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POLICY: BABYSITTING Policy #68
CREATION DATE: February 2018
REVISION DATE:

EFFECTIVE DATE: February 2018
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Jack and Jill Children’s Center (“the Center”) makes no babysitting recommendations, nor do
we recommend or refer any of our team member for babysitting.

Conflicts of interest do exist, actual or potential, when teachers babysit for families.
Employment as a sitter could have an adverse impact on the Center and its relationship with its
parents.

External obligations, financial interests, and activities of each team member must be managed
so that there is no interference with the team member's primary obligation and commitment to
the Center. The mere perception of conflict of interest can cause lasting injury to the reputation
of the team member and the Center, even when subsequent information shows those
perceptions to be unfounded.

Team member’s primary professional obligation is to the Center, and their primary commitment
of time and intellectual energies should be to the teaching and advising, research and other
creative activity, and service and/or outreach of the institution. A conflict of commitment arises
when a team member undertakes external commitments which substantially burden or interfere
with the team member's primary obligations and commitments to the Center.

Jack and Jill Children’s Center teachers owe their primary commitment as a teacher to the
Center, its students and parents. Entering into other employment relationships with the Center’s
parents creates at least the perception that the commitment of the teacher to that parent and
his/her child is somehow greater than that of the teacher to other parents or children. Further,
if there is a dispute or falling out between the parent and the teacher, there may be a perception
on the part of the parent that the teacher’s commitment to or treatment of their child while in the
Center is or will be adversely impacted. Either of these situations could interfere with the proper
operation of the Center and injure its reputation.

It is the recommendation of Jack and Jill Children’s Center that its teachers refrain from
babysitting for currently enrolled families. However, if a team member chooses to neglect this
recommendation, he/she is obligated to inform his/her supervisor.