KIDS COUNTRY MONROE (Kids Country)

Observation

On 9/25/23 Center admin staff reported all children in the young preschool 2 classroom were over 2 ½ years of age and therefore the classrooms were running at a 1 to 10 ratio. Upon touring the room Licensor Anselment viewed one teacher with 8 children. Licensor requested child files for the children in the classroom to review birthdays. Upon review of child files of it was determined two of the children were under 2 ½ years of age, both having birthdays in May of 2021. This classroom was determined to be out of ratio for the morning and operating at a 1 to 10 ratio instead of the required 1 to 7 ratio. The Licensors had been onsite for over an hour before the ages were verified and ratio was corrected. The center director reports there has been occasions when the center was out of ratio due to call outs and being short staffed. Upon viewing video footage there was once incident viewed where a teacher was out of ratio for over 20 minutes. ?? "No observation provided."