Daycares and Online Learning for School Age

[Blackcat31]

I do not accept school aged kids ‘normally‘
However since nothing is normal right now I have 2 previous daycare kids that were in school (one kindy/one first grade) and I have 3 that should go off to kindy this fall.

If our schools do not open I am willing to provide time and ‘moderate’ supervision (wi-fi too) but will be charging a fee on top of my regular rate for this additional responsibility.

There is NO way I’d do it without additional monetary compensation. I’d also probably follow the school calendar and having ‘off’ school days with no school work/time required.

I wouldn’t do this for anyone other than my current SA kids.
I wouldn’t enroll new SA for any amount of $ ::

[Jo123ABC]

The plain truth is this is the parents and public school systems problem to solve. Not daycare's.

If daycare can be open so can schools. This expectation that we take up all the slack for a fraction of the income is flipping ridiculous.

OMG yes!! What is up with this!? Apparently, we are essential yet not valuable :confused:

[Jo123ABC]

I honestly do not think I could swing it. I can't care for my group while doing homework help. Maybe if a kid was independently studying but I wouldn't want their education to be my responsibility. I'm already a caretaker, janitor, cook, and nurse for less income than any one of those professions make. Daycare is so random too. I was thinking about this last Friday when I was cleaning up from lunch and dealing with a kid's behavior issues. I have 3 infants right now mind you along with 1 potty training toddler, 1 potty training preschooler, 2 potty trained preschoolers and 2 6year old school kids. As I'm working my ass off to get to nap time a 4 year old pooped his pants and got a bloody nose at the same time it was chaos!! There I was, trying to stem bleeding while cleaning up poop pants and getting blood off the floor before an infant got into it. Why do parents think we have time to do random stuff for them? We are so flipping busy!!!

[Unregistered]

The plain truth is this is the parents and public school systems problem to solve. Not daycare's.

If daycare can be open so can schools. This expectation that we take up all the slack for a fraction of the income is flipping ridiculous.

THIS
A small at home daycare who has a couple of school-age children and the rest preschoolers, can not sit there online with your kid during school hours. Who's going to supervise the preschoolers? I would honestly be 100% shocked, if a daycare offered this without charging you a lot of money for it.

[Sunshine69]

I do have school-aged kids doing virtual learning from daycare at least part of the week. They do go to school 2-4 days per week depending on their grade, when they aren’t doing all virtual because of positive cases in school.

The school-aged kids I have, have either been with me since they were infants or their siblings have.

It just so happens, the group of kids I have are responsible enough to do their online learning with minimal supervision, and the younger ones are pretty well behaved and predictable. It works out so the older kids can learn while the younger ones nap. With a different group of kids, I don’t think I could accommodate. The ones that refuse to nap, make too much noise, have to be the center of attention or are habitually ill-behaved don’t have a place in my daycare at this time.

It isn’t ideal and I’m really getting tired of hearing how someone forgot to charge their Chromebook so we need to charge it here. I have raised my rates a bit, not because of electricity consumption, but because the of the increase in the cost of required PPE and cleaning supplies and the number of hours I have to spend disinfecting after closing.

DCPs are aware and seem to understand that it is only minimal supervision I will provide, such as the quiet time and space to log on to their classes. I do not provide instruction, I am not responsible for the kids getting their work done on time. If they are playing computer games instead of attending on-line classes, the child’s grades will suffer and it is up to the parents to manage the consequences.

Teachers are not changing diapers or preparing meals in their classrooms and school is still closed on Fridays to allow time for disinfecting while I am open. I am only one person with my own kids to care for. I am not a tireless robot.

[nannyde]

Of course it is your choice as a provider to not to help, but I would need to quit my job, hire a nanny, or leave my child home alone before I could send to your daycare.

It's not "help". It's work.

The concept of "helping" is something women get ingrained in their brains from babies on up. I've heard thousands of times women saying "my husband is so great. He "helps" with the kids." That's not "help" when it's his job to parent in the first place. It's his job.

We really need to make sure providers put money on their work and know they have the ability to decide when they truly want to "help" without compensation.

I'm not targeting you friend. I just wanted to clarify that "help" is like beauty. It's in the eye of the beholder. What one sees as an obvious entitlement because a need arises, another would see simply as work. Child care is wrought with "needs" presented to them that truly aren't realistic to provide in care or is so costly that the parent can't pay for the service on top of the daycare fee.

This is a pivotal time in parenting, child care, and education and there's little in the past to steer parents and providers into a fair and workable solution. What we do know from the past is that providers have a long history of being expected to do whatever a parent deems a child "needs" while they are on the providers clock. That's when the provider should define what services they provide within their base fees, what services require extra fees, and what services they won't provide regardless of compensation. A successful business ... ANY BUSINESS... does this. McDonald's doesn't offer sushi for a reason.

[littlefriends]

THIS! Yaaaaaaaas!happyfacehappyfacehappyfacehappyface

It's not "help". It's work.

The concept of "helping" is something women get ingrained in their brains from babies on up. I've heard thousands of times women saying "my husband is so great. He "helps" with the kids." That's not "help" when it's his job to parent in the first place. It's his job.

We really need to make sure providers put money on their work and know they have the ability to decide when they truly want to "help" without compensation.

I'm not targeting you friend. I just wanted to clarify that "help" is like beauty. It's in the eye of the beholder. What one sees as an obvious entitlement because a need arises, another would see simply as work. Child care is wrought with "needs" presented to them that truly aren't realistic to provide in care or is so costly that the parent can't pay for the service on top of the daycare fee.

This is a pivotal time in parenting, child care, and education and there's little in the past to steer parents and providers into a fair and workable solution. What we do know from the past is that providers have a long history of being expected to do whatever a parent deems a child "needs" while they are on the providers clock. That's when the provider should define what services they provide within their base fees, what services require extra fees, and what services they won't provide regardless of compensation. A successful business ... ANY BUSINESS... does this. McDonald's doesn't offer sushi for a reason.