Toddler left at Livingston Park by daycare (FCC?)

[INDIACHICK]

Anonymous wrote: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.

I am an FCC parent and confidently dropped my son off at school today. He has been there (and my daughter before him) since he was 3-months old, and my husband and I did not hesitate when bringing him to preschool today.

What happened is horrible, and FCC does need to work through this and make things right, not only for the child's family but for the rest of the school population. Everyone who said this should never have happened is right. Just like planes shouldn't crash, and patients shouldn't die on operating tables, and airbags shouldn't fail. It happened and it was a horrible mistake. I can't imagine the anger of the parents; it hurts my heart just thinking about it.

Closing the school down is an asinine suggestion. What will that do? If this was the mistake of one person, how does shutting down the school resolve that? Sure, that person is out of a job, but so is everyone else, and numerous families are SOL. Not to mention in the middle of all this, the defining scars left on the child.

The other thing I want to respond to is the "chaos" factor. I've been to Livingston to pick up my kids for doctors appointments and such over the past few years and didn't find it chaotic. I always saw children running around, talking, shouting, playing -- I'm not absolutely certain, but I think that is supposed to be happening at a playground. If you go to a playground and expect things to be calm, relaxed, and organized, that's not going to happen, especially with 30 or more kids playing at the same time.

Let FCC and whatever authorities are involved deal with this before calling for an execution. There are several other preschools and daycare facilities in the area who have experienced the same thing in recent years that were not shut down. I hope FCC will reach out to them to put in immediate and long-term corrective measures.

PS: To those who don't know whether FCC is a daycare or a preschool: the Western Ave. building is a preschool. I know this because my daughter left there knowing how to read. Not sure "daycare" focuses on reading, math, geography, and science, but FCC does.

[Anonymous]

INDIACHICK wrote:

Anonymous wrote: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.

I am an FCC parent and confidently dropped my son off at school today. He has been there (and my daughter before him) since he was 3-months old, and my husband and I did not hesitate when bringing him to preschool today.

What happened is horrible, and FCC does need to work through this and make things right, not only for the child's family but for the rest of the school population. Everyone who said this should never have happened is right. Just like planes shouldn't crash, and patients shouldn't die on operating tables, and airbags shouldn't fail. It happened and it was a horrible mistake. I can't imagine the anger of the parents; it hurts my heart just thinking about it.

Closing the school down is an asinine suggestion. What will that do? If this was the mistake of one person, how does shutting down the school resolve that? Sure, that person is out of a job, but so is everyone else, and numerous families are SOL.

The other thing I want to respond to is the "chaos" factor. I've been to Livingston to pick up my kids for doctors appointments and such over the past few years and didn't find it chaotic. There are a lot of children running around, talking, shouting, playing -- I'm not absolutely certain, but I think that is supposed to be happening at a playground. If you are a group of two or three nannies going to Livingston with your charges, I understand how you might want things to be calm and relaxed. That's not going to happen with 30 or more kids playing at the same time. Try going to a busy playground on the weekends; please report back if you found calm, organized play.

Let FCC and whatever authorities are involved deal with this before calling for an execution. There are several other preschools and daycare facilities in the area who have experienced the same thing in recent years that were not shut down. I hope FCC will reach out to them to put in immediate and long-term corrective measures.

PS: To those who don't know whether FCC is a daycare or a preschool: the Western Ave. building is a preschool. I know this because my daughter left there knowing how to read. Not sure "daycare" focuses on reading, math, geography, and science, but FCC does.

It doesn't matter to most people that they teach all these things. They still will call it a "daycare" and ask you to "own it!" (the fact that you put your child in daycare. To some one here, if your shild it not being taught by someone with a degree in education or is not in a part-time preschool it is NOT preschool. It is daycare.

[Anonymous]

I would never leave my child at a daycare without an on-site outdoors playground.

I am shocked that they lied about how long the child was alone at the playground, and that no one noticed the child was missing upon return. The child is with them all day and they don't notice his sudden disappearance? It does show that the children really are just "widgets" and not real people.

I am pretty surprised at pp's (misplaced?) confidence in the FCC daycare staff. They leave a shoeless toddler at a public playground alone for an hour and it doesn't shake your confidence in them? If not that, what would?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I would never leave my child at a daycare without an on-site outdoors playground.

