Description: ILD About Learning Academy in Bentonville Arkansas is looking to expand its team! We are searching for educated, experienced, and dedicated quality people to continue our culture of excellence in early education. We have been voted the areas best Preschool/Daycare and hold a Better Beginnings Level I rating. We offer competitive pay, benefits, paid time off, meals, continuing education and consistency in a friendly and fun environment. Feel free to submit a resume electronically and/or swing by to pick up an official application. Employment will be subject to a background check, TB test, and drug test.
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| Visit/Complaint Date | Type | Details |
|---|---|---|
| 2023-09-06 | Facility Visit | Fire and tornado drills shall be practiced as follows:Monthly; |
| 2023-07-10 | Facility Complaint | 600.604.1.i - The child care facility shall maintain a record for each child in care which shall be on site. Records for children no longer enrolled may be maintained off site. Children’s records shall contain the following information:A written record of all significant changes in the child’s physical or emotional state and accidents, incidents or injuries, indicating the date, location, time of day, area or piece of equipment where the incident occurred (A copy of this shall be given to the parent on the day of occurrence); |
| 2023-07-10 | Facility Visit | The child care facility shall maintain a record for each child in care which shall be on site. Records for children no longer enrolled may be maintained off site. Children’s records shall contain the following information:A written record of all significant changes in the child’s physical or emotional state and accidents, incidents or injuries, indicating the date, location, time of day, area or piece of equipment where the incident occurred (A copy of this shall be given to the parent on the day of occurrence); |
| 2023-04-20 | Facility Visit | No Violations Cited |
| 2023-04-04 | Facility Visit | No Violations Cited |
| 2023-03-03 | Facility Visit | No Violations Cited |
| 2022-12-13 | Facility Visit | No Violations Cited |
| 2021-12-07 | Facility Visit | No Violations Cited |
| 2021-12-03 | Facility Visit | No Violations Cited |
| 2021-09-22 | Facility Visit | No Violations Cited |
| 2021-05-20 | Facility Visit | 300.301.8.At no time shall children be left unsupervised or unattended. The child care center shall provide additional staff for any temporary absence of primary child caring staff for activities such as breaks, meal preparation, transportation, etc. |
| 2021-05-19 | Facility Complaint | 300.301.8 - At no time shall children be left unsupervised or unattended. The child care center shall provide additional staff for any temporary absence of primary child caring staff for activities such as breaks, meal preparation, transportation, etc. |
| 2021-03-24 | Facility Visit | No Violations Cited |
| 2020-12-30 | Facility Visit | 100.110.2.d.Arkansas State Police Criminal Background Check The following persons shall be required to have their background reviewed through a fingerprint criminal records check (which includes the Arkansas Sexual Offender Registry) conducted by the Arkansas State Police. A prospective staff member may not begin work until the Arkansas State Police criminal record check result has been returned as satisfactory. Following receipt of the satisfactory result, this individual must be supervised at all times, pending completion of all of the required background check components, by a staff member who has successfully completed all required background checks. A National Sexual Offender Registry check will also be conducted on prospective employees. Prospective employees who have not lived in the State of Arkansas during the preceding five (5) years will be subject to current federal guidelines regarding conducting a criminal background check and sexual offender registry check in any states where they resided during the past five (5) years.Therapists or other persons who have supervisory or disciplinary control over children, or are left alone with children Prior to providing services or participating in center activities and every five (5) years thereafter |
| 2020-12-29 | Facility Complaint | 100.110.4 - No person shall be eligible to be a child care facility owner, operator, or employee if that person has pled guilty, or been found guilty, of any of the following offenses by any court in the State of Arkansas, any similar offense by a court in another state, or any similar offense by a federal court. The following offenses are permanently prohibited: |
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At first I liked this daycare. The director was nice, facility was clean, and the teachers seemed kind. After the first couple days of taking my two-year-old son, he started to have extremely bad separation anxiety at drop off. When a certain teacher was in his class she grabbed him so he would be comforted. But a few times when there was just one teacher in there that teacher would continue cleaning and never attempt to comfort him. He would literally just stand in the same place screaming, scared, and confused for up to 5 minutes before he calmed down. I held my tongue trying to give the teachers the benefit of the doubt knowing they had to clean. After about 9 times of taking him I decided it wasn’t normal for workers to not comfort a child at drop off so I unenrolled him. I worked at a daycare and we would be in huge trouble if we ignored a crying child at drop off, especially if his mother was standing there. He is at another daycare now and there is a night and day difference in him. Drop off is great because the teachers actually bend down and talk to him so he can form trust with them. That is what Wild was not doing. My son couldn’t form that trust. This is the ONLY daycare he has ever been at where this has happened. I talked to the director and she told me, she agreed the teachers could improve on that and she will show them how…but they technically didn’t do anything wrong by not comforting him because the teacher talked to him out loud while she walked around cleaning, which I guess counts as comforting to them. She also said the way I drop him off has a lot to do with why he has separation anxiety. Then, followed that up with, I’m not judging you, I’m just trying to help you. I know that is completely false because he does great at every other daycare he’s been at. I fully think he does well at other places because they take time to comfort him at drop off so he can build that trust. Anyway, what I’m saying is Wild can probably be a great place to take your child; I just had a bad experience. The director asked me to give them a chance to fix their mistakes, but I said no because I shouldn’t have to tell someone to genuinely comfort a scared child. Then she said, “When he wasn’t being comforted you should have gotten me immediately so I could correct the teacher.” That was followed by her claim that they did nothing wrong…Now they are charging me for 2 weeks notice- a period of time in which he will not be attending because I’m not comfortable taking my child there.