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None of these are sucky, just most of these are pure 
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That's nice I guess?
I sneaked a glance at a new kindergarteners enrolment form today. Under health needs, the parents had written "no cows milk-I will provide rice milk." While that was a nice thought, we already have a milk alternative on hand (rice milk) and I do have to wonder why the parent didn't think of asking us first if we wanted them to provide it.
(We only ask parents to provide food if their kid is severely anaphylactic to several foods or their kid has a heavily restricted diet. Catering for nuts, dairy etc. is OK)
Please read the form
At the top of our form, it has two boxes: "School Start Date" and "Care start date." The latter is the date your kid FIRST COMES TO OUR PROGRAM. We had to (thankfully) wipe off about 4-5 kids today from the list because parents had put down their child's start date as coinciding with the kindy starting date, or they had put down the school's start date when the kid wasn't starting for another week and a half.
Please read the form Part II
This one's a case of "Read the fine print." On our form, we have a bunch of general agreements that parents sign off to. They can cross these out if they don't consent to one of them for one reason or another. (I believe the general agreement covers photography, local field trips, OK to put sunscreen on and the OK to watch PG* movies, among others. For GOM** children, the photography one MUST be taken off for legal reasons.) This particular parent had sent her child to another holiday care program (one that was geared more to kids his age) and while she was happier with this one than the other one she'd sent him to, she had issues with the fact that he was watching a PG movie of all things. (The movie was Harry Potter 1 and the kid is 6. We can't put anything on past #3 at best for legal reasons) If you have objections with your child watching a PG movie, then MAKE THOSE OBJECTIONS CLEAR ON THE FORM!!! (for the record, we do not force the children to watch the film. They are perfectly OK with kids doing other activities during that time, so he was not obligated to watch it. From the sounds of it, she didn't want him to watch it, but he wanted to so he wasn't left out
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Your child is in a different location.
So the kids have a morning routine: they come in, hang their bag up on their hook or shove it into their cubby, take their "fruit" bag out and drop it into a tub, take anything else out and put it away if needed and then say goodbye to mum/dad/uncle/aunt/grandparent/dog/furry thing.
We've just moved classes, so the kids have new locations with which to put their bags. THe routine itself hasn't changed, just the location of their bags and other equipment.
My boss and I are keeping a running count of the number of kids and parents who forget this in the morning. So far it's at 5. We're aiming for 10 once the new kindies have finished their transition
WTF parent?
I'm going to keep this one short: while we may be curious behind the reasons behind your child's diet, your child's after-school care program is NOT the place to start touting the benefits of said diet or pushing for us to remove particlar items from the program so your child isn't "left out." -.- In a similar vein, do NOT go off at us because your child is unvaccinated and therefore supposedly "superior". (the only item we're subject to a flat ban on at the moment is nuts. While the nut allergies at the school go all over the place, we treat all children with nut allergies as being allergic to all nuts and also possibly anaphylactic, even if they're not.)
Do I LOOK like a coordinator?
I must clearly be dressed as a coordinator or something, as several times in the last 2 weeks I've had parents come up to ME to ask for something. While most of the queries I can handle (the ones I can't I pass off to bosslady, the ones I SHOULD pass off to her I do as well), it's the fact that the parents are coming to ME as opposed to my boss is kinda funny.
It got even funnier when one parent assumed I was school staff and kept asking me about the child's routine. (We're not school staff, we're hired by an outside company)
A final thought...
If a school gets an outside agency to provide their after-school care services and THAT agency then has to turn to another agency for extra staff members, does that make it staffing-ception?
*-Parental Guidance. Basically, "the content is slightly more questionable, but it's still OK as long as you know what's in it." PG-13 doe not exist in aussieland.
**-Guardianship of the Minister. I can't really say "Foster kid" as not all GOM children are fostered (some are put in care houses with rotating carers) and not all foster children are under the GOM. They're subject to a few restrictions, such as no photographs and they need an IEP (even if the kid does not have any issues from the abuse/neglect that got them removed from their parents in the first place). In our case, we also MUST have photo ID of anyone who picks the kid up (even if it's a regular carer) and if the case is particularly life-threatening (ie kid was removed because parents were abusive/neglectful to the nth degree), we MUST have a court order in place that prevents the parents from getting anywhere near their kid. (otherwise it leaves parents open to accessing their children for visits which would violate a normal court order)
. That's nice I guess?
