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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Director here. Our policy is 9:30 in general and 11 for appointments.

It is disruptive to other children and staff and can really mess with ratios so we are pretty strict about it. It is explained to parents at intake and those who don't like it are free to enroll elsewhere.

I make my own children's appointments in the afternoons so that it's a non-issue with my child-care provider.[/quote]

"Mess with ratios" is a red flag, if you mean that you send teachers home & pare staff down to the bare minimum based on the morning headcount. Cf. the discussion re: staff turnover.  The pay will never be great, that's a reality.  But split shifts and unpredictable hours are notoriously bad for service worker retention. [/quote]

OR they could be trying to free someone up to work on curriculum for next week, start a project that will take 3-4 hours at one time, to do administrative work that day, to help other teachers with a planned activity, etc...   and then when your kid shows up in the middle of that, it's really annoying to have to just stop in the middle of something big.

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This. Director PP here. We do not SEND staff home so that we don't have to pay them. Like the immediate PP said, staff may want to leave the classroom to work on planning, training, or another activity. Sometimes staff may be rewarded by being allowed to leave for the day (paid) when numbers are low.[/quote]

I mean this sort of thing can be dealt with by parents being asked to notify the center when they are dropping off late.  That way staff can plan to be there when needed.[/quote]

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