to pick him up and collect his belongings, and they had the nerve to call the cops on us! The police had to tell the director that she had no right to keep us from going to his classroom to get him. Had I been following her around making threats just a few days prior, why didn't they call the cops then? That clearly would have warranted a phone call to the police! Despite being a very intelligent, well-adjusted, happy child, our son had nightmares for weeks as a result of his experiences there, and he suffered some negative consequences to his self-esteem and self-advocacy skills that lasted well over a year. He still gets quiet when we drive by there. For the life of me, I don't know how this center is still open. Please spare your children and yourselves the pain and frustration. No child or family should EVER have to experience what we did!
