Children of America Waldorf, LLC - Waldorf MD Licensed Child Care Center

177 Saint Patricks Drive , Waldorf MD 20603
(301) 843-1003
2 Reviews

About the Provider

Description:

Children of America provides educational daycare in Waldorf, MD. As leaders in child care we provide educational and enrichment programming for infants, toddler, preschool, kindergarten and school-age children. Our community-based schools offer children the opportunity to grow in a rich environment that promotes a love of learning. 

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Program and Licensing Details

  • License Number: 157100
  • Capacity: 156
  • Age Range: 6 weeks through 17 months, 18 months through 23 months, 2 years, 3 years, 4 years, 5 years, 5 years to 15 years
  • Enrolled in Subsidized Child Care Program: No
  • Type of Care: Before and After School, Daytime, Full-Time, Kindergarten, Part-Time
  • Schools Served: William B. Wade Elementary School
  • District Office: Region 10 - Southern Maryland Office
  • District Office Phone: (301) 475-3770 (Note: This is not the facility phone number.)

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Inspection/Report History

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Date Type Regulations Status
2022-05-18 Complaint 13A.16.03.06A(1) Open
Findings: There were two new staff present at the center. The Office of Child Care has not been notified of this staff. Notarized releases of information were given to Licensing today. Staff should not be present at the center until all clearances are received and cleared.
2022-05-18 Complaint 13A.16.08.01A(1) Open
Findings: The Office of Child Care received a complaint concerning the center being understaffed and not maintaining staff child ratio. Licensing Specialists made contact with staff at the center. During the time of the inspection, there were 3 toddlers and 1 infant in a buggy in the lobby at the front desk. At one point, one infant was in the buggy for at least 2 hours. One infant was switched out for another infant so she could be changed and fed. The infant who was switched out was brought out into the lobby to sit in a high chair to eat her snack.
2022-05-18 Complaint 13A.16.08.02B Open
Findings: There was an aide left alone with toddlers when the lead teacher was moved to another classroom. Infants and toddlers must always have a qualified teacher in their classroom.
2022-05-18 Complaint 13A.16.08.03A Open
Findings: The Office of Child Care received a complaint concerning the center being understaffed and not maintaining staff child ratio. Licensing Specialists made contact with staff at the center. During the inspection the administrator on duty was in the lobby with 3 toddlers and 1 infants. At another time during the inspection, there were 18 school age children and 1 infant in the lobby with the administrator in duty.
2022-05-18 Complaint 13A.16.08.03D(2)(b) Corrected
Findings: The Office of Child Care received a complaint concerning the center being understaffed and not maintaining staff child ratio. Licensing Specialists made contact with staff at the center. At one time during the inspection there were 21 children in the PreK room with 2 staff during the inspection.
2022-05-16 Complaint 13A.16.03.06A(1) Open
Findings: There was a new staff in one of the classrooms - the OCC has received and cleared the release of information and has received the criminal background check for this staff but has not received the OCC1203 staff change form with a hire date. Please submit the OCC1203 form adding the staff person with a hire date.
2022-05-16 Complaint 13A.16.03.06A(2) Corrected
Findings: Licensing Specialist asked the administrator on duty about staff listed on OCC Associated Party list for the center - there are several staff who are no longer employed. Please submit the OCC1203 form deleting staff who are no longer employed with their date of last day of employment.
2022-05-16 Complaint 13A.16.06.04A(1) Open
Findings: There was a new staff person working in the classroom during the inspection - a medical evaluation has not been submitted. Please submit a medical evaluation for this staff person.
2022-05-16 Complaint 13A.16.08.02B Open
Findings: During the inspection there was an aide in the Infant A room covering a break for the lead teacher. Center is reminded that an infant qualified staff must be in the infant room at all times, even covering breaks.
2022-05-16 Complaint 13A.16.08.03C(1) Open
Findings: The Office of Child Care received a complaint concerning staff child ratio in the Infant B room. At the time of the inspection, all rooms were maintaining staff child ratio. Licensing Specialist made contact with several staff at the center. Three of the infant staff who were interviewed separately report that on the morning of Friday May 13 there were 7-8 infants in the Infant B room with 2 staff. They report that his happens often in the mornings, especially Mondays, during drop off time when there are not enough staff present to accept the children in the classrooms and complete bus runs. The administrator on duty today during the inspection reported that this does not happen when she opens, as she ensures that the classrooms are in ratio. If the classrooms are going to be over ratio, she will put the children in a buggy and push them around or keep them at the desk with her for the few minutes it takes for the next staff to arrive.
