Description: All Starz Children's Academy provides a loving, safe, fun-filled child-centered environment that encourages positive self-esteem, self discovery, and active learning for young children ages 6 weeks to 5 yrs. old. We understand a child gains knowledge from the opportunity to interact in an environment rich in literature, mathematics, science, music, drama, art and movement. Working together, parents and teachers can provide the best possible environment for our children.
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| Date | Type | Violations | Rule |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2023-04-12 | Unannounced Inspection | Yes | |
| 2023-04-12 | Violation | 844 | .0803(2)(a) |
| Prescribed medicine was not in original labeled container or accompanied by signed and dated written instructions from prescribing physician or health care professional. Two Epi Pens were not in the original labeled container with the pharmaceutical label. | |||
| 2023-04-12 | Violation | 847 | 10A NCAC 09 .0803(4)(6-9) |
| Parent's medication authorization did not include required information. One Epi Pen was expired making the information not up-to-date or current and three children's medical authorization forms, for Epi Pens, were missing the required doctor's signature. | |||
| 2023-04-12 | Violation | 1311 | .0802(c) |
| Emergency medical care information was not on file in the center on the child's first day of attendance and/or was not updated as changes occurred or at least annually for each child. Two (2) children's files were missing the required emergency medical care information. | |||
| 2023-04-12 | Violation | 1317 | .0802(d) |
| Authorization for emergency medical care information was not signed by child's parent. Two (2) children's files were missing the parents required signature authorizing emergency medical care. | |||
| 2022-09-29 | Unannounced Inspection | Yes | |
| 2022-09-29 | Violation | 1048 | .1102(c) |
| All staff did not successfully complete certification in First Aid appropriate to the age of children in care. Verification of staff completion of First Aid training from an approved training organization was not in the staff file. Seven (7) employee did successfully complete certification in First Aid appropriate to the age of children in care. | |||
| 2022-09-29 | Violation | 1049 | .1102(d) |
| All staff did not successfully complete certification in CPR training appropriate to the age of the children in care. Verification of staff completion of the CPR course from an approved training organization was not in the staff file. Seven (7) did not successfully complete certification in CPR training appropriate to the age of the children in care. | |||
| 2022-04-25 | Announced Inspection | No | |
| 2022-04-21 | Unannounced Inspection | No | |
| 2021-10-28 | Unannounced Inspection | No | |
| 2021-06-24 | Unannounced Inspection | No | |
| 2021-04-29 | Unannounced Inspection | No | |
| 2020-11-17 | Unannounced Inspection | No | |
| 2020-06-02 | Unannounced Inspection | No | |
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I watch my child on the Watchmegrow app during my lunch hour and I have noticed a particular teacher body-slamming children onto their cots at naptime, dragging children across the room and forcefully sitting them into their chairs if they get up and wander at lunch, and she almost never interacts with the children except during storytime. She fills out paperwork or cleans up the room most of the time. The other teacher doesn't do much more, but I haven't noticed the aggressive behavior like the other teacher. My child plays with another child, so I see what's happening to the other child, too, and my child's friend is constantly being dragged away from activities by this teacher and on two different occasions I've seen the teacher take the child into the changing room and make the child sit right next to her while she changes all the children's dirty diapers. She even throws the dirty diapers directly over this child's head into the trash! The child sits and cries the entire time and she just ignores the child. After she's finished changing everyone's diapers, she doesn't wash her hands and just grabs the child and stands the child up in front of her and it appears that she is scolding the child, and then she shoves the child out the door. The child's nap cot is very near the camera, and both times the child has gone to the cot and cried themselves to sleep. When the nap was over, the teacher grabbed the child who was still asleep, and forced the child to stand IMMEDIATELY and then dragged the child by the arm into the changing room. This has not happened to my child, thank goodness, but I think everyone should be concerned about this teacher's attitude and actions. I am afraid to say anything, because she might start abusing my child, so I am leaving this review for others to read so they will be aware of this teacher's terrible behavior. I hope management will read this and watch her behavior from 12 noon to 12:30. Parents beware!
I wasn't going to leave a review, but all of our friends were saying that we need to leave one so we can protect the other children at the daycare and the children that may enroll in to All Starz in the future, so here is my review.
If I could, I would give this All Starz in Morrisville zero stars. This was our experience at All Starz from January 2021 - May 2021.
1. My daughter has a sensitivity to bananas so we wrote bananas as an allergen in her medical report. She develops a rash on the side of her mouth every time she eats bananas and it takes days to get rid of even with the special ointment we use. At first, they were good about not giving bananas, but after a couple weeks of being there, they started to give her bananas. Every time they had bananas on the menu, she would come home with a new rash on her face as well as the report stating that she ate "all her bananas." I watched breakfast time on the watchmegrow app one day to see if they were actually giving her bananas and they were in fact giving her bananas on the days that they were serving them. I confronted one of the teachers about this and she lied to my face and said that they have not been giving her bananas. The next week, she wasn't given bananas but after that, she was given bananas again for weeks/months. I understand people make mistakes and we're all human so I gave them weeks of chances to stop giving bananas, but every morning they served bananas, I saw them serve it to her and she would come home with the report stating that she ate all her bananas. This negligence happened every week from February 2021 to May 2021 up until the day I pulled her out.
