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Where to start without scaring you…I worked in a private preschool for several years, so I will do my best to shine some light on this. What I have to say is based on my own personal experiences, and may not reflect the happenings at all schools.While many preschools and daycares operate in similar manners, keep in mind that each school and its practices are slightly different depending on the owners and management, so let's start with an industry wide issue: teacher turn over. Parents with children in daycare will often acknowledge, the teachers come and go so quickly. In the early childhood education field, it is not uncommon for a teacher or assistant teacher to spend as little as a fewweeks at one school before moving to the next. For your growing child, this can cause emotional confusion and frustration as they aren't forming a secure bond with a consistent care taker at school. Directors at these schools often don't want this problem to be known, so they ask employees to not tell parents that they have found another job, instead many schools will give no notice to parents or students of a teacher change. This common problem can typically be traced down to a couple causes: inadequate pay among early childhood educators and ill-managed facilities. Many preschools and daycares, while charging you top dollar, are paying their teachers less than gas station employees. We do not teach and nurture kids for the money, but everyone likes being able to afford dinner and pay bills, right?Ill-managed facilities deserve their own little explaination. Aside from, to some extent, causing or adding to the problem of teacher turn-over, ill-managed facilities are part of what upset me more than anything as a teacher. Private preschools and daycares pledge to provide to best love and care for your children in your absence. As teachers, it brings us joy to see the children in our class grow and flourish in to wonderful bright individuals. When schools are not being run or managed according to state licensing(and sometimes common sense) standards, teachers struggle to create an environment where children are safe to learn, play, and grow. An alarming number of preschools and daycares are concerned not with the children, but with the revenue these children are creating. This means putting as many kids in to one classroom at once. The difference in managing a room of twelve three-year-old children versus managing a room of twenty five three-year-old children is unimaginable. When rooms are packed to max capacity, teachers do no have the time to care for children the way they want to and should be able to. This means more kids hitting each other or bullying that unfortunately goes unnoticed by the overwhelmed teachers. Health standards and food safety could also be considered an issue of poor management on the owner and directors behalf, and the issues here lay almost entirely in budget. Many owners will select the cheapest meals possible, often forgoing fruits and vegetables, while still advertising their school menu as healthy and delicious. Over my years in preschools, there were very few if any meals that I would have considered putting in to my own body. What hurt me most were the times that my kids were hungry, practically begging for more food, and I was told by the chef that there was no more food and the owner wouldn't order any. We had children sized leather couches, multiple iPads and televisions, and we couldn't afford more food? Other teachers struggled with this as well, and my fiancé actually called state childcare lisencing after one particular instance in which I was upset because my children were crying for food. Some preschools and daycares will very frequently find “creative” ways to make it look as though they are following all the rules put in place by the state, when they are in fact knowingly doing things against state laws or not in the best interest of the children. Schools blantaly ignored state standards, then scurry to look acceptable on the day that state lisencing comes to evaluate the school. All in all, greedy owners and directors have negatively affected the early childhood education field in many ways that inhibit teachers from doing what's in the childrens best interest.I feel as though I could continue forever on this topic, being so passionate about children and education. And there are many more issues facing preschools and daycare that would have taken too much time to delve in to. I have left out your very serious problems which exist such as schools using inappropriate physical discipline. If I could give you any advice in regards to preschools and enrolling your children, really pay attention to how the school seems to treat its teachers. If the classes have a low number of kids, teachers seem relaxed and content, and management seems sincere, you have a better chance of avoiding issues. I would say look for family owned schools, and this does not include “"family owned” businesses in which you never actually meet the family which owns it. Anything with more than one location can more easily be subjected to the issues I listed above. I'm hoping in the next several years the early childhood education field will be revamped as more people begin to recognize and work to change these problems.Hope this information is some of what you were looking for!

Can a school or daycare legally reject a child from enrolling due to the child not being potty trained?In the USA, for the most part, yes, with one major exception.If it’s a private pre-school (before the age where children are legally required to enter school) or a privately owned daycare center, no private provider is legally required to accept any child — they may have a limited capacity for enrollment, and not be able to devote the resources needed, for instance. A government-run provider which literally holds itself out as open to all comers who meet the age requirements and, say, parental status requirements (a care center for children of employees of a particular government agency, for instance) MAY have a duty to accept all appropriate-age children of eligible parents, or may run afoul of anti-discrimination laws. If they don’t have the resources or capacity presently, they may have to expand, if this is seen as an entitlement to all who meet the qualifications — just as the public schools have to do, for all regular school-age students.Once a child reaches mandatory school age, again a private school is not required to accept any particular student, as long as they do not make a habit of refusing admittance for invidiously discriminatory reasons. An applicant’s physical or mental disability may be considered such an invidious reason. But that doesn’t necessarily answer the factual question of whether a given student’s lack of “potty training” is due to a physical or mental disability, or just due to lax / undisciplined parents.If a child of school age is unable to use a toilet on their own, though, or requires a diaper, in almost all cases I would guess (but not presume — it still depends on the actual facts) that this condition amounts to a physical or mental disability which should not be the basis for denying that child an appropriate educational experience, just as it should not for any other handicap or disability.What a public school would have to do, therefore, is provide the child with an evaluation, and, if qualified, issue an Individualized Educational Plan (IEP) for that child, and then provide the child with the services required per that IEP to allow the child to receive an appropriate education. If possible, the child should be mainstreamed into the general school population to the extent the child is able. If the services required are too time-consuming or disruptive to general education, the IEP program for that child may call for a separate special-education placement.Even the most profoundly disabled children are entitled to a free public education in the USA. School systems know this, and (should) have the institutions, staff, and mechanisms in place to provide this for any child.Hope this helps answer OP’s question. Thanks for the A2A.

That really depends on the specific company and their policies. Some employers will consider you not to be a full-time employee if you use up all your PTO and take unpaid time off. This can result in their dropping you from their health insurance plan or any other benefits that they offer only to full-time employees.It almost happened to me when my son was a baby. Sometimes he couldn't go to daycare because he was sick, and my husband and I didn't have anyone else to take care of him. So I ended up using all my PTO time and some unpaid days off as well. All that happened was that I got a low score on the attendance section of my performance evaluation that year. But they could have dropped our insurance coverage.