La Petite Academy on Kildeer Drive

"The school wasn’t good my children was there for two weeks. They free played every day the staff would let children fight and they don’t keep a good eye on the children. The staff is very rude especially the new director who’s been working for the company for over 15 years. I would not recommend this day care to my worst enemy. Stay away from this place"

"Horrible Staff Here and Favoritism. My niece was brought here and at first everything was perfectly fine. Until November of 2023 when my niece was attacked and bit by another kid. She was bleeding out of the cut and moved to the baby room until the other kid went to another room. We noticed her development started going backwards and she would pick up traits a baby would do. Her mother was worried and asked her to go back to that room ONLY if the staff watched the kid that bit her around her. Comes January 2nd and she goes back into the room with him. Keep in mind she is only 1 so of course she’s going to wonder and she goes over to the little boy. And not even one minute into going to the boy he hits her on her head. Her mother saw it on the cameras and called the lady at the front desk and she told her ok they’ll keep an eye out. Next thing you know he bites her again!! For the second time my sister calls the front desk and ask them to move her to a different room. And then ONCE MORE my niece was bit. Her father called up there to the front desk. The lady did not care, and told him to “put her in tutoring if you think she’s not going to get bit in daycare” her words exactly. I’m pretty sure her name is Shannon. But my sister went and got her and unenrolled her from la petite. Our mother also called up there and the same lady(Shannon) gave off an attitude. And made it seem like she didn’t care for the safety of my niece. This same kid was biting other kids too. I don’t know why these people are still in business. Don’t bring your kids here they don’t care for their safety and only look out for their own!"

"These people are snakes. They don't care about the safety of the children, the safety of the staff, not about updating the building, not about the toys and activities in the daycare rooms or nothing. All they care about is MONEY and how to get more out if you. So if you want to pay OUTRAGEOUS prices for sub par care, you will like this place. The class she was in at one point had 25 3-4 to 1 adult. While the front desk lady and the director just sat upfront chatting away like nothing is wrong. These place is the reason I will never go to a facility daycare again. The Director just randomly quit after they have 2 CPS claims against them. Oh and they have had there lisence under investigation since May by the state and they were put on probation on July 10th 2023. I have a letter from the state because they NEVER SAID ANYTHING! Worst. Place. Ever."

"We moved here from a different state. Previously my daughter loved her daycare. We tried La Petite due to having availability & it’s affordability. Don’t make the same mistake. There were red flags: police in the parking lot once, an unkept dumpster, no greetings at drop of, a goodbye during week 2 where the staff member called our daughter the wrong name. We started logging on to the camera app to check in. We just happened to see a toddler girl attack our daughter& it took staff too long to go over& intervene. Okay that can happen at daycare. We log on later & it happens again! Finally a 3rd time! All in one day. We called& asked the staff, they transfer us to the phone in the room. The teacher needed additional help not a call, she didn’t answer. We hung up. No incident report was given at pickup. Hoping it was a one off situation, we kept sending her. Going into 3-4 weeks, similar situations occurred on camera. One solid intervention was viewed on camera, but we were never communicated with if the aggressive child’s parents were alerted or if the situations were being documented. Shame on us for not getting more involved. I’ve worked in childcare it’s tough. Our final straw was 3 days in a row they logged our daughter wasn’t eating. They logged she woke up from a nap& 3 minutes later she ate nothing. Thinking maybe she was sick we chose to go & pick her up, the school did not call us to do so. At pickup our daughter was screaming in a crib in the infant room. No teacher was addressing her. We never got an alert as to why she was moved to the infant room. They tried apologizing to my wife, the teachers were nervous, saying oh she finally ate on our lap. Our daughter ate&drank quickly when we got her home. We went to change her. She had a cut on her belly, a bite mark on her chest,& bruises on her legs. We sent emails with pictures the same day 11/2 asking for a response as to what happened. They called, apologized, but did not explain what happened. We asked they find out& respond via email. They should have camera history, we never heard back. We waited to see if they were working on a response. We asked again 11/9. It’s now 12/23 & clear they won’t be responding. We reported La Petite on Kildeer to the State of Indiana. We are so disappointed in ourselves & this daycare. We should have removed our daughter earlier on :( She is now happily attending daycare elsewhere. It’s a bit more expensive, but worth it. Hopefully our experience helps you make yours. - called the phone number in the response a customer service person called twice assuring me someone would get back to me… nope."

"My two kids have been going here for almost 3 years. They have so many friends there and enjoy their time at La Petite. I love knowing that when I go to work that my kids are taken care of and treated with kindness and love and watched how they should be. Ms. Katy and Ms. Shannon (plus all of the other wonderful girls there) go out of their way to keep me in the loop of daily events. any issues or ongoing activities. It is a huge relief knowing that my kiddos are happy and well taken care of every day while I am at work. I would highly recommend them to anyone who needs excellent care for their children! All of the employees work so hard every day and are certainly very much appreciated! They all deserve a RAISE! :)"