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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Yeah, but this wasn't an accidental injury. They forgot a child. Daycares serve one single function - to watch your child. They failed this fundamental task. They didn't accidentally feed a cracker to a gluten sensitive kid, or give a baby the wrong breast milk or even leave a rusty nail out that impaled a kid. THEY FORGOT A CHILD. For over an hour! And then, it appears, were not forthcoming about the incident.

You think supply and demand means daycare centers can slide on WATCHING CHILDREN?  I sympathize with the difficulty in finding daycare providers, but come on. There is no excuse here. This cannot get swept under the rug because they are in demand. [/quote]

I am not arguing that this should get swept under the rug - just that shutting a facility down is not the answer.  What do you think parents will do if this facility is shut down?  Put their children in unliscensed home daycares - b/c there are no other openings.  Lose their job b/c they can not find childcare? Which is worse?

The appropraiate response is to figure out what went wrong.  Was these a hand-off that did not happen?  Was there a procedure that was not followed?  
What procedures need to be revisited?  Is it a training issue?  and fix it.

I believe DC Law says that the school needs to call DC Police is a child is missing for more than 5 minutes.   The appropraite liscensing professionals will be involved.  They do not thake these things lightly.
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