Re: Daycare poll

"Nan" <nobodys@xxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> On Tue, 23 Aug 2005 14:53:08 -0700, "Circe" <guavaln@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>Either which way, if a male person is interested in starting his own
>>daycare
>>center and has experience caring for children, would you consider that
>>care
>>situation a "start-up" by your standards or not? I think it's "brand new",
>>but that doesn't mean the care provider is inexperienced.
>
> No, he's not inexperienced, but I would want someone who is
> established, and someone that I can check references of.
>
Well, as Sue said, that creates a Catch-22 for anyone trying to start out in
the childcare business. You can't get experience and references without
getting experience, but if no one wants to bring their child to someone who
is not established, you cannot get the experience to get references.

It's funny, though. The few real awful situations I recall in my area that
occurred in home daycares (i.e., kids being abused and even dying at the
hands of the provider) were in *established* (in business for 10 or more
years) home cares with providers with glowing references from previous
clients. One of those was a woman who lived and operated her daycare on a
street I lived on for almost a decade. People thought she walked on water.
That woman is now doing 20 to life for murdering an 8mo.

Thing is, I think those types of situations are INCREDIBLY rare and the
likelihood of them happening to anyone is extremely remote. I'm just saying
that, from what I can tell, the fact that a provider is "established" and
has references isn't a bulletproof method of selecting a provider.

Finally, of course, there's just nothing about having not operated a daycare
that means one can't have either experience or references.
--
Be well, Barbara


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