We have in our rules that any student whose ride is more than 10 min. late will be charged a $1 per min. I don't know if we have charged that except in extreme cases or cases that were reoccuring and after hours.

I had an admin. assist. that worked most Saturdays and I was off. I worked one Saturday with her to get some work done and noticed one of our more challenging 7 yr olds had been in the waiting room after her class for about 30 min. My admin. assist. proceeds to mention that the last few weeks the mother had not picked her up for up to 2 hrs. after her class ended!!

I went to talk to the girl and she tells me her mom leaves her here so that she can have a break from her and her bad behavior! When the mom showed up 1 and 1/2 hrs. later I really laid into her... told her we were not a babysitter and that this was the most irresposible thing I had ever heard a mother doing. I told her she was lucky I wasn't calling CPS on her and that she would be charged $120 for the last three weeks she had done this if she was EVER a second late or neglectful again...

No wonder the kid has issues!!