I am involved with this organization that pays for my childcare, so I can work. Yes, I am a single mom who homeschools, so I have to work and homeschool, so I can take care of my children. Well, in this organization I have someone who handles my case. This person submits my schedules or changes and makes sure my childcare provider is given her contract and schedule. Anyway, this person is called a Case Specialist. Well, I recently got a new Case Specialist. The one I had before used to always get my information in late or not at all. She wouldn't return my calls in a timely manner, and often she wasn't able to answer my questions and would have to talk to someone else. Then she would still give me the wrong info. She also wouldn't make eye contact with me when I met with her. I thought it was just her personality and that she was just a flake or maybe had family problems.Then I recently was talking to my provider and telling her I was so glad I had a new Case Specialist who seemed to be on top of things and that I didn't know what the other lady's problem was. Then my provider said, very matter of factly, "Oh she just didn't like you because you homeschool your kids." I was shocked and thought, "Why would my provider say such a thing? That's so mean!" I even asked her why she was saying that and she told me that one day when she called my Case Specialist to talk to her about a problem we were having with my provider's contract, my Case Specialist told my provider that she thought it was wrong for parent's to homeschool. I couldn't believe it! I was so angry that someone who is supposed to be serving me and my family was letting her personal opinions control her service to me. I began to think we need a law to protect us from discrimination. I don't know if we already have one, but if we don't we sure need one. It's not fair that I should have so much trouble with my childcare because some lady doesn't agree with my lifestyle.
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