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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I was at the hearing. OSSE testified that any playgroup that involves more than 2 children requires a license. Even if nobody is paying any “dues.” Even if nobody is getting paid.  Anytime you have more than 2 children getting together on a regular basis, unless their parents are there the whole time,  you need a license, according to OSSE.

They are nuts. [/quote]

Agree that both examples above should be regulated (Petworth and Hill) preschools AND that the description above is ludicrously over the line.[/quote]

Do you understand what “regulated” means? OSSE wants playgroup parents to hire someone to supervise them while they watch their friends’ kids play. OSSE wants parents to take all the training courses that daycare workers are required to take. They want all the parents to comply with the daycare worker standards: drug testing, background checks, certifications. Unpaid parents. For a couple hours a week of free play in a church with their friends. Would you want to do that?

And this law will apply to all arrangements where not all the parents are there. Want to have an arrangement with a few of your neighbors where you switch off watching each other’s kids on Saturday mornings so you all can get some errands done? How about having your kids go to a friend’s house after school for a few hours? Hope there aren’t more than 2 kids involved. Otherwise, enjoy having to get background checks, filing paperwork and paying OSSE hundreds of dollars in licensing fees.

This is the problem when you start going down the road of regulating things that aren’t commercial in nature. Because the Hill parents aren’t getting paid, but OSSE wants to regulate them anyway, if OSSE has their way, any unpaid arrangement where you are switching off caring for your friends’ children will fall under OSSE’s jurisdiction.

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