Be very careful sending your children here.
What an awful experience with the owner.
We did the full year for $400. Was so excited to have found a place since we just moved from Chicago. Our 8 year old had so much fun, loved her teacher and had a blast.
On the night of the performance I took my 3 and 5 year old to the bathroom and my little guy put his hand in the hinge of the bathroom door as it closed.. Totally normal because he is a kid. He started to scream as his hand was stuck. Screaming. I opened the door and his hand was black and blue.
Ok kids are kids. Next thing is Mr baker runs up and says can you please exit to the audience because people will start wondering what happened in the back if they here screams. I said my son is really hurt.
His next response was I cant have you here crying, it might scare people, go to the icebox in front"
Ice box? My sons fingers could be broken.
I came back to the chair and my eyes welled up before the performance.
I had been duped. I cried as I watched my daughter have the best time and realized the man behind it all didn't care.
My 5 yr old son is screaming and he was more worried about his pocket book. His appearance, and the audience hearing my son cry. I then realized my child is in his care. He didn't care one bit that this "kid" was hurt.
It's a money thing.
After the performance we left.
I spoke to him on the phone and I said "doors slam fingers, kids jump off of stuff, everything happens, I'm a mom of 3
I know." For a man that is caring for 10-20 children at a time he didn't even flinch when my kids hands where purple.
He told me it is not his job to care for them and he said why would we have ice packs. My response is because it's a little boy that's been hurt and because you have fifteen 4-10 year olds that are in the care of you. How scary.
Mr. Clyde baker was more worried about the audience and being sued than his own kids. Be very careful.
The worst part is I told my daughter tonight about it. What a tough lesson. She cried cause she loves her teacher and met friends, she was excited about the upcoming shows but if a child (her brother) gets hurt and you put a rug over it when I'm there, disregard it, who knows what baker studios covers when we are g there. I failed as a mom putting my daughter here.