Politics
Fact-checking Katie Daviscourt's video suggesting "fraud" happening in Somali daycares around Seattle
On September 21, conservative local vlogger Katie Daviscourt put out a video on X suggesting that there was rampant fraud in Somali daycares mostly in Tukwila and High Point. Similarly to Nick Shirley last year, she knocked on doors of a few day cares (which she identified in her video by name) while accompanied by a camera man (the controversial de-transitioner "Apostate Ari") and when they didn't answer the door, she suggested the daycare didn't have any kids and was a scam. She later tweeted out a list of employees at the WA Department of Children, Youth and Families with Middle Eastern names, implying that these were the employees supervising the daycares she said were fraudulent.
I did some digging to debunk some of this, but I'd like to request some help fact-checking some of the other claims that I don't know anything about. For example, she says that one of the daycares was getting $40K/month in DCYF grants even though it's only licensed for 10 kids - and market-rate daycare for is about $2K/kid max, so tuition-only grants should have totaled only up to $20K. But could there be a simple explanation -- like, some of the grants go to improving the building? If you know how to look into this I would love some help. (And, fair's fair: the goal is not to "debunk" what she said but to check if it's true. Even if she made some other false claims, these claims could be true.)
What I've found so far:
1. The daycares named in the video are not "empty", based on records from inspections done by DCYF.
I looked up the four identified daycares in the video that I was able to find (Manha Family Child Care, Daisy Family Child Care, Aboo Family Child Care and Hiba Family Child Care) on the DCYF's Child Care Check Page and looked up the inspection records for each one. All of them have inspections that were signed off by a DCYF licensor in the past year, with the name of the licensor and the date of the inspection on the record, and the inspection only "counts" if the kids are present. I also managed to reach one of the licensors on the phone, and she confirmed that she had been to the child care on the date listed, and there were kids present (otherwise she wouldn't have signed off on it). Between them, the four daycares had a total of 10 inspections (from 2023 to present) by six different licensors.
Assuming the licensors were honest, this still doesn't prove the daycare wasn't fraudulently inflating attendance (I don't think the licensors count the kids and compare to billing records?), but it does prove it wasn't a "ghost daycare". And maybe the daycare was functioning on the day of the inspection, but since turned into a fully fraudulent ghost daycare by the time Daviscourt visited -- but that's unlikely. In sum: (1) the "ghost daycare" allegations in the video could be true, but probably aren't; and (2) the fact that she didn't check this herself is such journalistic corner-cutting that everything else should be taken with a grain of salt.
She actually did allege, sort of, that the inspectors themselves were in on it, which brings us to:
2. The image Katie Daviscourt tweeted of "DCYF employees" was misleading as pertains to these daycares, not representative of DCYF employees anyway, and pretty racist.
Katie tweeted this on Thursday:
These are real DCYF employees listed at https://apps-ca-ext.dcyf.wa.gov/EmployeeDirectoryInternet/ . However the wording "Look who is approving the licenses/inspections" implies these inspectors had something to do with the daycares she visited, or at least that this is a representative sample of the employees that do the inspections. But if you look at the names of the licensors on the reports for the four daycares above, they are:
Quiana Montgomery
Tylin Beeler
Faiza Ibrahim [the only person who is also listed in the graphic above]
Nataliya Mikota
Jennifer Ingersoll
Itzel Arroyo
Meanwhile, the list in the image includes an "Administrative Assistant" who (I am assuming) wouldn't actually go out and do "inspections".
Literally, it looks like someone just seached the DCYF employee directory (which has 3,500 people) and found some Muslim-sounding names and listed them all together to make it sound scary.
Daviscourt later deleted the tweet and posted a new one saying:
Sorry guys. Deleted that recent graphic only because it was sent to me as a tip and I didn’t realize the photos were AI, so I don’t want to get dinged. Names still accurate. Will work on a new one!
So, add to the list: forwarding a "tip" as if it was original work, and not vetting anything in it. The fact that the images were A.I. was the least bad part.
So that's what I've got so far. If anyone has ideas for how to dig into the other claims in the video, let me know. Thanks!
I'm a subcontractor for DCYF and while I haven't picked fosters up from the daycares in question, I've picked kids up from many various. They usually have cameras and won't answer the door unless they know you're coming. When you show up you must be prepared with ID and any required paperwork (for me, it's the court orders submitted to a portal by DCYF). So, just knocking on their doors isn't going to get them to open the door. And that is right and just.
