One last daycare question?

[lesliepear]

Does your daycare enforce a late fee? If so how much is it?

I think the rules we got said 10.00 a minute. But if it is a horrible night out do they insist on it, or can they waive it?

Comments

[purple-roses.livejournal.com]

Hmm...my daycare is $5 for being late and then $1 per minute. So, if you are supposed to be there at 6p.m. and arrive at 6:01p.m., then it $6. She does, however, have a clause that if the weather is bad then that will be waived, but only at her discretion meaning she determines how bad is bad.

[ginky.livejournal.com]

Jack is considered picked up late at 12:11, so if I get there at 12:12 it's a $16 fee, which is the same cost if I'd left him til 5. Evie's considered late at 2:46, and if I send Jack to extended care he's considered late at 5:01, and anything after that is a $1/minute, which is the standard around here.

[scarlett75.livejournal.com]

That's actually a standard agreement in any good daycare. Think of it this way; a good daycare provider is also a good parent and wants to keep the parent/child bond strong. Soooo... they need to be assured that time taken away from their family is compensated AND they want to make sure that any child in their daycare can trust their parent to be on time. $10 a minute sounds about right. At Lexi and Jake's old preschool, it was $15 per minute after a five minute grace period. :( I think I was late ONCE and they waived the fee because it was TRULY an emergency (my mom got seriously sick at chemotherapy and they had to call 911, so I had to go meet her at the hospital).

[lesliepear.livejournal.com]

Sounds reasonable.

The more I think about it, the more I'd like to keep Alan's old sitter as a backup as she may be available after 3. Even if I had to pay her for an hour, I'd still be ahead and he'd be safe. I felt bad for the last little girl left there at daycare 6:10 last night. It was one child and 2 staffers at that point.

[fosterbass.livejournal.com]

Teddy's preschool ends at 3:15, at which time a teacher starts to read to the kids. If he isn't picked up by 3:20, he is considered "in the afterschool program" which costs $15 an hour, in half-hour increments. The afterschool program ends at 6:30. I don't know what would happen if he wasn't picked up by then.

[jpallan.livejournal.com]

Yes, my daycare enforces a late fee, but I think it's $5 for every 15 minutes [it's got a sliding scale, and therefore standard fees tend to be really low]. They really don't have much problem with late parents, though.

I definitely would recommend keeping your other sitter as a backup. What are you going to do when he's sick and you NEED a babysitter?

[lesliepear.livejournal.com]

My mother in law can sit - she lives 15 minutes away (she did it one day when Nadia had a funeral to go to). But she couldn't do it daily. I'm sure she could take him if he's mildly sick, or I'd have to take off.

I don't work for a family friendly company so we don't have emergency backup care or any nice benefits like that - or work from home :(