I give cash donations twice a year and I also buy stuff on their monthly wish lists...stickers, books, supplies.
I don't help with book fairs, clean ups, and fundraising nights...I should so I can interact with more parents!
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@autumnlove: how do monthly wish lists work?
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Hmm ours doesn't do any of that. Pay your monthly tuition and yearly supply fee and that's it.
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@mrbee: they post stuff like our classroom needs: Big stickers, new books, water toys, books in Spanish, volunteers for a picnic in the park, clothes for their emergency outfit stash, volunteers to build a new playhouse, etc.
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I am totally a cash donation parent! There are many opportunities to volunteer, such as school fair organization, field trips, but it's been hard to find the time. One of these days I will find the time go on the field trip though! Anyway I figure they need both $ and people's time so I do what I can.
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Can I ask a dumb question? Are the daycares that are asking for donations of time/money co-ops or non-profit orgs?
Because all of the daycares we toured were for-profit, commercial businesses. All of them were run by big companies... so I'm not sure why I'd donate anything?
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I don't use a daycare yet, but I already know the answer to this!
We would be more into donating and gifting than volunteering time. 1- I am not the most social person 2- I plan to be working full time if/when my kids are in daycare@sunny: I don't know the answer to you Q.....but just from working at a montessori, I know the parents gifted lots of things just because...for example: One lady had a son who was OBSESSED with water tables and he alway asked why the teacher why the playground didn't have one. So, his mom asked the teacher if she could bring one in for the Montessori and she did! The kid left when the time came for him to leave, and the water table stayed on the playground for all the kids to use forever.
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@sunny: This is my question too. The daycare I'm looking at is a for profit through the city that costs $1250/month for an infant and we have to provide all the food and diapers... so, I kind of feel like that would be about all I'm willing to provide. If the fees aren't enough for operating costs, then I think they need to reassess. It never really occurred to me that there'd be expectations of me to donate time or money.
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@TurtleDoves: I can see that bringing a special toy that my LO was interested in would make sense -- though I would wonder if it would create some sort of liablity issue for me or for the school...
I don't understand why they would ask for classroom supplies like stickers, paper, etc. At a public school, I totally get why those wishlists are around... I know that teachers sometimes buy those supplies with their own money! (Another thing I disagree with...)
Eta: just wanted to clarify that I wished that public schools were better funded by taxes so that teachers wouldn't have to spend their own money.
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Our day care doesn't do anything like this. Tuition covers everything they need.
@TurtleDoves: my LO was obsessed with the fisher price kick n play piano so we bought one for the Infant 1 room at her school (and it stayed there when she moved up to infant 2) but it wasn't anything the school expected. The room already had an activity mat. We just wanted her to have something familiar and told them to put her in there when she got really fussy.
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@sunny: yeah that'd be my thing too! But, this mom asked beforehand and got the OK.
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@sunny: ours was a non-prof.
I just donated money because I worked full time so I wasn't about to take time off to volunteer!
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Our doesn't do anything like this either. I am generous in buying the teachers treats. Last week I bought them all chick-fil-a gift cards.
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@sunny: our daycare mainly asks for donations for the annual school fair. They rent a train, bounce house, have games and prizes and raffle items which are all outside of what the tuition pays for.
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@sunny: Ours is a non profit.
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our daycare is a nonprofit but that doesn't mean it's any cheaper than a for profit daycare. they are small, so i donate a lot of our used toys, but never thought to donate cash beyond what we give for christmas/end of the year.
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Ours doesn't ask for any donation of time, supplies or money - except for when they have teams for charity runs, etc. then they send out an email in case parents want to donate to the charity team.
For teachers week, they asked if parents wanted to donate food for the teachers lunch or $$ for teacher gifts. I am totally fine with that (and giving $$ at Christmas) but I would be really turned off it they were asking for basic supplies, since we pay a lot of money for tuition. It would be like a private school asking for $ for basic supplies - no.
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Our is for-profit and they do still ask for donations, but mostly for household crap and not anything we'd have to buy... for example, egg cartons, toilet paper rolls, old socks, cardboard boxes, etc. My LO is really too young to use those supplies, but if I have the stuff, I'm happy to bring it in. They've never asked me to volunteer, but then again, they don't go on field trips or anything.
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