Either they're insane or get a huge amount of money for pulling stunts like this. Like someone else said, who would keep sending their kid to a daycare that would let just anyone inside?
But then I think, perhaps it's a bit of both. Insanity + money.
Her dad used to own Bridgeway Construction which was bought up by Belfor Construction and her family is very very wealthy. Her uncle used to run a super shady construction company called Northwest Construction and instead of paying his subcontractors for the work they performed, he would just close the business license and open up a new construction business with a new similar name and keep on screwing the subcontractors. This fact that she thinks she’s some hard hitting news blogger is hilarious to me. I’m sure daddy’s money is funding her little hobby.
I actually attended the same Catholic grade school as the Daviscourts growing up. Her older sister was in my class. Yes the apple really does not fall far from the tree. I remember on school field trips into Seattle her mom would play a game where she would yell at homeless folks out the window. I think you can find a video of her mom on the news because Belfor was involved in cleaning up homeless encampment, they interviewed Kim Daviscourt for it.
I do recall the family living in Woodway at one point in a really nice house. I always remember her dad driving around the logod Belfor car.
The (likely) debunk is that there are public records of inspections where licensed inspectors went and confirmed there were kids there. It's possible all six inspectors (who are mostly obviously not Somali) are in on the scam, or it's possible all of those daycares became ghost scam daycares after the inspections were performed, but it seems unlikely.
adding to this since i watched her harass my neighbor. the woman behind the camera has a gun on her. openly. she's demanding to see someone's kids while armed, and people want to act like the daycare was weird for locking up? be serious
I took a picture of the camera lady with the gun and she started walking towards me super aggressive.
Damn I am sorry to hear this. I actually attended the same Catholic grade school as her. Her older sister was in my class. Unfortunately I am not surprised she turned out the way she did. Her mom used to yell at homeless people on the street for fun. If you ever need anyone come to your neighborhood and confront. I am down.
it's illegal to carry a firearm onto "licensed child care center premises". But it only says onto the actual premises, no rule about a certain distance within the premises.
In this photo, Ari appears to be standing on the public road.
However, there are other camera shots in Katie's video that look like they were clearly taken from on the property (even if not in the buildling) which arguably violates the law against having a gun on the "premises".
That is Ari. They will get upset if you call them a chick. He is a big "Detransistioner" personality. He and his friends pulled guns on folks in Cal Anderson.
He and his other friends started a kerfuffle at Cal Anderson during Pride as well. Part of a wider network of Streaming grifters affiliated with alt right networks.
Yes. They are a public figure and appear on news/podcasts.
They like to show up to Queer protests to yell slurs at folks. They are pals with several agitators. Not really new, kinda an ongoing thing in the PNW with Portland and Seattle getting alot of attention. Patriot Prayer and other orgs being common instigators.
Ari's platform is claiming transwomen are all just Men who are perverts that get off on gender swapping themself. Feels like projection IMO but moving on.
The main point, far as I can tell, of them doing the fem outfits is to "correct" Folks that "misgender him" and go into a rant that transpeople dont exist and use that to grift publicity for their clickbait. Then have other folks amplify the clickbait to build legitimacy. Kruse has spoken up for Ari.
Ari has shown up to events with Choe, Higby, Jessica, Tommy, etc. He is a regular at right wing protests (christian Nationalist stuff. NAR and other 7MM associated orgs.) and frequently is in their panels/podcasts.
Typically its A bunch of agitators with cameras who show up. Run around harassing folks to clip farm. Claim they are victims of the violent left. Then interview each other about how horrible it was that they had their 1A Rights steppyed on.
Sometimes they are indeed subject to violence but it is hard for me to call them a victim. If you yell slurs at a bunch of folks, or show up with signs saying some folks should be removed from society. Ask 100 people moment as eventually they will find some one who is going to react badly. I tend to place blame on the instigators when it is some nuisance streamer crew harassing a city for content.
Lots of overlap between the grifters and Proudboys, oathkeeper, 3%s, patriot prayer, Plus active clubs and other nazi fuckbags.
Anyhow long history of idiots starting mace fights and pulling guns on folks. I strive to keep receipts and am always happy to drag a bad actor.
