to be mad that our childminder took my dsd's out of school early today without asking?

[timmyinatizzy]

Ok so thats not the whole story but otherwise the title would be too long!

Basically her dd and my dsd's are in the same class at school. This afternoon was one of the days that their Year was doing their christmas play for parents. Normally the school say that you can take your child home afterwards if you have no other siblings to collect. So when I picked them up she said that she had picked them up early as she had seen the play and wanted to pick her dd up as she was there and didn't want to have to go back to the school. Thats fine I thought, then she said that she would be charging us for the extra time that she had them today? Am I right to be ? She never asked to do it and as I see it was a favour to her?

She did us a favour earlier in the week (Tuesday) by picking the dsd's up at very short notice as I was running late from an antenatal appointment, she ended up having them for 20 minutes after school. We mentioned no money to her, but dp and I had decided to pay her when payment is next due for her time as she was doing us a favour.

She's now told me that she has added todays time onto Tuesday time to make it up to an hour in total for the 2 days. An hour might not seem a lot but it is the assumption from her that it was ok that is annoying me. Of course I only think of things to say when I get home. Damn this pregnancy brain!!!

So AIBU?

No YANBU. I am a part time teacher and get paid by the lesson (obv with the understanding that marking and planning connected to that lesson included in salary). But I would never dream of asking to be paid extra for extra work I had chosen to do - how much of a cheek would that be! Can't believe she has the nerve tbh.

No your not, i often bring children home (with prior permission) after plays, sports days sort of thing, to save me going back, and wouldn't dream of charging, It is my choice to bring them at that time.

Cheeky moo! I've done it too. In fact the school was closed due to it being to hot for them to work once. (obviously not this year!) I got word of this from someone else and it was a case of if you can pick up at lunch time do, if not, we will keep them here. I collected all 4 mindees along with my dd and took them all home. I didn't ask for money that afternoon and it was a least 3 hours extra for all of them.