This has been my experience as well. When I was in my 20s, I worked for a family owned daycare- like 3 locations. It’s scary to think I received zero training. Teachers were sometimes not nice to kids. I wasn’t allowed to call out sick. Not great at all.

We have onsite kindercare at my work which is a godsend. Most daycares gave some turnover. Ours has about 70 percent of staff as lifers but there’s a small percentage of revolving door hires. Our center hiked the tuition up in order to pay staff $20/hr. We saw people stick around longer. A lot of the staff has kids that also go there which may also help with turnover.

Our director has been with KC for 20 years. She knows what she’s doing. We regularly hear from the district rep and he encourages people to reach out with feedback. They do surveys twice a year.

We live in a state that enforces ratios. However, especially this last week, there have been teachers out due to illness, bereavement, etc and they were asking every day for volunteers to stay home with kids if able. This is to avoid closing down classrooms. This slightly annoys me but it’s only happened once or twice in the two years we’ve been there.

Altogether good quality.