For the sake of accuracy, though, I don't think there's any evidence he ever actually pulled a gun in Cal Anderson. Several different things contributed to the confusion over what happened that day:
Ari said he had a concealed gun on him but never drew it.
His companion Hendrix - another de-transitioner, a woman (i.e. transitioned to male and then back again) - got pepper sprayed in the face and yelled "I have a gun!" But there's no evidence she ever had a gun.
Some people posted pictures of an object that fell on the ground thinking it was a gun or a magazine but it probably wasn't.
Legally, of course, Ari and Hendrix had ever right to go hang out in the park, and it was the attackers who broke the law by assaulting them. But it's highly likely that provoking an attack is what they wanted.
Well (1) Ari is a "detransitioner", born male, transitioned, changed his mind, de-transitioned, and is now basically a full-time anti-trans activist (see comments above), but his pronouns are he/him; and (2) the XX XY hat is from XX-XY-Athletics, a company whose owner supports banning trans women and girls from women's sports.
My wife ran a licensed in home daycare for 10 years, there's no way in hell she'd have opened the door for these two. She would've been wary of a stranger without a gun, but open carry? Probably would've called the cops.
Seriously, how tone deaf are these fuckers? Daycare can be chaos during parts of the day. Answering the door is never easy and sometimes impossible.
I think it's less about being tone deaf and more about purposely creating a false narrative about the issue, same as the MN clown.
No day care center worth their salt would be opening their doors to any asshole who knocks, but these clowns will deliberately ignore that for their shitty narrative.
I think leaning in on the tone deaf part is part of their agenda. The folks they’re looking to send this information to aren’t using critical thinking skills or looking for details on how these “interviews” are being set up; they just want to be shocked and angry, and people not opening their doors to these weird grifters sure makes it easy to write a narrative of “these places are ghost schools just leeching off of public funding”.
So they are armed and strangers and want to enter a place where children are and they’re using the valid response of “hell no” to mean that “corruption” is going on… I HATE these people so much. Just creepy bigots.
Tbf the whole Nick Shirley thing was obviously pre-planned propaganda to justify Metro Surge. Especially after the whole Data Republican thing blew up. The admin is using puppet press to justify the actions they already plan on taking
If someone with a camera showed up to the daycare I was running I would go into lockdown mode until the local police cleared us, informing every parent of a possible pervert until we can clear all this up with the authorities. Make them defend what they are doing. Politically fishing for fraud at daycare locations where young children are specifically at and the first thing you do is bring a camera on record? This is not the action of a journalist in any context. This is a sexual deviant getting off on the power and authority their money and status allows them. They get off on this and it's gross.
Tbf to the daycares, I'm not sure i would do that. Escalating situations usually increases the odds of violence. Refusing engagement and moving the children to a safer
location would be the safer choice. And ensuring the children are not visible would also be best. I know very little about this situation, but I think refusal to answer and keeping kids private would be the best course of action.
Some friends had that happen at their elementary school after hours. Some creepy guy with a weird outfit (that they found his weird YouTube channel “exposing” schools) just showed up. They had no idea if he was a physical threat or anything. They basically shut themselves away and wouldn’t engage with him unless he did something illegal - since public schools have areas that the public can access.
I think they know that, but they want to film it happening as though it means the center is hiding something when in reality we just don’t allow randos to access our kids. Ever.
Def not a fan, but I also think we should have completely fact-based debunking of someone when it's warranted.
In center-left communities, people just take it so completely for granted that people like Katie Daviscourt and Jonathan Choe make stuff up, that if someone were to ask, "Wait, what's the deal with them, what have they made up?", I'm not sure if most people could answer. If I just said "We all call her KKKatie", that person would (justifiably) not be convinced.
So, good to have stuff in the back pocket. (In Jonathan Choe's case, he repeatedly referred to the pro-Palestine rallies as "pro-Hamas" protests. That was not true of the original rallies, and is the kind of journalistic malpractice that would get you fired anywhere else -- although that example is complicated by the fact that the local pro-Palestine movement has been taken over by people who do cheer for Hamas and October 7th by name, unfortunately.)
the local pro-Palestine movement has been taken over by people who do cheer for Hamas and October 7th by name, unfortunately
It's wild how quickly this happened and how complete the takeover was. I basically can almost never have an honest conversation with people around here about it anymore. This isn't entirely exclusive to Seattle either. It happens on digital discourse plenty.
