A Habitat For Learning at 3242 Beltway South, Abilene

Reviews

• Elizabeth Barnes

  May 05, 2018
  ★ ☆ ☆ ☆ ☆
  If you want your child to be safe and in the best of hands this is not the place to keep your children. It seems like a wonderful at first. The owners have very charismatic personalities, which is misleading. They do not care about your child.
  I thank the lord that I worked there and saw what was going on. Do not be deceived! This place is terrible. They do not have a zero tolerance policy towards violence. If I teacher lays her had on a child they will not do anything about it. As in, “sometimes teachers just have a bad day”.
  When I saw this I reported it to my boss, cps, and even went to the police station to file a report. No one cared. The teacher is also still employed there.
  Do not trust your child with Miss Elia. She does not possess the patience to speak to your child with respect. She does not have the character or capability to practice restraint when she becomes angry. She pinched children, mocked them, yelled constantly, threw things at them, pushed them into walls, yanked them by the arm and pulled them to the ground. If your child goes home with a bruise, it was her, I put my money on it!!! She plays favorites and the ones that she doesn't care about are left to do whatever they want. She will punish them the children that she hates and she will for the most part ignore them. One child in particular was left out of the games to play by himself in the corner. My heart broke for this little boy. He was the smartest one in the class. I encouraged him to do his work and he did it very quickly… I never once had to raise my voice to get those results.
  Every detail of what she did was reported. No one cared. They can't afford to fire her because they are so short staffed. But there's a reason they can't keep people as teachers and caregivers. People of quality can't tolerate the neglect and abuse, and those who do stay take advantage of their power. Most spend their days complaining about having to watch the children. And as a mother of one of the students this concerned me. If something happened and my child was put in danger I didn't trust the employees to see that he was safe. I wouldn’t trust them to be honest about it either.
  The building is in shambles. I don't know how it passed inspection. I almost suspect some under the table pay offs. My last day working there, there was a thunderstorm watch and not once did anyone come to tell me the storm plan. The alarm went off and still no one came to give me instruction. (If the storm had been more serious like a tornado... forget it. We'd have all died.)
  Half of the building flooded and ceiling tiles were falling on children. So all the children were put into one room with a couple teachers. The rest of the teachers were cleaning up the water. When I went to check on my son I saw that the room had far too many children in it. I could barely walk through and I was scared of stepping on someone. I took my son into the room I was working in so that at least I could know that under my watch he would be safe. No one noticed that he was gone for several hours. And when they did notice they wouldn't allow him in the room with me. Their reasoning was that I needed to stick to state regulations; regulations that they ignored in the instance of child abuse.
  The hypocrisy infuriated me. I quit and pulled my son out of the program. We will not be back.
  The directors are very smart people. They know exactly how to evade responsibility, and mark my words they will. They care more about their income than their mission.
  I only worked there so that I could see my son throughout the day because I missed him. And I'm so glad that I got to see what was really going on!!! I care about my son more than I have words to say. And while I don't expect them to have the same love for him that I do, I do expect so much more out of his childcare. I understand that this facility is cheaper than most because it is nonprofit, in this case you get what you pay for, sometimes much less than that.
  

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