Would You EVER Do Something Like This?

[Cat Herder]

It's a center, but it's a very SMALL center (under 20 kids), so it does have a family/home daycare vibe. And even in a large chain, they wouldn't replace every staff member in the school overnight without giving parents notice that their child(ren) are going to be cared for by different people.

They would if they were aware of the things you have been posting happen there.

I would not take the risk of keeping anyone that allowed that to continue either. It isn't personal, it is business.

[Blackcat31]

It's a center, but it's a very SMALL center (under 20 kids), so it does have a family/home daycare vibe. And even in a large chain, they wouldn't replace every staff member in the school overnight without giving parents notice that their child(ren) are going to be cared for by different people.

I'm not understanding why you find this so odd?
It's very common for centers to change everything overnight without concern for the feelings of parents.

While we as providers pay attention to the children's feelings there isn't any emotion involved in business transactions.

Also, like CH said above....given everything that's been happening in that center this overnight change is probably the best thing that could happen to these families.

Maybe now, they'll actually get what they are paying for; a center that follows licensing rules and has staff that are willing to do what they are required to do according to state regulations.

[Ariana]

I guess I need to think of center care versus in-home daycare differently. My brain is still connecting the 2 because both involve children and families, which to me is a personalized business. I feel it's nice to know who's working in a personalized business, especially involving children; just trying to put myself in a parent's set of eyes and what I would want or need.

This is pretty much the advantage of in home daycare service. Something like this would never happen and although it is a business it isn't a structure that can be bought and sold and new owners moving in. If a parent felt that this was important then they would choose home care. Parents that choose center care do so for the lack of days off and 12 hour care and rarely think or care about staff turnover.

[Snowmom]

It's a center, but it's a very SMALL center (under 20 kids), so it does have a family/home daycare vibe. And even in a large chain, they wouldn't replace every staff member in the school overnight without giving parents notice that their child(ren) are going to be cared for by different people.

Sure they would.
It happened recently just down the road from me.
A large national chain location was sold to a small local chain.

They closed on a Friday, giving parents a pink slip with the new owners name. Monday, new owners took over and had their own staff.

[Ariana]

A private school here in my City was having financial issues. No one knew and they were instructed by lawyers not to inform families. They closed two weeks before Christmas leaving kids without a school to go to and parents in a lurch to find care and having to transfer them to public school or find space in another private school. Half of their credits won’t even be transferred because the school went bankrupt. No one got their money back.

Imagine that scenario

[Josiegirl]

A private school here in my City was having financial issues. No one knew and they were instructed by lawyers not to inform families. They closed two weeks before Christmas leaving kids without a school to go to and parents in a lurch to find care and having to transfer them to public school or find space in another private school. Half of their credits won’t even be transferred because the school went bankrupt. No one got their money back.

Imagine that scenario

THAT isn't right or fair for the families involved.

[Unregistered]

Its common in centers. My oldest attended several centers and they all had many turnovers. Lots of staff just simply disappeared with no notice what so ever. The year my son was three he has 4 different teachers. Most office one day his teacher was there and the next a complete stranger was his new teacher. It life in a center.