Description: The mission of Apple Tree Academies and Affiliates is to provide professional, consistent, safe, secure and high quality childcare to all the children and their families that attend our centers. We have educated children for over 30 years and operated centers throughout the southeast. Currently, we operate in North Carolina and Virginia. Most ATA centers accept children from six (6) weeks to ten (10) years of age, with certain locations serving children up to age twelve (12). Please check with the local location nearest you for specific details.
My son has a half dollar size bruise on his leg. This is what Heidi McCaskey, the Director at Lionsgate Child Development Center, and Glenda Combs (Regional Director for Apple Tree Academies) allow to happen in their care. This is the third time he has been bit by the SAME, KNOWN, biter. He has bitten multiple children, on multiple occasions, over a lengthy period of time. His own teachers call him "the piranha". But yet, because I was upset, and thought they weren't doing enough to protect the children from him, was told "it's not a good fit". We've been there for over a year, and I would challenge them to produce one teacher in that facility that doesn't enjoy my son. But I have heard all kinds of negative comments about the other one. And because he has a difficult home situation, he gets a pass. I'm so heartbroken that my son is being punished. I have even swallowed every bit of pride and practically begged to stay. But "it's not a good fit" because I'm the squeaky wheel. ????
Do not know this facility but what I hear from friends, it's great.