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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Do the references to "school dropoff" and "school pickup" in the daily schedule mean there are kids you go drop-off/pick up at local schools?[b] There was one in-home I rejected as soon as I found out that she would be dropping off/picking up her own kid at school everyday while carting my child around. [/b](I would have been okay with if it had been a walking trip - but not with my kid being driven around.)
You don't seem to mention (at least not where I could see) whether there are other full-time care providers and how many kids are in your care - this was the first thing I wanted to know when I was interviewing home daycares, since I did not want a solo provider.[/quote]

And what do you propose a daycare provider do about her own child because you dont want snowflake"carted" around?  I have taken child care children to school and activities and had to cart my child along for the ride. Its okay for that but not for yours? You need to remember that is why most child care providers are providing a service to parents while it enables her to stay home with her own child. [/quote]

Not the PP you're quoting, but I happily used an in-home provider for my child until she was ready for preschool and my provider's children took the bus to & from school. When my provider needed to take one of her children to a Dr's appt, she arranged for a substitute and let us know ahead of time who it would be, at what time, etc. She had 3 children of her own and cared for 3 additional children during the day. It would not have been practical for her to try to drive all three daycare kids around with her to Dr's appointments, to pick up her own kids from school, etc. She would have needed a 7 seater car and I imagine some kind of special license.

The situation that you describe, in which 1-2 daycare children are driven along to pick up & drop off the provider's children from school, would only be feasible if the number of daycare children under the providers care were one or two. That may not even require a daycare license, depending on the state, but if it's a full in-home daycare at capacity with at least 3 children, more likely 4-6, then what you describe really wouldn't even be an option. [/quote]

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