Sadly this is why most of us just choose NOT TO OFFER this service ... why would we want to take a 'cut in pay' for the privilege of serving them when we could just accept a full time child into care with less 'hassle'?

Honestly unless you have to walk back and forth to a school for your OWN children anyway and you want a play mate your kids age and so forth so that this is a PLUS for you the fact is that offering this service is a PITA from both a programming standpoint and a financial stand point ... you are rule by the clock of getting them to and from school in time so it messes up sleep times for younger children and you have to often 'wake' children in the afternoon to get there in time and than on top of that you have to go outside in nasty winter weather and push or pull your wee ones to drop off and pick up and so forth which is often no picnic cause people do not shovel their snow nicely and they are often icy and dangerous and than on top of all that you have school age ATTITUDE to contend with in that the kids often do not want to be a part of the program and do the Im bored, this sucks and other things that the younger ones than emulate!

Personally IF I were to EVER offer that kind of service I would not drop my fee at ALL cause a space is a space my program ... plus since I have no 'school age' kids myself for me I would rather have a younger kid here the full day and the freedom that entails than have to transport back and forth to school and be ruled by the 'clock' ... honestly I would want to charge EXTRA for that PITA experience