Bethesda Lynbrook Child Care kids went missing today

[Anonymous]

How could you trust MCCA anyways its playbased , They may have decided children could play outside and forgotten about them completely. It's never a structured environment.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:How could you trust MCCA anyways its playbased , They may have decided children could play outside and forgotten about them completely. It's never a structured environment.

this makes no sense.

[Anonymous]

How could you trust MCCA anyways its playbased , They may have decided children could play outside and forgotten about them completely. It's never a structured environment.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:How could you trust MCCA anyways its playbased , They may have decided children could play outside and forgotten about them completely. It's never a structured environment.

Still makes no sense.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I want to make sure that what happened today to my child doesn't happen to anyone else's.

Today I arrived at the Bethesda Lynbrook Child Care Center to pick up my son and saw him and 3 of his classmates (all 2-3 year olds) DOWN THE STREET. They had somehow left the fenced in playground and walked almost 2 blocks into the neighborhood surrounding the center in Bethesda. A man walking his dog found them and was bringing them back. The teacher never knew they were missing. She literally had misplaced, LOST, half the class.

The center director wasn't there, the program manager didn't know what the procedure was when "things like this" happen, but I was assured that "there would be consequences."

However, several hours later, no formal notice has been made to the class or the list serve and they let the teacher stay in the classroom for the rest of the evening.

I am literally sick to my stomach over the possibilities of what could have happened to these 4 2-year olds who were walking amid parked cars, as a storm was rolling in, and were only identified as Lynbrook kids because they had their pennies on. How anyone could lose track of 4 little kids for such a long enough period of time that it would take those little legs to walk that far away, AND BACK, is unfathomably irresponsible to me.

If you are a Lynbrook parent, please, be aware that this has happened and that the school hardly seems to be concerned. If you are considering this placement for your child, don't. I don't believe they can keep the littlest among them safe.

Wendy,

I left you a message this morning and would encourage you to call me directly at the number I provided.

Thank you very much.

Michelle Green
Executive Director

[Anonymous]

Hello Executive Director, i am not Wendy, but just please tell us who you are hiring to work with our kids. You don't need to sound like Wendy who left kids unattended. We know license department will back you up because you are part of one system. But be honest here, since you post here. Your system of criminal and backround system just simply not working. You are hiring people for min wage and no other benefits, who will go to work there? Maybe some normal and good people, but i will not surprise to see most of the people who cannot find job in any other industry? Are they are most responsible people, I don't think. But as you know this is the most responsible job and here is the disconnect. As a private business owner, i will never keep the person who is not responsible for duty. Are you?

[Anonymous]

This is getting absolutely ridiculous!

[Anonymous]

Terrifying. And again, just like with FCC and JCC, how are the teachers interacting with the kids so little that they don't notice when one (or several!) is missing!

OP, please keep us updated with how the school is handling it and what procedures are changing.

[Anonymous]

Don't you get it that they have best procedures of all, but it doesn't help because it all come of people who works there.

Get it, please, get what you deserve!

[Anonymous]

Absolutely unbelievable. I am so sorry this happened and I hope that there are SERIOUS consequences for this center.

[Anonymous]

As I said in the FCC thread, places like this needs to be closed down. I seriously think that unless there is a serious consequence instead of a simple slap on the wrist these kinds of things are going to keep happening. I would absolutely do everything I can to make sure this doesn't happen again. If it means all centers need more teachers, or fenced in play areas so be it. This is unreal.

OP I am so sorry this happened. I can't even imagine what you must be going through.

[Anonymous]

as i was reading this just now, wendy rhein the OP was on the news telling her story. great job wendy!

[Anonymous]

Link:

http://www.wjla.com/articles/2012/10/toddlers-found-wandering-outside-bethesda-day-care-center-81099.html

[Anonymous]

I am so sorry OP. Thanks for going public.

When things like this happen, I always wonder what else is going on at the school. We have two kids in day care.

[Anonymous]

I ditto the last comment. So this type of neglect is obvious and easy to see. One wounds what other type of neglect happens everyday that is not so easy to see . M