2022-03-29 Complaint 13A.16.08.01A(2)(a) Open
Findings: The OCC received a compliant concerning an infant being left alone in a classroom while sleeping. Three staff who were present at the time of the incident were interviewed. The three staff were at the front desk clocking out. All three staff indicated that the staff person in charge of the care of the infant walked out of the classroom and came to the front desk of the center, asking where she was needed next. The administrator asked the staff person if her classroom was empty. The staff person indicated that she had an infant sleeping in her classroom. The administrator informed the staff person that she was not permitted to leave her classroom if there were still children in the classroom, regardless if they were asleep or not. The staff person went back to the classroom. The infant was alone in the classroom for approximately 2-4 minutes. The staff person is new and indicated that she had forgotten that she had a child in her classroom and did not know she could not leave the sleeping baby alone. The staff person was off today and not at the center to be interviewed.
2022-03-29 Complaint 13A.16.08.02B Open
Findings: The OCC received a complaint regarding an infant being left alone in a classroom while sleeping. The staff person who was responsible for the care of the infant was aide qualified only. The center was short staffed and did not have an infant qualified staff person to be in the classroom at that time. The center currently has advertisements out for qualified staff.
2022-03-02 Complaint 13A.16.07.01 Corrected
Findings: The OCC received a phone call from a concerned parent who witnessed on the classroom cameras a teacher pull a chair out from under her child causing the child to fall in the floor. The parent reported that the other teacher in the room yanked her child's arm and forcefully put him on his bed. The parent sent the video to the Licensing Specialist to view. The Licensing Specialist saw on the video one teacher walk by the child sitting in a chair and pull the chair out from under the child, causing the child to fall in the floor, and then just walk away. The video continued and showed a second teacher grabbing the child's arm and moving him from one spot to another and then forcing him down by his arm. Contact was made with the director at the center 48 hours later. The written statements from the two staff were given to the Licensing Specialist. One of the staff was present at the center and one has been put on leave pending the investigation. The video was viewed more clearly by the Licensing Specialist again and the one staff present was interviewed. The behavior and discipline displayed by both staff in the video was clearly inappropriate. See details in the remarks section.
2021-08-11 Mandatory Review 13A.16.03.05B Corrected
Findings: The staffing patterns posted were not current - they were from July 2020. The director submitted updated staffing patterns in May 2021 but they were not complete. The center has made some changes to the staffing. Director is advised to submit updated staffing patterns. Please ensure that the staffing patterns contain the classroom name and number of children in the classroom.
2020-10-30 Full 13A.16.06.09B(1) Corrected
Findings: There are two teachers who did not complete their 2018-2019 continued training on time. One teacher needs one more hour of training to correct the non-compliance and one teacher needs 5 more hours of training to correct the non-compliance.

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Reviews

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Robert Aug 24, 2018
I have used this provider for more than 6 months

I’ve used this facility for my child over a year now. Where to start, if I could give no stars I would. Within the year my child has caught Hand, Foot, Mouth Disease and passed it to me. This facility always smells like poop upon entering. My child has been bitten by another child and I was not notified til hours later. My child was pushed to floor by another child hitting head leaving a knot. The staff are nice until an incident happens. The front desk staff are unprofessional and need training on business ethics. The assistant supervisor gives discounts to who she wants to. This place has changed drastically since the last Director and I foresee this facility closing due to uncleanliness, ethic violations and bias judgments towards clients.

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horrible Feb 02, 2017
I have used this provider for more than 6 months

I have never had such an unpleasant experience involving my child. the people running this beautiful facility do not care for the children! at over 200 a week there are no fresh veggies, No fresh fruit. the front desk personnel are extremely unprofessional! upon entering it always smells like feces. they allow the children to fight and in one incident the child hurting mines was that of a worker and nothing was done because of that fact. they do not clean ad wipe the surfaces down. a day before tuition is do the assistant director becomes extremely nasty and aggressive! makes comments in front of children and other parents etc. do yourself a favor and spend your hard earned money elsewhere. the behavior of these woman was disgusting.

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