incident report

livinitup

DD was out sick today.  Apparently is was the monthly fire drill day at child care.  Today was different because the two regular child care workers were off and the two regular subs forgot one of the infants sleeping in his crib.

Forgot him during the fire drill.  It was noticed during the head-count.

I was very impressed with how they notified everybody - all of the parents(the child's parents involved, by cubby note and email) (DD was out but we got the email), state license bureau, child protective, everybody. Very above board and professional.   By the time the email went out, the staff were already 'disciplined and planned to re-train'.   

So I was left feeling a range of emotions -good that they train on fire drills once a month, crap that they forgot an infant, awful that the whole world is going to investigate and confused ... really confused.  Should I trust the process or be horrified?

chihuahua26

This is the entire reason why they do drills. Can you imagine if it had been a real fire and they forgot an infant? They do the drills so that it will NEVER happen again. I guarantee that the worker who was responsible for getting all of the kids out feels absolutely horrible and will be super vigilent from now on about his/her duties during drills. Look at it as a good thing.

franciscaz

Oh man that is truly scary!  It sounds like they handled it though so try not to worry

mattsgal06

I agree...I would be totally freaked out, but I also think this is a good thing.  Thank goodness it was only a drill.  It sounds like they handled the whole situation in an appropriate way, and no one at the center will EVER make that mistake again.

LoveEeyore

That is scary, but handled well. I used to teach at a public school and the principal would "snag" as many kids as she could (ie from the hall, bathrooms, lunch room) and hide them before a fire drill, and if ithe teacher didn't follow proper protocol for reporting a missing kid- or worse- not notice- she would go POSTAL on the teacher in front of staff, students, etc.