I'm going to get to the bottom of this. People need to know about this place so they don't send their kids there!
Here's things I'm finding on the internet:
The daycare is owned by a poster on this site "NewHorizon" aka Sandra Garity, home address is 14214 Hartwood Ct. Centreville, VA 20121
From what other people are posting, the daycare may or may not be licensed...who knows. Supposedly she contracts with a company called Booster to provide staff for her daycare. People aren't sure whether Booster background checks their employees and Discovery Learning Center has had state violations for not background checking their employees amongst other violations, that can be read on the state website here:
http://www.dss.virginia.gov/facility/search/cc.cgi?rm=Details;ID=28954;search_keywords_name=Discovery%20learning
Booster is owned by some unscrupulous folks named Carneal and Trapp...see this post that I found online: "Many businesses at this address-but as with all of Boosterthon, no local phone number. The number "Tim Kim" lists is an Atlanta phone number. Sorry, Carneal and Trapp, this trick won't work either."
This is all getting pretty scary, but wait there's more! Here are other posts I'm finding online about them:
"NOT background checking employees, checmicals out where kids can get to them, expired medications and more! Why hasn't this place been shut down yet??!!"
(the above comment is a fact! check out the state website and you'll see these violations)
"I can't find a single Boosterthon employee with a Virginia teaching license. It concerns me that FCPS contracts with them to instruct the children."
"So Discovery Learning is contracting with a company that doesn't even hold teaching licenses? Is the daycare even licensed??"
"Interviews with staff revealed that staff A grabbed infant A by the arm while trying to get the infant out between two cribs. The infant was holding onto one of the cribs at the time. Infant A sustained "nursemaid's elbow" as a result of being grabbed. Staff interviews also revealed that staff A roughly handled infants while diapering and putting children in their cribs and used loud voice tones with infants."
I don't know what's going on at this place, but we need to keep looking into it so other people can be warned!