Hope Street Friends KinderCare

Reviews

• KH

  Kateryna Hrushko

  Sep 26, 2024
  5.0
  This place is absolutely fantastic and safe for your child! The teachers and staff make it really special and caring. My daughter was always super excited to visit this place! Thank you!
• SR

  Sam Rothberg

  Jun 11, 2024
  5.0
  We absolutely love Hope Street Friends!!! The staff is incredibly kind and engaging, and their curriculum has helped my child's growth significantly within the first couple months. I'm grateful for the safe and educational space that they provide and look forward to many years ahead with my children in their care.
• JC

  Jon Choi

  Jan 2, 2024
  2.0
  We had our child here for around 3 months, and it was a mostly negative experience. Pros: very long hours (7 AM - 7 PM) were useful in a pinch, Elvia (the former director) was excellent and very responsive. Facilities were generally clean and nice. Big con: teachers were generally uninterested in and/or unsuited for childcare, you would almost never see a teacher voluntarily interacting with a child (the most notable exception being Cindy, who was really sweet but unfortunately not our child's teacher). I get the sense it's difficult to hire enough teachers for the hours / teachers who are willing to commute to the area. Because of almost complete lack of supervision, our child was scratched, bitten, and pinched more in the 3 months we were in KinderCare than in his previous 2 years at his prior daycare. In addition, he picked up some bad habits from the teachers (yelling) and reported being hit when told to pay attention (it's difficult to gauge whether the latter actually occurred, but it's plausible and at least raised suspicions). One of my child's early teachers was dismissed for roughly pulling students by their arms. Many incidents do not go reported because the center intentionally communicates verbally so as not to leave a paper trail. I do not know whether this is implicit KinderCare policy or something local. Running a daycare center is very difficult and Elvia was very responsive to our concerns, but ultimately it was too much for her as well and I believe she's resigned by now. Ultimately I don't recommend this daycare center. No parent likes to leave a negative review about child care, but I feel I would be doing a disservice to other parents to leave only universally glowing reviews up.
• MH

  Madeleine Horton

  Jan 22, 2018
  5.0
  Amazing center with wonderful teachers. My girls love attending and have learned so much in their time there. Couldn't be happier with our experience.
• MD

  Matthew Dubeck

  Nov 15, 2017
  5.0
  My children have been enrolled for the past 5 years, since each of them were 5 months old. HSF is fantastic. The kids have thrived in a caring and challenging environment. We shopped around when our kids were entering preschool, and we found that the preschool program at HSF was equal to or stronger than the preschools that are frequently mentioned as the best in the city. Our son has now graduated to Kindergarten and was more than prepared. If anything, he was ready for first grade already!