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: 2/24/2006 7:26:00 AM Author: Karen Subject: i agree large corporate childcare is in the buisness of making money. period. they are selling their services to anxious parents who are hoping that the glossy brochures reflect the kind of care their child will consistantly receive. In my 20 years of experience, it is a misrespresentation of the facts! I agree that the district managers are in an office all day, out of touch with reality of the daily functioning. However, what people fail to understand is that all that these companies really care about is the bottom line-the profit. If a center is full of kids, the care they receive is not an issue to corportae management. the fact is, the center is making money. the director is given the green light to keep cutting corners, to do whatever it takes to make a profit. it is a business and the the families think it is a school. teachers too often think it is a school until they finally accept that they too have been fooled by the brochires and the talk, the jargon, the typical "we care about children" blah blah blah rhetoric, that clashes with the reality of understaffed classrooms with untrained teachers and incompetent management and totally ditzy directors! Kindescare is an example, part of a corportation that owns many other big name centers, it is all about proift, and nothing lese matters, even tho they fly the flag of "we care", etc., they DO NOT care about anything but profit and protection from liability. as do all others. parents are in the dark staff realize it somewhere down the road and become so disillusioned that they quit. hence, extemely high turnover, inadequate bodning for children, low quality service to parents a cycle that will never end Name: Email: Subject

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