I sneaked a glance at a new kindergarteners enrolment form today. Under health needs, the parents had written "no cows milk-I will provide rice milk." While that was a nice thought, we already have a milk alternative on hand (rice milk) and I do have to wonder why the parent didn't think of asking us first if we wanted them to provide it.
(We only ask parents to provide food if their kid is severely anaphylactic to several foods or their kid has a heavily restricted diet. Catering for nuts, dairy etc. is OK)Please read the form
At the top of our form, it has two boxes: "School Start Date" and "Care start date." The latter is the date your kid FIRST COMES TO OUR PROGRAM. We had to (thankfully) wipe off about 4-5 kids today from the list because parents had put down their child's start date as coinciding with the kindy starting date, or they had put down the school's start date when the kid wasn't starting for another week and a half.
Please read the form Part II
This one's a case of "Read the fine print." On our form, we have a bunch of general agreements that parents sign off to. They can cross these out if they don't consent to one of them for one reason or another. (I believe the general agreement covers photography, local field trips, OK to put sunscreen on and the OK to watch PG* movies, among others. For GOM** children, the photography one MUST be taken off for legal reasons.) This particular parent had sent her child to another holiday care program (one that was geared more to kids his age) and while she was happier with this one than the other one she'd sent him to, she had issues with the fact that he was watching a PG movie of all things. (The movie was Harry Potter 1 and the kid is 6. We can't put anything on past #3 at best for legal reasons) If you have objections with your child watching a PG movie, then MAKE THOSE OBJECTIONS CLEAR ON THE FORM!!! (for the record, we do not force the children to watch the film. They are perfectly OK with kids doing other activities during that time, so he was not obligated to watch it. From the sounds of it, she didn't want him to watch it, but he wanted to so he wasn't left out
) Your child is in a different location.
So the kids have a morning routine: they come in, hang their bag up on their hook or shove it into their cubby, take their "fruit" bag out and drop it into a tub, take anything else out and put it away if needed and then say goodbye to mum/dad/uncle/aunt/grandparent/dog/furry thing.
We've just moved classes, so the kids have new locations with which to put their bags. THe routine itself hasn't changed, just the location of their bags and other equipment.
My boss and I are keeping a running count of the number of kids and parents who forget this in the morning. So far it's at 5. We're aiming for 10 once the new kindies have finished their transition
WTF parent?
I'm going to keep this one short: while we may be curious behind the reasons behind your child's diet, your child's after-school care program is NOT the place to start touting the benefits of said diet or pushing for us to remove particlar items from the program so your child isn't "left out." -.- In a similar vein, do NOT go off at us because your child is unvaccinated and therefore supposedly "superior". (the only item we're subject to a flat ban on at the moment is nuts. While the nut allergies at the school go all over the place, we treat all children with nut allergies as being allergic to all nuts and also possibly anaphylactic, even if they're not.)
Do I LOOK like a coordinator?
I must clearly be dressed as a coordinator or something, as several times in the last 2 weeks I've had parents come up to ME to ask for something. While most of the queries I can handle (the ones I can't I pass off to bosslady, the ones I SHOULD pass off to her I do as well), it's the fact that the parents are coming to ME as opposed to my boss is kinda funny.
It got even funnier when one parent assumed I was school staff and kept asking me about the child's routine. (We're not school staff, we're hired by an outside company)A final thought...
If a school gets an outside agency to provide their after-school care services and THAT agency then has to turn to another agency for extra staff members, does that make it staffing-ception?
*-Parental Guidance. Basically, "the content is slightly more questionable, but it's still OK as long as you know what's in it." PG-13 doe not exist in aussieland.
**-Guardianship of the Minister. I can't really say "Foster kid" as not all GOM children are fostered (some are put in care houses with rotating carers) and not all foster children are under the GOM. They're subject to a few restrictions, such as no photographs and they need an IEP (even if the kid does not have any issues from the abuse/neglect that got them removed from their parents in the first place). In our case, we also MUST have photo ID of anyone who picks the kid up (even if it's a regular carer) and if the case is particularly life-threatening (ie kid was removed because parents were abusive/neglectful to the nth degree), we MUST have a court order in place that prevents the parents from getting anywhere near their kid. (otherwise it leaves parents open to accessing their children for visits which would violate a normal court order)
Turns out she meant what we do if they get tired. (My proposal on that for the next 2-3 days is to do a storytime after fruit)
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