We have been so impressed with the care and attention our little one has received at St. Mark CDC. The staff is incredible and have been so attentive and loving. I highly recommend this daycare! Her teachers are so sweet and truly care about each child they take care of. This place has been such a blessing!

I would like to say working with children is an occupation of patience, understanding and a passion to work with children. Children most of the time love being with their teachers because of the tender caring feeling they receive on a daily basis. Some parents lack the understanding children will learn from expectations, discipline, accountability learning to be independent human beings. Some parents under estimate a childs ability to learn and be in a structured environment. Parents need to look in the mirror to understand that sometimes you are the down fall to your children. If your children have not been in the same day care for more than a couple of months more than likely its not the child care provider its you. If as parents cannot abide by the rules and standard that are set to provide your child with a learning development plan then maybe just maybe you need to keep your children at home. When a child care provider receives honorable ratings on multiple occasions they are doing something right. Stop trying to degrade a place of learning because you did not get your way. If you keep getting the same results everywhere your child is attending. The problem is not the childcare provider it is the person in the mirror.

I absolutely love this daycare!! All three of my children have attended St. Mark. I have highly recommended this daycare to my friends and family. The teachers and staff are so very sweet! They make us feel very welcomed when we walk in the door each and every day!

DO NOT SEND YOUR CHILDREN HERE ! My son was there for a month before I pulled him out. First of all, every single “teacher/caregiver” there are the most lazy people I have ever seen. Every single time I picked up my son they were all sitting down, never enteracting with the children. Outside time, all 3 of the teachers would somehow find a way to fit all of their over weight behinds on one bench and never get up. Every time I picked up my son his diaper had to be changed before we left, many times with poop all up his back because they hadn’t changed his diaper all day. I walked up to pick up my son one day and he hadn’t seen me and neither had the three teachers sitting down on the bench outside and right in front of the teachers a bigger kid ran up and started hitting my son on his head over and over and the teachers did absolutely nothing ! Needless to say I spoke my mind and informed them that child neglect IS CHILD ABUSE ! They had the audacity to actually argue with me about it !!! Instead of apologizing or trying to even remotely fix the situation the argued with me ! Another day I came to pick him up I saw another teacher trying to shove him to the front of the line for walking back inside (the only times the teacher ever stand up, to walk to and from the playground). I have many pictures of red marks all over my sons sides and back after being picked up from that daycare. Also, my son has allergies that the daycare knew about, and not until after his face broke out in hives one day did they ever admit to giving him food he can’t have. Usually my wife drops my son off in the mornings and I pick him up in the afternoon, and my wife also noticed that him not wanting to be there got worse and worse over time, not better as it normally goes with a child getting use to daycare. His last day there my wife had to pick him up, and when she informed the Asst. Director our son would not be coming back, instead of apologizing or asking what’s wrong she just rolled her eyes and gave my wife a dirty look. This daycare does nothing to stop bullying, does not change any diapers as far as I can see, cares absolutely nothing for the children and I can’t even imagine how my son got all the red marks all over him. At this point in time I am heavily debating weather I want to seek legal advise or the authorities. But this cannot keep happening. I wish o would have read the other reviews before I sent my son to this daycare. Remember, child NEGLECT IS child ABUSE ! DO NOT SEND YOUR CHILDREN TO THIS CHILD ABUSIVE DAYCARE ! No matter how nice they may seem at first when they are asking for money !!!!

One day my wife walked into the Child Development Center to get our child and the teacher did not see her standing at the door. While observing the teacher our son was standing by her and he took a couple of steps away from her to try and grab another kids milk cup. Instead of her telling him no-no, she then grabbed the back of shirt collar and yanked him so hard it left red marks around his neck. (Yes we have pics.) My wife then said hey and she said oh hey, I was trying to keep him from getting that milk. My wife said OK. My wife then got our son and immediately addressed what she saw to the assistant director. The AD said she would address it. The next day the director stopped my wife and asked her what did we want them to do about the situation? We both met with the AD and stated we didnt want the teacher fired, but we would leave it was up to her, the Director. The next morning my wife got a call from the Director stating they fired her. We wanted some type of restitution (not someone loosing their job) so we asked to meet the Pastor. He declined to meet with us. We never got a, we are sorry or anything of the sort. We werent looking for a million dollar law suit, just a, hey, were sorry this happened, Ill (the Pastor) will pray for us all.Often our sons diapers would go missing. The Assistance Director said they have had people from the church come in the classrooms and take possesion of the diapers, but the daycare nor the church ever offered to replace them, not once! We hate to say this, but we cannot recommend their CDC!

