man what the FUCK is wrong with people

i disagree, kind of...i think that's a mistake i could see myself or anyone making, and i feel kind of bad for the daycare worker. it's not like she left the kid locked in the car while she went to get her hair and nails done...you have a carful of kids and you get all of them out but one, who you had put in the only place he fit, which happened to be out of sight?
 
why did someone put the baby back there in the first place?

also: isn't 8 months a little young to be called a toddler? i'd consider that a baby still- 8 month olds can't walk, can they? jake? you're the resident kid expert.
 
look, if your job is to transport between eight and twelve kids each morning, i think you ought to have a count/check procedure in place, but i don't think it's the height of stupidity or apathy if you don't count one morning and miss a kid.

i'm guessing that the baby was back there because there was no room in the rest of the SUV, cause it was full of other kids?
 
there's no excuse for letting a toddler die in your SUV. if you cannot handle the responsibility of being a daycare worker, well then, you should admit it and save lives. what a fucking sick world this is. sick sick sick fucking world.
 
ugh.

alex, why must you play devil's advocate? there are some things in which there is absolutely zero room for error, childcare being one of them. there's no way this is excusable.
 
i didn't say it was excusable. i said i think this is way different from other kid-locked-in car cases. and i mean WAY different; like, as equally far from "intentionally left kid in car" as it is from "did nothing wrong".
 
which should preclude taking care of a kid. i mean, it's not like you DONT know what you're getting into when you get a job at a daycare.
i cannot see a perspective where this would be explainable or even 'i can see that happening' kind of way.
 
we used to have this bus driver who would stop at his house on the way home and run inside for a bit. we all thought this was normal so nobody said anything to our parents.

one day one of the kids locked him out of the bus and there was a horrible screaming match as he ran from emergency door to front door and back again.

i think he ended up getting arrested for child porn or molestation, long after we were off his bus.
 
i dont really think it's a matter of an argument (although you just seem to like to do that regardless). it's a matter of situation.