Friday 28 September 2018

Our daycare is asking us to pay extra because our child needs extra attention


Long time first time (although on a throwaway here),Something unexpected happened to us at daycare today and I would like to run it past the Reddit community.In short: our daycare of 3 months "asked" us to "help" them by employing or providing someone 3 hours a day to assist with daycare activities because our child is harder to deal with than others. They did use the words "kick out" in the conversation, but didn't directly threaten to do so.Granted, our child is gonna go through an autism assessment very soon and is likely to be diagnosed mildly / high functioning autistic. The symptoms that she shows are: doesn't always listen to instructions, needs to be shown physically what to do during group activities, doesn't always answer when called by name, doesn't communicate verbally very well, etc. She is a very nice kid, doesn't throw tantrums or anything like that, but she doesn't just follow like another kid her age might.This would basically mean doubling our day care costs, although we can afford it, especially since it would only be for a few months while the assessment / public funding kicks in, at which point we would likely get someone to help her directly every day.Now my question is, is this ... normal? Has anyone heard of that before? Is this even legal? What if we say no? What if we couldn't afford it? They would just kick us out? That would be horrible...Any guidance appreciated. via /r/Parenting https://ift.tt/2NKUiE7

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