Gingerbread Skoolhouse

Popped by Gingerbread Skoolhouse to check out their school premise. It is a semi-detached house kind of setting and upon stepping in, almost instantly I knew, this is not the one. The fact that the classrooms are on the second and third level respectively - that means children there have to go up and down the stairs a couple of times per day, and the fact the particular classroom which Lia is gonna be in should she be registered, is too small for my comfort. Two thumbs down. James is also not receptive to this child care center because of the staircase thingy, he just doesn't like it. We've both come to the same point: staircase = prone to accidents, kids are kids afterall.

Some other things I've found out from the school tour:
1) The children there change in the open of their classrooms too... I hate to say this but, "what's new?"
2) Small classrooms with equally small bathroom/toilet attached. Two classes share a bathroom/toilet (it is a semi-detached house afterall).
3) To be fair, the ratio of teacher to students (child care) is also small, 1:4 only, wherelse the norm as per MCYS standards is like 1:8... But what can you expect? The school premise is already small to begin with!
3) No blow drying of hair after shower and children proceed for nap time straight away with damp hair. I even asked the principal, "eh, they don't blow-dry the hair?" And she replied cheerfully while stroking one kid's (damp) hair: "No... they don't..." *principal smiling happily* So, kids take naps with damp hair? No hair dryer but can at least towel dry a bit more right? Grow old get "tao-hong" how?

Oops, am I asking for too much here? Probably I should learn the technique of closing one eye? I am disappointed... Over and over again I ask myself, is it just me and me alone?

Eileen, thanks for your write up. =)
I understand where you are coming from but I don't know if I could ever come to terms with it... I guess if I am left with no choices, I might just have to accept it afterall... I don't know, let's hope for the best...

MCYS have reverted to me as per what Kinderland Child Care's principal have explained, and they mentioned that they do agree with me on the fact that children should have their privacy during shower routines and they will follow-up with the centre principal accordingly. I asked on what sort of "follow-up" would they perform? Will they work with the respective child care center to actually improvise the suitation? I gave MCYS (and Kinderland as well) the suggestion of using a small draw curtain when changing a child. A small area would suffice as the body size of a child is small. With that, the teacher can be sitting outside the curtain whilst changing a child and still have visual contact with the rest of the children in the room. The addition here, is just a piece of curtain... Okay, to be realistic, plus labour, some curtain thread and hooks...

I am awaiting their replies, be it positive of negative, I am prepared to face it.