Children's Learning Adventure Reviews

Corporate office culture appears very money focused. No budgeting is done, and approval for every purchase (including paperclips!) comes from owners. Repair and maintenance work at centers is sporadic, at best, based on aforementioned approval. Initial building quality is typically low, as vendors turnover at a high rate, resulting in higher than average repair needs. My role had be interacting with vendors. If your experience matches mine, expect the vendors to complain about slow/no payment. A search on workman's liens and lawsuits will illustrate the frequency of their complaints. You'll be compelled to demand more work for free from vendors, and then cut them off when payment becomes an issue. I also worked with the center management and staff. If your experience is similar, expect tight control over your communication. For example, you'll be directed to cc or bcc the owners/leaders on every email to the center, and you'll regularly hear "they don't need to know that" if you try to socialize ideas. Beyond cash focused, the culture feels demeaning. I heard CEO and President refer to center directors as "dumb", "DBs", as "Fat Susies", and other terms. I was told, and I saw dozens of others being told, that they had to be micromanaged because they "couldn't be trusted" to complete tasks. A refrain I heard from owners was "am I (the CEO or president) the only smart one here?" Everything about the company is designed to extract money first for the CEO and President. They vacation in $20k a month vacation homes in Laguna Beach, they drive Bentleys and Maybachs and AMG Mercedes (because a regular Mercedes is too pedestrian, apparently), and they're slow to pay (or don't pay) bonuses, vendors, or refunds.

Horrific organization in corporate office, a lot of times they will blame something on you and say you didn't do an assignment when really the didn't look in their email and see you turned it in. Kids are a number, not humans. They're so focused on sales that you often feel like a car salesman. You're told to tell customers to break up their tuition into 3 credit cards just to get them to enroll. The corporate office and regionals have absolutely no regard for director's opinions or experience. They do what they want, how they want, when they want, even if that means breaking licensing, then as stated before, they will turn it on you. They're the biggest façade I've ever seen. They have a big beautiful building and a bunch of greedy money hungry people running it. The owners are the rudest people you'll meet. They don't care about you (directors, management, or educators) as people. You're just a pawn in their money making game and they control you with fear. They got their money to start CLA from suing the company that owns Tutor Time so they're super paranoid about being sued themselves which makes your life a nightmare. Do not work for this company. While I learned a lot of valuable information... It was the worst almost two years of my life because I have never felt so disrespected and unappreciated. They pretend they care about their employees. But they really don't. And if you have anything negative to say, they shrug it off. They only focus on what people say that's positive. They'll pay you well, but treat you like scum.