Expensive preschool not paying teachers for holidays
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Anonymous
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I can't believe this. They charge us for spring break Christmas week etc but they aren't paying the teachers for those days. The turnover has been really bad this year. As a parent, I assumed we paid so teachers were getting guaranteed pay for those days. The only reason I found out is because a mom in my neighborhood was working at the school and recently left. She said it was hard to justify her kid's tuition even with a discount because she was paying for those weeks but not earning anything those weeks. This makes me feel larger chains are better because they offer more PTO. My kid was really sad about this teacher and her child leaving. This particular school has lots of holidays and teacher in-service days. They like to brag it's not a daycare even though most kids are there all day. It was off-putting when the director told me we aren't a daycare teachers don't have time to talk much at pickup. I was simply asking a question and got lectured that I must set up meetings to discuss anything. Taking time off work is hard and I'm pretty sure these teachers aren't paid for after-school meetings.
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Anonymous
| Too many red flags. |
Anonymous
Op here. This is more of a vent post. I will have my child finish the school year i.e. until May. Next year I am going to enroll her in a different preschool. I feel bad for the teachers! |
Anonymous
| Name it and shame it, so we can put it on our list where not to place our kids. |
Anonymous
| Op here. I am not local anymore. It's a Montessori school shockingly that charges a ton of money. That's why it's even more surprising because they love to say they aren't a daycare but yet sounds like they treat their employees worse than daycare workers. |
Anonymous
| OP is it for profit? |
Anonymous
| I’ve seen our small nonprofit nursery school finances as a volunteer and I don’t think it matters really whether the tuition excludes the holidays, unless you’re paying by the hour? Our tuition is monthly and it doesn’t matter if it’s a shorter month or how many holidays there are. No one is making extra money because of it? |
Anonymous
| So the teachers are hourly employees and only get paid for the hours they work? |
Anonymous
| That’s normal. Typically you don’t get paid federal holidays until after working 1 year, the extra fee for potty training you also don’t see director keeps that why you do all the work, snow days no pay, you have to pay for most of your classes to get started or sometimes the center will cover it if you sign a contract to stay with them for 2 years after completing or you have to pay them back. Let’s not forget buying our own supplies and the bonus has to be “fair” so for Christmas reguardless teachers only got 50$ of the money collected from parents assistants 25$ and the director/center keeps the rest! Glad I left that field years ago |
Anonymous
| Pp, that is bs. Federal holidays paid in any crappy saycare center |
Anonymous
No it’s not! Most centers that are privately owned and not in a federal building you don’t get paid for federal holidays until after working for a year. |
Anonymous
This is an absolute lie! The privately owned ones are the ones paying benefits and federal holidays and additional holidays outside of that. |
Anonymous
If you say so. I worked in the field for 10 years that was my experience. We can agree to disagree |
Anonymous
| I too was getting all federal holidays, it is pretty standard. The only thing, I had only 5 vacation days in my first year which I thought was pretty mean. |