Do You Charge Higher Rates Then Most?

[Blackcat31]

The "stars" here needs to find a way for parent education on them....The stars program (QRIS) has been here since 2001-02 and clients STILL DO NOT know what it is nor do they appear to care! Plus, many providers have begun playing the game for assessment day to get their stars to appease QRIS/state but have NO intention of performing those unrealistic rituals daily. I explain my report card during my interview but rarely do clients even respond to it!

We're lucky. With our star program, we were given $45 million in scholarships to give to parents that choose to use a star rated program.

When daycare has the possibility of being free.....parents WILL educate themselves about the QRIS thing pretty quickly so we (providers) have actually not had to do anything. QRIS is doing it for us.

Parents are calling the FEW providers in my area that participate in QRIS like crazy! Ive even had a few parents call weekly to check on availability.

[Annalee]

We're lucky. With our star program, we were given $45 million in scholarships to give to parents that choose to use a star rated program.

When daycare has the possibility of being free.....parents WILL educate themselves about the QRIS thing pretty quickly so we (providers) have actually not had to do anything. QRIS is doing it for us.

Parents are calling the FEW providers in my area that participate in QRIS like crazy! Ive even had a few parents call weekly to check on availability.

I wish that was happening here!

[spinnymarie]

We charge almost double the 'average' county daily rate, and about $5 more/day. Clients are only paying for 195 days of care/year though (school calendar), so we work out to be on the high end of the regular daycares.

[TooManyKitties]

I also offer things that a majority of cares in my area do not offer.

This post is several years old, I realize. Still, BlackCat, what do you offer that others don’t?