Kids World Academy Orange Park

The owner was very unprofessional. I was simply just asking for information for my son to go the another daycare in a different county. She never sent me the information I asked for I had to call multiple times. And then had the nerve to get hostile with me on the phone and said she’ll do it when she can get to it and hung up in my face with an attitude. And when I called back she shut me down quick and wouldn’t let me explain and hung up in my face again . I would suggest you not bring your child there if you don’t won’t to be treated unruly. 🙅🏽‍♀️

These people are rude, disrespectful, and should be shut down!! They do not follow DCF standard code at all!! The director should have her license taken away, she does not know how to run a daycare. Saying I didn’t pay when I did, being overcharged, my kids being tought horrifying things that is being repeated to this day, and not actually learning anything in the VPK class. This facility is always dirty, not enough teachers available to assist, and the director just sits in her office while the teachers are doing the best they can with what their given. This place has no care for children just money. If you ask a question to the director, she will be extremely disrespectful and immediately be rude to you right away!! My children’s things always turned up missing or even given away to other students including diapers and wipes I provided daily because my son would just “run out”. If I knew how to properly get this reported I would in a heartbeat along with the other parents that unenrolled their children due to the same problems I had. I truly hope this daycare gets shut down. It is downright terrible

Never had so many issues with a daycare center until recently. Being in the military, we are held to a higher standard. There should be no exception when it comes to the care of a child. I was NEVER informed about minor injuries/mishaps with my son. Did NOT inform me about the fact they were having issues with him during nap time until he came home with NO SOCKS! Then, waited until the next day to have me come in because they were having issues with him not listening and was NOT informed of what happened the day before until I dropped him off. How is a parent suppose to correct the behavior when We're not notified WHEN IT'S OCCURING? Plus, I also mentioned several times before hand that you must be firm and to stop nurturing him. He's 3, I'm a single mother in the military.... The lack of communication and respect is inexcusable and unacceptable.

The worst daycare my child has attended. I do advise that you read my whole review before considering letting you’re child go here. We had recently got stationed in Jacksonville and I thought I chose a good daycare for my child, but I quickly noticed I made a mistake. The first week that my child was attending, I decided to stop in and check on her to make sure she was okay. As I went to peek through her classroom door, Latasha, which is the owner, proceeded to tell me that they don’t allow parents to do that, which was very odd to me..considering that was MY child. Every daycare that I heard of or toured had an open door policy for parents to be able to check on their child, but against my good judgement, I brushed it off. My daughter was 1 years old at the time, about to turn 2, and EVERY time I went to pick her up, my child was strapped in a high chair by the front door. I wasn’t paying $165 a week for my child to be strapped down.. Also, on the daily report sheets (that you’re supposed to receive everyday, but I only got about twice a week) I noticed that the amount of pull-ups that I would put in her diaper bag weren’t matching up with what was on the report. One morning when I dropped her off, I made sure to count the amount of pull-ups I bought with her that day and looked at the amount of times that she was changed on the daily report sheet when I picked her up. One pull-up was missing out of 7 I put in her bag that morning, which would explain why my child was getting CONSTANT rashes. Also explains why her pull-up was always full when I picked her up. She had only been changed once that day. I dropped her off every morning at 6:30 am and would pick her up between 5:00 and 5:30 pm, so that was COMPLETELY unacceptable. Another issue that came about was when Latasha gave my daughters teacher a paper to hand me stating that I would have to pick my child up earlier than what I was. I work in the medical field which means that I work looong hours. I made this very clear from the beginning and it wasnt an issue then, but all of sudden became and issue. The final straw was when my parents were in town visiting and when they went to pick her up, they said she was in her classroom with no socks and no shoes on. My father said he face was FILTHY and looked like it hadn’t been wiped all morning. Probably explains why they don’t want you peeking in the classrooms during the day. That was the final straw for me. I withdrew my child from Kids World Academy without a phone call or anything. She is in a MUCH better daycare now and she’s actually learning while being there. The cost is a whole lot more, but you definitely get what you pay for, and it is 100% worth it. There are many more issues that occurred while my child attended this daycare, but those are just a few. I DO NOT recommend this daycare.