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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]People, it's done. More kids will have access to aftercare and thank god. LAP should help the new provider get up to speed and then refocus its efforts on programming and the other things they said they were interested in.

It's all good![/quote]

Interesting concept.  Has LAP been asked to work with and support CLS?  Last I heard they were being competed against CLS and another vendor and weren't supposed to talk with them... [/quote]

Once a decision has been made, those rules don't apply. But it's totally normal for competing vendors to be told not to engage each other during a bid process. 
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Volunteer parents = vendors.  Nice.  [/quote]

Volunteer parents who are providing a fee-based service ARE vendors.

So parents who volunteer to serve on a non-profit aftercare program, set up only to benefit the families of Lafayette, and who's voting members and shareholders are all parents who have children enrolled in the program, and who's only fees collected go to pay for the staff on site who care for your children (and their own) are somehow equal to for profit service providers?   When you volunteer to serve on say the Vestry of your church or similar organization, are you somehow no longer a stakeholder in the congregation?   Should your own accountability to the congregation, your desire to see the organization serve the congregation and community successfully beyond your one or two year term, and who's "fees" collected go to serve the families who engage in the organization and its mission...  sounds more like a partnership... ones that have historically, including here at Lafayette, been built on trust and collaboration.  That died the moment the power hungry folks in the front office and their small group of surrogates decided they have an axe to grind.   Tell me, how has the track record of these administration takeovers gone recently?  How about LEP?   Didn't a parent volunteer used to help with that?   How is it going now?   What about drop off line?   How is that going now?   Who do you think has the best information regarding logistics and actual data on how to run an after are program at Lafayette?   Do you think they were engaged by the administration to find a better, achievable, responsible and sustainable way to serve the parent community?   Or were they beaten up, misled, isolated from having transparent dialog with the community, and otherwise ostracized.  And who do you think is at the center of it?   Funny that the only way to provide feedback or discuss this latest topic is behind closed doors in one-on-one meetings.  Public administration policy fail 101.  Why might someone not want parents to discuss the issues in a public forum?   Transparency maybe?

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1.	[b]This isn’t church[/b]—it’s a child care service  provided to parents for a fee. The executive director is paid, the staff are paid. They only people who aren’t paid are the board. This is a service paid for by people who use it.  
2.	LEP cost parents 30K a year. Flex is free. Do you really think we should be paying 30K for something we can get for free?
3.	If LAP has all that info, and they are simply here to help the community, then they can certainly help CLS transition with the same good will they were willing to offer the vendor they endorsed.
4.	Agree that the principal’s communication is terrible.

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I get the analogy.     Maybe the poster could have picked something a little less controversial?     Anyway, I hope there is a concerted effort to reach out to the LAP board and re-engage them in the conversation. They probably have the best working knowledge of how to make it run at Lafayette.  I guess I would understand though if they were a little tired and put off by all the things that have gone on this year. I don't think I would have the time or patience to deal with it as a working parent.  [/quote]

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