Difference between for profit and non Daycares

[Anonymous]

What are the pros and cons here for employees and families?

[Anonymous]

We have been in both and haven't noticed a discernable difference. The nonprofit center does other things--like advocacy related to early-childhood education--and has some limited funding for scholarships above and beyond accepting vouchers, but in terms of market-rate price and quality of the center, both types are about equal.

[Anonymous]

For profit- Franklin Montessori (school) not daycare. Bitter staff because they are not paid well and owners raking it in!

[Anonymous]

I would have though for profit is better pay for teachers. Wrong assumption?

[Anonymous]

We’ve been at Bright Horizons and a large church full day preschool program.
Less staff turnover at the church, they think of it as a calling and many are older women who would have otherwise been SAHMs.
Processes were better documented and communications were better at Bright Horizons. They had regional and many national leaders who audit and monitor the locations. The church main office staff are less professional and less educated than at BH. Also they just change things when they want - like shorter hours due to staffing - and ask us to pray for a resolution (insert eye roll).

The church asks us to treat it like a business when they want money and contracts, but whenever they mess up or they can’t deliver services they ask for prayers and grace from the “family”. At least at BH it was very clearly a business transaction and I wasn’t told I needed to pray about the concerns I raised.

All that said, the church is so much cheaper I just deal with the annoyances. My kids were and are happy and well taken care of both places.