More on Whitaker

You'd think Whitaker would want to withdraw just so the stories about him would stop. But, maybe he's hoping they'll eventually run out of material.  In any other aministration, he would have been let go after the first story came out.

Inspectors found some violations at a large Iowa daycare center when it was owned by acting Attorney General Matt Whitaker, including deficiencies in 2007 that prompted a downgrade in its license status, according to records released Monday.

Whitaker and his wife owned Little Endeavors in his hometown of Ankeny, Iowa, a center with a capacity for 204 children from newborn to school-age, from 2003 until 2015. He has said that owning the center and other businesses has given him valuable experience.

The Associated Press obtained 49 pages of complaints and inspection records covering Whitaker’s ownership under the Iowa open records law.

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Inspection reports from visits in 2004, 2005, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010 and 2012 noted shortages of play items in one or more of the rooms and noted that a lack of stimulation may have contributed to a biting problem among toddlers early during the Whitakers’ tenure.

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But similar problems continued to be noted. During one 2009 visit, an inspector noted that children in one room were “just wandering around the room as if they were looking for something to do.”

“When some puzzles and other play things were found and put out for these children, it was like Christmas morning,” the inspector wrote.

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In 2010, an inspector criticized a Lego area that only had “a dozen or so pieces.”

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During their tenure, some of the most significant problems involved a teacher who allegedly force fed some children to the point of vomiting in 2014, held a blanket over a frightened child’s head during nap time and mistreated others. The teacher was on leave when inspectors visited and never returned to work.

  TPM

Sounds to me like the "teacher" had a heads up that the inspectors were coming. "On leave."

In two other serious cases, a child went missing during a field trip to a state lake until he was returned to staff by a woman; another was left sleeping unattended in a room for several minutes when the class left for a trip.

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After the Whitakers sold the center in 2015, the building was repainted and “old and broken toys” were replaced, a report shows. Morale among staff improved because they felt listened to by the new director and can “request supplies for their rooms and be able to get them now instead of having to use their own money,” it said.

...but hey, do what you want...you will anyway.