I am shocked that they lied about how long the child was alone at the playground, and that no one noticed the child was missing upon return. The child is with them all day and they don't notice his sudden disappearance? It does show that the children really are just "widgets" and not real people.

I am pretty surprised at pp's (misplaced?) confidence in the FCC daycare staff. They leave a shoeless toddler at a public playground alone for an hour and it doesn't shake your confidence in them? If not that, what would?

+1

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I would never leave my child at a daycare without an on-site outdoors playground.

I am shocked that they lied about how long the child was alone at the playground, and that no one noticed the child was missing upon return. The child is with them all day and they don't notice his sudden disappearance? It does show that the children really are just "widgets" and not real people.

I am pretty surprised at pp's (misplaced?) confidence in the FCC daycare staff. They leave a shoeless toddler at a public playground alone for an hour and it doesn't shake your confidence in them? If not that, what would?

Hey PP, you dropped your can of lighter fluid on the way out.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I would never leave my child at a daycare without an on-site outdoors playground.

I am shocked that they lied about how long the child was alone at the playground, and that no one noticed the child was missing upon return. The child is with them all day and they don't notice his sudden disappearance? It does show that the children really are just "widgets" and not real people.

I am pretty surprised at pp's (misplaced?) confidence in the FCC daycare staff. They leave a shoeless toddler at a public playground alone for an hour and it doesn't shake your confidence in them? If not that, what would?

+1

If anything, FCC is now the SAFEST daycare in this region. Everyone is double counting their kids and taking extra precaution! ha

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Am I the ONLY one who thinks something about this story doesn't pass the "smell" test???

Not sure what you mean...could you expand? The school has notified the entire school about the incident and is dealing with the situation. What doesn't pass the "smell" test?
Are you thinking it was a conspiracy?

[Anonymous]

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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.

This is a daycare/preschool forum, not the DC schools forum. This website is for the entire DC metro area, which includes NOVA and Maryland.

[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.

SAHM here too but you do realize that this happens at all ages. Even school aged kids, we had a girl left at the zoo on a field trip in K and a high schooler was left in NYC after not boarding the bus.

[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.

How nice for you.

[Anonymous]

PS: To those who don't know whether FCC is a daycare or a preschool: the Western Ave. building is a preschool. I know this because my daughter left there knowing how to read. Not sure "daycare" focuses on reading, math, geography, and science, but FCC does.

Why on earth would that make it not a daycare? I really don't get this. My son is in daycare, and they focus on all of these things. It's a daycare because it is an all-day program. Preschools are not all day programs.

[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.

You're disgusting.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

PS: To those who don't know whether FCC is a daycare or a preschool: the Western Ave. building is a preschool. I know this because my daughter left there knowing how to read. Not sure "daycare" focuses on reading, math, geography, and science, but FCC does.

Why on earth would that make it not a daycare? I really don't get this. My son is in daycare, and they focus on all of these things. It's a daycare because it is an all-day program. Preschools are not all day programs.

Yes. I don't understand why the first poster is so loathe to call a daycare what it is. FCC is a daycare- it is an all day program primarily used so parents can work. Prior to this incident, I have always heard good things about FCC.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

PS: To those who don't know whether FCC is a daycare or a preschool: the Western Ave. building is a preschool. I know this because my daughter left there knowing how to read. Not sure "daycare" focuses on reading, math, geography, and science, but FCC does.

Why on earth would that make it not a daycare? I really don't get this. My son is in daycare, and they focus on all of these things. It's a daycare because it is an all-day program. Preschools are not all day programs.

Yes. I don't understand why the first poster is so loathe to call a daycare what it is. FCC is a daycare- it is an all day program primarily used so parents can work. Prior to this incident, I have always heard good things about FCC.

PP here (the P.S. poster) I was just warning the poster that said the FCC was a preschool that it would not be called a preschool by posters such as you lovely ladies. That's all. My child goes to an all-day daycare and I am fine with it. But I have been on many threads were people get really really angry that you would call a program a day care a preschool.

[Anonymous]

correction: where you call a daycare a preschool. The amount of effort that people put into that distinction is mind boggling to me. After 2's my daycare starts calling it preschool but because the kids stay all day it somehow offends people that one would call it preschool (i.e. Bright Horizons, Kindercare etc)