Policies
Items Needed for Class
A water bottle, filled prior to arrival.
Pull-ups, wipes, change of clothes for children still potty training.
Please make sure all items are marked with the child’s name.
Student Illness and Absences
Please call the center and report if your child will not be attending due to illness. Do not send your child if he or she has had a persistent cough, fever, diarrhea, or vomiting in the previous 24 hours.
If your child will be absent for other reasons, please call to report the times he or she will be gone at 630-466-8668.
Payment is still required when children miss a scheduled class.#002469
If your child becomes ill during class or needs to go home, a parent will be called to come and pick them up. If the parent is not available, the next person on the contact list will be called until someone is available to come.
Closure Due to Teacher Illness or Absence
Parents will be notified as soon as possible if teacher will be unable to teach a class due to illness or other absence. She will notify parents by one or more of the following: email, phone call, or Facebook to allow parents to make other arrangement for their child that day.
In the event of the assistant illness or absence, if possible, a substitute assistant and/ or volunteer parent will be called upon to step in to keep the class numbers in compliance.
Policy for Days Off Fees
Our school closure policy states that families will still be responsible for tuition payment on holiday closures for the school year. Families will be credited for days the school is closed for personal matters. These days will be reflected on the Session Calendar each family receives at the beginning of each session.
Emergency closures due to weather or teacher illness are charged normally. These days are not planned and as we are a prepay service, the week should already be paid for in advance.
**If a family’s schedule allows and if there is room in other sessions during the week, the parent may ask to reschedule a day free of charge to make up for the emergency closure day.
Guidance & Discipline
All involvement with children will be carried out in a positive, patient manner. Redirection will be utilized to correct behaviors that are not acceptable. There will be no time that aggressive talk or behaviors will be allowed. If a child is not behaving appropriately, these steps will be followed:
The child will be talked to and told what the expected behavior is.
If after being told how to correct the behavior it still continues, then the child will be redirected to a different age-appropriate activity.
Then, if a behavior would continue, the child would be asked to sit apart from the activity for a several minutes to allow time to redirect the behavior and have the situation explained.
If a child displays the following behaviors, parents/caregivers would be contacted to come and pick up their child.
The parents will be involved in the guidance and discipline process by meeting with the preschool director after class to discuss the behavior that needs correcting. If the behavior persists, then the parents and director will meet and come up with a behavior plan such as a reward system or charting/documenting the behavior over the course of an agreed amount of time.
The child will be involved in the guidance and discipline process by discussing the behavior with the director. After discussing and explaining why the behavior is unwanted or unsafe, the child will agree to the measures taken to improve the behavior. The child will become aware of consequences previously agreed upon with the parents, if the behavior were to persist.