More on the toddler who died at daycare

[momofnerds]

ok, but if we need to be regulated the daycare centers need to regulated even more. today when I dropped off ds at tutoring, I watched 1 provider with 8 children all 3 yrs old coming back from the dollar store. There is a daycare next door to the tutoring place thats why I knew. So why is ok for a center to be 1:8 ratio but mine has to be 1:5 just doesn't make any sense now does it.

[Other Mummy]

ok, but if we need to be regulated the daycare centers need to regulated even more. today when I dropped off ds at tutoring, I watched 1 provider with 8 children all 3 yrs old coming back from the dollar store. There is a daycare next door to the tutoring place thats why I knew. So why is ok for a center to be 1:8 ratio but mine has to be 1:5 just doesn't make any sense now does it.

It doesn't make sense. I can be a mom of 5 kids, yet still run an in home daycare with 5 children. That is 10 children I can legally have in my care. Yet, the daycare provider down the street might not have any children of her own and still only operate on a 5 children rule.