For Parents
Application FEE starting in 2020?
This is frankly disgusting.
APPLICATION FEE?!?!?!: WOW … talk about pouring salt in a wound!!! Exceptional SC needs to hire a PUBLIC RELATIONS firm to advise them … or maybe they already have … click HERE.
Anyhow … no other state we have EVER HEARD OF charges parents an application fee. We checked a few programs around the country and can’t find a single one charging an application fee. This is frankly disgusting.
The “application” technology company is a group called TADS. We have claimed for years now that these sort of monied special interests are the ones funding the “paid” advocates. We have heard tons of complaints about TADS … and seen even more complaints about TADS in other states. Particularly we heard TADS was a massive bust in Illinois when they rolled out the $75 million tax credit program there.
Palmetto Kids FIRST would have NEVER HIRED TADS in the first place … we NEVER charged an application fee … and we would NEVER charge an “application fee” to parents. For those of you who have been with us since 2014 … can you imagine what the opposition would have said if we had tried to charge parents a fee??? But now … it’s fine??? HECK NO … JUST SAY NO!!!
The application process is easy … but they “need” a TADS to collect all YOUR DATA … and YOUR CHILD’S DATA!!! “Data” and lining their pockets is what this “application fee” is all about. Sad …
