Quote Originally Posted by Busy ECE mommy View Post
Do any of you who take teachers have provisions in the contract to limit the hours when long hours of care isn’t really needed for work?(ie a teacher who now wants to come during the summer, or PA days etc)
The scenario is a teacher client who comes 1 hour ahead of the rest of the clients, so essentially I’m opening for 1 family when the rest don’t show up for another 1-2hrs later. I get that during work days if there is a commute involved.
So what would you do if the parent now wants to attend during the summer and expects to come in super early again, when there is no reason for it?
I know some providers that limit teachers to a certain number of hours on non working days.
What would you do? This client is on a school year contract only, so I was looking forward to not having to open so early during the summer.
Any input is appreciated!
Thanks!!
When we look for clients and get interviews and do our screening, usually we agree with hours of operation (also signed in our contracts), it is basically our choise to take clients that need our services earlier (if I had signed a contract with a client to start earlier than the other families I usually follow through, because it was my choise and I made that decision). When I had teachers I had the choice of:

1. Work Sep to Jun (with an adjusted prorated monthly rate) and consciously know that during summer I won't have income (which I had to keep some contingency percentage of the monthly payment, that way I would have some savings for summer moths)
2. I have never expected for teacher parents to change their hours because during summer they have a break (unless there is a room to negotiate in my contract). I had teacher parents that during summer breaks, they would get part time jobs or needed their time to prepare for next year's curriculums etc. (Basically I was open the hours that my contract said).

3. I had teachers that once signed contracts for Sep to Jun terms they extended during summer months for full time, once they notice on how their children thrive in daycare they most likely decide to keep them in group care (and that I have seeing with both parents teachers and two kid's in childcare).

4. Disregards, of them being in their homes or not. My operation has an schedule so, my only reminder to them is to just let me know if they will arrive late or to join us where ever we are during our outings.

I guess due to demand it also depends, you can always negotiate or change it.