The Children's Courtyard, Inc.

746.2805 - Prohibited Punishments - No Harsh, Cruel or Unusual

Video footage shows a caregiver picking a child up from their nap mat, the caregiver then aggressively hands the child the mat causing the child to take a step back. The same video also shows the caregiver roughly pushing the child?s head up when she is attempting to talk to the child. At the end of the video, the caregiver roughly lays the child down on their nap mat.

746.1203(5) - Responsibilities of Caregivers - Interact positively with children

A two year old child tripped while holding a caregiver's hand. The caregiver brought the child to their chest by raising the child by up with one arm. Same caregiver was carrying two children, and they set the second child down releasing the child a minimal distance before the child was all the way to the ground. *The above instances were not discipline related.*

746.1205(a)(4) - Supervision ensures each child?s safety, well-being, including physical proximity and auditory or visual awareness of each child?s on going activity

The operation staff failed to ensure that all children were accounted for while transitioning the children out of the classroom to go into the gym at the end of the day, resulting in a child being left unattended in the classroom for approximately 15 minutes. The operation terminated the caregiver responsible for the incident.

746.2805(5) - Prohibited Punishments - Humiliating, Rejecting, Yelling

Based on the information gathered from interviews and video, a teacher was heard and seen on video using a yelling unpleasant type of tone and had an angry demeanor with the child that was left in the room unsupervised for 15 minutes.

746.707 - Incident/Illness Report Form Shared with Parent

The incident report was not updated with the additional information that was viewed from the video after the self-report was made, which makes it unknown if the parents were told about the additional information.

746.2805(3) - Prohibited Punishments - Grabbing and Pulling

Based on the video, a caregiver grabbed a child by one arm and the child grabs the caregiver?s arm with the other hand and the child can be seen in the video being lifted off the ground as the caregiver is walking out of the classroom.

746.613(b) - Immunization Records, Exceptions, and Exemptions Current

One out of ten children's records was missing a current immunization.