The Growing Years Learning Centers (Burlington, NC)

My experience with The Growing Years has been nothing short of amazing. I have always wanted my daughter to attend school here, and I was thrilled when we were able to get in this year. Here are some of the things I absolutely love: Security – The use of a pin to enter ensures peace of mind. Cameras – It’s reassuring to know the environment is monitored. The staff and environment – Both are welcoming and supportive. From the very first day, my daughter came home defining affirmations and speaking them daily, and I’ve seen her learning grow each day. One aspect I truly appreciate is the collaboration with her teacher, Ms. Tameka, who has been incredible in reinforcing the lessons I work on at home. For instance, I’ve always encouraged my daughter to practice writing her first and last name. Ms. Tameka has made sure to incorporate this into her school routine as well, helping my daughter develop consistency both at home and in the classroom. This has been such a wonderful experience, and I’m excited to see what the future holds for us at The Growing Years!

As a first time mom, I had a lot of anxiety about enrolling my child in daycare but The Growing Years has been wonderful! My daughter started in the Wobbler room and I always knew she was in wonderful, kind hands with Miss Alisha! She continues to love her teachers in her new room and I’m excited to enroll my second child here! It feels like this place truly cares about their families and takes very good care of the kids! Very thankful!!!

I can't speak to the quality of care for this childcare center, but I can speak to the severe lack of organization at this place. Hopefully some people can avoid the situation we ran into. We called a few weeks ago just to check on availability and was informed that there would be availability for the classroom that we were wanting to put our child in. That was slightly surprising to us, as we know waitlists for daycares can be extremely long sometimes. We immediately completed an application form electronically and confirmed a time to view the center. After not hearing back for several days after sending over the application form, we went in person to verify that the application had been received and that the tour was scheduled. The person upfront could not find the application nor were they aware of the tour that had been scheduled. Finally, somebody in a different office came forward and said that they got the information and that they'd see us soon for a tour. Fast forward to tour day, we had a slight reschedule needed on our end, so we called, and again, they sounded as if they had zero idea who we were and zero idea that we had a tour scheduled. We arrive for the tour, which was okay. Finally before leaving, we are notified that they have moved all the kids up and that there is no availability at this time.... So, let me get this straight, one person had our application but it never get placed where it should have. Additionally, somehow you never quite figured out that we had a tour scheduled and were interested in the center. The most egregious part of all of this was after the tour, which mind you was 20-30 minutes, we are informed that there is no longer any availability. So, I'm confused. Which is it? Did you actually have availability and just drop the ball? Or did you just string us along just because? We were incredibly excited to give this place a try based on it's location and reputation, but I was absolutely floored at the level of inorganization and incompetence of the staff.

Our family LOVES the staff at The Growing Years in Burlington. Our son has been a student since he was an infant. Through each of his classrooms, the teachers have been amazing. They work hard to create an authentic connection with our son (and all the kids). The staff and teachers are like family, to us. We couldn’t be more thankful for TGY-Burlington.

My daughter has been going here since her 2nd birthday (5 y/o now) and she absolutely loves school. When everything shutdown for a while she missed all of her teachers and her friends so much. This will be her last year here (Kindergarten next year) but I'm very grateful she has a place like this for one more year. With COVID going on...a lot of children aren't getting the chance to socialize with their peers, I'm so glad the timing worked out for her to be in daycare a year longer. Also, the teachers are fabulous in my opinion and they do care about children. I will say, there was a point in time around 3 years old where my daughter would be bitten by a classmate (same child) every other day. At least once a week for months we filled out an incident report, sometimes two days in a row. I didn't think it was handled correctly according to their "biting policy" (expelled after 3 times?) My child was probably bitten 8-10 times that year; but nonetheless, I believe in compassion for others and I'm glad they didn't give up on 'the biter', but yeah they could have done more to separate them and to protect my daughter. Hopefully that kid isn't still biting his 'friends'