Little Learning Daycare Center preparing as best as it can to allow kids back in

ZANESVILLE – Little Learning Center was forced to close in March and Director Mary Jane Bednarczuk says while the center has faced financial difficulties, her biggest struggle is not being able to see the kids every day.

“Of course, there’s the financial end of it as small businesses but the biggest effect for us has been without the children and not seeing them and not having our days spent with them and not doing the typical things we would be doing. Like, this time of year, we would be getting ready for our spring program and we would be having twenty-six kindergarteners graduate and now that’s not going to happen,” Bednarzcuk said.

When the center does re-open, there is a new order that it will have to follow that has been handed down from the Ohio Department of Job and Family Services.

“We are going to have less numbers of children in the same amount of classroom space, meaning, a classroom that used to hold twelve will now be that same size but only six children will occupy that and you have one caregiver which will mean we will have to double our staff and yet we’ll be making half the income. So, that’s going to present another issue,” Bednarzcuk said.

Bednarczuk is not sure of the date when the Little Learning Center will officially re-open at this time.