A Provider's Experience With STARS Assessors

[Blackcat31]

Whoops-sorry! No just a requirement for our licensors to have some background in early childhood education when they come for our inspections on our childcares. They have no requirements at this time and we feel they should.

I always wonder if the people who are over QRIS have ever actually ran a childcare or have worked in a home daycare.

The expectations between the state and QRIS are sometimes unrealistic so it has to make you wonder how much they know about running an in home childcare business.

Oh whew! I was like oh my goodness... ::

Our state just recently passed some sort of requirement that all licensors have to have training on interpreting our regulations. This was done becaue there were so many providers getting dinged for things that were interpreted incorrectly. Kind of like the food program.

Now ALL our licensors know the rules the same in all counties.

[Country Kids]

The biggest issues we have here are=interpretation of rules and getting the rules confused.

In our state there are 3 main types of childcare. Registered Familly, Certified Family and Center. Most of the time since Registered has the least amount of rules, licensor's are always trying to ding providers on things. We always need to ask, can you show that to us in the rule book. 9 times out of 10 it isn't there because it isn't even a rule for us.

[Country Kids]

The state is looking for a License Specialist. I looked into job requirements and everything that was entailed. Under work conditions it was listed:Contact with hostile, frustrated people.

Nice way to look at and describe the childcare providers of your state.

[Blackcat31]

The state is looking for a License Specialist. I looked into job requirements and everything that was entailed. Under work conditions it was listed:Contact with hostile, frustrated people.

Nice way to look at and describe the childcare providers of your state.

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That's funny and truthful at the same time. ::

My licensor has said she's had providers swear at her, ask her to leave and one that literally had a tantrum (tears and all) during licensing visits.

I know one provider (no longer a provider) that was so rude and non-compliant with our licensor during a visit that the licensor told the provider she would never step foot in her program again without another adult accompanying her.

Later this provider vented to me that she behaved badly due to not getting her way (she was cited for something and thought our licensor should just look the other way). Provider said to me "Well I wouldn't have treated her that way if she would have just did what I asked her to do".

Clearly her maturity level was on par with her DCK's.