A Parent Influencing My Other Parents

[CrazyEight]

That's really low of her! She's telling you that she loves your dc, but only enough to keep her kids in it until they are old enough for the wonderful Montessori school....and she has the gall to tell your other dcparents that?? I'd be pissed, and I think you've been very nice and very professional about the whole thing. If she insists on giving you a reference letter or something, take it to be nice, but I wouldn't use her as a reference at all. I think you're right, she wouldn't necessarily be selling your dc, she'd be half-praising your dc and half-promoting this other dc...I'd be polite, but start distancing myself from her. I can understand that the hours are good and the kids have been good, but if she comes back with her youngest, you'll have to deal with this all over again, her influencing other dc parents, and what if you lose someone else to her blathering? I don't know if I'd want to risk it.