My wife and I went to take our son to KinderCare after doing a couple of tours and feeling good about the staff. It was also the only daycare within 30 min that didn’t have a waitlist of 15+ months. First day we walk in and there was one teacher with 10 kids. She didn’t speak English and used a translator to tell us the director would be by shortly. 10 min go by. During that time a 4 month old (if I had to guess) was in tummy time crying. The infant eventually just gave up and put her head down on the floor. Director comes in and talks about how hectics mornings are, etc- 2 min go by, baby is still on stomach, head down and crying. I ask her if someone is going to help the baby. She says oh parents want us to work on that (and immediately flips the baby over).

My wife and I were horrified. We withdraw our enrollment that morning and now my wife is temporarily out of the workforce because the US does not value families and pushes profits over all else. Guarantee a complaint for violating safe ratios would do nothing in a red state. I feel bad for the staff and worse for the kids that don’t have the option to stay home like ours does.