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My sons school doesn't allow any parental entry into the building beyond the office. If you are greeting your kid it has to be done right by the front door and approved by the office.
BIG HUGE SIGNS saying NO ENTRANCE. Visitors MUST check in with the office and don't go beyond this point. If I fetch him, I can not go into the building. He comes to me.
The schools are age three to eigth grade.
I don't allow parents to come into the play room. They see the whole house three times when they interview and if I want to show them something then they will come in but arrivals and departures are at the front door.
I don't like the liability of having parents through the house. I think it really elevates my risks.
Here's my math.... I think this is right
I've been open for 20 years.
In 20 years I have had an average of 8 kids enrolled between the varius levels of registrations I've had.
Within a year I work 242 days.
With 8 kids I have 16 arrivals and departures per day. Once the kids enter they go downstairs. To get them down the stairs and then up the stairs to go home that is 16 trips in a day and 80 per week... per year it's 3872 trips up and down the stairs. Over twenty years it is 77,440 trips. When you consider the parent goes down to drop off and has to come up to go to work... then goes down to pick up and has to come up to go home... that DOUBLES. So in 20 years of operating I'm going to have parents climbing up or down my stairs 154,800 times. And the really bad news is... they will be parenting their children during half their trips on my stairwell 77 THOUSAND times.
Now that's JUST the day shift kids. I have done 16 years of evening shift with four to five kids a night too. I won't even ADD that math.
I've had two falls on my stairwells in 20 years. Both times it was my staff assistant with their kid. One was my staff assistant allowing her kid to do the last three steps of the decent without supervising cuz she does the whole flight at home by herself. The second was my other staff assistant carrying her own child down my stairs and NOT holding the hand rail.
My business model is to have parents parenting their children for as little as possible on my property. If I could figure out a way to send them via tube to their parents car every day from my front door I would do that. Just having to intercede between the fifteen feet from my front door to their back seat of the car... I can imagine what I would have with 16 visits a day. Even at five minutes per parent per day it would be 80 minutes a day JUST to do arrival and departures. It would be a rare parent that would do five minutes especialy at the end of the day.
There's always the assumption that those of us who don't allow it are hiding something. I never think that about my sons school. Never have. I understand the decision is what is best for the GROUP and the adults... not my best interest.
BIG HUGE SIGNS saying NO ENTRANCE. Visitors MUST check in with the office and don't go beyond this point. If I fetch him, I can not go into the building. He comes to me.
The schools are age three to eigth grade.
I don't allow parents to come into the play room. They see the whole house three times when they interview and if I want to show them something then they will come in but arrivals and departures are at the front door.
I don't like the liability of having parents through the house. I think it really elevates my risks.
Here's my math.... I think this is right
I've been open for 20 years.
In 20 years I have had an average of 8 kids enrolled between the varius levels of registrations I've had.
Within a year I work 242 days.
With 8 kids I have 16 arrivals and departures per day. Once the kids enter they go downstairs. To get them down the stairs and then up the stairs to go home that is 16 trips in a day and 80 per week... per year it's 3872 trips up and down the stairs. Over twenty years it is 77,440 trips. When you consider the parent goes down to drop off and has to come up to go to work... then goes down to pick up and has to come up to go home... that DOUBLES. So in 20 years of operating I'm going to have parents climbing up or down my stairs 154,800 times. And the really bad news is... they will be parenting their children during half their trips on my stairwell 77 THOUSAND times.
Now that's JUST the day shift kids. I have done 16 years of evening shift with four to five kids a night too. I won't even ADD that math.
I've had two falls on my stairwells in 20 years. Both times it was my staff assistant with their kid. One was my staff assistant allowing her kid to do the last three steps of the decent without supervising cuz she does the whole flight at home by herself. The second was my other staff assistant carrying her own child down my stairs and NOT holding the hand rail.
My business model is to have parents parenting their children for as little as possible on my property. If I could figure out a way to send them via tube to their parents car every day from my front door I would do that. Just having to intercede between the fifteen feet from my front door to their back seat of the car... I can imagine what I would have with 16 visits a day. Even at five minutes per parent per day it would be 80 minutes a day JUST to do arrival and departures. It would be a rare parent that would do five minutes especialy at the end of the day.
There's always the assumption that those of us who don't allow it are hiding something. I never think that about my sons school. Never have. I understand the decision is what is best for the GROUP and the adults... not my best interest.
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