Political correctness gone mad? Day care centres may be forced to have dolls of different races



Political correctness is about to begin in the nursery.



The Colorado Department of Human Services has proposed that all day care centres in the state make dolls available that represent three different races.

A lengthy list of new rules - 98 pages to be exact - has just been released by the department which feature a slew of changes.

PC: Under the new proposals, care centres will have to have dolls of three different races Choice: Studies in the past have shown that children whatever the race usually pick the white dolls

One of these changes is that 'dolls shall represent three races', which is outlined on page 77 of the document.

Other unusual requirements include:

Children over two must not be served whole milk without a doctor's note

TV and computer time will be capped at 20 minutes daily

Children over one years old cant drink more than six ounces of juice a day

Staffers must wear clothes that cover their lap and shoulders



Children must be offered food at no more than three hour intervals

each child must have an assigned caregiver



Some of the proposals in the document, which was obtained by 7News, have been met with criticism by locals.

Human Services spokeswoman Liz McDonough, who provides background on the project as a whole, told Denver Westword: 'These are national child care standards that we are proposing. They come from national standards that are entitled Early Childhood Environment Rating Scale.

Scepticism: Critics have said that the variety of dolls should not stop at just race

'They're minimum standards for quality in childcare - and the process was actually started by statute back in 2000.



'We initially made changes in the educational levels and training required for childcare workers and redid all of our family childcare home rules back in 2004 - and we began the rule-writing process for family childcare centres in 2006.'

Though none of the rules are finalised, the department are to begin a 55-community tour to get feedback from day care providers.

A working group will then come up with a second draft.

Ms McDonough said that nothing is likely to be finalised until mid-2012 and said it was a 'lengthy, thoughtful, deliberate process.'

Many critics have taken to blogs and forums to voice their disbelief over the three race dolls proposal.

Saelic posted: 'What about disabled dolls, transgender dolls, deformed or elderly dolls? If they really want to include everything why not these?'

Pollysunshine said: 'Many studies have found in the past that most children always pick up the white doll anyway and rarely notice the different races.'

Paulo84 wrote: 'Yeah that's right, instil political correctness or racism in them before then even get to school. So does that mean only the black kids get to play with black dolls and Asian kids Asian dolls etc?

'Surely that causes problems already.'