Description: Shorewood Early Learning Daycare Center is a privately owned full-time daycare center owned by Sandra Seemann. The center is open Monday - Friday 6:15am to 6:00pm. There is a full day kindergarten from September through May with school age class during the summer months.
Sandra Seemann began the business as a home daycare in 1985. In 1990 she moved the daycare into a rented facility in Shorewood with the capacity of 50 children ranging from 6 weeks old through 12 years old. In September of 1995 the daycare was moved into a building designed and built for Sandra Seemann. The capacity of the is 114 children ranging from the age of 6 weeks though 8 years old.
Presently, our staff consists of a full time director, seven teachers, eight aides, a cook and a maintenance man. Four of our teachers are director qualified and fill in as needed. The director has an Associates Degree in Early Childhood and is currently working on getting her IDC (Illinois Directors Credential). The kindergarten teacher has a BA in Education, and is state certified. The other teachers have 60 hours of college credit with at least 6 hours in early childhood. The teachers who are director qualified have at least 18 hours in early childhood. All the staff are required to attend 15 hours of service classes each year.
The staff ratios are: Infants 4-1, Toddlers 5-1, 2 year olds 8-1, 3-4-5 year olds 10-1, and kindergarten 20-1.
Currently, all of our rooms (except infants and kindergarten) have double these numbers with an aide assisting the teacher. These are state-regulated ratios. Shorewood Early Learning Daycare is licensed by the State of Illinois.
The Shorewood Early Learning Daycare center considers its program to be of high quality. Each teacher designs their lesson plans to fit the childrens developmental needs. There is a tremendous amount if care and concern to meet the child's needs no matter what the age level. This organization also strives to communicate with parents to make sure that their concerns and needs are being meet.
Balanced, nutritious meals are prepared and served on site. The facility also includes a large area for indoor and outdoor play. Stop by and check us out at 651 Deerwood Drive in Shorewood, Illinois.
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If I could choose ZERO stars, I would have.
Where do I begin....Ah, let's start with the abuse and then we'll get into the money.
We started going there in 2015, it seemed like a good fit. Close to the house, they worked with us on price, our daughter enjoyed going, etc. It wasn't until she was a year older and was moved into another room that we starting experiencing problems.
Miss Dolly. Miss Dolly was a massive problem. I didn't realize it at first, but she was picking on my kid and she was only 6ish so it was hard for her to communicate what was happening. She would come home a couple times a week talking about how mean Miss Dolly was and every time I'd talk to the owner, Sharon.
Sharon said she was talking to Miss Dolly, not to worry, etc. Well, as time passes and my daughter keeps telling me that this old woman (yeah, Miss Dolly was old as dirt) would take away her stuffed animal from nap time and wouldn't let her play with the other kids and one day I'd just HAD IT. It was enough. So I wrote Sharon a letter, put it in her metal money mailbox at the front entrance asking her to call me and I would explain us abruptly leaving and discuss my balance. That was 2018.
Never heard from her. Until the end of 2020 where my minor child was served papers from the courts. They filed a judgment under us for the balance plus their attorney fees. So this then became a discussion in our home which our daughter who had attended the daycare, overheard.
She began having PTSD. Shaking, crying, remembering what this old bag did to her. She said she used to pinch her arms with her long crusty nails, she would take her blanket away from her at naptime or give her the smallest one so her feet would stick out, and on and on and on.......our therapist told us just to pay it instead of going to court, otherwise she was just going to keep re-living this nightmare causing her more turmoil. So we paid it. $1,000.
We paid these people $1,000 to abuse my kid, 3 years later.
I hope the money was worth it. They must be pretty desperate. Sad.