Becky Gates Children's Center Review

Becky Gates Children Center is the best day care facility my children have attended - hands down. Everyone - from administrative staff to teachers to student workers are professional, engaging, and caring. We have been sending our children through this center for six years and at this point feel like the people who work here are part of our family. I am so impressed with the patience and love shown my children and the timely and transparent communication from administration at all times. The teachers are AMAZING! There is very low turnover so many of the teachers have had more than one of my kiddos. The curriculum is fantastic - our oldest was so beyond prepped for kindergarten when he started because of how much they work with the kids. I love the project approach they use (having the kids direct what they want to learn about and modifying lesson plans around what most interests the children). I love the constant communication between the teachers and myself - I always feel like I know what is going on. I especially like how engaged everyone is from the top down. When we get to the Center we are greeted by name by everyone we encounter - from the Director to the student workers. Everyone is unfailingly polite and kind. If I could recommend this Center at more than 5 stars I would - they are literally the best.

A full staff of capable, brilliant, and joyful educators. I'm so grateful to have my child enrolled at this school.

If you are able to get in. I promise you won't regret it!

I just want to say how thankful I am as a Mother to have the ability to trust the staff and teachers at Becky Gates Children s Center. My son absolutely loves going to school and loves his teachers. Within the two weeks that my son has attended, my husband and I have seen his level of confidence increase drastically. I am grateful to each and everyone of the staff members / teachers that work together as a team to ensure that my son is being taken care of while I am at work. My husband and I are so very grateful and at peace with our decision for Jace to attend Becky Gates Children's Center. 10/10 recommend!!!!!!!!!!

Absolutely love this center. The teachers are passionate about the teaching and development of their students. We had an amazing experience

Close to school, easy access, clean and solid curriculum. Waiting list could be very long (more than 18 months) in some cases for ages between 1-2 years.

My experiences might be only true for small age toddlers. I believe they might keep kids cleaner. In general, all kids were dirty in the same classroom with running nose and dirty clothes, before eating and/ or playing, they could use bibs to keep clothes clean.
Also, student workers are not doing their jobs properly, i have seen several times that teachers were leaving the responsibility to student workers at the later time of the day lets say after 3:00-4:00 pm. One day i picked up my kid while student workers were watching the kids outside, and they even did not realize that I picked my kid, they were chatting among themselves instead of watching the kids. Also, two times my kid hit her head while student workers were taking her to potty.
Most of the activities are just to fill the time, for example, even during cold days, they were spending time outside, i have been seeing my kid just sitting outside not playing at all. They were in general sick because of this.
Social activities also were poorly designed, kids were playing with themselves and were not encouraged to play together.
If you ask a question for teachers, they might get offended which is not a professional behavior. If your kid loves one of the teachers, the other can jealous.
As usual, one day, we went to the center to pick my daughter. She was sitting on a student worker lap and she looked pale. Once she saw me, she started to cry, she was very fussy in the car and she did not eat anything at home and she threw up several times at home. We scheduled an appointment immediately with a doctor the next day and i was trying to learn from teachers what she ate that day through e-mail, I never got a reply. She did not go to school for a week, two-three days later, when I went to school to pick up her clothes, I asked face to face the same questions to one of the teachers to learn what happened to my daughter (who was not able to speak with me) because she was very happy in the morning of that day. The teacher took my questions personally and got angry with me.
Then, the same teacher started to behave differently to my daughter. If i was wrong and i believe i was not, then, i do not know why my daughter deserved such behaviors, you do not expect a childish behavior from a teacher who you trust and give a responsibility to take care your love ones. Then, my mind was always there, i was always thinking how my daughter was getting treated in the center. Especially, if a teacher is also a mother, i thought that they may understand me better, but it was not the case for me. while i was seeking an answer about my kid, i was staying silent since i did not want to damage my kids psychology more. Because after this specific experience, maybe because she threw up or maybe she got a different treatment at school, she became very reluctant to go to school. But my mother feelings are telling me that it was the difference in treatment, since she started to pronounce the name of the teachers less at home. And my questions were around "what she ate that day?"
Other teachers might be better in the center, but based on my experiences I believe that the teachers that i had to deal with was not professional.
My general experience is teachers are not professional and responsible, they do not stay all time with kids (7:30 till 5:30). Student workers are very immature in general. I do not recommend this place for kids between 1 to 2.5 years for sure.