Mana Bilingual Child Development Center 2

I don’t recommend this daycare center to anyone. Especially if your child is a special child. I enrolled my son here thinking that it would be a better daycare center for him. I felt my son was discriminated, not treated very well, and on top of that, they didn’t show any interest in helping me with my son’s needs. As a daycare center, you have to be trained for any child. Not all children are born normal. The staff members are very rude, and they do not follow DC laws. I only liked 1 teacher out of all of them. The rest just showed how much they did not want my child there. My son has autism. I tried setting a meeting up with the daycare coordinator, but that never happened. If you want a healthy and loving environment for your child, then this is not the daycare center you want to send your child to. If you just want someone to watch your child while you’re at work, then this is the most basic childcare center to enroll him/her in. A child never deserves to be discriminated. My son has a way of eating that is not like a normal child. He eats when he wants and that’s something that was not tolerated at this center. If he didn’t eat at the time the rest of the children ate, then that was it. They never showed any care whatsoever. Worst organized daycare center. Choose a better option for your child.

Please do not send your child to this horrible place. They are very unprofessional and disgusting people. The owner Ms. Cleo is as disgusting as they come. She has argued with me yelling me down trying to talk over me as I expressed child care concerns that were not being met. She has slandered my name and spoke ill of me to my at the time 2 year old daughter and purposefully told her things that she shouldn’t be repeating regarding me. They never gave me receipts for payments made for 6+ months then said if I wanted my receipts I would have to pay them to get the receipts. They opened late nearly every day making me late for work on several occasions. They allowed certain people to habitually drop off sick children with green and yellow snot running from their nose all day long. They also do not properly clean and disinfect children’s play areas and toys. They have cockroaches to the point where my child would see one out in public and say look mommy “la Cucaracha my teacher has those”. My child was constantly coming home with a unexplained marks and scratches, a dirty face and even a dirty diaper. I have personally witnessed these people grab a (black)child very aggressively by the arm and forcefully sit them in a chair because they were frustrated at pick up time in a way I have NEVER seen them interact with any of the other non-African American children. Not to mention my children were the only children of color at this establishment for a long period of time until recently and they were treated poorly I feel because of this. After that last incident I took my children out of their and never returned. To date I am still waiting on my receipts and medical documents I requested that Mana is holding hostage.

This daycare is awesome & great for children that you want to introduce Spanish too. They are very caring and loving here & take their time to build good rapport with not only the children but the parents as well. Bring y’all kids to Colorado Ave NW!!!! This is where learning is fundamentally fun!

I posted a year ago and my review still remains the same. This daycare is awesome and great for children that you want to introduce Spanish too. They are very caring and loving here and take their time to build good rapport with not only the children but the parents as well. I have a 3 year old and 1 year old that understand the language and can speak it as well. Bring y’all kids to Colorado Ave NW!!!! This is where learning is fundamentally fun!

I absolutely love this Daycare Center. My family speaks English (only). However, my son is fluent in Spanish because of this Center. The staff is sweet and loving. We truly felt like family. My son came in when he was around 4 months old.