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

[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.

Actually, the vouchers pay over 100 bucks a day to centers that are designated as High Quality. We are happy to have them, and REALLY were happy during the pandemic when we were closed but continued to be paid by the voucher program so could pay our teachers to do training, etc.

[Anonymous]

Wow OP what a terrible attitude. If I heard someone at my son's daycare talking like this, I wouldn't want to associate with them. This is the kind of awful attitude that yields poor outcomes for children, not needing vouchers.

[Anonymous]

I work for the government and have a gun because of work. Anybody can have a gun. Just don't let crazy right wings get a gun.

[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]

Only high quality providers with credentials can accept vouchers and subsidies like from the Army

[Anonymous]

I’m a daycare provider. Where are you looking? Please tell me so I wont accept you. Your attitude is poor and frankly, I would rather keep my slot open and lose income and take somebody who is concerned about your baby mixing with the voucher babies. You seem like nothing but trouble.

[Anonymous]

First time parents? More like ahole parents everyone should stay away.

I work for the Army and I use subsidies from Child Care Aware of America to pay the Family Daycare.

Go fk yourself OP

[Anonymous]

I'm glad not everyone is like OP. Heartless sob

[Anonymous]

Sounds like you can't afford a nanny, sad. Kids with nannies won't want to associate with your kid...

[Anonymous]

OP's question may be ignorant, but many of the replies are just nasty and mean-spirited. Why can't you simply answer in a neutral tone like "You do not need to worry; most voucher families are nice working class families"? Just state the fact, and give OP a few example of typical occupations that contribute to the society but do not make much money and hence are likely to qualify for vouchers.

In DC area there are many immigrants who came to the US via higher education or professional work (I was one of them). It takes them many, many years of assimilation to understand how the US society works. Questions such as "what kind of people receive daycare vouchers? should I be worried about them?" may seem very dumb to you US-born or US-raised DCUMers, but it's a totally legit question from a recent immigrant parent. Not to mention how typical it is for 1st time parents to be hyper-nervous about things that are non-issues in retrospect.

Next time before you reply something nasty, think about the possibility that people may came from a different perspective and hence unintentionally rub you in the wrong way. Your humiliating attitude is just gonna push people away instead of educating them and helping them to learn about compassion for others.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:OP's question may be ignorant, but many of the replies are just nasty and mean-spirited. Why can't you simply answer in a neutral tone like "You do not need to worry; most voucher families are nice working class families"? Just state the fact, and give OP a few example of typical occupations that contribute to the society but do not make much money and hence are likely to qualify for vouchers.

In DC area there are many immigrants who came to the US via higher education or professional work (I was one of them). It takes them many, many years of assimilation to understand how the US society works. Questions such as "what kind of people receive daycare vouchers? should I be worried about them?" may seem very dumb to you US-born or US-raised DCUMers, but it's a totally legit question from a recent immigrant parent. Not to mention how typical it is for 1st time parents to be hyper-nervous about things that are non-issues in retrospect.

Next time before you reply something nasty, think about the possibility that people may came from a different perspective and hence unintentionally rub you in the wrong way. Your humiliating attitude is just gonna push people away instead of educating them and helping them to learn about compassion for others.

OP has 0 compassion.

I have vouchers. I'm an American and I want to be treated with respect. I'm a working parent who struggles with payments. The government wants me to have children but won't give me enough money to raise them.

Illogical, they are pro birth not prolife. They don't care what happens to kids after they're born. Just criticize and no help to parents like money and fund more social programs

[Anonymous]

OP can't afford a nanny. Must be Canadian

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:OP's question may be ignorant, but many of the replies are just nasty and mean-spirited. Why can't you simply answer in a neutral tone like "You do not need to worry; most voucher families are nice working class families"? Just state the fact, and give OP a few example of typical occupations that contribute to the society but do not make much money and hence are likely to qualify for vouchers.

In DC area there are many immigrants who came to the US via higher education or professional work (I was one of them). It takes them many, many years of assimilation to understand how the US society works. Questions such as "what kind of people receive daycare vouchers? should I be worried about them?" may seem very dumb to you US-born or US-raised DCUMers, but it's a totally legit question from a recent immigrant parent. Not to mention how typical it is for 1st time parents to be hyper-nervous about things that are non-issues in retrospect.

