[HPFGU-OTChatter] Digest Number 615

[Kendra Grant-Bingham]

>~~~~~--- In HPFGU-OTChatter at y..., "mecki987" <meckelburg at f...> wrote:
> > Is this enough?No? Well, to top it all- I just got news from the
> > kindergarten Marten was supposed to go to- and they don't take him,
> > because I'm a full-time mother and they're too full to "take a
> > little boy, just because his Mummy wants time for herself"!~~~~~



Are we talking about a state paid kindergarten or a parent paid one here? I 
can totally see a state paid school turning down new students if they were 
too full (although their choice of wording sucked *S*) Even a parent paid 
school has quotas.....there has to be a certain number of teachers per 
certain number of children. In Florida, (I work in a private pay 
pre-school) with infants the quota is 1 teacher per 4 children (1/4), for 1 
year olds, it's 1/6, 2 year olds are 1/11, 3 and 4 year olds are 1/15, and 
5 years and up is 1/25. Personally, my students range in age from 4 to 11. 
In actuality I am supposed to go by the 4 year old quota but I have 20 
students. How the school gets away with this I don't know. *S* Many of our 
students are from homes where the mom is a stay-at-home mommy. I raised 4 
of my own and I totally understand needing time to yourself. I was a 
stay-at-home mommy for 8 years and loved it, but the only break I had was 
when my mom or sister took my kids for a few hours. My hubby (now EX hubby 
*S*) wouldn't hear of actually PAYING someone to watch the kids when they 
had a perfectly good mother right there!!! This man was very hard working 
but had very few other positive attributes. NO help of any kind. I was the 
mother, it was my JOB! Thank goodness I got out of that mess after the kids 
were grown.

Good luck finding someplace to take care of the children. You might check 
into a good pre-school. How old is Marten?


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Kendra Grant-Bingham
~~~~~Phoenix Moonshadow Wych~~~~~
"Gryffindor House ...where Friendship and Bravery count."