Peter Pan Early Learning Centers

My daughter has been at Peter Pan (75^th Street) since she was 18 months old. I adore this school, the teachers, and the responsiveness of all the staff. I also love that they have very little teacher turnover. I see them encourage kindness, sharing, and overall being a good person. They work well with families to address the individual needs of their students. When I have had sporadic concerns about how other kids may be treating my daughter, they have been responsive and shared what they were doing to address any observed poor behavior (e.g. working directly with a family, redirecting a child, explaining how poor behavior hurts others). I highly recommend this school without reservation. My daughter is now 3.5 years old, loves school, and loves to learn. I can’t explain the other poor review on Unilocal,and therefore felt compelled to write on my experience once I read it. And, to address the other reviewer, yes, they have a fenced-​in pool that is only used in the summer, with a lifeguard, and students go in for lessons in small groups with a good ratio of students to teachers. They also have an acre of land for gardening and tons of room for the kids to really run, play, get muddy and have an all-​around wonderful time. It’s the least institutional, education-​oriented daycare that one can find in Naperville.

The facility is cute enough, and the outdoor pool is a nice (but kinda scary) amenity for summer care, but my experience there was very short lived due to the lack in faculty response to my 4 year old being bullied by another kid in his small, 10 person class.
I know boys will be boys, but my baby boo coming home with a cut on his head, stories of being pushed from the top of a jungle gym, and crying because this one kid calls him a dummy is not cool. Their solution? Put my guy in a different class. It wasn’t actually paying attention to the kids their own class and monitoring them. No, it was uprooting the kid who was being bullied.
After a few more weeks of this, I pulled my little guy out before his developing psyche was damaged any further.
I know this is just my bad experience and I bet there’s a lot of great learning and care coming from this place… I don’t know, though. Having a four year old being bullied without any real help from the teachers is really disappointing. And four is just too young to be exposed to that, for realsies.