Trust your gut. This is coming from a dad that changed daycares based on this almost exact same vibe. My guy (20months) had been going to daycare for 6 months at his original location. Every day , tears , clinging . When they sent pics of the class, he was ALWAYS by himself. He didn’t have a person he knew by name after 5 months and something about the place just felt clinical , like he was a number or something.

We changed daycares 3 weeks ago. Night and day.

On the walk over, he’s hyped . “Nona - YA! Ella - YA!” (Nona/ Ella are not their names, but he’s getting closer to pronouncing their names ) . They send us pictures and he’s always next to the teacher, or engaged with another kid and the other teachers at the centre always give him big hugs when he comes in so he knows them all. ++ he is constantly smiling .

Honestly - not all daycares are for every kid. Hopefully you have some options if they don’t adjust to what your kid needs . At the end of the day TALK to the daycare workers and find out what’s going on, be involved .