Originally Posted by Babyluver21:
Well if you want an EXACT replica of daycare, you won't get it.
Because there isn't anything "EXACTLY" the same.
However, if you pay $100 per week to your provider, and she closes on a snow day and it's in your contract that "childcare is based on enrollment, not attendance", you don't have a leg to stand on.
Much like your employer pays you sick time and even if they close, you use your sick time (that DCP's are not priviledged to), but you still got paid for not being there.
You expect to be paid for your paid time off (pay for not working), but you don't wish to afford the same courtesy on a questionable day or for illness? That is VERY hypocritical.
Show me the employer who would 1) offer the employees unlimited paid sick days, and 2) agree with you that such an arrangement would be totally fair (he'll just pay you AND a temp to get the work done!). You show me that, and then you can call me hypocritical.
And I employ a daycare CENTER because I have no intention of having a care provider who can't watch my child due to illness, let alone ask me to pay.