Anonymous
08/19/2019 21:04
Subject: Having the agency pay for AP's flight
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Wow.
Talk about cheap host family. If you cannot swing a $500 ticket to fly the person who took care of your kids for a year not sure how or why you are in the program. You sound dreadful.
Is this the same person who says any family who doesn't do exactly as the AP asks is unfit to host? We are not paying $500 for our APs to fly home (also good luck finding a $500 fare to most of these places). If you want to...great. That makes you a wonderful host parent. I choose not to and I am also a wonderful host parent.
Sidebar-I just booked a RT flight to Paris for $550. Direct IAD-CDG
Anonymous
08/19/2019 20:40
Subject: Having the agency pay for AP's flight
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Wow.
Talk about cheap host family. If you cannot swing a $500 ticket to fly the person who took care of your kids for a year not sure how or why you are in the program. You sound dreadful.
This is ridiculous. If you want to go home, no one is forcing you to extend and stay a second year. You're also welcome to save money and use it for a flight home instead of daily Starbucks.
I’ve never had an AP who has daily Starbucks.
Anonymous
08/19/2019 13:49
Subject: Having the agency pay for AP's flight
Anonymous wrote:Wow.
Talk about cheap host family. If you cannot swing a $500 ticket to fly the person who took care of your kids for a year not sure how or why you are in the program. You sound dreadful.
This is ridiculous. If you want to go home, no one is forcing you to extend and stay a second year. You're also welcome to save money and use it for a flight home instead of daily Starbucks.
Anonymous
08/19/2019 11:00
Subject: Having the agency pay for AP's flight
Anonymous wrote:Wow.
Talk about cheap host family. If you cannot swing a $500 ticket to fly the person who took care of your kids for a year not sure how or why you are in the program. You sound dreadful.
Is this the same person who says any family who doesn't do exactly as the AP asks is unfit to host? We are not paying $500 for our APs to fly home (also good luck finding a $500 fare to most of these places). If you want to...great. That makes you a wonderful host parent. I choose not to and I am also a wonderful host parent.
Anonymous
08/19/2019 10:16
Subject: Having the agency pay for AP's flight
Anonymous wrote:No way the agency pays. I'd say the receiving family should pay for the ticket.
I think the receiving family of an extension year AP pays a lower fee at my agency precisely bc no flight/orientation.
With APIA if you extend with your own AP it’s significantly cheaper but not sure about extension APs in general.
Anonymous
08/19/2019 09:39
Subject: Having the agency pay for AP's flight
No way the agency pays. I'd say the receiving family should pay for the ticket.
I think the receiving family of an extension year AP pays a lower fee at my agency precisely bc no flight/orientation.
I think the receiving family of an extension year AP pays a lower fee at my agency precisely bc no flight/orientation.
Anonymous
08/17/2019 15:29
Subject: Having the agency pay for AP's flight
OP here, we have no problem paying for her flights back and will if need be, my question was more how can the agency take fees that include a return flight tickets to Europe from both families but only offer one to the AP. Wouldn't it be normal for the APs to have the opportunities to return home in between the two families?
Anonymous
08/17/2019 09:41
Subject: Having the agency pay for AP's flight
Wow.
Talk about cheap host family. If you cannot swing a $500 ticket to fly the person who took care of your kids for a year not sure how or why you are in the program. You sound dreadful.
Talk about cheap host family. If you cannot swing a $500 ticket to fly the person who took care of your kids for a year not sure how or why you are in the program. You sound dreadful.
Anonymous
08/16/2019 21:24
Subject: Having the agency pay for AP's flight
Lol.
We paid for our ap (we had her first year) to go home before she went to the extension family for her second.
Agency won’t pay for it - if you like her hook her up and let her see her family on your dime. She did right by you, YOU should do right by her and not try to justify that she did not go home between years because the agency would not pay for it.
I would pay to fly her home; actually I have done it for 3 aps now for various reasons. Once between our family and next; like the situation you are in.
We paid for our ap (we had her first year) to go home before she went to the extension family for her second.
Agency won’t pay for it - if you like her hook her up and let her see her family on your dime. She did right by you, YOU should do right by her and not try to justify that she did not go home between years because the agency would not pay for it.
I would pay to fly her home; actually I have done it for 3 aps now for various reasons. Once between our family and next; like the situation you are in.
Anonymous
08/16/2019 19:01
Subject: Having the agency pay for AP's flight
Yes it’s unreasonable. Every extension AP stays here for 2 years or saves money to go come at some point. You’re never going to get this paid for.
Anonymous
08/16/2019 16:53
Subject: Having the agency pay for AP's flight
We are a family with a lovely AP who is about to extend with another HF nearby as we are moving on to another form of childcare.
We joined the agency for her and she also found her new host family on her own and they too joined the agency to match with specifically with her (I think the agency might want to think about hiring her at this stage!) our AP will leave us at the middle of the month and her new family won't need her until the 1st of the following month but everyone agreed to let her go home for those two weeks. We think the agency for pay for that flight because we paid for a return flight within the fees as did her next host family, our AP just messaged them about it but is pretty sure they will say no, would we be unreasonable to complain to the agency if they refuse to buy her a flight and ask for portion of our flights fees back so we can gift it to her? It just seems unfair that the agency would take money from two families and only offer one return flight and then expect AP not go home for two years or only if they can pay for it themselves? She needs to renew her visa to be able to travel or go home for an emergency in her second year anyway without having to pick between staying or dumping the host family so surely they should want APs to go home in between families?
We joined the agency for her and she also found her new host family on her own and they too joined the agency to match with specifically with her (I think the agency might want to think about hiring her at this stage!) our AP will leave us at the middle of the month and her new family won't need her until the 1st of the following month but everyone agreed to let her go home for those two weeks. We think the agency for pay for that flight because we paid for a return flight within the fees as did her next host family, our AP just messaged them about it but is pretty sure they will say no, would we be unreasonable to complain to the agency if they refuse to buy her a flight and ask for portion of our flights fees back so we can gift it to her? It just seems unfair that the agency would take money from two families and only offer one return flight and then expect AP not go home for two years or only if they can pay for it themselves? She needs to renew her visa to be able to travel or go home for an emergency in her second year anyway without having to pick between staying or dumping the host family so surely they should want APs to go home in between families?