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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Not sure but sign me up. My kids are not yet part of fcps but our preschool follows fcps and it boils me beyond belief that they're taking advantage of fcps when none of the concerns for closure affect the preschool yet we pay, and they keep closing.  [/quote]

THIS drives me nuts. Same with our preschool. We have no buses!! No reason my kid can't go to preschool at noon (he's afternoons). [/quote]

We are afternoons as well. I sit on the preschool board and have pushed for alternatives but it has becom very apparent that the director loves her snow days and doesn't want to consider alternatives. We suggested "making their own decision" or following government closure or following Arlington closures (since we are on the border) but every suggestion was shot down. The killer part is when fcps does something like extend Mondays or schedule days into June, she miraculously stops following fcps and becomes an independent thinker. It is a money pit. [/quote]

I will tell you exactly what the problem is with the preschools. Many teachers at PT preschools are mothers with their own school-age kids. They purposefully get a job with this kind of schedule so that they can be available for their own children after school, on school holidays, summers, etc. These jobs are low paying and that's the trade off, but it's worth it for many moms to do that and still keep their foot in the door or make some extra money. It's not coincidental that so many church preschools follow the FCPS schedules to the letter. Do you know how disruptive it would be for these teachers, who took the job with the knowledge that their workplace follows FCPS snow days and that they would be home with their children on those days, to suddenly have a mid-year switch and have to deal with backup childcare? It would be a huge problem. I do not fault the preschools in any way for doing this even though it BURNS ME UP INSIDE that I paid for 5 days of preschool this week and got one, thanks to the holiday and snow days! This is a FCPS problem, not a preschool problem. [/quote]

As you said, it's not like preschool tuition is paying the teachers a living wage. They earn a tiny fraction of what most of you earn. You get what you pay for, or are preschool teachers supposed to be your charity workers?[/quote]

Yes, that's my point. [b]I don't think it is fair to screw over the preschool teachers to keep the preschools open.[/b] And clearly the preschool administrators agree, because that's why the schools are closed and they follow the FCPS schedules for snow days. Yes, the schools could technically be open, but it would screw their teachers over in terms of them having to find their own backup child care. Like I said, as much as this sucks personally to have my kid be out of school all week, I'm glad that they are doing the right thing by their teachers. Happy teachers = happy kids. [/quote]

Bizarre, how is letting someone go to work screwing them over.  [/quote]
Do you take your kids to work?[/quote]

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