HOW in the WORLD???

[daycare]

so my county is in year one of QRIS.

Boy oh Boy are they NUTS.

They basically want us to model everything that a head start program would offer. Including all curriculum, assessments and evaluations, anecdotal based evidence collected for 6 months for each child and conduct a DRDP, we will do these two times a year. All of our assessments and evaluations have to reflect in our written curriculum that anyone can pick up and follow.

we must adhere to all county health regulations, including proper hand washing, hearing, dental, and eye exams every year. these health exams will be conducted at the daycare site. They are also requiring each child to have a full physical examination done at the time of enrollment.

I am exhausted just writing this out.

how does anyone do it?

[Thriftylady]

When I was licensed in Kansas, the kids had to have a physical for that. But some of the other stuff seems outragous to me. Hearing and sight tests on site? Who pays for that stuff? When I went from registered to licensed in Kansas and had to have physicals, there was a nurse practitioner that came to my house to do them for $10 a child and my parents were happy to pay that. But I can't imagine how a provider is going to do these things and not raise rates through the roof. I am starting to think more and more they are trying to push home providers out.

[nanglgrl]

so my county is in year one of QRIS.

Boy oh Boy are they NUTS.

They basically want us to model everything that a head start program would offer. Including all curriculum, assessments and evaluations, anecdotal based evidence collected for 6 months for each child and conduct a DRDP, we will do these two times a year. All of our assessments and evaluations have to reflect in our written curriculum that anyone can pick up and follow.

we must adhere to all county health regulations, including proper hand washing, hearing, dental, and eye exams every year. these health exams will be conducted at the daycare site. They are also requiring each child to have a full physical examination done at the time of enrollment.

I am exhausted just writing this out.

how does anyone do it?

I feel for you. Is it still voluntary to participate? If my state started making us do all that there is no way I'd participate.

[daycare]

When I was licensed in Kansas, the kids had to have a physical for that. But some of the other stuff seems outragous to me. Hearing and sight tests on site? Who pays for that stuff? When I went from registered to licensed in Kansas and had to have physicals, there was a nurse practitioner that came to my house to do them for $10 a child and my parents were happy to pay that. But I can't imagine how a provider is going to do these things and not raise rates through the roof. I am starting to think more and more they are trying to push home providers out.

thats what it feelsl like to me. Feels like i am getting pushed out.

there are agencies that will come to my house that are state funded free programs to cover the cost of all the exams. But the whole eval and assess thing is just getting to me.

I am feeling very over worked, under paid and STRESSED.

What they don't realize is that head start programs have an accountant and administration that does all the back of the office type stuff. With in-home, I wear every hat. I have to do it all.

I know that in a head-start program there is someone who covers all of the HR, payments, invoicing, regulations, illness, and so on. Again that is all me.

I feel like i have to let something suffer in order to put something else in it's place. But what do I let go of?

[daycare]

I feel for you. Is it still voluntary to participate? If my state started making us do all that there is no way I'd participate.

it is voluntary right now, but they are saying down the road it will not be.

[Blackcat31]

...all I have to say is.....


"told ya!"

[daycare]

...all I have to say is.....


"told ya!"

oh you can say it 500 more times.... I am so going to jump if they follow through with making it mandatory....

[Cat Herder]

I bet you don't think I sound quite so crazy, now.

Just finished this.

2 years, 400+ hours of training, 60 papers, 180 family dinners missed, $12,000 in debt and nothing financial to show for it. happyface

Whoop

[Controlled Chaos]

I just started QRIS in here in UT. It is voluntary, but I can get big grant money, so I am going to give it a try. And we can pick and choose which quality indicators we do. The more we do, the more grant money. I have to say, when I heard about QRIS from you guys before, I thought "how hard could it really be?!" I have been blown away by some of it. I am already doing half of it, but at least half of the stuff I'm not doing I super don't want to

Like outdoor classroom/center stuff? How do you maintain those in states with WEATHER?!

Sorry didn't mean to hijack...just commiserating :hug:

[daycare]

I bet you don't think I sound quite so crazy, now.

Just finished this.

2 years, 400+ hours of training, 60 papers, 180 family dinners missed, $12,000 in debt and nothing financial to show for it. happyface

Whoop

oh man.... I am sad to say i will be joining you. Looks like I will be going to get my BA now. At this rate I am thinking about opening a center. I mean they are already pushing me out of my house and I would love to have a house to live in, not a DC. but but but....

oh ugh.....

[sharlan]

If it ever hits SoCal, I'm done. There is no way that I am willing to put that much time and effort into it when I plan on quitting in less than 5 years.

[Ariana]

Holy Carp!! Glad we can still run unlicensed here in Canada (Ontario anyway) this kind of stuff is coming up the pipeline though. We all need to ban together and form a union. Head start is a government program with a union backing it. This is why they get what they get and you guys get nothing.

I had to do all of this as a unionized employee in a daycare center as an ECE but we got paid for it. We did nothing on our own time.

[Blackcat31]

Holy Carp!! Glad we can still run unlicensed here in Canada (Ontario anyway) this kind of stuff is coming up the pipeline though. We all need to ban together and form a union. Head start is a government program with a union backing it. This is why they get what they get and you guys get nothing.

I had to do all of this as a unionized employee in a daycare center as an ECE but we got paid for it. We did nothing on our own time.

NOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!! !

The union here supports QRIS more than any other agency/entity.

Unionizing is NOT the answer in my opinion.

I'd participate (and do) in QRIS before I ever participated in the unionization of child care providers.

I also wouldn't say I get nothing in comparison to Head Start.
They are THE reason I quit working for them and opened my own child care.
I make more $ and have more sanity and a heck of a lot more fun...than I ever did working there.

[Annalee]

::I think I will stay out of this thread because everyone here knows what I think about QRIS!

[daycare]

::I think I will stay out of this thread because everyone here knows what I think about QRIS!

let me guess it is an 4 letter word.....lmao

LOVE or CRAP or----