Originally Posted by midaycare:
This discussion always irks me, as the people who love it are always Tier 1
Tier 2 is hardly worth it, and the difference between an extra $10K a year to me, or $1800. Sure, $1800 is great....BUT it's a lot of visits, I have to fill out paperwork every day (FP doesn't accept online submission over here), and I'm always making the simplest mistakes, which would be caught by computer, but not when I write it out. So I can easily lose a week of money because I made a simple error (they are super strict). So I don't make $1800. Maybe $1200.
On another note, child care providers are not rich. We are not stealing money from the food program and running to Maui.
$1,200 is still better than a kick in the teeth! If you spent 5 hours a week doing Food Program paperwork and had four children and served breakfast, lunch and snack each day, you would be earning $8.72 per hour. I can't think of many other ways you can earn this much in your situation.
By the way, if you want, you can run off to Maui and attend a family child care conference in December where I'll be speaking for two days:
https://zepedalearning.org/conferenc...i-hawaii-2016/