CELEBREE SCHOOL OF FISHTOWN S1 LLC

Wonderful place for my infant(6 mo)! Everyone was so nice and attentive! They made the transition from our son staying with family to a daycare seamless. They had fun activities and theme days that were age appropriate! Would recommend to anyone who asks!

We had a great experience with Celebree. My 3 year old son started at a different preschool and struggled because he was unhappy. I tried Celebree and he actually was smiling when I picked him up. He loved his teachers, Miss Anaya and Ms. B and I felt good knowing he was genuinely being cared for. Thank you, Celebree!

We were initially excited about this school because of all the good things we’d heard, but since our child started, my wife and I have experienced multiple issues. The environment often feels unprofessional, and emails we sent were sometimes ignored. Our child was in the infant classroom, and it was a different teacher every day. On one occasion, our child came home wearing someone else’s diaper, and she experienced frequent diaper rashes. The app used to track feedings is inaccurate—for example, I sent 6 ounces of milk with her, but the app reported 10 ounces consumed. We are disappointed because we expected a consistent, caring environment for our child, but these experiences have made it clear that improvements are needed in communication, staffing, and infant care practices.

To All Whom It May Concern, BEWARE!! PLEASE READ ALL! This facility, although newer and supposedly cleaner than others in the city, LACKS BIG TIME in the child care department. We had our 7-month-old child enrolled for 9 days, though we only dropped him off 5 of those days for care. Of those five days (less than 14 hours total), on 3 separate occasions my wife and I were contacted about our child being “fussy” for over 30 minutes and were told he “would benefit from an early pick-up.” This was the start of the shock for us. Being a daycare center, one would expect staff to know how to soothe a fussy child, not to mention the huge tuition we were paying for this care. After the final early pick-up call, we met with the facility manager to vent our concerns. We discovered several red flags: 1. Management was unaware of classroom events. These are the most vulnerable children, and their only form of communication is fussiness. If management doesn’t know what’s happening in the classroom, children’s needs go unmet, and agitation increases. 2. Breach of privacy: When contacted about our child, the person sending the information to us from the app was not the staff member logged into the communication app, which is supposed to be a PRIVATE and SECURE method of communication. Management claimed to have no knowledge of this breach and did not have any explanation on why we were getting messages on multiple days from an employee who was not even working those hours. This raises serious concerns about how often staff are actually monitored and whether children’s needs are being consistently met if they are not even aware of what their own staff is doing on a daily basis. The most alarming incident occurred when I went to pick up our child. He was lying flat on his back, red-eyed from crying, with a bottle vertically shoved in his mouth—a severe aspiration and choking hazard. This is UNACCEPTILBE for a 7-month-old baby, who is at high risk for serious harm. I immediately removed him from the staff and reported what I witnessed to management, who again had ZERO knowledge of the situation or how their employees were treating these poor children. To add to our frustration, the daily notes we received at the end of the day were inaccurate. Mind you these notes are all sent at the end of the day in one giant cluster and not in real time when the events are performed as they should be (Eating, bathroom, activities) They reported that our child had consumed 20 ounces of formula, but we had only sent 18 ounces with him total that day, and he returned home with 5 ounces remaining. In reality, he had consumed only 13 ounces the entire time he was there. When questioned, management admitted they didn’t know what happened, and staff said they “think they documented the feeds on the wrong child.” How is this even an acceptable answer from someone staffing such vulnerable children? Overall, this entire experience revealed serious systemic failures: • Inadequate staff training and handling of infants • Poor management oversight and awareness • Communication failures and privacy breaches • Unsafe feeding practices and disregard for basic infant safety We were fortunate to catch these problems early, but it is disturbing to consider what might have happened if we had not. Please reconsider before enrolling your child at this facility. The safety and well-being of children should ALWAYS come first—something that, during our experience, was clearly not happening.