Friday, August 27, 2010

I have severe case of formaphobia...

or form fatigue, or maybe post-formatic stress disorder, all due to the Kansas Child Health Assessment Form, which, in order to enroll one's child in any type of care, one is required to have filled out by a doctor... once, once a calendar year, once a year from the date of the last check-up?  Who knows?  Who can tell me whether I need to produce a new form for my child's daycare even though they have a form that is less than a year old? 

Certainly not anyone from the Kansas health department or the county health department.  Sure, they are tasked with enforcing the licensing requirements and will be coming around to every day care to demand compliance with the law.  But that is no reason to expect them to be able to tell you how to comply with the law.  Every (very friendly and helpful) person I spoke to gave me a different, contradictory answer.

I cannot wait until these people are in charge of every minute detail of our lives.