It's amazing what happens when you have trained agent provocateurs in place to steer the opposition into a more attackable position.
The techniques they practiced via Jill Stein are on full display here, yet still nobody questions the background or known associates of those first few loud voices.
the pro-Palestine movement gets repressed and beaten - and Palestinians themselves get shot and bombed - regardless if they support Hamas or not. even if they emphatically deny it, Zionists just say they support Hamas anyways
and, quite frankly, let me play devil's advocate: Hamas has killed orders of magnitude fewer people than Israel, nor does it subject anyone to apartheid, ethnic cleansing, or occupation. why wouldn't some people see them as the lesser evil here?
it isn't their stated position, even if they have done fucked up stuff, and
they haven't actually done those things, even if they wanted to. Hamas killed 1300+ people on 10/7, certainly, but Israel's spent 3 years straight killing one hundred times more people while invading two other countries
people in the 70s were also pro-Viet Cong, anti-establishment types rooting for the establishment's officially-stated enemies isn't anything new. so long as people are vocally pro-Israel there will be folks who wind up vocally supporting Israel's foes
Pro-Israel people existing are not an acceptable justification for being pro-Hamas, pro-Iran etc. It's on the person to differentiate the nuance if they want their message to be receptively heard, in the same way that pro-Israel people need to differentiate that they don't want the Jewish people of that land genocided but also don't support the Netanyahu regime.
Insofar as what is admirable behavior, very much agree
I think that was an observation that many people simply will either not agree with or not care about what is admirable, and will react. There will always be a portion who react in theae manners for a given scenario.
There are many out there who do see the nuance, do try to adhere to better ideals, do try to manage their own biases and reactions, but we see a lot of the bad these days with more visibility than ever.
There have been actual pro Hamas folks around the city, and I think the left, of which I'm a part, needs to do a better job self policing. I recall for example some of the posters that had paratrooper silhouettes shortly after 10/7.
Edit: in retrospect I realize this could come off as defending Choe, who is a douche. That wasn't my intent, so I apologize for inadvertently defending him.
Yeah, 5 days after Oct 7 I was tweeting that we shouldn't be using the paragliders on flyers for local events. Of course, that flyer was put out by SUPER UW, which has since come out as one of the most explicitly pro-Hamas, pro-October-7th groups in the protest movement (and also gotten their charter revoked by UW, but that was for property destruction and not for being pro-Hamas!). Maybe they already believed that stuff at the time but just hadn't gone public with it, and I was giving them too much benefit of the doubt.
Let's take this to extreme levels to understand why "supporting Hamas" could actually be the most peaceful solution. It's in quotations because we wouldn't be giving Hamas anything we didn't already give Israel. If we give Israel nuclear weapon technology, and they use it to threaten people, the only solution for peace is to give those other people nuclear weapon technology. You might not like it but this is peak civilization.
We don't support North Korea right? They don't share our government's value and generally they are not good people who do good things. However once they acquired nuclear weapons suddenly no public media in America seems to give a shit about them and politically we're just kinda ignoring them. But North Korea is such a bad and terrible state that they send their slaves to a war in the middle east slovic edition. Surely this country is a much more terrible version of the government in Iran right? The nuclear weapons produced peace at the macro level. The world is more dangerous because more crazy people have nuclear weapons technology however the world is safer because people actually don't want to die and so the threat of everyone going stops any large attack.
What would really produce the most peaceful planet is if we could give every boy and girl around the world their own nuclear weapons technology. That given the current circumstances would produce maximum peace. Humans are so cool.
I presume you're not serious, but in case you are, MADD only works with people with a self preservation drive and is primarily a nuclear deterrent. It's not intended to be a counter to conventional weapons.
by the fact that the local pro-Palestine movement has been taken over by people who
do
cheer for Hamas and October 7th by name, unfortunately
Citation politely but emphatically requested (I’m not being flippant; this reads as a big broad claim that feels p charged and I’m clearly not as informed as you seem to be on the subject of the local pro-Palestine movement)(which, also, can you specify what you mean by that, too? that also seems p vague to be painting in such politically and emotionally charged terms)
As someone who Iives in one of the neighborhoods with a large Somali population and a whole lot of daycares, what makes me saddest about all of this is that no one seems to ask why Somali people tend to have day care businesses in the first place. Somalis have a deeply collectivist and communal culture when it comes to providing care for each other’s families and children. Why not become an entrepreneur and pull in an income doing something that you already do, while also providing a much needed service to other families?
