Home Hot Topics Articles Directors' Choice Awards About Us / Contact Us Activities & Curriculum Activities for Outcome-Based Learning Arts & Crafts Music for Learning Recommended Reading Sharing Boards: What Do YOU Think? NEWSlink Current National News Conference Calendar Topics In Early Childhood Education Art and Creativity in Early Childhood Education Job Sharing Board State Licensing Requirements Stay Connected! Each month we'll send you an email filled with articles and ideas for your classroom. Subscribe Now Date: 11/26/2005 9:50:00 AM Author: kathy (corkie_@msn.com) Subject: childcare laws (lisa) Lisa, I've known some thatlet their license go when their teenager got in trouble. At first their child was able to go stay with relatives, then licensing said the child could not even visit home on weekends when daycare children were not present. How can a minor charge that did not go to court separate a parent and child like that? But it does, even writing a bad check disqualifies someone after last year's legislative session. It seems the people making the laws, and the public, want to know everything about our personal lives. They think our judgemment or parenting was faulty to have people who have made mistakes come into contact with the children. It's called a "parent's right to know" or "parent confort." We have new posting requirements and our minor children have lost their privacy and their mistakes must be posted now, even when Human Services determined they were no danger to the safety & welfare of the other children. I am so sorry this has happened to you. I can't answer whether a union attorney could help you, from what I see they are discounted or free providing no rules were broken.SO much would be hindsight. Can you still do childcare in another environment, like in a rental property or another provider's home as jointly licensed? When you get a license do they provide training on understanding the regulations at all or do you send in paperwork and that's it? I really would fault licensing for you not understanding the regs, but of course they wouldn't admit that. What are your options now? Name: Email: Subject

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