I too, have worked in the child care field. I left a very good job to work under a coworker that was starting a new center. What a joke. I finished my nine months of the school year because several families had followed me. We all left at the same time. I could not believe what I saw and heard sometimes. The director even spanked a child a couple of times. I did report her and some of the teachers (anynomously) to the state but they are still running the center. They used to serve the 1 year olds the burned food from the bottom of the deep restaurant style pots that they used too. The 1 year olds weren't going to tell anyone were they? Believe it or not, this is a somewhat respected large center!!

If you child is not old enough to verbally tell you about their day, please be VERY careful where you place them!!!

I work part time in a library now. A day care center has been coming in on Friday mornings for story time. The kids are around 3, I would guess. This last Friday, one girl was trying to tell the teacher something. The teacher was yelling loudly -- in the library-- at the little girl. Then the teacher reached over and slapped her. Then they continued to the story hour with the little girl crying. My boss and I looked at each other in total shock.

I don't know what daycare this is. They had about 10 kids and 2 teachers. We are a wonderful, new library in a great part of town. The kids look well dressed. I'm sure that these parents don't know that their children are being treated like this. I doubt this woman knew she was on camera, but she sure didn't care that others were around. I am quietly going to find out where they are from and report it to the state. I'm pretty sure this group is walking to the library but I just don't know from where. I'm just going to say that I saw them from my house when I call as at this point the library probably doesn't want to get involved if they don't have to.

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Donna