2. Teachers are unprofessional. At least once a week, I would walk in on the teachers talking badly about management or each other. It definitely made me uneasy, but I let it go because I understand people need to vent sometimes. The teacher in Freshman A was extremely aggressive with my daughter. I noticed it from the beginning but I just thought she was just having a bad day and then it turned into weeks and then it turned into months. She would slam my daughter in to the chair and into the table for meals and craft times, and for naptimes, she would throw my daughter on to the cot and throw the blanket on her. She would also yank her lovey and blanket out of her hands after nap time. So many times, I saw her yank my daughters hand and drag her across the room. I knew this wasn't normal when she moved to Freshman B because none of the other teachers treated her so aggressively. I wanted to keep our daughter at the daycare because the facility itself is nice and management was professional (or so I thought), so I hung on to the hope that it will get better in Freshman B, but Freshman B was even more of a nightmare.
3. This daycare made me so uneasy because I watched my daughter get hit in the face at least 10-15 times a day by other kids, and a good amount of the times, the teachers just watched and didn't do anything. When she was in the freshman A class, she came home several days in a row with nicks on her face and I talked to the teacher about it because I saw a boy was swiping at her face and pulling her hair for 45 minutes while she was strapped in her seat prior to lunch. The other teacher was working on her own crafts while the kids were waiting for lunch and didn't notice he was hurting her the entire time even though I can tell she was yelling in the video. It was seriously so heartbreaking to see because the teachers are there to take care of and protect the kids but they're busy doing their own things. We received several calls regarding our daughter biting her friends, but I totally understood why she was biting; that was the only way she can protect herself when the teachers weren't protecting her. Never once did I get a ouch report for my daughter's scratches or nicks; that's how much they didn't care about her.
When she moved up to Freshman B, the same thing happened with the hitting but it was much worse. I could barely work because I felt like I had to watch my daughter on the watchmegrow app just in case something happened to her. Kids were hitting her a lot more and teachers were still not doing anything about it. One time, she came home every day, Monday through Thursday, with new nicks and scratches on her face and I knew it was from those kids constantly hitting her and the teachers not doing anything about it. I called the teacher that Friday to let her know about the scratches and nicks she's been coming home with and the teacher said that she would keep a good eye on her; I thought the conversation went well or so I thought. But when it came to snack time that day, I noticed that my daughter was the only one who did not receive seconds with her snacks, even though she kept asking for more and kept looking at the teacher. She started to eat around the other kids bowls and even got on the floor to eat the crumbs off the floor. My heart broke so badly but I thought "oh, maybe the teacher REALLY didn't see her." Then came Monday, when she was skipped for seconds during breakfast again and was also served banana AGAIN. I spoke to management and they said that the teacher said there were snacks still in her bowl which is why the teacher did not give her more, but why would my daughter be eating around her bowl and other children's bowls if she had some left in her bowl... There were only 6 children at ONE table at that time so there was no way the teacher could have "accidentally" not seen her when my daughter was asking for more and desperately looking to her for more food while she was handing out more to the other children. If that is the case, that means that the teacher has extremely poor attention to detail and shouldn't be working with children. After I saw this discrimination, I pulled her out that day. No child should be treated this poorly and disgustingly. It broke my heart because my daughter has no idea why she wasn't getting more when the children around her were. I'm not sure why my daughter was discriminated against and food was withheld, but from the process of events that had transpired, it seems like the teachers here are very immature and emotional when it comes to hearing any kind of critique.
Also, there were times my daughter didn't get any breakfast or her full meal because the other kids would eat out of her bowl and plate. One time, she had one muffin in her bowl and a boy came and shoved the whole thing in his mouth and ran away; she didn't get to eat breakfast that day. During meal times, the kids are constantly stealing each other's food and the teachers don't do anything even if they see it happen. The teachers don't care to pay attention and do not teach boundaries at this daycare.
3. Management is a joke. Even though I had talked to management about the constant hitting in the classrooms, they kept saying that they were going to move-up the bigger kids to the next classroom, but that doesn't solve the core issue at hand at all. My daughter and some of the other kids were still getting hit all the time. Just because they are moving up to the sophomore room doesn't mean that those kids are going to stop hitting, it just means that they are going to keep hitting the kids in the room they moved up to. Also, they had no idea that my daughter was being fed bananas every week even though it was on her allergen list and were shocked to hear that this had been happening every week. We talked to management today to see if anything has been done and they believe they did nothing wrong regarding the snack/breakfast incident or regarding any issues; they said they reviewed the cameras and that the teacher said our daughter still had food in her bowl which is why she wasn't given seconds. Then why was she eating around her bowl, the other kids' bowls, and off the dirty floor? When I had talked to them a month ago, they said that the teacher did not see her asking for more. Which is it? Did the teacher not see her asking for more or did my daughter have food in her bowl? They can't keep their story straight. Seems like they're just trying to protect their reputation/business, but it doesn't seem to be going that well.
