I know my ideals are probably way out of date with most on here but I believe that an infant’s place is with its mother – that’s my prerogative and I don’t intend to get into any arguments about it.
I work in a nursery/playgroup providing funded morning-session pre-school education and would not expect to have to accept an ill child, possibly requiring one to one care, into our group on school premises to enable his/her parents to fulfil their seemingly separate commitments. Parents (or other named contacts) are immediately notified in the event of any illness/accident and collect their child as soon as they are able – in the meantime, the child is cared for sympathetically both by staff and his/her peers (valuable social education 😉 ). There have, of course, been occasions when we have been presented with an obviously poorly child at the gates and when suggesting that maybe the child would be happier at home, we’ve been met with the reply “But I have to go to work” 🙄
Ever felt really cr@p, rough, hung-over, depressed, ill, scared even? Wished you could stay at home? Yeah, I know, most of us will battle through, go to work, fulfil those commitments . . . a young child has no commitments only reliance.