My child is enrolled in a rather pricey, and well reviewed daycare center in our area. He was recently moved up from their infant program (of which we absolutely loved the staff and experience) to their toddler program, and since this move he has been bitten by other children on an almost daily basis. He has been bitten by another child somewhere in the range of 80-90% of the days he has attended over the past 2 months. Most of the bites had come 1 specific child, who was moved to another room earlier this week due to these incidents. Our child then made it 1 full day without being bitten before he was bitten by yet another child today. From everything they are telling us, he has not been doing anything to trigger these biting incidents, but they think he's getting picked on because he's the new guy in the room. Another new child to this room a week or so ago was bitten on both of the 1st two days he was in the room as well. There has even been a staffing change in the room, which we hoped would help solve the problem, but it has not. Until the change in rooms, we couldn't have been more thrilled with our experiences with the staff at this center. We have had several sit down talks with the staff and directors, and they keep telling us new things they are going to try to do to resolve the situation, but none of them have worked. We're really getting to the point where we're considering changing day care centers because we just can't drop our child off somewhere that we think there's a 90% likelihood that he will be bitten on any given day. Every other well reviewed daycare center in our area has a long wait list to get in, so we're kind of stuck in the situation for the time being. Is there anything else we could, or should be doing to put pressure on the center to get this issue resolved? We're at the end of our rope with this... We just want our child to be safe, and right now we certainly do not feel that way. Any tips or suggestions would be greatly appreciated. Thank you.

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