WDYT?

nicoleg1982

re: daycare

Would these things make you see red?

- You picked up your child and she'd split her lip (upper labial frenum), but no one called to tell you.  When you arrived, the blood on her clothes was still wet/fresh.

- You have been dropping your kid off, and instead of going to their age-assigned classroom, they're corralled in one big room of all ages for an hour.  I'm talking a ratio of 25 kids:2 adults.  Which violates state laws, btw.  Director's excuse is that it is summer time and they have less kids, so they need fewer workers if everyone is in one big room.

- The moron supervising your child's room couldn't remember what you said, so didn't feed your kid breakfast or any snacks, instead of calling you and asking, or just attempting to feed your screaming child.

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I am at the end of my rope.  I'm going to look at 2 daycares tomorrow.

loveshine1

None of these are acceptable. DD would be better off sitting on the floor of your office than with the wild animals at this zoo.

Mrs.Thistletwat

That is a whole mess of WTF. When I taught preschool we would have all of the kids together in one room before "classes" started but all of the teachers were there as well.

Is there an injury report about her lip? That's ridiculous that they didn't contact you or clean her up.

As for not feeding her.... if she is that distraught you try everything and then call the parent if nothing works. These people are morons.

DG1

WHAT?! 

Did all of this happen in one day?  I'd be out in a hot minute at the 25:2 ratio.  That's not just illegal, that's WAY illegal.  Here, even if there is ONE kid under 15m, it has to be 4:1 or better.  I've actually stayed in the daycare room until extra teachers got there because the ratio was 5:1 or 6:1.

As for the split lip - it would depend on how bad it was.  We get an "incident report" whenever something like that happens, but we don't get it until the end of the day.  They've only called on maybe 2 occasions where the cut or whatever was particularly bad.  I got calls about Dex's leg thing, too, when it suddenly got way worse during the day.

The no food thing is illegal, too.  They have to feed the kids.  Our daycare provides all of the formula and food, and they have to at least offer a bottle to infants every 4 hours.  Same goes for purees and solids once they're old enough.

and if I forget diapers or something, they aren't allowed to just let him sit in his own feces all day. There are "house" diapers that we get to borrow from, as long as we don't abuse it and/or replace them.

So yeah, I'd be asking for extra help or taking a few vacation days until you can find a new place.  Good lord.

Heffalump

On #1, probably.  But after I'd cooled down, it would depend on how recently it had happened.  If the blood was still fresh and it had happened 5 min. before, I would hope that they just hadn't had a chance to call me yet.  If it was more like 15-20, I would not be very happy.  (This wasn't babyleg, was it?)

#2, absolutely unacceptable.  I don't see how herding everyone into one space affects the ratios in any way--that's just crazy talk.

#3 would seriously provoke me to cutabitch.  DD not being fed is a serious hot button with me.

Good luck with the other daycares.  I hope you find something you're more comfortable with.

Cant_wait!

I seem to remember them doing some other stupid stuff with your baby too, weren't they the ones who left her in a high chair unsupervised or something? Am I making that up? I'm glad you're looking elsewhere, these people sound like asshats.

~~Busy.~~

Please be removing your child as of today. 

hmonkey

what the what.

nicoleg1982

Yes, all of this happened to Baby Leg.  Including the being left in a highchair at 6 mo. old, being expected to bottle-feed herself, which she was clearly not capable of at the time.

I put in my 2-week notice this morning and called the county office to complain.  I hope an inspector shows up tomorrow and Director gets a huge fine.  I'd pull her out, but we can't afford to miss more work and pay 2 daycares for 2 weeks, plus registration fees, etc. 

H thinks I'm going to experience these things at a new daycare, too, but 95% of this happened when she was in the care of one troll of a teacher, who will also be her 1-y.o. teacher full-time next month.  Thanks, but no thanks.

"We get an "incident report" whenever something like that happens, but we don't get it until the end of the day."

Yes, it was particularly bad IMO.  To the point I considered going to the doc.  And we get those incident things all of the time for small boo-boos.  If blood is coming out of my kid profusely and in a volume and to a degree that it interferes with her drinking/eating, I want to know, even if nothing can be done about it.

6fsn

2 and 3 would have me seeing purple. 

I'm not sure I would have expected a call especially since it sounds like it was recent.  Incident report would have been a must though.

DG1

 I'd pull her out, but we can't afford to miss more work and pay 2 daycares for 2 weeks, plus registration fees, etc.

Sorry, but I still think you need to pull her out. Have a different family friend stay with her every day. Have your H take a "sick" day or two. Ask MIL to come live with you for two weeks if it means your baby will actually get served breakfast and not be left unattended to the point of serious injury.