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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Give me a break with the daycare stories. The teachers at our center send their own kids there. Explain that?[/quote]

+1.  Our center director and many of the teachers send their kids to our center.  I check on the video feed often and have never once seen teachers eating the kids' food, hitting, falling down drunk on the playground, etc.  [/quote]

Same - and I drop in unannounced all the time, as do other parents.  Zero issues.[/quote]

You are kidding yourself.  Staff know when parents are in the facility.  There are often code words used.  "Elvis is in the building" was used whenever a parent was unexpectedly on-site at my last center.  I worked with a teacher who would put her long coat over kids and pretend to be hugging them.  She was pinching their little ears.  Another teacher took kids in the bathrooms out the camera site and smacked them on the head with their shoes if they took them off.   These were degreed teachers in accredited centers.  Yes I reported.

It would take me hours to list all the scary stuff I saw in even the "best centers".  There are some great teachers out there.  But there are also some awful  ones.  Low pay plus the stress of dealing with young children and long hours with few breaks creates a less than ideal environment.  [/quote]

Whatever.[/quote]

I think it's hilarious at people don't believe these stories. Why would PPs lie about this crap? Nobody is trying to scare anyone off from daycare, but this does exist. [/quote]

I think there are nannies from the nanny forum who are pretty invested in scare stories. My kids are much older and I did all variants of childcare when they were younger so don't really have a horse in this race, but this is a pattern I've seen on DCUM.[/quote]

Good point.[/quote]

+1. DCUM is heavily populated by nannies. I don't trust a lot of what I read. Including the salaries, benefits and how bad daycares are. It doesn't mesh with my own personal experience or from what my friends/relatives say. [/quote]

I would definitely tell myself the same thing if my kids lived at daycare.  So heartbreaking.  How would you like to spend 10 hours a day in the same room? [/quote]

When I worked in pre-school you'd be surprised at how many would leave their kids in daycare 10-12 hours a day. It was very sad.  [/quote]

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