I would not recommend this place to anyone. A lady named Ms. QT is very unprofessional and should not be working with children. Every time I go to pick up my daughter she is snapping at the kids for every little thing. She has zero patience. My daughter told me she made her hold her arms up until she couldnt anymore because she spoke to another child. I had a similar issue with this at another facility here in Columbus. I addressed it to the assistant director and she explained that they only do that if the parents allow them to. I never authorized anyone to punish my child. I would show up and still see Ms. QT being short tempered with the kids. She allows the other children to bully. Today my daughters sandle broke and she tried to tell Ms. QT and she yelled at my child to sit down. Really?? How about you call the parent and let them bring a new pair of shoes? I finally had it with them and knew they werent going to do a thing about that lady, so I pulled my daughter out of their program today. I feel bad for the other children having to deal with that. No wonder some of them are bullies, the adults enable that behaviour. Maybe the assistant director should spend more time holding her staff accountable instead of trying to be friends. Kind of hard to be the boss when you are worried about speaking up. I shouldnt be getting dirty looks from Ms. QT because I speak up about her unprofessionalism, but I did every time I would pick up my daughter. I would ask her a question and she was very rude. I plan on reporting this higher.

My daughter has been attending StMarks for 3 years now. I have never had any problems there. The teachers are very friendly and the Director is very nice. She learned well and is ready for kindergarten. I love that they teach the kids to pray and have a session at the chapel weekly. Also when I was going thru a tough time, they were very patient with me and even helped me with extra diapers. I very much appreciate them. I would more than recommend St Marks day care

Not a good place for a child! We had a horrific experience! It may appear nice and friendly but the teacher we had was horrible and very similar in description to what is mentioned below. This place should not be caring for children and let alone educating them. I do not believe my daughter learned anything from the teacher there other than maybe being scarred and reserved and shocked! The rooms are dark, teacher on her phone, never a smile from the teacher or a warm welcome, I can go on for pages! Please use another facility! St. Luke or Wynnbrook, another option if your child is old enough is Brookstone.

We had a horrible experience at St. Marks. My daughter at the time 2 years old was miserable there and ignored by the teachers. Teachers in her class were not welcoming or loving. On many occasions I found her sitting on the playground by herself and the teachers just talking to each other. She would beg me not to go and this is a child that LOVES school and has been going to school since she was 6 months old. She would say mommy I love you dont you love me just please dont bring me here! and my heart would break. I thought maybe I need to give it time so I gave a week and still nothing. Then many times I also noticed when picking her up the teacher on her cell phone while the kids were just sitting at the tables. The rooms were dark and did not seem conducive to a good learning child education room. I was determined and found another school which I was much more impressed with...it was clean, the teachers very welcoming, with a good learning environment, offered a loving environment, etc. From the moment she walked into the new school my daughter was a different kid! She was happy and smiled walking in. The second day there was no telling me mommy please dont leave me here. Instead she recalled her teachers names and her friends names and said I will go play with....and you will pick me up later? I was relieved!!!! The reason we had this experience is because we were new to the area and did not have time to explore. Both my husband and I work full time demanding jobs and from the initial outlook of st Marks it seemed good to get us by until the bigger schools we were looking into had an opening. Little did we know! While there another mom also withdrew her daughter from class for suspicion of some potential verbal abuse which I can forsee from the teacher leading that room. I feel heartbroken for that one week my daughter had to try to adjust at St. Marks and felt guilty for a long time after. When I told the administration about leaving they were very rude and told me I was making a mistake and that my daughter just needed to toughen up. I was flabbergasted at their response when they did not know how mature and strong she was for her age and how when she moved to the other school she was absolutely fine! I am not a mom that defends her child no matter what the issue is I respect teachers and educators highly! I do NOT recommend St. Marks no matter how desperate you need childcare! I was ready to quit my job if we were not going to find something else and I would have done it! Best of luck to you as you are on your journey to finding a place that fits your child!