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June 2025 by Juniper-Abdul Hampton
The highest turnover rate, micro aggression towards black workers and kids, theyre feeding undercooked food to the kids and saying its safe
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April 2025 by LeighAnn Biesman
If you want to be repeatedly told by a group of adults that undesirable behavior in a child is the child’s problem, this is the place for you! Heed the negative reviews.
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April 2025 by Juliet Gilbert
WARNING!!!
Despite advertising themselves as a learning center, there is absolutely no structured education or curriculum provided. Children are left to entertain themselves with little to no meaningful engagement, which is incredibly disappointing for a facility that claims to support early development.
They assure parents they use positive reinforcement, but in reality, timeouts are frequently used as punishment—completely contradicting their policies. On top of that, my child was left in wet or soiled clothes multiple times throughout the day, which is both neglectful and unhygienic.
Even worse, many of the glowing reviews were written by parents in exchange for tuition discounts, which feels incredibly dishonest and manipulative.
Rather than working with children who may need a little extra guidance, they kick them out, showing no patience, compassion, or commitment to individual growth. In addition, they will terminate care in you don’t abide by their flawed mental evaluations for your child, they will continually pressure you to seek special education services.
Admin and staff behavior is a major red flag. There have been troubling instances of both physical and verbal abuse by certain teachers, which are either ignored or brushed off by management. I’ve personally been victim to Directors yelling at me in front of my child—completely unprofessional and emotionally harmful to everyone involved.
The only saving grace in that entire place is Teacher Danni. She is truly a beam of light in an otherwise dark and toxic environment—kind, patient, and genuinely invested in the children. It’s heartbreaking that someone so wonderful is stuck in such a poorly managed facility.
If you care about your child’s safety, emotional well-being, and early development, I strongly urge you to look elsewhere
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April 2025 by Cassie Carabellese
This place is so unprofessional, yelling at parents while kids can hear is so inappropriate and while I understand certain situations call for action I believe it to be so unbelievably unfair to kick out a child without trying to help and teach them as teachers that's your job.
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February 2025 by Aeryn King
We absolutely love Family Circle! We've been there over a year now. We feel sooo lucky to have found it when our Nanny Share wasnt working out for us anymore. The teachers and staff are incredibly warm, caring, and attentive, making it a wonderful place for my daughter to learn and grow.she always runs right to them in the mornings for a hug. We have a whole gallery wall in our kitchen now from creative art projects she does. (She's 2) Our friends and family are always impressed her how well she talks and counts and how much she knows at such a young age and we know it's partly because she's at school playing and learning during the day while we have to work.
The center is clean, well-organized, and communicates with us reall well through the Brightwheel app. I also appreciate that they use the Creative Curriculum and have thoughtful family style meals.
I have worked in Educatiom for over 20 years and I was really nervous about finding a loving and safe program for my little. It gives me so much peace of mind knowing she is in such good hands. If you're looking for a loving and enriching child care center, I highly recommend Family Circle.
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November 2024 by Bianca Orellana Fuentes
When I needed to return to work I needed to ensure my son was going to be safe, supported and surrounded by loving people and providing the best resources for his development. I had toured many daycares in the Renton area and Family Circle Learning Center was one and only daycare that made me feel secure to return to work. It has now been more than four years and my son loves going to his daycare. They provide many resources, have a diverse staff and they have long standing staff with many years of experience. They are involved with community and have been part of the community for many years. There are even parents who have gone to the daycare as kids and now get to bring they own children to experience the wonderful benefits of daycare. They focus on the childrens development and have great routines along with projects for the children. The children are also in classes separated by their age and provided curriculum that is designated for their age group/development.
My son loves the schools hotdogs, he made me return him to class after a dentist visit because he did not want to miss his lunch and his afternoon class project.
If you contemplating on enrolling your child to a daycare, I encourage you to tour daycares and ESPECIALLY tour Family Circle Learning Center. My son is confident in class, loves all the staff and loves the hot dogs more than a day off from class.
As a parent, I feel secure and supported by the staff and I am confident when you tour FCLC you will get to experiece what I briefly shared in this review.
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November 2024 by william montgomery
Our son has been at Family Circle for over 4 years and our experience has been great. The staff have always been helpful, caring, and have treated our son as an individual throughout his development. They’re always finding ways to involve families as well. We highly recommend family circle!
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August 2024 by Ricarda Gitonga
I had my children at this school for nearly a year, and everything was going well until they decided to change my son's teacher. That’s when our problems started they diagnosed my son with a developmental delay, despite not having the qualifications for such a diagnosis. Soon after, the school seemed to place all the blame on my son. He began telling me how he was being picked on, and at one point, he was taken to another teacher who would yell at him. I raised these concerns with the administration, but their response was merely that they had spoken to the involved parties and assured me it wouldn’t happen again. This is completely unacceptable! I strongly advise against enrolling your children here. They do not address parental concerns, fail to collaborate on resolving issues, and exhibit poor communication and unprofessionalism.
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August 2024 by dean'zah pacheco
I hear so much bad things from them to the point i feel its my responsibility to leave a review. If it could i would rate this place -10/10 i would. They have the worst teachers, communication is horrible and administrators never inform parents of change and when children are hurt.
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January 2024 by Moonlight
I remember being a kid here and they would only allow one book during nap time which was lame for kids like me who couldn't sleep. However from the bits and pieces of my experience that I still remember, it wasn't too bad. Shout-out to that lady who taught us a polish song about a cat
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December 2023 by chaotic cat
I remember being a kid here and they would only allow one book during nap time which was lame for kids like me who couldn't sleep. However from the bits and pieces of my experience that I still remember, it wasn't too bad. Shout-out to that lady who taught us a polish song about a cat
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December 2023 by Dana
I remember being a kid here and they would only allow one book during nap time which was lame for kids like me who couldn't sleep. However from the bits and pieces of my experience that I still remember, it wasn't too bad. Shout-out to that lady who taught us a polish song about a cat
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November 2023 by Brittany G.
We've been at FCLC since April 2021. I was able to work from home with my daughter during covid but started her in the toddler room. Our son then started in the infant room in November 2021. Overall, we've been happy and have had some really great teachers, plus met other families and daycare besties. Pros and cons to all centers. We love that it's location is close to our house and they serve breakfast and lunch. They use an app called Dojo for communication and photos. Not all teachers post as many pictures but I'd rather them be present and hands on. Sometimes communication can be better but I'm an over communicator. I believe they really do try and they care, that's a reason we're still here.
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March 2023 by Terra Maxwell
My daughter attends this daycare and they are absolutely amazing. They take great care of her, she’s learned a ton and they have great cooks in the kitchen. She is always raving about how good her lunches are! We will miss them when she starts kindergarten next year!
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December 2022 by Marissa Reyes
My children (3&6) had an amazing experience here I was very comfortable leaving them especially being away from my hometown they made my kids feel welcomed which put me at ease and if there was ever an incident they were very communicative with me and attentive with them. I can’t thank the staff and especially my children’s teachers for the amount of support and love they gave for the year my kids attended. Unfortunately, we relocated but i whole heartedly recommend Family Circle ?
