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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The nap room issue was that program assistants were forcing three year olds who didn’t fall asleep to stand and press their faces against the wall as punishment (for not sleeping, I guess). There was also something about a parent witnessing a PA yanking a sleeping child up by the arms and dangling her in the air before dumping her on the floor. [/quote]

I'm not defending how the Director of Compliance handled nap here, but it has to be said: the nap room setup is not conducive to a good nap time. I mean what do you expect when you put 45 3-year olds in the same room and expect them to fall asleep? It's not going to happen. Some of the kids will wake up the others. And then they will start running around.

If you haven't been trained properly, that's really stressful. So people end up doing bad things: yelling at kids, yanking them up by their arms, making them stand against the wall, face to the wall.

What SSMA needs to do is train the Director of Compliance or re-assign her and get someone with daycare experience who knows how to deal with nappers. It needs to train the PAs too so they aren't constantly yelling at kids to be quiet and go to sleep. That's not going to work...EVER. And they need to split the nappers up into two or three different rooms. 45 kids in one room is where the problems start.

As a daycare, Shining Stars would fail.

Just my two cents.[/quote]

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