The day care that Nate attended made the news last night - and not in a good way. Seems that one of the van drivers left one of the kids at Pelican Bay after going there on a swimming outing.
Now, I have went with them to Pelican Bay on these outings before, and I can tell you from experience that I am not surprised. On paper, it looks like an organized situation, but in practical purposes, it isn't. Kids are assigned a color based on what van they ride over on, and when it is time to go, the teachers hold up that color and the kids are supposed to come on and get on the van and go back to Kids Ink.
One van always goes back first with the second van after in case someone didn't get on the first bus.
Now, I do agree that he driver should have counted kids, and this could have been avoided. But the one thing that makes me kind of sad is that it was a guy who was driving the van who got fired. One of the great things about Kids Ink was that they have a very large number of male teachers there to interact with the kids and I think that is great for the boys there to have guys to hang out with as teachers.
And one thing I thought was odd was that they never mentioned the director's name (It's Debbie) in the story. I figure it is because kids of some of the local news stations go to Kids Ink and kind of did her a favor. Course, I figure that is also the exact reason that this story and interview got out there, too.
I don't think it is a bad place, just a shitty accident. I would still send Nate back there again.