4. I instantly pulled her out that day when I saw my daughter being blatantly discriminated against and was just completely fed up with how my daughter was being treated at All Starz. We moved to another daycare that is SO MUCH BETTER. We came to All Starz because of the great reviews on Google as well as the nice facility, but please don't be fooled like I was. This place was hell for my daughter. She developed behavioral issues while she was at All Starz and became scared of other children outside of daycare, which I can see why. The kids and teachers were hurting her and nobody was protecting her. I feel so bad that she was there for so long hoping that it would get better every week, but it got worse and worse. Other mamas out there, trust your gut because most of the time, your intuition is correct.
We've been at another daycare for almost a month now and these are the things I noticed in the new daycare. They have not fed any bananas to my daughter. They don't let kids steal each other's food and make sure the kids are fed; they sit with the children while they're eating and interact with them. I've only seen the kids hit each other a couple times in the month we've been there, and each time, the teacher addressed it right away. The teachers are so gentle and caring towards the children, not aggressive at all. The teachers actually play and interact with the children throughout the whole day; at All Starz, the teachers basically only interact with the children during reading/craft time which is only about half an hour and then just chit chat with each other or sit staring at the children when they have free time instead of interacting with the children. The first thing I said to my husband when we started our daughter at the new daycare was "The teachers actually interact and play with the children!" which shows the lack of interaction that happens at All Starz. Two of the floater teachers at All starz were great but other than other that, all the other teachers were not very good or horrible. My daughter has finally gotten over her fear of other children and I see her laughing and playing with the other children and teachers at the new daycare. Her behavioral issues have practically disappeared, so if anyone is having issues and is still at All Starz, I would watch them closer to make sure your children are being treated properly. It makes me cry to think that I allowed her to stay so long at All Starz when this place was an absolute hell for her, but we're so thankful we found a great daycare and get to see our daughter thrive in her new and better environment.
I am writing this review because I have experienced it step by step and cannot emphasize how disgusted I am with how they treated a man with a disability and an auto-immune disorder. After running into trouble with their son going home dehydrated and malnourished, he asked how he could help the situation. They consistently avoided the question and focused on claiming that they are not able to make my fiend happy. I have never heard of anyone being exiled from a daycare situation especially when a child has special needs, but All Starz made sure that they were put in this category. I was worried for my friend when we looked at some of the previous reviews of All Starz. For each complaint, they tried to spin it off in a fashion that painted those parents and children in such a negative light. This is now going to inevitably happen to my friend. After witnessing the owner’s behavior with his unprofessional demeanor and double standards/catch 22’s, I can only imagine how horrible they made those other parents feel too and what All Starz will claim about my friend. Bottom line, All Starz is a business, not a daycare, not a school, a business. They will treat you fine if you and your child are part of the typical cookie-cutter Norman Rockwell type family. If you deter from that at all, you will get the warning “well if this continues, decisions will have to be made.” What they don’t tell you is that it is not a warning at all, the decision was already made, especially if they have another family on the wait list that can easily take your child’s spot. If you have a young boy with any type of energy, stay away. He will be siloed because he does not act like a calm little girl. Any child that may act in any way that is atypical, you will have trouble here, unless you "know" the owners as in the case of another boy who bit, scratched, and punch his son with a toy 8 times in one morning. All Starz is a business, they are about the bottom line, not about the child. Parents, please beware and be careful. Please stay away and don’t be tricked by the fancy done up facility. The class sizes are very large, and your child will not get the attention he or she deserves. You are better off hiring a nanny which will end up being cheaper, more flexible, and customized than trying to work in the rigid confines of All Starz with their substantially hefty bills.
I’d NEVER recommend this school to anyone!
I was threatened to be kicked out for breastfeeding my son in the classroom (I asked the teacher first) who was going through a bit of separation anxiety. I was told, “Do it again, and you’re out of here”. (The owner later informed my husband that he had personal issues with it)
My mother called me distraught one day when she noticed she couldn't find our son for a long period, but then noticed where he was when a teacher bent over to move a chair which had him STRAPPED into it! She noted it has been about 45 minutes that he was strapped in, and when I logged in to see for myself noticed he remained for another 23 minutes! I approached the teacher about this and this apparently was their form of “time Out”.
Recently my son started biting, not just children but toys, books, walls, etc. I noticed this was going on during teething phases and also during high anxiety when his father and I would travel (had been doing a lot of in the last month). It had its peaks and valley’s associated with these times but the school seemingly has no tolerance for biting as we abruptly got the boot.
On top of all of this, the owner is rude, obnoxious, and ONLY sees it his way. You are not allowed to speak to teachers to get their professional opinions, and if you do not agree with his suggestions, you are on the “poo poo” list.
My suggestion is, STAY AWAY!
(Don't be fooled by the "pretty" things....)