D Scott Hudgens, Jr – Early Education Center

It turns out that it’s hard to be objective about the place your child spends most of his day. If you hate the place, then hopefully you’ve taken your child out of it – if you love the place, then your child stays. There’s really no middle ground to it.
I love this place.
After months of searching through various day care places we put this place at the top and signed up for the waiting list. Within a few months they found a spot for our kid in a group that was slightly older than we felt he should have been in — but they reassured us that they’d monitor his adjustment and if it didn’t work out they’d bump him down to the lower group.
Fortunately the kid adjusted well to the older group and two years later he’s still thriving at Hudgens.
One of the primary reasons we chose Hudgens is because it’s a ‘teaching’ daycare facility. Being attached to the Gwinnett Tech college they serve as a model for students taking early education and child development courses. To be clear — they have to maintain the same non-​student teachers/​caretakers that any other daycare has to maintain BUT they also have additional staff in the form of students in a learning environment. So every 3 or 4 months I see some of the aux caretakers change out but my kid’s core teachers always stay the same.
This is good because a kid like mine craves consistency — over the three years of classes he’s been in there has only been one incident where we felt the turnover was becoming an issue (main teacher went on maternity leave and subs moved in and out fairly regularly) — we mentioned something to the management and they addressed the issue. Another plus — they listen to parent input.
A side benefit of being at Hudgens is the access to state-​provided pre-​k when your child gets a little older — the kids who are already there get first pick of the limited lottery funded seats.
Year in and out, through three sets of teachers — our child has grown at Hudgens. He has always been cared for and we’ve never questioned our decision to have them care for him during the day. I’d recommend this place to anyone.