I worked in daycare for years, I was even the director at one. I've seen good and bad. Stories like this always make me wonder what we don't know. Like, ho wmany people were aware of it going on? How aware was the owner? It is true you can have one bad worker, but its also possible to have it affect the whole center if the owner is turning her back on it. It makes her just as guilty!
Many know of my ordeal with my oldest. She was dropped on her head at a daycare center that I worked at. (resulting in a fractured skull) They covered it up. The owner of the center covered for the teacher who did it and I couldn't prove otherwise, even though I know in my heart what happened. There were many GOOD employees there, but that incident and how the owner backed her up turned the whole place bad IMO. When they were originally there to investigate the owner pulled the teacher out to run errands with her. The state, instead, investigated me and refused to go back to the center to do more digging. They said that because I pulled my daughter from the center it was no longer a safety issue. The teacher hit-and-run a 3 year old with her SUV 3 months later and the owner continued to support her. How sick is that?!
But then, I've worked at other places where one employee acts inapropriately and they are fired. I wouldn't hold it against the entire center if matters are handled appropriately in regaurds to the incident. KWIM?
