Tarrant County College announced on Wednesday that it will be shutting down the Children’s Center Laboratory.
The Center had been operating for 50 years as a childhood development preschool program. The program currently has 23 children, and now the parents of the children will be tasked with finding a new preschool, WFAA reported.
“We made the decision based on what we considered—the school no longer meets our TCC standards, and one of those standards included a personnel related matter,” TCC Vice Chancellor of communications and external affairs Reginald Gates said in a statement, as reported by The Collegian.
Parents asked the Center why TCC is closing it’s doors, but received no comment from officials, reported The Collegian.
TCC Chancellor Elva LeBlanc said in a statement that the Center, “did not align with the standards of respect, care and professionalism that TCC demands.”
TCC Police log shows that an incident happened Oct. 4 at the Children’s Center building where “injury to a child/elderly/disabled, reckless bodily injury” occurred, according to The Collegian.
The father of the child that was involved in the incident, Jason Dziuk, said that it did not warrant the Center being shut down.
“TCC police said they looked at it and they see nothing of concern that they would take any action on,” Dziuk said, The Collegian reported.
“The investigator told me that explicitly before he asked me if I wanted to press charges. And then, of course, after reviewing it, absolutely not.”
Other parents, like Hannah Boyd, broke down in tears when she heard that the center was closing.
“It just it felt like, ‘Hey, sorry about you. You’re done,’” Boyd said, The Collegian reported.
“And we just felt very thrown to the curb and it just was not handled at all, and we have no information,” she said. “We don’t know why. We don’t know anything about it.”
