La Petite Academy of James Island

Not a warm, caring environment. I feel confident to post this is the last daycare I would ever place my child. While Mrs. Lela is absolutely wonderful , they can’t maintain staff and lack proper supervision. I’ve routinely witnessed children hurting each other and never intercepted, or the few times they are, no appropriate redirection. I have complained multiple times to corporate about rap music being played and personally witnessed teachers loudly yelling at children. These are not warm environments, they are constantly out of ratio, refused video for months but yet advertised it. Lesson plans aren’t uploaded to app like promised. Staff are SO passive aggressive it’s beyond unprofessional. BBB complaints have been filed. When you worry about the mental and emotional well being of your child, that’s a scary concern. Top priority is to find another facility. This place is awful!" Additionally: follow this website for the alarming dhec citations. . https://www.scchildcare.org/provider/350/la-petite-academy/ Edit to counter your reply: I already spoke to your distract manager, your headquarters, dhec etc at that time. You had many visits that failed and I expressed safety concerns until the day I left. This is old news and your efforts to create a new page to delete all your prior poor reviews is unethical.

The children have better management experience than the director. There is no structure and the director seems to only be there to get childcare for her own daughter. The worst daycare experience we have experienced. I highly Recommend looking elsewhere until the management has changed. We pulled both kids because of safety concerns given the current director.

We have been going to La Petite on Nabors for over 7 years now. I don’t think I could ever say how much this facility and these people mean to us. They have taken care of our babies from 3 months old to now 7 and 3. Ms. Shannon and Ms Rebecca are amazing and are always kind and helpful. Ms Shaquana, Ms Lela, Ms Lois, Ms Khadijah, Ms Ashley, (to name a few) have handled all the stresses and responsibilities of wrangling a class full of littles with complete grace and composure. They make the days fun and are always greeting us with smiles and care. They make an extremely difficult job look easy. To us, it’s the most important job. We started our time at La Petite dropping off our 3 month old and crying with worry in the parking lot. Now we’re leaving (we’re moving) wondering how we’ll ever find a place as special.

A lot of turnover of teachers due to poor management. Minimal communication from the current director. Late notices of school being closed the next day(ex: 8pm and 10pm). Same day notices of the classes being closed (ex: 4am). Do not recommend taking your child here.

Our 2 and a half has been at this location since he came into the world. Each stage he’s transitioned to has been met with great caring people and educators. I highly recommend them all.