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Disturbing video of a daycare

I have my kids in a preschool and not a daycare... do they usually mix together different age groups like that? I didn't think they did. Also at our preschool there are no less than 2 teachers watching 10 kids. Kids start as young as 2 so it's not just a "school".
 
rh71 said:
I have my kids in a preschool and not a daycare... do they usually mix together different age groups like that? I didn't think they did. Also at our preschool there are no less than 2 teachers watching 10 kids. Kids start as young as 2 so it's not just a "school".
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same here. the preschool all my kids have gone to is at the local Methodist church. they do babys all the way up to kindergarden. All the classes have 2 teachers for 12 kids and are seperated by age group. they learn in the morning and play in the afternoon after naps. its a great place.
 
Yup, that was disturbing.

My favorite "the man was hiding in the closet at his mother's house".
 
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We hired a full time nanny a couple of years ago and have a couple wifi cameras around the house and in the kids room. The cameras in their rooms are really handy right now since we just moved the kids from cribs to beds two weeks ago.


Still havent watched the video. I have become rather squeemish about anything bad having to do with kids.
 
Damn.

The 9 year old learned that behavior at home, I bet.

Opened ours at the end of May. Highly regulated, # kids/adult ratio, # kids/room, age groups in the same room. Even the infants/toddlers are separated. DSS would close our doors, immediately, if that was proven to have happened.

Employees have to note any strange marks on the kids. Already have had a formal report filed because an infant came back from a weekend with the divorced parent with marks.


Still havent watched the video. I have become rather squeemish about anything bad having to do with kids.
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Me too. Don't watch it.
 
That is called psychopathic behavior... it would be happening to an animal if the kid had access (and probably does happen to animals he encounters)... sick really, where are the chaperones?
 
rh71 said:
I have my kids in a preschool and not a daycare... do they usually mix together different age groups like that? I didn't think they did. Also at our preschool there are no less than 2 teachers watching 10 kids. Kids start as young as 2 so it's not just a "school".
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Depends on the daycare. Smaller daycares often have different age groups in the same room. That was a deciding factor for my wife and I when we decided to put our kids in the center they are in now. We wanted a place that had dedicated space for each age group.
 
The bad thing is the dad came in and asked who did this and everyone pointed at a 6 year boy who did nothing and the dad slaps the wrong kid. That 9 year old kid must of had some kind of bully hold on them. All afraid of ratting out the 9 year old kid because they would get bullied from him. He must have been bulling them for sometime. So messed up on all levels.
 
highland145 said:
Damn.

The 9 year old learned that behavior at home, I bet.

Opened ours at the end of May. Highly regulated, # kids/adult ratio, # kids/room, age groups in the same room. Even the infants/toddlers are separated. DSS would close our doors, immediately, if that was proven to have happened.

Employees have to note any strange marks on the kids. Already have had a formal report filed because an infant came back from a weekend with the divorced parent with marks.


Me too. Don't watch it.
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Massachusetts is a different animal. . . many more regulations the most states. Not sure if you have to have different rooms for different groups, or simply dedicated space for each group. We had our son in a daycare in Boston and infants were separated, but toddlers and preschoolers were in one large room that was broken into separate spaces by bookshelves.
 
I have my 4.5 year old daughter in daycare. She's been going since she was born.
The key is to pick a daycare that is picky about the type of children they let in, and is also picky about the staff.
Right now, they have a minimum staff to child ratio of 4:1 and no more than 10 kids are allowed in a room at once. That works out to 3 "teachers" to 10 children in a room (3:1).

In my daughters "class", 4 children have been kicked out this past spring/summer session for bad behavior (kicking, biting, etc).
The kids/parents get one warning about unacceptable behavior and then they are booted.

The only downside is cost. I pay about $1,200 a month. Cash. Oh the fun I could have with that money if I didn't have daycare costs...
 
soxfan said:
Massachusetts is a different animal. . . many more regulations the most states. Not sure if you have to have different rooms for different groups, or simply dedicated space for each group. We had our son in a daycare in Boston and infants were separated, but toddlers and preschoolers were in one large room that was broken into separate spaces by bookshelves.
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To clarify, the infant/tod is an adjoining room separated with barriers. Infant parents do not want snot nosed germ carrying tods touching anything that might contact the infants. Understandable. But in group care, bugs will be passed around even with the germ-a-phobic women working at ours.
 
Christ. I couldn't watch the whole thing. Had to turn it off at the part where they said he was not done and it cut to even more footage of the kid roughing up a baby.

My 3-year old is in preschool, and it boils my blood at the thought that this is even possible.
 
Uppsala9496 said:
The key is to pick a daycare that is picky about the type of children they let in, and is also picky about the staff.
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This. We shopped and shopped for day care; we easily visited a dozen places based on recommendations. The place we ended up in is NAEYC accredited and has an average staff tenure of like 15 years.

Been happy there, but will be done paying for it in another 2 weeks. Woot!
 
HydroSqueegee said:
same here. the preschool all my kids have gone to is at the local Methodist church. they do babys all the way up to kindergarden. All the classes have 2 teachers for 12 kids and are seperated by age group. they learn in the morning and play in the afternoon after naps. its a great place.
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sounds just like the place i sent my kids to. I heard a LOT of good things about it and both kids loved it.

they had 10 kids per class with 2 teachers. they separated by age group.
 
Don't send your kids to thugcare?

I pay a shitload for daycare, but with these things you really do get what you pay for.
 
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