Thanks everybody for trying to help out with this. We've found a few family day cares in the area that have openings and will be going around to visit them in the coming week so that we have a back-up plan ready to go in the case that things don't get resolved at our current center.

From what they're telling us on when, and how it's happening, it doesn't seem to be a case where he's getting in other kids' personal space. Most of the bites have been on the back, back of the shoulders, and back of the arms. They say the primary biter just walks up behind him and chomps him, usually when they're changing another child's diaper, or are otherwise occupied. The location of the bites are consistent with this claim. The severity of the bites has varied, but there was one incident where he was bitten on his shoulder hard enough to break skin, and a month later there is still visible marks from that particular attack. This "primary biter" child has been removed from our child's room, but there was another incident with this same kid biting our child after he was moved to the other room as they passed each other's groups during the shift change for recess outside. They are supposed to be doing everything in their power to keep this primary biter away from our child from here on out.

I am going to be meeting with the center's director on monday, and will let her know just how close we are to pulling him out of there. We're still holding on to the hope that this can work out, but it's by an ever shrinking thread...

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