Next time before you reply something nasty, think about the possibility that people may came from a different perspective and hence unintentionally rub you in the wrong way. Your humiliating attitude is just gonna push people away instead of educating them and helping them to learn about compassion for others.

OP has 0 compassion.

I have vouchers. I'm an American and I want to be treated with respect. I'm a working parent who struggles with payments. The government wants me to have children but won't give me enough money to raise them.

Illogical, they are pro birth not prolife. They don't care what happens to kids after they're born. Just criticize and no help to parents like money and fund more social programs

You have 0 compassion. Just because you are American so you assume everyone on DCUM is also American and understand very well how the American society (including the voucher system) works? You forget how many immigrants live in DC area, and many of which came here as an adult and have to learn from scratch about how everything works in the US. Try move to a foreign country as an adult and see if you can grasp exactly how the society works within a few years.

Oh, and then you made an unfounded assumption about the OP being "prolife" and try to shame him/her based on it, even though nothing in the OP's post indicated his/her view on abortion. I'm pro-choice; I'm an immigrant from a 3rd world country; I came here in my 20s on a scholarship, and I totally understand where OP's question came from if he/she has a similar background as mine. I wouldn't have understood how the voucher system works and what kind of ppl receive vouchers within my first several years living in the US.

You are American so you have the privilege that you learned at an early age about how US society works. I don't have that privilege b/c I didn't grow up here and I tried my best to assimilate and learn about the society (including questions that you consider dumb like "what's the voucher system"). So please STFU and stop making assumptions about other ppl who came from different background. Oh, and again if you are so liberal then let me remind you again that there are so many recent immigrants living in DC area and they just simply need more time and lots of effort to understand how things work in this country.

[Anonymous]

OP’s classist question attempts to come across as all innocent.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:OP's question may be ignorant, but many of the replies are just nasty and mean-spirited. Why can't you simply answer in a neutral tone like "You do not need to worry; most voucher families are nice working class families"? Just state the fact, and give OP a few example of typical occupations that contribute to the society but do not make much money and hence are likely to qualify for vouchers.

In DC area there are many immigrants who came to the US via higher education or professional work (I was one of them). It takes them many, many years of assimilation to understand how the US society works. Questions such as "what kind of people receive daycare vouchers? should I be worried about them?" may seem very dumb to you US-born or US-raised DCUMers, but it's a totally legit question from a recent immigrant parent. Not to mention how typical it is for 1st time parents to be hyper-nervous about things that are non-issues in retrospect.

Next time before you reply something nasty, think about the possibility that people may came from a different perspective and hence unintentionally rub you in the wrong way. Your humiliating attitude is just gonna push people away instead of educating them and helping them to learn about compassion for others.

OP has 0 compassion.

I have vouchers. I'm an American and I want to be treated with respect. I'm a working parent who struggles with payments. The government wants me to have children but won't give me enough money to raise them.

Illogical, they are pro birth not prolife. They don't care what happens to kids after they're born. Just criticize and no help to parents like money and fund more social programs

You have 0 compassion. Just because you are American so you assume everyone on DCUM is also American and understand very well how the American society (including the voucher system) works? You forget how many immigrants live in DC area, and many of which came here as an adult and have to learn from scratch about how everything works in the US. Try move to a foreign country as an adult and see if you can grasp exactly how the society works within a few years.

Oh, and then you made an unfounded assumption about the OP being "prolife" and try to shame him/her based on it, even though nothing in the OP's post indicated his/her view on abortion. I'm pro-choice; I'm an immigrant from a 3rd world country; I came here in my 20s on a scholarship, and I totally understand where OP's question came from if he/she has a similar background as mine. I wouldn't have understood how the voucher system works and what kind of ppl receive vouchers within my first several years living in the US.

You are American so you have the privilege that you learned at an early age about how US society works. I don't have that privilege b/c I didn't grow up here and I tried my best to assimilate and learn about the society (including questions that you consider dumb like "what's the voucher system"). So please STFU and stop making assumptions about other ppl who came from different background. Oh, and again if you are so liberal then let me remind you again that there are so many recent immigrants living in DC area and they just simply need more time and lots of effort to understand how things work in this country.

Too long lol