Building Blocks Early Education Centers

Pros:
1. Long term staff are amazing, and have become family to us. You can tell they love your child, and you will love them. From the very front of the office (Raynette and Cathy) to the infant/​toddler teachers (Erma/​Joyce/​Debbie/​Angie/​Jean/​Pam, among others) — you can tell these are women with a passion for early education. We miss them dearly. They were family to us, and they will treat your child as one of their own. I always knew my child was not just receiving safe supervision, my child was receiving love and nurturing care when I had to be away at work.
2. Very tight security, locked access to where the children are which is accessible by passcode that is changed regularly. Strict visitor and contact monitoring. Your child is definitely safe.
Cons:
1. Rigid and illogical policies with absolutely no compromise — we asked if we could switch our child to part time and even offered to keep paying them full time for care. I understand they are a nonprofit, but it made zero fiscal sense for them to say no to that. It would have meant half the work for the same pay, and they could’ve had another child drop in during the other hours (for even more pay). Also, their 9:30am drop-​off time is absolutely set in stone. If you have a morning off and want to take your kid to breakfast, you can’t drop off after 9:30am without a doctor’s note. They also don’t take the younger children outside of the building (there’s a small outdoor space in the center) for walks because, yep, it’s against policy. I could go on. You can tell the staff up front don’t have any autonomy to make decisions, which is sad, because they’re logical people.
2. Wildly rising costs. The cost for care made a huge jump while we were there, and I have no idea why. They built an additional building for school-​age children (who pay significantly less than infants and toddlers for care), but I never saw a justification for the increase with my toddler’s care. Your value for a school age child might be good, but the price was not logical for infant/​toddler care. Toys were never replaced, even when they no longer functioned, nothing was upgraded for that age group (except they did paint the walls, which was nice, I guess).
3. Turnover. The infant/​toddler lead teachers didn’t change too much (and God love them, they were the best!!!) but it got to the point that we stopped bothering to learn the names of the assistants because we knew they’d be gone soon, anyway. Someone in management would leave very passive aggressive notes to teachers that parents could see, which I thought was extremely unprofessional. Excuses were made for the turnover (even sent a letter home to parents), but it was pretty easy to see what the real problem was: employees are not treated well. I really hope that has changed. It was frustrating for my kid, because each new teacher meant another transition. It was sad to lose some truly wonderful people, I’d strongly advise them to invest in their employees the same way they invest in their interior décor.

The two weeks that I spent working here were absolutely miserable. I am a dedicated early childhood educator and I was appalled at what was going on «behind the scenes» at this place. It was a mess. I would not suggest that my worst enemy enroll their child here. There are better options.

One of the only places we found with a locked entry to the daycare! Love the staff, when they stay. They seem to have high turnover in teachers. My sons teacher now is amazing! BBEEC goes by the creative curriculum, we personally prefer the abeka curriculum. But overall, been a good place. Nice programs like become a reader and summer programs. I would really like to see more preparation for kindergarten.