Wyoming Valley Catholic Youth Center

I had a bad experience here with racism. I would like to know what the daycare's policy is regarding racism. I'm new here and I asked a question to a teacher, the one in the third-grade class. I don't know why she thought I didn't speak English, and she asked a man who apparently works there to translate for me. I understand she was tired, with so many children, but the man told me that I'm in America and that I should try to speak English or go back to my country. The question is, which country? I was born here! I felt very offended and humiliated. Now I'm afraid that my twin daughters, who are Latina, will suffer discrimination at that daycare.

do NOT send your children here ❗️ i just have to get this off my chest because i’ve never dealt with a more worse experience. this place is absolutely filthy. my children were getting sick back to back at this place. they do not clean anything. i understand kids are going to get sick being in a day care, but this was insane. i was getting phone calls multiple times a week because one of my children were sick. my poor twin babies constantly had pink eye. they caught an extreme case of hand foot & mouth. the variety of sinus issues they kept getting. they were in the hospital twice due to getting sick from this place. i felt like i was living at my doctor’s office. my daughter got a rash on the back of her leg, still hasn’t gone away to the point we have to go see a dermatologist. the communication was terrible. they never let me know when we were running low on things, then tried to charge me for diapers. i also have had so many clothes & bottles go missing that were never returned. the last thing that sent me over the edge was my daughter got bit by a child CONSTANTLY. i asked them to call me whenever something happened, and they rarely ever did. they never separated them, and she got bit 3 times within the last few days she was there ❗️my daughter would cry when i would drop her off. Mother’s intuition just knew something wasn’t right. most of the staff seemed like they were annoyed to do there job. they had no connection with the children. i honestly was nervous every time i would have to drop them off there because of never knowing what would happen. it’s not located in the greatest area. management does nothing as i’ve approached them with multiple issues. i was going through a hard time with child care issues, but i promise you it isn’t worth it. get them out as soon as you can. i honestly don’t even know how this place stays opened. i am truly sickened ❗️

I have only ever taken my children to this daycare. My youngest was only a baby when he first started going here. I have nothing but great experiences here. My children still go here and recieves afterschool/ summer program. Everybody is very very friendly here. Miss mary is very sweet and works with parents who may be stuggling at the time. Staff are all very friendly and are very very sweet to the children there. My children love going there and love their teachers there. They have a preschool graduation they do every year for the children that are going to kindergarten and its real cute and adorable the job they do. Miss mary and her staff listen to anytime i had an issue or just needed to vent. They are very caring and loving towards the children which is amazing and its an added bonus that they care about the parents as well.when any of the staff see me outside the facility they are always so polite and smiling and always ask how my children are doing. I am glad i chose this daycare for my children because i honestly have nothing but great things to say. I can keep going on all my experiences but ill just leave it at this... i highly recommend this place and have recommended this place to anybody that is seeking childcare.

I understand if you have no where else to put your child and you choose this place. This was the case for me and my baby. Please keep looking and find somewhere else if you can. I had a long list of issues while having my child there and this is just for the infant room. I WALKED IN AND SAW MY CHILD LAYING ON THE FLOOR WITH HER PANTS DOWN! When I asked why, the teacher then picked my child up and took her to the changing table saying they were changing her. This is a serious issue but when I brought this to the attention of management they brushed it off and would not check the cameras to make sure the situation was what they said. And when I asked about checking the cameras the manager suggested I just pull my child out of the daycare since I was so unhappy with them. So, I did. Here’s other issues I encountered with them. Teachers seem incompetent. Spilled milk because the top wasn’t on the bottle properly(breast milk) Put clothes on my daughter that did not belong to her then said my memory was bad when I mentioned those weren’t her clothes. Transported another child in my child’s car seat. Put poop covered clothes in my child’s bag with nothing covering them. Found that my child's diaper was not fastened properly which caused my child clothes to be wet from the leak. I honestly think they just have the babies lying on the floor on boppies all day. I rarely ever saw any real engagement going on between the staff and the babies.

One of the worst places I've ever been to a swim meet. No parking, meet started 30 min late due to incompetence. 4 events completed in an hour. Then a 30 minute delay for thunderstorms. Its an indoor event and we get a rain delay. While we are in a building where the AC is broke and it's 120 degrees. The intercom system sounds like a special ed kid took over for Charlie browns teacher. It's like they put Joe Biden in charge of a swim meet but there's no ice cream to be found anywhere