Growing Room Child Development

Sep 24th, 2018

The previous staff were a lot more caring and qualified. Some are still very good teachers. My daughter attended this daycare where she was often picked up with a snotty nose and just wasn't in the best of care with the afternoon teachers. truth be told the new management they're under has depreciated the value this daycare once held. too many young minded workers, underhanded directors and not enough genuine workers who ACTUALLY care about the little ones. I have even witnessed one of their staff who works in Todds Two room abuse one of the kids. I wouldn't recommend.
Sep 22nd, 2018

Aug 9th, 2017

This is a terrible childcare facility. I withdrew my son after he was there for about 1.5 years. I reported them to DCF. They kept children on the playground in heat above 105 degrees with no access to water. When I picked up my son, he had heat exhaustion and close to heat stroke (I wont post the pictures). We didnt return after this experience. One of their teachers was consistently rough with my son, she ended up being fired after I raised it with their staff. As a mama and long-time resident of Tallahassee, I wouldnt recommend this place to anyone. If you value your childs life and safety, avoid Growing Room at all costs. I also discovered they were allowing children to watch tablets during the day off the cameras so the supervisors cant see whats happening in the room. The horror stories from former teachers shocked me. Just stay away.
Jul 16th, 2023

I use to work for this daycare, let me tell you a little of my experience. I was one of the toddlers teacher and I loved my babies but once my son started at this daycare it went down hill. They pulled me from my class and told me that my son was sick which was odd. I took him to the doctor and it turned out that he had Covid, even the doctor was afraid to come into the room after finding out. Once I told the Director Virginia, she blamed it on the weather change. In which, the weather changing can cause the common flu never Covid. None of the parents in his classroom were informed that there were kids there that had Covid. None of the teachers were informed that there were kids in the school that had Covid. No one was supposed to know because I even asked some of the parents in his class. Did they know that any of the students had Covid and all of them said no. There were no protocols that were followed when it came to Covid so whoever my son caught it from was just casually spreading it and no one was supposed to know. Once I quit, Lisa told ELC that I withdrew my child, and she knew that I did not withdraw him. She withdrew him. I asked her for a copy of the paperwork of me withdrawing him and I have not heard from her since. Me and my lawyer are still waiting for the paperwork so that we can go over it but of course there is no paperwork because she knows as well as I know that I did not withdraw him.
Feb 9th, 2023