POLICE ATHLETIC LEAGUE OF WILMINGTON CHILD CARE CENTER

My nieces go there they say they have a very good time on the last day thanks Palw

My child wasn’t not watch well at this daycare . He fell without getting call about incident and gave him bad bruised on his face .

MY AUTISTIC SON WAS ASSAULTED AT THE PAL AND THEN DISMISSED!! My son began attending the PAL summer camp on June 19, 2023. On June 28, 2023, I emailed Director Purnell to express concern that there was no permission slip given by the PAL or signed by me, to take my child to Pennsylvania the following day. Purnell replied via email that it was in the packet online. I told him that I did not receive the packet when signing up my son. Purnell responded that the before/after care permission was sufficient enough for summer camp trips also. They are not. My permission ended with the end of the 2022/2023 school year. On July 3, 2023, when picking up my son from the PAL of Wilmington, Director Roxanne Coleman told me that there was an “assault” against my son by a fellow camper – a 13 year old girl. Coleman explained that the teacher asked my son to turn down his computer volume. When he did not respond quickly enough, the young lady became agitated. My son stood up and said “Don’t talk to me like that.” The young lady proceeded to punch my child in the head multiple times. Then when a teacher intervened to stop the assault, the young lady proceeded to assault the teacher as well. Coleman advised me that the young lady was expelled from the PAL Camp and would not be able to return. I asked if the police were called. They had not been. No one at the PAL reached to me either. My son came downstairs with ice on his head, clearly upset. Because my son is autistic, it is imperative that I attend to him immediately when violence is involved, as it highly upsets him. However, I was unable to do so, due to not being contacted. NO ONE CALLED ME!! I setup a meeting a few days after the assault. I met with Roxanne Coleman and Kenneth Harris, the 2 directors at the PALW. Coleman presented me with a poorly written, incomplete incident report. They refused to rewrite it so it was easier to understand. I laid out my concerns to them both. Harris continuously interrupted me, not once offering an apology or even seeming interested at all. I told Harris that I observed his nonchalant attitude. He immediately ended the meeting and told me to meet with this supervisor, Christopher Purnell. Purnell had not contacted me nor responded to any emails since the assault occurred. Before leaving, I asked for the Resource Officer’s information. Harris told me I had to contact him myself. I contacted the resource officer Ryan Jordan and met with him, at my firm, on July 13th. He was very helpful and filled out a report. He later emailed me a case number (Case# 30-23-54085) and informed me that a civil citation for offensive touching has been created. Meanwhile, once the PAL center received word that I filed a police report, they “dismissed” my son from camp immediately. This is clearly retribution for my thorough follow up. They have also been cited several times by the Office of Child Care Licensing, as I reported them there as well. Since care was discontinued, my son has melted down over the disruption in his routine. He misses his friends and doesn’t understand why this has happened, as he was not the aggressor and has never created any problems while attending the PAL center. I have contacted Autism Delaware to get support and counseling for him. My son has been discriminated and retaliated against. No one ever tried to make it right. Thankfully Coleman and Harris have since been replaced and are no longer working there. However, the PAL asks for donations and has advertised plans for an Autism Center. How will that work when they handle ONE Autistic child in this manner? PLEASE SHARE!!!!!

This daycare is very unprofessional. They cut my grandson's hair, allowed other children to drink out his bottle. Used other children wipes on him when we provided everything he needed. He came home with rug burns on his knees. Teachers used his bib as a door jam and 1 teacher asked were we that hard up for a bib. WOW! On top of that she stated he didn't need a bib no way. We were never given a report of what or when he ate, diaper got changed. No reading no activities ever being displayed. It was just disgusting. He was there for a 1mo 5hr a day 3 days a week. Because Im sure he wasnt getting proper care. No security what so ever. I never was asked who I was nor signed in or out. They always had too many children to teacher ratio. I helped a teacher in the building pushing a wagon with 8kids inside. 1 child's arm was smashed between the door and wagon. Im yelling at the teacher her arm she kept forcing it until I grabbed the baby. Not once did she apologize nor did she examine the baby's arm. It is hard enough for mothers to trust people around their children, but to have centers with no compassion nor a care is the WORST! I did remove my grandson. I keep him home now.

Unknowing to me, With the Director of early education being pregnant,Roxanne Coleman. Now. I know why she operated the way she did in the Summer of 2023.! Like every knew mother we try and make the best opportunities for our child land into their lives, We try and get a village that supports ourselves but most importantly our kid(s) . Ms. Roxanne’s self centered and all she could do was boast every chance she could to me and new staff on board about that within a year, the things she has done to revive the PAL-Wilmington. All by herself, no help, etc. Granted, that is fine to say but imagine working around someone like this and there are several other people involved in what they call their “chain of command” . You don’t do ANYTHING ALONE!!!! She is arrogant and from the looks of what I had noticed it was nothing to brag about. Cool it’s a park across the street. She played ball, her son does, so that is the most her Face is good for , inside and outside of the PAl center. But the children need better than just the random basketball opportunities the PAL offers them…..that’s all these reviews say!!! “I can send my kid in there they can play ball.” Okay, but what else does it offer? What enrichment has affectively enhanced our children’s lives FORREAL? But anyway, She was in the midst of having the infant room bombed (rat poop was all over) and also while my child attended the infant to 1 program it was being redecorated (she was pregnant all that was was for her unborn child) She wasn’t there for those children. Once I had noticed that, I knew this facility was basing its foundation on the wrong things. It should be based on teachers needs , students needs, campers etc. Over faculty even the Janitors were spoken to crazy. For the entire summer of 2023, the babies infant to one were not taught a thing but a baby shark video. Tablets slid into rooms with shows……Ms.Roxanne would tell staff to keep my son and myself seperated from each other which was crazy because of how that had even became a thing…I’d tried to give the kids screen time for 20 minutes before lunch and she got in me about it. In the rooms next to me they’d played what they wanted and when they’d wanted. There was no talking to her. Her infant to one staff…..They spent the mornings breaking each other more than focusing on the children let alone individual qualities just Hearding them like sheep(3 workers in and out of the children’s space and youth kids, one is an older women volunteer helper, 1 is an older women ( E…..infant caregiver) while the other an actual 1year teacher. (all ages mixed in). Changing diapers, singing random songs out loud, hearing the kids around this random room, outside for a wagon ride and then to the gym, etc. but no enrichment toward and or for the babies (I had to push for the babies to be read to fortunately a new worker Ms. Shenetta had began doing that with my son after seeing me read so much to my two’s 3&4 weren’t even being read to…but anyway ). Gym time…. Let me had been in the gym, now my son is being wheeled back into a room. They don’t want him to see me they don’t want him in the gym with me. Etc. you’d think a schedule would be shown. No they just take my child’s gym time