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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Funny how these posters with such amazing daycares, refuse to name their fantasy daycare center.

Perhaps they're still looking...[/quote]

I'm not one of the PPs, but our childcare center works pretty much how they were describing.  In each infant room, there are two caregivers for six infants.  Other floaters and sometimes the center director rotate in and out to give breaks and provide extra hands when things get crazy.  I've just never seen an occasion when the teachers couldn't handle all the kids' needs.  (I'm often there at drop off and pick up time, when they're dealing with transitions, separation anxiety, etc.  But I also have a very flexible schedule, so I've picked up and dropped off at just about every moment of the day, and it's always the same in the infant room.)  The babies are all on different schedules, so at any given time, a couple are napping, one is laying on a playmat batting at toys, somebody is eating, somebody is getting a diaper change, and someone else is snuggling with a teacher.  Yes, they have a 1:3 ratio, but it's pretty manageable given that they don't have to prep food (parents send from home), and another staff member comes in to relieve them for all breaks, plus time to clean, prep for the next day, etc.

Anyway, my kids are at Sunny Days Early Learning Center in Riverdale, Md, which is part of the Georgetown Hill group of centers.  We also visited the Greenwood School and Easter Seals at Archives II, which had the same basic set up.  (And, yes, gasp--horror of horrors--these "amazing daycares" are all in PG County.  I know it's world shattering that they both exist AND exist in a place that DCUM posters thought was a post-apocalyptic wasteland.)[/quote]

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