Texas Learning Center TLC

We moved our daughter (then three) to TLC last summer and have been very pleased with the school. She started in the three year old classroom and had the same teacher until she moved up to the four year old class. The three year old teacher (Ms. Angie) is still there and she is wonderful and really cares for the kids. Ms. Autumn has been our daughter’s for most of the time she has been attending TLC and we have been amazed at how great she is with the kids. I am consistently surprised at how much my daughter is learning and I know she will be well-​prepared for kinder. The only time I have noticed the kids in the gym watching movies at the end of the day is when the weather isn’t conducive to them being outside. And by end of the day, I mean the one hour between 5:30 and 6:30. Sometimes, when the weather is bad, they have some of the older kids combined and I find them playing or being read to by a teacher, which is great!
Great school! I highly recommend!

Just browsing around and I came across this old review of mine and thought I’d give an update. It was 100% true when I wrote it in 2010, but my how things changed by the time we pulled our kids out in June 2011.
First off, let me say that my son had Autumn as his teacher the entire year and a half we were at TLC and I can’t say enough good things about her. She cared about her kids and prepared them well for Kinder.
My daughter’s classroom was another story. She attended TLC for 18 months starting right before her 3^rd birthday until she was about 4 and 4 months old. During that time, she had 6 different teachers. For some reason, they just couldn’t keep a teacher in the 3 year old classroom for more than a few months. A couple of the teachers we absolutely loved, some were just ok, and one I literally never laid eyes on because she was only there for a few days.
When we first started, my daughter came home with lots of creative art projects. By the end, all she ever brought home was xeroxed coloring book pages and worksheets. So not appropriate for a 3 year old and NOT what I’m paying almost $ 700 a month for, either!
At first when I picked up the kids in the evening, they’d be playing on the playground (weather permitting). But by the Spring of 2011, the kids were in the gym watching movies by 5:30 every night no matter what the weather was like. And not all of the movies were ones I was ok with… such as letting my 3 year old watch Tim Burton’s Alice in Wonderland.
When we first started, we could pay by check. There was never anyone at the front desk to take our check, however, and there was no drop box to leave a check. Then one day we’re just told that everyone has no choice but to sign up for autodraft. I didn’t really appreciate not being given a choice in that matter and we were given VERY short notice.
The school utilizes these neat little cots made of pvc pipe and mesh fabric instead of the typical vinyl mats that most preschools use. All the parents used to need to bring was a crib sheet and a blanket. The crib sheet fit over the whole cot and you took it home at the end of the week to wash. Worked great the whole time we were there. But right before we left, they announced that everyone was going to be required to buy these custom made sheets for the cots at about $ 12 each. I feel pretty sure that someone the owner knew was selling these things and making a pretty penny on them. Thankfully we were leaving so we didn’t have to buy them.
The notes that were sent home to the parents (when they were actually sent) were so condescending in tone. It wasn’t enough to send a reminder to take home sippy cups at the end of the week and wash them. Then note would say something like, «You must take your sippy cups home at the end of the week OR WE WILL THROW THEM AWAY!!!»
We spoke to Betty, one of the owners, about all of these concerns in March of 2011 and let her know that we’d be leaving at the end of the school year. We wanted my son to be able to finish out his last preschool year with Autumn and I’m glad we did that. But from March through June my poor daughter’s class just got progressively worse and worse.
Now I come back a year and a half after moving schools (both of my kids are in elementary school now but attend an afterschool program at a different daycare in town) and I see other negative reviews. I find it interesting that Unilocal has somehow filtered those reviews so that I actually had to go through a couple of clicks and a Captcha entry to be able to see them. I knew the staff wasn’t treated well, but I didn’t really know any particulars, so it was interesting to read Matt’s review. He was there when my kids were and I know that my son liked him.
Seriously, for the amount of money you’re paying here you can do SO much better. Our tuition didn’t go up at all when we moved to the daycare across the highway that has an amazing curriculum, is clean and nice and doesn’t even have a TV on the premises. There ARE options in Kyle. Do yourself a favor and research them.

The Texas Learning Center only cares about money. My child had attend for a year and the Center gave me less than one week notice that because they wanted to combine classes my child could no longer attend. My child was chosen because he only attends part time rather than full time and would put the class one over. Essentially the Center did not want to pay for an extra adult although they raised my rates at the beginning of the year. In honestly this was actually a blessing in disguise because I have visited other centers and in comparison TLC has very small rooms and a poor curriculum. The other centers I have visited have many more options for enrichment, they offer music, sign language, Spanish, gymnastics, reading building skills, additional classes and the people taking care of the children have a Bachelors degree and are going to school to get their masters degree in a child development related area. this means that the care takers in other places are more highly educated and can provide better conversation, interactions, and explanations for your children.