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To be or not to be...
An over achiever?
Here's my dilemma: I work at the before/after school program at a day care. There is a day care center with infants, toddlers, and preschoolers, and then off-site locations at elementary school for school age kids (the latter is where I work). The program coordinator is in charge of all of it, but she is stationed at the day care. Our accreditation review is coming up and we are trying to decide how much our site should shoot for.
Accreditation goes from 1 to 4 stars. Both the day care and our elementary school that I work at have a two star endorsement. More stars means more money for the program, more activities for the kids, a bonus for my boss (unfortunately, I don't get any type of salary boost), more respect from the community, and thus higher enrollment. It's really better for everybody.
My school could have three stars so easy, it's ridiculous. Unfortunately, the day care center has been working their tails off just for two stars. This is because there are only two of us at the elementary school so it's easy for us to work together to do what we need to do. The day care has about 15 teachers, so it's much harder for my boss to get everyone to rally together to do everything when there's no monetary incentive for the staff.
Anyway, my boss has made it more clear than she thinks that she doesn't want our site to get three stars before her day care center does, purely out of self-pride. In fact, we could have gotten three stars last year and she told the reviewer, "No thanks, maybe another time." Really?! I disagree with this on so many levels. I can't believe she would let her pride get in the way of the kids. We already practice at three-star quality, really all we would need is to ask the reviewer to review us for three stars instead of two. The head teacher and I are thinking of shooting for three stars anyway, even though our boss doesn't want us too. What do you ladies think?
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