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

[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.