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Effective Parent Fee Policies
May 19, 2014
Education is for improving the lives of others and for leaving your community and world better than you found it.
-Marian Wright Edelman
-Marian Wright Edelman
The article, "State-of-the-Art Thinking on Parent Fee Policies," in The Art of Leadership: Managing Early Childhood Organizations, includes many suggestions for developing effective policies. For example:
* Don't set policies you won't enforce. It is easy to write tough policies to deal with all your problems. However, policies accomplish their purpose only if they are enforced by real people in real life. The cleverest late pick-up policy is worthless if you lack the commitment to enforce it, or if you only enforce it intermittently....
* No small print, no surprises. Parents won't be influenced by policies they aren't aware of. At intake, carefully review in person your key policies on withdrawals, absences, late pick-ups, and late payments so parents clearly know in advance what the rules are....
* Watch the tone. In writing policies it is natural to slip into a negative, legalistic tone. This often leads to policies that are far from family friendly....Don't lecture or moralize. Show respect for parents, assume their intentions are good, and their perspective into account....
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- Leadership
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- Getting Organized
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Displaying 1 Commentclevedon Kidz
Auckland, North island, New Zealand
Parent involvement is imperative in the life of children in early childhood how dare we suggest that they don't have a voice in their children's education. This is a very arrogant attitude and I am apalled that it even exsists.
Parents are children's first educators they are the ones that do the hard yards make major decisions about their children's futures more and more we see educators trying to take away parental rights and decisions this is not OK we have in my nation a law that allows teens to have abortions without parental permission or knowledge and they only have to tell their teacher how bad is that teachers have no right to take away parental power and decision making and the authority that rightly belongs to parents.
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