Horrible - Lead Teacher KinderCare Learning Companies Employee Review

Where do I begin with the cons? Kindercare was horrible, which is why I quit and found a MUCH better company to work for. Kindercare insisted I have 9 , 1 year olds every day and some days I had 10, and it was never the same kids. They were short staffed and didn’t want to hire. And I was a lead teacher, so I had 9, or 10 all day every day 830-630pm with a 2 hour lunch break and if ever I missed a day of work for a scheduled dr appointment they would shorten my breaks the rest of the week to 1 hour and I would end up working 8.5 hour days, which is insane. Your ratio should never exceed 1:11 for 2’s and 1:5 for 1’s but unfortunately licensing rule is that if the majority is over 18months plus then you can have a class of 1’s and 2’s together with the ratio 1:9. Which is ridiculous for 1 person. They assume the older 2’s balance out having only 3 , 1 year olds thinking 1 person can handle 7, 2 year olds as well because the 2’s are supposed to be more mature. Which is false. I was a lead teacher expected to follow curriculum standards w/o help. Keep in mind I’ve been a lead before, and Never had a director micromanage my classroom to the point she would change things and move stuff in my classroom almost every weekend. Would critique everything even knowing she had me by myself! And kept promising for 2 months she’d hire someone to be my assistant, NEVER happened. To top it off she let the teachers run her school. The teachers bullied some of the employees which is illegal and the director never did a thing about it to help improve the work hostility. When the harassment was only being done by 2 of the teachers which the director knew. The director was afraid of them herself, which she jokingly admitted that she was intimidated by them and still let her other employees suffer from the harassment and never stepped in. So glad I found a much better school to work for!