Originally Posted by Country Kids:
So I'm going to go a little further into questioning. Can you not accept a child into you program because of having a disiability? I think we should be able to but with the disiability act would it make us have to accept the child.
You canNOT refuse to enroll a child because of a disability. You more or less HAVE to accept them unless there is another reason for not accepting the child into care such as needing different hours or days than you offer. Refusing the child cannot be about the disability.
Know this is what I don't get. A friend of mine is a teacher in one of our schools here. Her assistant in the classroom get paid like $4.00 everytime she has to help a child who needs changed or helps in the bathroom. My friend doesn't get anymore money to do it but the assistants do. The kids are kindergarteners. So I'm wondering why the schools would pay someone more to do this but a childcare provider can't.
The school isn't paying this, the tax payers are. The cost is being spread across the board to all attending families, which makes it perfectly legally.
I answered in bold above.
Originally Posted by Crazy8:
I feel as a home provider I can turn away any child I feel is not a good fit for my daycare. We've all said that hundreds of times when talking about interviews, right?? I think again, the key is not to say it is the disability itself - but the fact that you feel you would not be able to provide adequate care to ALL in your group is a legitimate reason.
Yes, you have it exactly right. You can NOT deny based on disability but you can deny for boat loads of other reasons.