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Article: WHO'S WATCHING THE KIDS?A DECADE OF STUDIES REVEAL THAT MOST DAY CARE IS STILL RATED MEDIOCRE TO POOR.(LIFE & LEISURE)
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- Albany Times Union (Albany, NY)
- Article date:
- July 11, 1996
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Byline: MACKENZIE CARPENTER and SALLY KALSON Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
On a sweltering day last summer at a child care center in Peters, Pa., somebody forgot about 4-year-old Alexandra LeVasseur. She died of heat stroke after being left locked in a parked van.
Another child drowned in a pool at a family day care home.
They became front-page news, and suddenly, everyone was talking about day care again.
America talked about day care when the Oklahoma City bomb killed 19 children. Some voices rose to question why they had been put in day care in the first place.
It's what we do whenever the words ``death'' and ``day care'' appear ...