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Comment by joe_mamba

6 hours ago

>I start by wandering around the facilities with a camera man

How does one wandering around with a camera affect the fact that the daycares had blacked out or boarded up windows, misspelled signs, and if you went in to ask for enrollment then 3 angry men would come out shouting at you?

Do you even hear yourself? Are they Schrodinger's daycares? Do they become compliant the moment you stop filming them?

Tell you what, go get a camera man and go visit your local daycare center. Post on youtube how they respond.

  • I predict that they would not spontaneously board up the windows and introduce spelling errors into their signage.

  • You're beating it around the bush going offtopic and ignoring my question:

    How does having a camera impact the daycare having a misspelled sign and boarded up windows?

    • > You're beating it around the bush going offtopic and ignoring my question:

      No I'm not, you just don't like the answer. But at least you've edited to remove the "3 guys yelling at you" portion as I think even you can see how that might be a reasonable thing to do to a creep going around you business filming everything.

      > daycare having a misspelled sign and boarded up windows?

      The answer to this question is simple, a poor one. And I suspect that a daycare that primarily gets it's funds from people using government welfare likely isn't rolling in the dough. Broken windows are expensive to fix, boards are cheap. A misspelled sign is embarrassing but again could easily be something that the owner of the facilities just wasn't assed to pay to replace and properly fix.

      My spouse worked for years in that sort of daycare which is why it's unsurprising to me that a daycare in that state exists. She, for example, did a full summer in Utah without AC while the kids were fed baloney sandwiches every day. Her's wasn't a daycare committing fraud, it was just an owner that was cutting costs at every corner to make sure their own personal wealth wasn't impacted.

      A shitty daycare isn't an indicator of fraud. It's an indicator that the state has low regulation standards for daycares. Lots of states have that, and a lot of these places end up staying in operation because states decide that keeping open an F grade daycare is cheap and better for the community vs closing it because it's crap quality. They certainly don't often want to take control of such a business and they know a competently ran one isn't likely to replace it if it is shutdown.

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