Anonymous
Post 08/27/2023 14:45     Subject: How many of you use workplace daycare?
My kids go to a federal daycare, albeit one at an agency near my house in MoCo, not the downtown one I work at, since we only go in once a week. Very happy with the care we get.
Anonymous
Post 08/27/2023 13:58     Subject: How many of you use workplace daycare?
Kid is going to CFPB Small Savers Montessori and it’s 2250/month for a baby. Really amazing facility and staff.

We’ve had so much drama with nannies that daycare was a god send.

Many federal daycares are run by parent boards. So much more accountable and well-run relative to private equity-funded care centers. This is our second federal daycare.
Anonymous
Post 08/27/2023 13:24     Subject: How many of you use workplace daycare?
Anonymous wrote:My kids went to the NIST Childcare center in Gaithersburg. My understanding was that they got the space for free. It was a wonderful place. It was parent board run not a chain.


I like NIST's waitlist determination - seems this is common in this area, federal employees get priority.

Children are offered spaces according to the following priority categories: 

A. Children (dependents) of Federal NIST employees 

B. Children (dependents) of non-NIST Federal employees 

C. Children (dependents) of NIST Associates 

D. Children with a grandparent, aunt or uncle who is a Federal NIST employee 

E. Children (dependents) of U.S. citizens or U.S. Permanent Residents, who are not in the priority categories above
Anonymous
Post 08/21/2023 22:46     Subject: Re:How many of you use workplace daycare?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:They're lying. The proof? My daycare is subsidized by $800/month. Its $1100 per infant downtown. Federal Exchange Commission.


Who is lying? You can't conceive that different agencies have different benefits, and that the onsite daycare may or may not have a subsidy?

The daycare rates at my daycare are published, they are the same for agency employees as for community families. My daycare charges $2400/child from infant through twos, and then the costs drop to I think $1800 for preschool? Daycares closer to my home charge $2900/child, though.


Why does your daycare charge $2400/mo a child and downtown is $1100?


i thought it was pretty clear: going rates for downtown dc are around $2900/mo and my agency doesn't subsidize? i mean, tell me the address of whatever daycare this is and if be happy to see if they have a spot for my two year old. of course, pretty sure that i make more by not being on the gs scale than this particular agency daycare would save me.
Anonymous
Post 08/21/2023 19:14     Subject: How many of you use workplace daycare?
My kids went to the NIST Childcare center in Gaithersburg. My understanding was that they got the space for free. It was a wonderful place. It was parent board run not a chain.
Anonymous
Post 08/21/2023 18:56     Subject: Re:How many of you use workplace daycare?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:They're lying. The proof? My daycare is subsidized by $800/month. Its $1100 per infant downtown. Federal Exchange Commission.


Who is lying? You can't conceive that different agencies have different benefits, and that the onsite daycare may or may not have a subsidy?

The daycare rates at my daycare are published, they are the same for agency employees as for community families. My daycare charges $2400/child from infant through twos, and then the costs drop to I think $1800 for preschool? Daycares closer to my home charge $2900/child, though.


Why does your daycare charge $2400/mo a child and downtown is $1100?


Is this a serious question? Different businesses providing different services in different locations (with differing levels of employer subsidy) charge different amounts.
Anonymous
Post 08/21/2023 18:27     Subject: Re:How many of you use workplace daycare?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:They're lying. The proof? My daycare is subsidized by $800/month. Its $1100 per infant downtown. Federal Exchange Commission.


Who is lying? You can't conceive that different agencies have different benefits, and that the onsite daycare may or may not have a subsidy?

The daycare rates at my daycare are published, they are the same for agency employees as for community families. My daycare charges $2400/child from infant through twos, and then the costs drop to I think $1800 for preschool? Daycares closer to my home charge $2900/child, though.


Why does your daycare charge $2400/mo a child and downtown is $1100?
Anonymous
Post 08/21/2023 17:14     Subject: Re:How many of you use workplace daycare?
Anonymous wrote:They're lying. The proof? My daycare is subsidized by $800/month. Its $1100 per infant downtown. Federal Exchange Commission.


Who is lying? You can't conceive that different agencies have different benefits, and that the onsite daycare may or may not have a subsidy?

The daycare rates at my daycare are published, they are the same for agency employees as for community families. My daycare charges $2400/child from infant through twos, and then the costs drop to I think $1800 for preschool? Daycares closer to my home charge $2900/child, though.
Anonymous
Post 08/21/2023 12:11     Subject: Re:How many of you use workplace daycare?
Anonymous wrote:Need to know how good is LadyBug Academy, the open house is in 5 days! Do any companies have preferential placement - there or elsewhere?

https://www.ladybug-academy.com/


Update - they are open from 7:00AM - 6:00PM. Similar to AppleTree.
Anonymous
Post 08/21/2023 12:03     Subject: Re:How many of you use workplace daycare?
Need to know how good is LadyBug Academy, the open house is in 5 days! Do any companies have preferential placement - there or elsewhere?

https://www.ladybug-academy.com/
Anonymous
Post 08/20/2023 17:05     Subject: Re:How many of you use workplace daycare?
They're lying. The proof? My daycare is subsidized by $800/month. Its $1100 per infant downtown. Federal Exchange Commission.
Anonymous
Post 08/19/2023 22:34     Subject: How many of you use workplace daycare?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:I use the daycare in my federal employers building, but the costs are the same for employees vs non-federal/neighborhood attendees. There is no subsidy, but I did get priority on the waitlist for a spot.

I think the daycare priority goes something like

1) daycare employees
2) siblings
3) agency employee
4) other federal employee
5) neighborhood

I like it better than the bright horizons near my house just because the office location has a very nice and secure outdoor play space. The staff are all very nice and my kid seems to enjoy being there. (they've cried at dropoff maybe three times ever.)


Was it a building daycare or a federal one?


it's a bright horizons inside my federal employers leased space. my spouse had to fill out an sf-85 to be able to get a badge to pick our kid up.
Anonymous
Post 08/19/2023 18:26     Subject: Re:How many of you use workplace daycare?
Anonymous wrote:Are they in-person only? Do remote workers qualify?


Depends on the company, but I’ve known remote workers who qualified for the Bright Horizons at the uspto at the employee rate.
Anonymous
Post 08/19/2023 17:28     Subject: How many of you use workplace daycare?
I did for a year. That was pre-Covid. It wasn’t subsidized. It was also not convenient to take dc on commute, and we ended up moving to a daycare close to home.
Anonymous
Post 08/19/2023 16:52     Subject: Re:How many of you use workplace daycare?
Are they in-person only? Do remote workers qualify?