• iii
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    2 days ago

    What country are you in where the parental notification laws are “I dunno, if you feel like it I guess”?

    Belgium. There’s no laws whatsoever that mandate notifications. They’ll just tell you if something important happens

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      5 hours ago

      Well that seems quite odd. Most developed countries have standards for childcare settings, including defining minimums for activity and incident logging.
      Finding regulations was difficult, but it seems that Belgium just has lower quality childcare than even the US, according to the UN. https://www.unicef.org/innocenti/reports/where-do-rich-countries-stand-childcare

      Color me surprised. I kind of assumed if we had standards that anyone else would have similar or better standards.

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        31 minutes ago

        The only thing such laws do is make the care taker more of a replaceable robot, imo. In either case, you want someone that cares, and doesn’t see a kid as a long to do list within an app.

        No amount of laws can force someone to care. The reverse is often true, in my opinion. “Teach for the test” style.