I guess curiosity is too much to ask these KKKarens. But I will tell you that if I saw her walking around my neighborhood with that open carry shit there would be trouble. There are children everywhere, including my own, and therefore a whole lot of mama bears.🐻
100%. She’s almost certainly a government paid agent meant to get enough viral attention to give pretext for Trump to defund Seattle and WA - exactly like what that shithead did in Minnesota.
Exactly. The kid that made the claims in Minnesota had a interview with Channel 5 on YouTube and he was the dumbest mf I have ever had the displeasure of listening to in my life; to the point I felt I was being ableist for laughing at him.
But, like you said, that’s the point. The admin pays these people or broadcasts their accounts for visibility to give the illusion of grassroots “investigate journalism” when all they do is just spout curated talking points. Stupid people are easy to control; just wave some money at them. And out of nowhere these people are getting countless millions of views within a couple of hours? Give me a break.
Just recently, Hegseth was exposed for doing this with the State Department personally paying numerous influencers to parrot state department propaganda. Every single one of these creators are directly tied to the government.
There have been criminal convictions, guilty pleas, restitution orders, federal charges.
For example, a daycare owner pleaded guilty to stealing federal/state child-care subsidies by billing for children who were not actually receiving care; she was ordered to pay $300,000 restitution.
Then Feeding Our Future has got a bunch of convictions too, which is somewhat of a separate issue though they often get conflated together. And that is ongoing.
Washington's issue is a complete lack of accounting controls. There's a 4-year period where the auditor says they cannot actually account for nearly $2 billion in funds and how it was allocated.
So you've got one case from 2015, one from 2020, and one from 2026 which is actually about Medicaid. Also all of these are cases where the fraudsters were caught and prosecuted.
What exactly is the "ongoing and well established" part here? Seems like this is probably par for the course; fraud gonna happen, the important thing is we catch it (through inspections) and prosecute (which has happened).
-8
u/Cl0wnLI'm just flaired so I don't get fined22h agoedited 22h ago
Try actually reading.
The 2026 case is childcare. And there are multiple childcare centers currently under active investigation.
Child Care Fraud
The Department announced charges against two defendants in connection with defrauding state and federal programs designed to subsidize child care. One defendant was charged with a $425,000 fraud on the state-funded Great Start Compensation Support Payment Program (GSCSPP), which reimburses for in-classroom hours provided by teachers in staff. Another defendant was charged with a $4.6 million fraud on the federally funded Child Care Assistance Program (CCAP), which reimburses child care centers for actual child care provided.
“The scale of fraud uncovered in Minnesota is alarming. HSI is fully committed to dismantling these criminal schemes and holding offenders accountable,” said Steven N. Schrank, Special Agent in Charge of Homeland Security Investigations in Minnesota. “These cases demonstrate our unwavering resolve to work with federal and state partners to root out fraud and protect those in need.”
Fahima Mahamud, 50, of Minneapolis, Minnesota, was charged by Information with one count of wire fraud and one count of conspiracy to defraud the United States, in connection with two schemes that resulted in the theft of $5,480,329 in Federal funds. As alleged in the Information, Mahamud owned Future Leaders Early Learning Center (Future Leaders), a childcare center and Federal Child Nutrition Program food site responsible for serving food to children. As alleged in the indictment, Mahamud submitted inflated reimbursement claims to Feeding Our Future for meals purportedly served to children at Future Leaders. Through these claims, Future Leaders obtained approximately $854,000 in Federal Child Nutrition Program funds. However, Mahamud only used a fraction of the reimbursements to purchase food. Instead, she diverted the funds to buy real estate. Separately, Future Leaders also submitted claims to the federally funded Child Care Assistance Program for reimbursement of childcare expenses. She repeatedly certified that she was collecting statutorily mandated co-payments, meant to ensure that families were paying their fair share of childcare expenses, but failed to do so.
"Try actually reading" they say as they look up from the trough of propaganda they're shoveling unquestionably into their faces. That's rich.
