Just wanted to vent. The substitute at the daycare/preschool I teach at knows that I would be running the daycare I'm at now if the owner decides to give it up (she thinks just a few more months, and then wants to hand it over to me). We do a preschool program, accepting preschool age only. Well, now the sub tells the owner that she has decided, and started the process, to open her own daycare/preschool (where she would only accept preschool age also). Her location would be in the same little tiny town. We don't even have a grocery store we're so small. We have trouble staying full since there just aren't that many children in this area (licensed for 12, only have 8 children enrolled and most only come 2 or 3 days a week). Thing is, her preschool would be on the town's main highway (where everyone would see her sign and go past her place everyday).
She has early childhood education degree, I just have CDA. Anyway, I'm pretty upset with her telling the owner to tell me that "there's no competition". Oh...right...! She'd be taking all the preschool age children we have such a hard time finding (everyone wants infant/toddler care and this sub is really good with them and I'm much better suited to preschool. But she decides to do just preschool like us, instead of taking the age group she could actually get a lot of kids from). So knowing that I would be taking over the preschool she subs at (she is a horrible sub, btw. Doesn't like to stand up and do anything, lets the kids go wild, leaves me to care for ALL but one child while she has one-on-one time the whole time she's there with one child at a time), she decides to get a head start on me and open the exact same type of program we have now. Although at one time she told the owner she should take in some infants and toddlers and hire her full time to care just for them (which shows she enjoys that age), but instead decides to open a preschool like us (when told we couldn't do infants). It wouldn't be any big deal in a bigger town, but when it's so tiny, she already has tried to intimidate me (but acts just SO nice and sweet in front of the owner), and it's the exact same type program as us, I'm almost sure she knows we would be major competitors when she opens hers. I might as well let the owner shut this one down now and I open one in another town. It's the only way I'd be able to make it. So much for my dreams and plans. Have any of you ever had an assistant or substitute open a daycare really close to yours? Did it make it harder for you to stay full and fill openings?
She has early childhood education degree, I just have CDA. Anyway, I'm pretty upset with her telling the owner to tell me that "there's no competition". Oh...right...! She'd be taking all the preschool age children we have such a hard time finding (everyone wants infant/toddler care and this sub is really good with them and I'm much better suited to preschool. But she decides to do just preschool like us, instead of taking the age group she could actually get a lot of kids from). So knowing that I would be taking over the preschool she subs at (she is a horrible sub, btw. Doesn't like to stand up and do anything, lets the kids go wild, leaves me to care for ALL but one child while she has one-on-one time the whole time she's there with one child at a time), she decides to get a head start on me and open the exact same type of program we have now. Although at one time she told the owner she should take in some infants and toddlers and hire her full time to care just for them (which shows she enjoys that age), but instead decides to open a preschool like us (when told we couldn't do infants). It wouldn't be any big deal in a bigger town, but when it's so tiny, she already has tried to intimidate me (but acts just SO nice and sweet in front of the owner), and it's the exact same type program as us, I'm almost sure she knows we would be major competitors when she opens hers. I might as well let the owner shut this one down now and I open one in another town. It's the only way I'd be able to make it. So much for my dreams and plans. Have any of you ever had an assistant or substitute open a daycare really close to yours? Did it make it harder for you to stay full and fill openings?
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