Toddler left at Livingston Park by daycare (FCC?)

[Anonymous]

This story is horrifying and my reaction is THANK GOD that my DH and I can afford to live on one income (even though things are very tight) so that I can stay home while my kids are young.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:While forgetting him is frightening I think it is even more concerning that they didn't realize he was missing when they got back to the daycare. Dad came for pick up and no kid and that is when they realized he wasn't there.

Yes, exactly. You would think that if the daycare providers made emotional connections with the kids, and truly cared about each individual kid, then they would notice when one of them was missing. This just reinforces my belief that daycares in general just aren't the best thing for kids. No matter how nice the teachers are, no matter how much they seem to care about the kids (when parents are around watching), the truth is that those kids aren't their flesh and blood, and they just don't care that much. Of course you can find true gems among the daycare worker population who DO care, but they are very few and far between, IMO.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Just curious,

I have never heard such a thing as a daycare taking young children off property to places like public parks. It seems like a dangerous liability.

Is this a DC thing?

Very common when the day care does not have its own playground. Where are you from?

All over the country (military). Currently in NOVA. Never, ever heard of such a thing. Ridiculous and dangerous, given the ages of the kids.

Then go onto a Virgina site for posting, it's common in DC, and DC Urban posters understand that.

[Anonymous]

Bus drivers get in accidents, surgeons have patients die on the table, lawyers lose cases they should have won, parents allow their children to do an activity that leads to injury.

People make mistakes. This was a bad one. However, I think that maybe people are taking this a little to far. Calm down, let the day-care work through its process to ensure this doesn't ever happen again. If it does happen again, then you can call for their heads.

[Anonymous]

Let's not go down the daycare vs. SAH road.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:This story is horrifying and my reaction is THANK GOD that my DH and I can afford to live on one income (even though things are very tight) so that I can stay home while my kids are young.

Wow, you just are evil aren't you.

[Anonymous]

In a few weeks, someone should submit a Freedom of Information Act request to the DC government to find out if this incident was reported to the inspectors and what the District and the day care did in response. I'd also like to know if this is the first such incident for the particular day care.

VA has all of the day care inspection report results on-line so you can easily read about a day care and learn if it was ever reported (or self-reported) to have forgotten a child at the park. (Indeed some have!) Having that type of violation history is a deal breaker for me. Too bad the DC government is not as transparent in this area. That ought to change.

OMG, this is a parent's worst nightmare. So relieved the child was okay. What would have stopped someone from walking off from the park with the boy after the class left? If the child didn't protest to being carried off by a strange adult the nannies would have had no reason to think anything was amiss. And what was the park attendant doing that he or she didn't notice an abandoned toddler? I'd also like to kow if the District will investigate this aspect of the fiasco.

The nannies who were keeping watch over the boy are the heroines in this story.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:While forgetting him is frightening I think it is even more concerning that they didn't realize he was missing when they got back to the daycare. Dad came for pick up and no kid and that is when they realized he wasn't there.

Yes, exactly. You would think that if the daycare providers made emotional connections with the kids, and truly cared about each individual kid, then they would notice when one of them was missing. This just reinforces my belief that daycares in general just aren't the best thing for kids. No matter how nice the teachers are, no matter how much they seem to care about the kids (when parents are around watching), the truth is that those kids aren't their flesh and blood, and they just don't care that much. Of course you can find true gems among the daycare worker population who DO care, but they are very few and far between, IMO.

And what do you do for child care?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:In a few weeks, someone should submit a Freedom of Information Act request to the DC government to find out if this incident was reported to the inspectors and what the District and the day care did in response. I'd also like to know if this is the first such incident for the particular day care.

VA has all of the day care inspection report results on-line so you can easily read about a day care and learn if it was ever reported (or self-reported) to have forgotten a child at the park. (Indeed some have!) Having that type of violation history is a deal breaker for me. Too bad the DC government is not as transparent in this area. That ought to change.

OMG, this is a parent's worst nightmare. So relieved the child was okay. What would have stopped someone from walking off from the park with the boy after the class left? If the child didn't protest to being carried off by a strange adult the nannies would have had no reason to think anything was amiss. And what was the park attendant doing that he or she didn't notice an abandoned toddler? I'd also like to kow if the District will investigate this aspect of the fiasco.

The nannies who were keeping watch over the boy are the heroines in this story.

The memo from FCC said, among other things, that the Office of Child Care Licensing has been notified of the incident. I also believe that disciplinary action has already been taken against at least one teacher. This is a sad incident for what is an incredibly committed staff.

[Anonymous]

Since the police showed up, is this the type of thing where an incident report would have been written up? The Ch-Ch listserv often posts those reports and I can check whether it gets up there.

[Anonymous]

What is FCC?

[Anonymous]

I am trying to keep an open mind (mistakes happen and all that), but I really don't see any excuse for this. And I don't see how a "committed staff" as a PP put it could do something like this.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:This story is horrifying and my reaction is THANK GOD that my DH and I can afford to live on one income (even though things are very tight) so that I can stay home while my kids are young.

Wow, you just are evil aren't you.

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[Anonymous]

Can anyone post the text of the notice?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:This story is horrifying and my reaction is THANK GOD that my DH and I can afford to live on one income (even though things are very tight) so that I can stay home while my kids are young.

Wow, you just are evil aren't you.

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I think the original poster just can't make it in the real world so decided to be kept. I wish her good luck with that and why is she on the child-care thread?