Does your ES allow children for BTS?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:OP here. Wow! I’m amazing childcare if offered!! I can’t believe ours don’t and forbid parents from bringing kids. We have two kids in ES and we will be missing one as DH has to stay home with the kids.

Our PTA has a budget of only $10k or so, but we use it to pay KAH for this. It is worth looking into because it doesn’t cost much - just paying the staff for their time.

Same. PTA pays for KidsCo so elementary kids can go there during the presentations. There is no childcare for <K so parents have to bring them or find childcare [or in two-parent households, one parent stays home, which is what we used to do].

[Anonymous]

We were in mcps but now private. Kid in MS and at our beck to school night there were school age kids ( fine) but also 2 babies and 2 toddlers. One of the toddlers had 2 parents there! It was so noisy it was hard to hear the teacher talking. It’s rude.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:OP here. Wow! I’m amazing childcare if offered!! I can’t believe ours don’t and forbid parents from bringing kids. We have two kids in ES and we will be missing one as DH has to stay home with the kids.

Our PTA has a budget of only $10k or so, but we use it to pay KAH for this. It is worth looking into because it doesn’t cost much - just paying the staff for their time.

I’m the poster whose kids aged out. Our PTA had student volunteers watching the kids for SSL hours. I don’t know who the adult was over seeing it, but I don’t believe it was an aftercare program, but maybe parents.

[Anonymous]

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The issue with school-offered childcare is that they can't possibly accommodate ALL the kids if a ton of them show up. Our school offers childcare during PTA meetings, but at BTSN they'd be swamped, so they don't offer it. Everyone's on their own for that.

+1000
Our school had child care in the past and it was unsafe as everyone brought their child. There weren't enough adults/SSL hour students to truly, safely care for the students. It's the 1 day a year that schools plan something for parents only. Let's not blame the school that there's no planned child care onsite. It is a liability issue and seeing how much people complain on here, if one of your children get hurt, I am sure there'd be post about it here - naming the school and all.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:
The issue with school-offered childcare is that they can't possibly accommodate ALL the kids if a ton of them show up. Our school offers childcare during PTA meetings, but at BTSN they'd be swamped, so they don't offer it. Everyone's on their own for that.

+1000
Our school had child care in the past and it was unsafe as everyone brought their child. There weren't enough adults/SSL hour students to truly, safely care for the students. It's the 1 day a year that schools plan something for parents only. Let's not blame the school that there's no planned child care onsite. It is a liability issue and seeing how much people complain on here, if one of your children get hurt, I am sure there'd be post about it here - naming the school and all.

Wow, so true! +1

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Ours offered childcare during BTSN with the aftercare provider on site.

Same, but only for school-age kids. So not for my toddler (who stayed home with DH).

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Ours offered childcare during BTSN with the aftercare provider on site.

Same, but only for school-age kids. So not for my toddler (who stayed home with DH).

I'm this PP and wanted to add the childcare is thru the same aftercare provider but available to all and cheap, just $5.

[Anonymous]

No kids and no in-site child care at either MCPS elementary that we’ve attended.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:No kids and no in-site child care at either MCPS elementary that we’ve attended.

Same here but people bring them anyway. Last year when my younger kid was in kindergarten, three families brought multiple children each, ranging from baby to 7 or 8. The teacher promptly produced crayons and paper to keep them occupied but the younger ones were running around shouting and throwing things and it was incredibly annoying. I can’t believe the parents got much out of the presentation either but oh well.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:No kids and no in-site child care at either MCPS elementary that we’ve attended.

Same here but people bring them anyway. Last year when my younger kid was in kindergarten, three families brought multiple children each, ranging from baby to 7 or 8. The teacher promptly produced crayons and paper to keep them occupied but the younger ones were running around shouting and throwing things and it was incredibly annoying. I can’t believe the parents got much out of the presentation either but oh well.

Sorry if this is obvious, but if these are two-parent homes we're talking about, couldn't one parent generally stay home with the other kids (absent some scheduling conflict)? That's what we always did. Sure, one parent misses the event but as your kids get older you'll realize it's NBD.

[Anonymous]

One parent stays home

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Ours offered childcare during BTSN with the aftercare provider on site.

Same, but only for school-age kids. So not for my toddler (who stayed home with DH).

Why wouldn't you leave both kids at home?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Ours offered childcare during BTSN with the aftercare provider on site.

+1

[Anonymous]

Back to school night is for parents, leave your kids home.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Ours offered childcare during BTSN with the aftercare provider on site.

This. Kids out of diapers can go to childcare on site. Infants can come to the presentations.

Ooh that's nice- ours provides onsite childcare but only kindergarten and up. I get that they have to draw a line somewhere but I have a 4yo who'd been out of diapers for 2.5 years. DH will stay home with the kids while I go.