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Does Anyone Else Work In a Center?
I kinda feel like I'm the only one that doesn't have my own business here.
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We have several members here who work in a center.
We also have several members who own and operate centers. I think a lot of our center workers are on-line during the evening and weekends since most centers don't allow internet use during working hours. |
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Understandably. Problem is I'm sleeping when they're online!
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LOL! That's right....I forget you are across the pond..
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I work in a small center (licensed for 40). I work primarily in infant room but cover other areas as needed.
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I don't now, but I did for over 10 years!
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I am the director of a center with 120 children which means I can check out the boards a few times a day when I am suppose to be billing hehe but I sit here dreaming that I would so much rather have a home daycare then do what I am doing now.
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With the way things are going, I think it's better to have a center job where you have a steady salary and benefits.
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Not that way here....if I only had 3 kids I could make what I made at a center working 40 hours because most centers only pay minimum wage. In my home, I can close holidays, vacation days, personal days and STILL get paid! I worked in centers for 3 years before beginning my home child care 20 plus years ago!
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The good thing is that I know I have a steady job any will be getting a pay check twice a month. On the other hand, I have 120 children, 18 staff members and make about 23,000 a year with minimal benefits. My high blood pressure is not worth that. Not to mention, when I was a teacher only I got to spend time with the kids which made the low pay and long hours tolerable, now its all angry parents who don't want to pay and misbehaving kids who need to be sent to the "principal". More than any of that, although my own infant dd comes to the center with me, I never see her and feel as though I am missing her grow up. That more than any of the financial reasons is why I am considering the switch to home.
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I've been at my center for ten years. We're small with only 85 kids. I'm the fours teacher.
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Center owner/operator/Director here. |
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Yes I am full time. I have been at the center for 10 years and took the directors position the day I came back from maternity leave because the previous director had an accident. I was too emotional being back at work and too stressed with a new baby and new job that I let them take advantage of me and they didn't raise my salary until I had been doing the job for almost 5 months and I finally spoke up for myself. Even then they only raised it slightly, saying I needed more experience before a bigger raise. Boy, I learned my lesson.
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I say in the next 10-20 years trolls will find something better to do.
At least I hope that's a troll with the wildly unfounded accusations designed to upset members of the forum.... |
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Why are you calling me a troll? I don't mean to upset anyone, but universal preschool is coming (has came already in some places). Have you never heard of it before? Maybe if you don't live on the coasts, it might be a new concept to you.
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Making statements that it will go younger and younger are financially incorrect. Our government is barely able to fund the 4 year old preschool program in many states. Obama's recent proposal was overwhelmingly supported to implement further free pre-k programs. And indeed, the government has offered free ECE programs to younger than 4 that are based on low-income only. Those programs, like Head Start, have had budgets slashed time and time again. Unless our government is planning on going many many millions more into debt, a universal preschool under 4 years of age is very unlikely to happen anytime in the future. In fact, the American people have shown overwhelming support for decreasing budgets to pay off our large national debt. This means programs like Head Start or the universal preschool are likely to have funding cut drastically, likely to the point of closure. Either way, you are looking at a future of barely staying afloat of where we are in terms of free pre-k education and younger, barely managing to keep our current funding for those programs, turning to local taxes (which means that the low income areas will not be able to sustain the ECE programs themselves without state/national funding), or the U.S. discarding the overwhelming majority opinion to reduce national debt instead of accruing more. Unless I am missing something big from every article I've read in the past 4-5 years on the topic, there is no funding source except further debt to make under Kinder programs free. Sorry I called you a troll if you weren't trying to make an outlandish statement - the comments regarding babies entering "school" sounded trollish to me. Even our Early Head Start programs which are few and far between compared to any other under Kinder program available wouldn't be considered school as much as low income intervention to make sure parents are getting the resources to raise their children as well as the children are receiving proper medical care. Sorry for the thread hijack |
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Troll or not, I don't know, BUT I have heard of universal pre-k and it is coming but it is standing still here due to government issues.....we can't house them...it is only income eligible and even that has met some slow-down...I can see more of a collaboration coming now with home daycare and school systems....that is in the works right now, I think, due to funding issues. I have a dvd in hand of the beginnings of that, but even that will take some time....I have six 4 yr olds right now that chose NOT to attend pre-k and will not attend school till Aug 2015....so pre-k is not as big an issue to me right now.....QRIS and licensing regs are my thorn in the side!!!!
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Also, a lot of homes/property/and land has foreclosed and gone back to the banks. I'm just saying if the government really wanted universal prek across the US, I don't see why it couldn't happen in 20 years. 20 years is a long time. |
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I never said to anyone to close their daycares. I'm just talking about what my daughter has experienced. I think it's stupid to encourage newcomers, young people, to think this is a life long profession. Maybe it was if you started already. It's not if you're starting in 2014. Just as there is a thread on THE FRONT PAGE about not depending on daycare income. I'm the troll lady making this all up. Ok, bye everyone. Live in lalaland that never changes ever. |
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