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Staying within ratio when families arrive early or pick up late
A simple arrival window, a shared calendar, and a rule for what happens at minute one.
Ratio problems rarely happen mid-morning. They happen at 7:05 when two families show up ten minutes early and your assistant isn’t in yet.
Set an arrival window, not an arrival time
Publish a fifteen-minute window and treat the start of it as the earliest a child can be signed in. Put it in the enrollment agreement and on the calendar families already look at.
Ask families to log late pickups ahead of time
When a parent can mark a late pickup in the app the night before, you can plan staffing instead of discovering the problem at 5:31.
Do this in My Childcare App
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