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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]We hosted for 12 years. It’s absolutely insane for someone to suggest you can’t have an AP drive carpool. We carpooled the entire time we hosted, to and from school, to and from sports, etc. AP oversaw playmates as well. As long as it’s all reciprocal, it’s part of the job. We lived in four states while hosting so had several LCCs. All knew about the carpools and all were 100% fine with it. [/quote]

Everything is all fine and dandy until an accident occurs.

When you ask your AP to break her visa rules it’s HER you put in danger (alongside with the kids who end up under the care of your AP who is not meant to look after them). The fact that you made your APs break the rules for 12 years is nothing to be proud of.  Rather cringe actually.

Stop letting your AP be used as your friend’s babysitter and driver. If they can’t be bothered to bring their own kids to activities why should your AP. It’s okay to offer to do your friends/neighbor a favor if you are the one volunteering to do it and doing the driving, it’s totally not okay to offer to do a favor and then offset the responsibility to your AP making her break her visa rules and putting her in a vulnerable position where any wrong doing (accidental or not) would have a massive impact on her life.

The amount of women who encourage other moms to have their AP break the rules knowing the potential consequences for the AP just because they got away with it is shocking honestly.  When you sign a contract, you accept to respect what’s in it. The contract isn’t a guideline you can use to make your own rule or totally dismiss as you see fit, just because it suits you better. 
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I am 1000 confident and will give you $1m If you can show us a case where an AP was deported for driving a carpool. Your fear mongering is quite bizarre.  [/quote]

it's all fine and dandy until it happens.  you will be stuck without childcare and drag someone else thorugh your crap. but it's all about your, right?[/quote]

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