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Policies
Please carefully monitor your child’s state of health each day prior to coming to the Center. The center will be transparent with illness that are going around and we request our families to do the same.
Please do not send your child if he/she shows any sign of illness including a fever, upset stomach, severe cold or cough, vomiting and/or diarrhea.
Children must be fever and/or symptom free for 24 hours without medication in order to return to the center.
Children who contract a communicable disease are not admissible to the center without a doctor’s note.
Please note that if children well enough to come to our school, they are naturally well enough to participate in center activities.
Over the counter and/or prescription medication can only be given when MSDE form #1216 is completed by a licensed physician. Forms are available from the main office or in the download center. All medication will be administered by a Medication Admistration trained staff member and will be recorded in the child’s file.
No children are admissible prior to 6:30am and ALL children must be picked up by 6:30pm for the full day program.
Morning preschool students may not arrive before 9:30am and must be picked up promptly at 12:30pm. Afternoon preschool students may not arrive before 1:00pm and must be picked up promptly by 4:00pm. Kindergarten Enrichment students may not arrive before 9:30am and must be picked up promptly by 4:00pm.
There is a late fee of $1.00 per minute for each child past their dismissal time. This late fee is payable to the staff member present at time of late arrival. THERE ARE NO EXCEPTIONS TO THIS POLICY. Three late reports are grounds for dismissal. We are committed to your children, but all staff members have other responsibilities as well.
We utilize Tuition Express to process all payments. Full day tuition is a weekly tuition scheduled to be automatically debited on Monday morning.
Preschool tuition is a monthly tuition that will be automatically debited on the first business day of each month. The first month of the year your child attends, tuition will include June of the following year.
All accounts are required to have a tuition express account on file.
You are responsible for full tuition to be paid regardless of absenteeism due to the Center being closed, sickness, vacation, extended absence, or any other reason. If tuition is two or more weeks in the arrears it is ground for immediate dismissal from the center. If your child attends additional days or hours not included in your contract, additional tuition must be paid. If your child is not going to attend one of their scheduled days, you cannot switch days without additional being due.
It is understood by all parties that the amount of tuition may be adjusted from time to time (usually at the beginning of the school year).
It is the policy of Little People’s Place to assume each family will pay tuition according to their contract.
If funds are not available when the automatic debit takes place fees of $17.50 will be assessed to your account. If you delay a tuition payment to a different day you will incur a fee of $17.50 per payment.
We feel that children are best disciplined by giving them a challenging environment that keeps them happy and busy. In this environment it is the staff’s responsibility to guide, encourage, and support positive discipline practices to help children set limits, and maintain self-control. The teacher guides the children through the problem-solving process to focus on a solution rather than a punishment. We also guide children through reflection, teaching them to empathize with other children’s feelings and see results of their actions. We provide a child with alternate activity choices to help children learn to self-regulate their behaviors and actions. If a child needs assistance in the decision-making process, the teacher helps redirection.
Classroom rules and expectations are developed in each classroom with input from the teachers and children. They are then posted in the classroom for parents and children to utilize in daily classroom interactions.
Physical discipline is NEVER permitted.
A preventive Pro-social curriculum and an Anti-Bully Policy are integral parts of our disciplinary policy.
We assume the primary responsibility for discipline lies with the child’s parents and consequently would expect parents themselves to reprimand their own child when they are present during center activities.
Little People’s Place offers a year round program for children ages 14 months to 10.
Our full day program is closed for the following holidays: New Year’s Day, Good Friday, Memorial Day, Independence Day, Labor Day, Thanksgiving Day & Black Friday, and Christmas Day. If the holiday falls on a Saturday, Little People’s Place will be closed on Friday. If the holiday falls on a Sunday, Little People’s Place will be closed on Monday. Full tuition is due regardless of your child attendance.
Our full day program will close early on Christmas Eve and New Year’s Eve at the discretion of the director and owner.
In case of inclement weather or other emergency situations the full-day classes will operate at the discretion of the director. Closings and delays will be posted on our school wide communication app, website, and Facebook page.
Little People’s Place offers part day preschool and enrichment to children ages 3 to 5.
Preschool and enrichment closings coincide with the Carroll County Public School schedule. In the case of inclement weather, the schedule will be as follows: one-hour late morning preschool hours will be 10:30am to 12:30pm, afternoon preschool will be 1:00pm to 4:00pm, two hours late morning preschool hours will be 11:30am to 1:30pm. Afternoon preschool will be 2:00p.m. to 4:00pm. Enrichment will be 10:30am to 4:00pm for one-hour delay or 11:30am to 4:00pm for two-hour delay.
Weather announcements will be posted on our school wide communication app, website, and facebook page. Please check your class calendars for closings.
Children are not permitted to wear Pull-ups, as they are not conducive to toilet training and are not suitable for daycare. Children will be required to wear undergarments (diaper or underwear) under their clothing. Children are strongly encouraged to be potty trained by the age of 3.
Potty training should be a positive experience for your child. It should only take a short period of time with encouragement and positive reinforcement from the child’s teachers and parents. We work on a rewards system so please let your child’s teacher know their favorite treat.
Children must show signs of readiness, by being able to communicated their needs, pulling their clothes on and off, and getting on and off the toilet independently.
Have your child wear loose fitting clothing such as elastic waist pants (sweat pants/leggings). Children will wear regular underwear and no pull-ups. Please bring at least five pairs of extra clothes including socks and shoes every day.
You must begin potty training your child at home in underwear the weekend before we begin training at school.
If your child has a bowel movement accident, their underwear will be put in a plastic bag so you can make the choice to dispose of them or not.
We do not have the facilities to wash soiled clothing. Soiled clothing must be removed from the classroom the same day an accident occurs. If not, they will be disposed of properly.
In addition to tuition:
There is a one time $100.00 registration fee at time of registration for full day program. If care is discontinued at any time, there is a re-registration fee of $70.00.
There is a $50.00 registration fee for the part day preschool and enrichment and a re-registration fee of $35.00 due each fall for the following school year.
At the beginning of the school year there is a $10-$15 materials fee due.
All fees are non-refundable.
Additional policies are available in our Parent Handbook.