Kids Express Learning Center

My son has been attending Kids Express Learning Center for a little over a year now. The facilities that he has access to are second-​to-​none. From growing their own snacks, and watching the animals every day, to learning Spanish at 2-​years-​old, and spending time on the «nature bus» learning about all kinds of cool things — it’s easy to see why he comes home with a smile on his face every day! He is learning manners, how to be kind, and is making lots of great friends. As a parent, I can attest to the genuine caring nature of the teachers and administrative staff. I have been in to chat on a number of occasions, and any time I have had a question about my son’s progress I have been welcomed with open arms. I cannot recommend this place highly enough. Just go to their campus and check it out — I promise you won’t be disappointed!

KELC is an amazing place for daycare in Madison. When we moved to Madison with our one-​year-​old, we scheduled appointments to visit as many daycare facilities as we could but stopped our search after visiting KELC. The teachers in all of the classrooms so far have been superb — you can tell in your child’s reaction to saying a teacher’s name just how much they like the teachers as people as well as educators. Additionally, the grounds themselves are awesome — the emphasis placed on nature, animals, and gardening is something that we value and KELC thoroughly provides. Some days it is hard to leave because our daughter wants to keep feeding leaves to the goats. Amusingly, a relative keeps commenting on how our children won’t have anything remaining to learn once they get to kindergarten — the teachers and curricula are certainly effective. All in all we love KELC for our children and couldn’t imagine sending them anywhere else.

As a first time mother, I am utterly impressed with the utmost care my daughter has received this past summer. As any new mother can attest to, it’s very hard to leave your newborn/​infant in the care of anyone other than you and your family. I found them to be more than equipped for the job. My daughter was instantly all smiles upon entering the classroom as she was greeted by her amazing teachers Miss Sara, Miss Jessica and Miss Anna. She got to experience the outdoors, learn about animals and nature, paint with her tiny fingers and toes, fine tune her small motor skills, play with other children, go for walks, discover new textures and toys, play with musical instruments, read books, play peek-​a-​boo and more. They had a curriculum every day and tracked all her eating, sleeping and diaper habits. And I was very happy with the teacher-​to-​child ratio. I never felt she would be left alone and/​or neglected. I have many friends that had their children attend KELC, and they have nothing but great and positive things to say about it. Honestly my friends’ opinions weighed a lot in our decision for our daughter to attend KELC. And with our experience, KELC’s reputation did not disappoint. I look forward to this new school year, and what new things she will discover and learn. I love coming home to her paintings!

Very nice place. My son did after school in 4k at the time we where not financially stable but the staff helped and set up a payment plan my family could afford. My son lived going everyday. He truly enjoyed seeing the animals there he still remembers KELC when we go by he always says that’s my old school.

A disappointing experience for my child. She was not challenged academically and we had a slew of issues.
I endured my daughter being referred to as brown, being hit, spat on by other children and references of hate. However I chucked it all up to things toddlers do.
The buck stopped when Kids Express filed a report with Dane County stating my daughter was being abused. When I questioned the director of the school about the report. She stated «teachers are mandatory reporters».
My issue with this report is: when the teacher saw the bruise (hyper pigmented dry eczema patch) on my daughter’s leg, she questioned her about it. My daughter stated «it was from scratching my leg». The teacher/​reporter thought my daughter’s explanation did not make sense. The reporter then began to interrogate my 4 yr old, until she got an answer she wanted.
Yes, they should report any observation of suspected child abuse. However it is inappropriate for the teacher/​staff to interrogate the child. The questions are to be asked by child protective services.
It is my opinion that these actions were fueled by motives other than my daughter’s safety. It is well documented in my daughter’s health records at school, she has eczema and is allergic to many foods. I am disturbed by the actions of this preschool. It was my friendly reminder… that despite my socioeconomic status and education, I am not immune.
In addition when I shared my experience with other parents, my daughter was immediately dismissed from the school.