First time parents: sending infant to daycare where vouchers are accepted

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:We are struggling to find infant daycare for our DC. We prefer daycare vs other options. We are noticing daycares which mostly accept DHS voucher seem to have spots available and very interested in private paid spots. we don't like the snack options we saw at these daycares and have doubt about quality of food offered as well.

I wonder if we should be worried about the kids they will be hanging out with as they get older. These daycares also have policies on guns, etc which we don't see at normal/private paid daycares.

We have had very bad experience with families with voucher as our neighbors so not sure if sending our kids to a voucher friendly daycare will leave us with messy situations to deal with.

I would like to hear from parents who might send their kids to voucher friendly daycares.

What exactly is your worry about these three year old kids hanging out together?

What about their policies on guns concern you?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Wow. We send our kid to a combined paid daycare/Headstart program and honestly these issues have never occurred to us. I'm definitely not worried about him hanging out around poor *three year olds.*

Great to hear your experience is positive. I don't care about SET rather in my experience the lack of parental control given my experience.

Thank you for sharing your insight.

I wouldn’t worry about this for infants and toddlers.

Thank you for assuring me. As first-time parents, we have no clue what to expect just yet.

DP. It shouldn't need to be said, but maybe it does -- be sure not to go in asking which children are from "voucher families" and which are full pay. Just don't.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Wow. We send our kid to a combined paid daycare/Headstart program and honestly these issues have never occurred to us. I'm definitely not worried about him hanging out around poor *three year olds.*

Great to hear your experience is positive. I don't care about SET rather in my experience the lack of parental control given my experience.

Thank you for sharing your insight.

I wouldn’t worry about this for infants and toddlers.

Thank you for assuring me. As first-time parents, we have no clue what to expect just yet.

DP. It shouldn't need to be said, but maybe it does -- be sure not to go in asking which children are from "voucher families" and which are full pay. Just don't.

I did this 🤪 What percent of kids are private vs voucher..I was told that private info.

Learned quickly from.there on.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Wow. We send our kid to a combined paid daycare/Headstart program and honestly these issues have never occurred to us. I'm definitely not worried about him hanging out around poor *three year olds.*

Great to hear your experience is positive. I don't care about SET rather in my experience the lack of parental control given my experience.

Thank you for sharing your insight.

I wouldn’t worry about this for infants and toddlers.

Thank you for assuring me. As first-time parents, we have no clue what to expect just yet.

DP. It shouldn't need to be said, but maybe it does -- be sure not to go in asking which children are from "voucher families" and which are full pay. Just don't.

I did this 🤪 What percent of kids are private vs voucher..I was told that private info.

Learned quickly from.there on.

Ah, I was specifically warning her "not to go in asking which children are from "voucher families" and which are full pay. " That's even worse, but it's probably worth spelling out here.

[Anonymous]

Most private schools raises adult aholes with no empathy to poor and middle class people

[Anonymous]

Our family daycare only serves snacks and that's fine. We love it there!
And they have families with vouchers, subsidies/vouchers from many programs like the Army childcare aware of america and the parents and kids are nice and friendly people.

Stop being horrible, I feel bad for your kids.

[Anonymous]

If you don't like the food then bring the food. Stop being lazy.

[Anonymous]

WHAT THE F??? THIS IS DAYCARE.

[Anonymous]

T-R-O-L-L

[Anonymous]

When I was poor enough to have gotten vouchers, I was too poor to afford a gun.

[Anonymous]

You're right to be worried. There are a lot of infants and toddlers bringing guns to school and trash talking. Also, some of them speak [gasp] Spanish!!! Don't do it OP.

[Anonymous]

Think about this. Nobody wants to deal with vouchers or voucher students (as providers they don’t). If they still accept them it means they don’t have enough middle class paying customers and it means they aren’t as good. End of story.
Having said that, my child was at a daycare that accepted vouchers but they only had 1-2 kids at a time with a voucher and the kids were from immigrant families.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:We are struggling to find infant daycare for our DC. We prefer daycare vs other options. We are noticing daycares which mostly accept DHS voucher seem to have spots available and very interested in private paid spots. we don't like the snack options we saw at these daycares and have doubt about quality of food offered as well.

I wonder if we should be worried about the kids they will be hanging out with as they get older. These daycares also have policies on guns, etc which we don't see at normal/private paid daycares.

We have had very bad experience with families with voucher as our neighbors so not sure if sending our kids to a voucher friendly daycare will leave us with messy situations to deal with.

I would like to hear from parents who might send their kids to voucher friendly daycares.

What exactly is your worry about these three year old kids hanging out together?

What about their policies on guns concern you?

DP but it’s not about the kids. Providers don’t want to deal with voucher parents first and foremost. And then with the voucher paperwork too. If they have to accept them, it’s either mandatory for all daycares in the area OR they have to because they are inferior and don’t have enough paying customers… ding ding ding

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:We are struggling to find infant daycare for our DC. We prefer daycare vs other options. We are noticing daycares which mostly accept DHS voucher seem to have spots available and very interested in private paid spots. we don't like the snack options we saw at these daycares and have doubt about quality of food offered as well.

I wonder if we should be worried about the kids they will be hanging out with as they get older. These daycares also have policies on guns, etc which we don't see at normal/private paid daycares.

We have had very bad experience with families with voucher as our neighbors so not sure if sending our kids to a voucher friendly daycare will leave us with messy situations to deal with.

I would like to hear from parents who might send their kids to voucher friendly daycares.

What exactly is a “normal” daycare? Or are you using “normal” as a synonym for “private paid”?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Think about this. Nobody wants to deal with vouchers or voucher students (as providers they don’t). If they still accept them it means they don’t have enough middle class paying customers and it means they aren’t as good. End of story.
Having said that, my child was at a daycare that accepted vouchers but they only had 1-2 kids at a time with a voucher and the kids were from immigrant families.

Not always true. Some daycare providers have funding for special programs and it's part of their mission to accept kids whose families use vouchers. Because of special programs some of these providers have higher teacher to child ratios than a typical provider.