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[quote=Anonymous]I regularly go to a gym with childcare. Yesterday, I had my youngest child in there, and when I went to do pickup, there was an adult sized special needs child there too.

The SN child was running around and yelling. As I was picking up my child to leave, I witnessed a staff member refuse to be in the child area because of the child. She said that the child had been violent to her in the past and that she was scared for the youngest kids in the child care area. There was a newly walking 1 year old there as well. I suppose because of the age of the SN child, the ratio is still 10:1, so there was only 1 staff for about 6 kids.

It made me very nervous that an unpredictable, adult sized person with the mental capacity of a toddler (as it appeared) would be left with minimal supervision around young kids.

I was sexually abused as a child, so I don't know if that is clouding my judgement, but I felt scared and did not feel like my child was safe. It was time to go anyway, so I took my child and left.

The whole situation made me very uncomfortable, and I'm wondering if I should feel differently? How to handle next time? I can sympathize with the mom who probably just wanted a workout too, and I assume the gym can be sued for discrimination if they didn't allow the child in. It's a tough situation all around.

Any advice? [/quote]

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