I recently posted about a dcp that I have, single mom that was not paying on time and taking advantage. Well now this.
Next week we will only be open half of a day one day, because I will be going out of the town and did not want to have to leave the DC open all day.
It's not really vacation for me if I leave the DC open because I stress. Anyways, I send out a reminder that we will only be open half day. Many of the parents take their vacations at the same time that I do. They get the time off list at the start of the year and plan at that time.
I normally have to have both of my asst here in order to be within ratios when I am gone. Ratio is 1 to 6 with the age group that I have. I asked all the DCP to let me know if their child will be attending or not. Looks like I will only have 7 kids that day instead of 12. Which means that if I only had 6 kids instead of 7 then I would not have to pay 2 employees to be here.
When I asked DCM above if her child was coming she says, oh well, I have the day off, but I am going to send DCK anyway so I can have a day to myself. I look at her like HUH, blank stare and didn't say anything.
Now, I don't have anything in my policies about this, but I am pretty upset about recent issues with DCM taking advantage of me with payments and the discount that I have been giving her. (in my defense, I have always helped single moms out in the past and have NEVER been burned like this before).
So I feel like I should be telling her that since she has the day off she needs to keep her kid home. If she sends him, it will cost me more money to have him here than he even pays to attend, because I will need 2 employees instead of 1.
Do you think that this would be fair of me to tell the DCM that she has to keep her kid home for that day? How would you handle this? What would you say?
Next week we will only be open half of a day one day, because I will be going out of the town and did not want to have to leave the DC open all day.
It's not really vacation for me if I leave the DC open because I stress. Anyways, I send out a reminder that we will only be open half day. Many of the parents take their vacations at the same time that I do. They get the time off list at the start of the year and plan at that time.
I normally have to have both of my asst here in order to be within ratios when I am gone. Ratio is 1 to 6 with the age group that I have. I asked all the DCP to let me know if their child will be attending or not. Looks like I will only have 7 kids that day instead of 12. Which means that if I only had 6 kids instead of 7 then I would not have to pay 2 employees to be here.
When I asked DCM above if her child was coming she says, oh well, I have the day off, but I am going to send DCK anyway so I can have a day to myself. I look at her like HUH, blank stare and didn't say anything.
Now, I don't have anything in my policies about this, but I am pretty upset about recent issues with DCM taking advantage of me with payments and the discount that I have been giving her. (in my defense, I have always helped single moms out in the past and have NEVER been burned like this before).
So I feel like I should be telling her that since she has the day off she needs to keep her kid home. If she sends him, it will cost me more money to have him here than he even pays to attend, because I will need 2 employees instead of 1.
Do you think that this would be fair of me to tell the DCM that she has to keep her kid home for that day? How would you handle this? What would you say?
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