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Apparently no one involved with this movie did any research on daycare


Ummmmm....no?

There is so much wrong with this movie it isn't funny.

However...the one thing that was laughable was the fact that the director of the daycare let the teacher watch all the kids by herself instead of stepping in to help her....in most states it is a regulation that you MUST have a certain teacher to child ratio regardless of whether is is private or publicly owned. In every daycare I have been involved with, the director is VERY flexible and is constantly in the rooms with the children watching them if a teacher is out.

Also, I'm sorry but if you have a 4 year old who has had very little socialization with other children and has stayed home with you every day until she is 4....she is GOING to pitch a fit when you drop her off. Maybe not on day 1...but give it a few days and she will be SCREAMING to not be dropped off. This girl never once shed a tear over being dropped off with complete strangers when all her life, all she has known is being at home with her mother.

Riiiiiiiiiiight.

Stupid stupid unrealistic movie. Par for the course lifetime!

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I agree the teacher/student ratio seems off. I worked in a day care for just a month at the age of 19. This was about 20-21yrs ago. This was a church daycare/preschool. I didn't like the things I saw so I quit. But at that daycare you had one teacher per 6 kids. That was the law at the time. Oddly enough this was infants too. How can one teacher care for six babies by herself? That's just one of the many things I saw that seemed off.

Anyway, church type daycare at the time were not inspected as far as I know but this movie is set in present time. It seems like a large daycare which would require inspections and monitoring of the workers.

I'm half way into the movie and already there are many red flags the mother should have seen. I know it's just a bad Lifetime movie but it's already unrealistic to me.

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I'm now at the part you mentioned about one teacher with all the kids due to another teacher no showing up. This is when you call in a substitute. This is suppose be a registered daycare which would be able to call in state approved subs. I have a few friends who are subs and they have to be ready to go into a local school or daycare/preschool at a moments notice. Yes the director could have lent a hand until the sub showed.

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