Originally Posted by Unregistered:
Kidgrind:
This is nothing about being sneaky--I appreciate that it's in your contracts and your parents know up front, and no one should be surprised...but that doesn't make it fair.
What if your contract said, "Sometimes, when I've personally overspent my bank account that month, I'll charge all you parents extra to make sure I have personal spending money. That way I can still go out to dinner every Saturday."
Is it in your contract? Yes. Do the parents get to decide up front if they will ACTUALLY pony up when it happens. Yes.
.....but does that make it FAIR? Nooooo.
And, oh wait...before I address the other part of your post, Kidgrind, can you please clarify something for me? You said this: "It’s fair. As a business owner I still have costs whether the children enrolled come or not."
Are you really saying that even when YOU PERSONALLY decide that you WILL NOT care for the children that day, you still think it's fair to charge the parents because you have to cover the costs of running your business? I can't imagine you mean it this way...
Or do you mean that if a parent CHOOSES not to come that day, they still have to pay? (I agree with this charge. You're right-on to charge for this.)
I don’t PERSONALLY make the decision not to care for children. My regulations dictate I do not provide services for the children’s SAFETY. The service I offer is safe & quality childcare based upon ENROLLMENT not ATTENDANCE.
The definition of fair is
in accordance with the rules or standards; legitimate
My
snow day policy based on the regulations I am governed by is fair. Thanks for sharing your perspective from your vantage point.