Quality Daycare: What Is Quality?

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What is quality?
1. A quality daycare has a low adult-to-child ratio to ensure children are getting the quality care and education (). It is very difficult to provide to each child’s individual needs daily and impossible if the children far outnumber the adults in a classroom or group. Every child learns differently and requires a different level of attention. If there are too many children, the level of care and education decreases. It is easy for a child to get lost in a larger group and be unable to gain any knowledge from lessons without proper supervision. There are state mandates that list the number of maximum children-to-adults, however, these numbers are usually too high to provide individual planning and supervision. The state’s

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