Home Hot Topics Articles Directors' Choice Awards About Us / Contact Us Activities & Curriculum Activities for Outcome-Based Learning Arts & Crafts Music for Learning Recommended Reading Sharing Boards: What Do YOU Think? NEWSlink Current National News Conference Calendar Topics In Early Childhood Education Art and Creativity in Early Childhood Education Job Sharing Board State Licensing Requirements Stay Connected! Each month we'll send you an email filled with articles and ideas for your classroom. Subscribe Now Date: 10/17/2005 6:34:00 PM Author: lana Subject: My family owns a child care center and w... My family owns a child care center and we pay our employees as much or more than we make ourselves- and they aren't there putting in the after hours in the evening and on the weekend painting, shopping, cleaning, etc. I have no doubt that chains in larger cities are bringing in the bucks and are not trickling it down to employees, but I know there are some independent child care centers who are doing all they can to provide a great job for people, and we appreciate our employees. I think it's time for the gov. to step in and help us out. Not sure about other states, but here in TN we are so regulated by the state that we might as well be state employees with state benefits!! We recently had to stop keeping infants because people in this area can't pay enough for infant care, we couldn't even pay a teacher with what other local centers are charging. Then, if regulating us out of infant care wasn't bad enough, the state decides to use "excess" lottery proceeds to open, guess what, early childhood programs in the public school system. What an outrage! Be ticked at your boss if you want, and it's probably warranted, but here in TN- at a top rated 3 star center- I'm fuming at the government. Name: Email: Subject

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