Daycare closures- still charging?

[Anonymous]

We just had our first daycare closure due to COVID. Classroom is closed for 10 work days. If/when this happened to you, did daycare still charge you for days they were closed? It works out to almost $500 so it's not nothing. but i understand they still have to pay employees. Just wondering how this works.

[Anonymous]

Yes, our daycare still charges. They have to or they would lose their building and employees!

[Anonymous]

Yes, they have to pay teachers and keep charging. Not much to be done about it but it sure is not fun to be the parent in this situation as you have to find alternative child care. I am also on the last day of a 10 day closure and am about to lose it because of how much efficiency this cost me at work.

[Anonymous]

Yes, of course the daycare keeps charging you.

[Anonymous]

Yes, of course. It's either keep charging or have to shut down permanently.

[Anonymous]

Yes they charge so they can pay their bills.

[Anonymous]

Of course you still have to pay!!

[Anonymous]

Yes. And I am sure it’s in your contract.

[Anonymous]

Some daycares will waive part of the fee for COVID closures. But don’t count on it.

[Anonymous]

To the snarky PPs, three things can be true:

1. Yes, we have to keep paying so that the center continues to exist and the workers get paid during the closure;
2. Yes, you have to pay b/c you signed a contract;
3. Yes, it really stinks for us parents when this happens and that we are paying for a service we're not receiving and it throws a wrench into our professional lives

[Anonymous]

Yes, obviously, you still have to pay.

Posters are snarky about the mere question because the daycare workers are earning so little as it is and this is not their choice. They aren’t taking time off to fly to Hawaii. And daycare providers/owners have to pay rent/mortgage and insurance on their space regardless of being open or forced to shut.

[Anonymous]

When the entire daycare shutdown in 2020, we did not have to pay during the closure. When the classroom shutdown for an exposure in 2022, we did have to pay, but our school only closes classrooms for 1 week, and children who test negative during that time are welcome to return.

[Anonymous]

The solution is to end the ridiculous 14 day quarantine for children under 5. There have been numerous instances in our daycare (masked 2-5 year olds) where a child went home with covid-symptoms and waited for a PCR test for 5-7 days while the rest of the class continued and the PCR came back positive and the class started quarantining on day 5-7. Do you know how many times someone got covid? Zero. I would be very surprised if there was any "science" that said 14 day resulted in fewer infections that 10 day or 5 day or test to stay. Two years into this our politicians continue to make fear based decisions about young children.

[Anonymous]

My daycare still charges us for closures but they’re only one day at the moment provided all the healthy children have a negative Covid test (rapid or pcr) before returning to care.

[Anonymous]

What does your contract say?