to think the childminder should not be making arrangements with the school over my head?

[kawliga]

Here's the situation which is making me feel really angry: the childminder picks up a few children from different schools nearby. She has to park the car, walk to the school gate (not easy to park directly outside but sometimes she does this which is just wrong in itself) pick up DD, then do the same at some nearby schools. She doesn't really need to be doing it in a car but heyho. Anyway she waited for DD's teacher after school and told the teacher that she has to pick DD about 15 minutes or 20 minutes early from school (before the end of school) to give her time to get to the next school gate in time for the next DC to come out there. I am livid. There are so many things wrong with this situation I don't even know where to begin. I have never told the childminder not to approach DD's teacher to make arrangements about DD because I honestly never thought any childminder would consider this a reasonable thing to do. Surely that's always the role of the parent? AIBU? Obviously the teacher did not say she could do that (not even sure the teacher is authorised to do that, but I'm not sure since I would never try to pick up a child early just for my convenience who does that?? Is that acceptable in any way?

I ran a childminding setting and i obviously only took on school runs/nursery runs I could cope with safely so children were dropped off/ picked up in time with no rushing.

it cms be hard to say no to parents and some have no idea just how organised you need to be with a group of children BUT that's the job. safety comes first of course.

totally unacceptable and as a TA now I can assure you she is very wrong and EVERY minute of the school day is important.

I would also worry that she was rushing from school to school which might compromise children's safety and well being.

get rid. she's either a cynical money grabber or disorganised.

both are unacceptable and unprofessional.

yanbu, it should have been pretty obvious to her that she wasn't going to be able to pick them all up at the right times, so she shouldn't have agreed to collect children from another school if it didn't fit in with the arrangements for the kids she was already minding.

she didnt tell you about it because of course nobody would be happy with their child being picked up 20 mins early every day. I'm sure the school would take a very dim view of a child leaving early every day unless there were really exceptional circumstances.

Moldingsunbeams - I would be very surprised indeed if any school allowed a child to be taken out early every day by their parent (or with the parents' permission), and I cannot believe a school would allow a child to be taken out early every day just on the childminder's say-so!

no school would. attendance stats are very important now.