I’ve been looking for daycare for my two year-old, and I really think that you should be allowed to personally do a background search on the employees in the center.  I mean, general home daycare moms allow you to do that, and I’m not talking about a full-fledged poking into their lives or credit, just a little criminal convictions check.  I mean, they say they do a full search, but do we really know?  And what kind of information would have to be released to the parent in order for us to do that?  The center probably wouldn’t release it, calling it a privacy issue.

Can’t they even give us a copy of the report they received?  Vital information could be blacked out.  But I still think it is up to the parent to verify employees the way I had to verify possible scout leaders just by going down to the police station.  But we can’t even get enough information to do that.  If you go to sites that help moms set up their own in-home care, they don’t even mention that you shouldn’t be a criminal!  So, in other words, parents get enough info to check out coaches and leaders but can’t get enough info to check out the people who will be dealing with out children day-to-day.  Nice.

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