D.C. Bureaucrats Are Trying to Make Parents Get a License to Let Children Play Together

The District of Columbia has some very extensive requirements for daycares, infamously including at least a proposal that daycare workers be required to get a college degree to work daycare. Since regulatory compliance is not free, that means a lot of families are indeed “finding a way around it” by doing things like this. The District is rightly infamous for taking regulatory steps which have nothing to do with safety—one example being a rather onerous regulation of homeschooling that simply ignores the fact that the supposed “reason” for regulation was that their own “state” social services department blew off a very real need to investigate a family where the mother eventually killed her children.