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Show Licenses, Training Urged For Sitters State legislatures and city councils coun-cils throughout the nation, have been petitioned to pass laws requiring re-quiring the licensing of all baby sitters, private kindergartens, day care agencies, and nursery and play schools. It is suggested that such licensing be regulatory in nature and not for revenue. The present lack of standards for these persons and institutions is highly detrimental to the health, safety, and general welfare of infants in-fants and pre-school-age children, petitioners believe. While some of the more progressive cities and states have already begun to inquire in-quire into the matter of licensing pre-school centers, entirely too many have been lax and indifferent indiffer-ent to this need, many parents contend. con-tend. Little or nothing has been done, to date, by city and state governing bodies to require physical physi-cal examinations of baby sitters. Some parents think -baby sitters should, in addition, be required to obtain the signatures of two persons per-sons in their community, testifying to their moral character and reliability. re-liability. They believe that regular regu-lar courses of study should be required re-quired of all baby sitters and directors di-rectors and their assistants in day care agencies and nursery and play schools and suggest that, as a temporary measure, these courses could be made available in the form of evening classes sponsored by local civic groups or governing bodies. |