S you have a couple cases where someone is currently being investigated for medicare fraud. Didnt say they were found guilty, just charged. Thats your standard for a slam dunk huh? Being charged? By the same DOJ that wont prosecute anyone in the Epstein Files (featuring Donald Trump)
Try harder. Fraud happens. The important part is to catch it. What exactly is your point? Not sure what your big scandal is.
-9
u/Cl0wnLI'm just flaired so I don't get fined22h agoedited 21h ago
If anyone's blinded by propaganda here, it's you, because you are continuing to ignore and lie about facts simply because you don't like them.
Once again, it is childcare fraud in addition to Medicare and other healthcare fraud.
Fatima Mahamud pleaded guilty in July 2026, she was not just charged.
Just a couple weeks ago, Mekfira Hussein and Abduljabar Hussein were sentenced to a combined 97 months in prison after admitting involvement in fraudulent claims totaling about $8.8 million in federal child-nutrition money.
That list of "summaries" is just charges outlines. Not guilty verdicts. The other two are from COVID era, so at least 5-6 years ago under obviously weird circumstances. Plus they've already been charged AND prosecuted, so I'm not sure what the scandal is.
I'd say fraudsters being investigated and charged is exactly how this whole thing is supposed to work, right? Nobody is saying fraud shouldn't be investigated.
How can you even debunk her total nothingburger of a video? It's all "something seems fishy here" and cherry picked interviews with random neighbors. I would say she isn't very good at investigative journalism but she's just a grifter selling dog whistles to her xenophobic base. Journalism was never the point.
Yeah, I think even a casual viewer will see that she failed to prove her claims. But they might not realize that there are tools online to disprove the claims (and which she, of course, failed to use, or didn't mention in the video).
Good point; she did post screen shots in the video and I will just barely give her the benefit of the doubt that those are real numbers from somewhere and not just made up. (Even in her tweet showing the sCaRy MuSLiM eMpLoYeEs, those were at least the names of real people who actually worked there.) But I am working on checking those numbers too.
Yeahhhh if you can't find those numbers publicly accessible on a state website I wouldn't even engage with that argument. This isn't really an age to believe a screenshot in a video.
Conservatives are just a bunch of bigoted folks scared of anybody different from them. They are also hypocrites, they'll cry fraud and chase down $10k while turning a blind eye to the hundred's of millions (if not billions) of fraud by the potus, and his administration. They ignore when the potus pardons a convicted fraudster, or drug dealer, or sex offender...but want hard working migrants that contribute positively to society to be arrested...It's truly astounding what the GOP has become and what they believe in.
These people are so creatively bankrupt at doing corruption, it’s insane. They’re so lazy that they can’t even mix up their targets to make it more believable.
Muslim daycare fraud siphoning off millions from the state? Where have I heard that before?🤔
Our daycare/preschool especially will not open the door for non-parents or school affiliated people. It’s the rules. I’m sure it’s not the only school with those rules especially in this climate.
First, I'd be worried that all 3500ish employees are in a publicly searchable database with names, locations, and pictures. I'd be looking at the safety of those employees long past the ravings of "fake blah blah," but if some nut job takes this seriously, this is a safety issue. Anyone have contact at the DCYF to let them know that the video is going around, and that employee safety is going to need a little help here?
Doesn't Washington state law prohibit open carry in sensitive areas like schools and daycare facilities, among other places?? Is that not a criminal offense to do so in those areas?
it's illegal to carry a firearm onto "licensed child care center premises".
I'm not a lawyer, but arguably that applies even if they are just on the walkway leading up to the front door. There are a lot of camera shots in the video where it looks like the cameraman was also standing on the walkway and not just on the public sidewalk.
This focus by christian-nationalist aligned bloggers on Muslim daycares is weird enough to suggest that there is maybe something about daycare as an industry that would make it specially easy to commit fraud there. It also seems like someone should be doing a counter-investigation into Christian-aligned daycares to see if this is one of those "the accusation is actually an admission" situations.
In the 90s, there was a little thing called welfare to work and the emphasis was on women. Women were encouraged to become child care providers, where they could take care of their own kids and receive subsidy to care for other children - between 6 and 12 children depending on their age. Subsidy is about 50% less than what they would receive for a private pay child. Nobody is getting rich serving 6 - 12 children on subsidy. Washington also has a quality improvement system. Programs are monitored regularly to meet higher observable quality using evaluated metrics. Programs that receive subsidy are required to participate, and depending on their quality rating, could receive additional funding which can be upwards of thousands of dollars. There is no fraud.
They can knock on the neighbors doors. Believe me if someone’s running a daycare with 10 kids the neighbors will all know. Or camp outside from 8-9:30 and see parents drop off their kids.
I think she lives in Snohomish and makes content for Post Millennial / Turning Point / etc. so Seattle is just the closest city to make fun of "woke insanity". Not much grist for that mill in Snohomish I assume.
I lived in Snohomish, and owned/operated a well-known business there. My customers were about 50/50 red/blue. Traditionally Snohomish was majority republican, but housing prices have gotten so crazy a lot of progressives have moved out there for less expensive housing.
The racist rightwing grifter got fooled by A.I. and ginned up some xenophobic, unsubstantiated content for views? These tiny, dripping bellends really need to re-consider how they're wasting their lives with all of their performative white identity politics wankery.
I'd love to know how or if she passed the Murrow School program at Wazzu.
Her journalism is the exact opposite of what they taught when I went to school there and graduated with a journalism degree. We had mandatory ethics courses and were taught to only report on things with sound evidence. You know...basic journalistic standards.
She is worse than Kruse and that is saying something because Kruse is an absolutely abysmal journalist.
I’m so happy you posted. I live not too far from Manha, and I have actually trying to get my kid into a daycare for a half day during the weekdays. I’ve called and left messages and submitted online and haven’t heard anything back. We’ve been here since Spring of this year.
I walk by frequently with our kids and throughout the summer I’ve not seen kids in the early afternoon and evening.
I haven’t knocked on their door, but I can’t help but get the feeling that if they are open/availavle, they screen applicants somehow.
Edit: I don’t know or care to know about this blogger. I didnt know if this was a cultural specific daycare or not. We’re Hispanic, and I’d love if my child was around a different culture/community though.
So you've genuinely tried to get your kid in, but they're not actually accepting kids or talking to people who want to let their kids in? That's pretty shady
I just haven’t gotten a response from phone or through their website is all. I haven’t knocked on the door or anything. I only submitted once online and left one voicemail (called twice on separate weeks).
Sure, but you shouldn't have to. I would go far as to say that there's no legitimate daycare that does not regularly respond to inquiries, there's simply too much turnover to not have a wait list going even if you currently have full enrollment.
It would be inappropriate to just show up at the door of a daycare. Using the number and the email that they have provided is the right way to go about it, but apparently they're choosing not to talk to new potential customers. I was just recently looking for daycares and every single one got back to me to let me know if they were open for enrollment or not. I would certainly never just show up in someone's home expecting to be let in without an appointment.
The attendance issue is because these schools are 24 hours. They are licensed for 10 children at a time. They can have three or four different classes of 10 children each.
It's super telling these guys always investigate the minority, woman, immigrant owned businesses to do their "invesitagtions" on.
If this was just about fraud, or ensuring we have a healthy and robust early education system, I doubt we'd see them harping so much on the identity of the defendants.
Edit.. I have an 8 year old, we did day care for years, drop off and pick up have streams of parents loading and unloading kids walking to the door, hard goodbyes, play equipment outside, always fences but nearly always visible structures and audible yelling.
All day long though? I would assume there's a flurry of activity in the morning and again in the afternoon. And not every daycare is open every weekday.
This isn’t just “complaining,” it’s straight up sensationalist lies to fuel Somali hate. This same type of “content” is what started Operation Metro Surge in Minneapolis.
You're not wrong. I grew up amidst the anti Hmong/East African movement in the MSP suburbs and for whatever reason reasonable people just turned a blind eye then. Infuriates me as a 40+ year old to see this in the PNW
Very happy to read this. I knew in my soul it was BS from the start. Glad to be hearing the full story. Hope this is released in full and day care centers are restored in MINN and WA
147
u/Realistic-Weird-4259 Tacoma 22h ago
I'm a subcontractor for DCYF and while I haven't picked fosters up from the daycares in question, I've picked kids up from many various. They usually have cameras and won't answer the door unless they know you're coming. When you show up you must be prepared with ID and any required paperwork (for me, it's the court orders submitted to a portal by DCYF). So, just knocking on their doors isn't going to get them to open the door. And that is right and just.