Notifying private school of withdrawal 4 days after deadline
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Anonymous
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DD has been in private school for the last 3 years. The experience has been very good but she decided to try public school once again. We notified the private school four days after the deadline that was on May 31. The school states that we need to pay tuition for the full year as mentioned in the re-enrollment contract. We could contract insurance that will cover 60% of the cost but then our daughter will need to attend 2 weeks to the private school and, because the public school starts earlier, she will miss 3 weeks of public school. Hence, she will have a tough start in a new environment.
What are our options? Any advice? Should we hire a lawyer? Recommendations on how to search for one? |
Anonymous
| You need to follow your contract you agreed to. |
Anonymous
| Just attend private for another year. You will be paying for it either way. |
Anonymous
| You stay at private. |
Anonymous
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What did you expect? You signed the contract.
One option with the insurance would be for your kid to attend the first week of the public school, then two weeks of of the private, then back to public, so at least she’d get the orientation sort of stuff that happens in the first few days. But that’s a lot of hassle and stress for your kid. You decided too late. Stay in the private school another year since you owe the money anyway or suck it up and pay while the kid goes to public, but you signed a contract and knew the date. This wasn’t an unexpected job change or major life situation, this was your family unwilling to make a decision four days sooner. |
Anonymous
| Rules are rules. Suck it up. |
Anonymous
| Your options are to attend private for another year or attend public while paying for private. You signed a contract. |
Anonymous
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Why would you throw money at a lawyer when you have a contract? That would just be losing more money.
A classmate of my dd changed to public when her family ended up moving to a good district over the summer. She attended the first week of public, said she was sick for 2 weeks and attended the private and then went back to public. |
Anonymous
| Our friend moved and still couldn’t get out of their contract. They moved from dc to the suburbs. I think you are on the hook for tuition. |
Anonymous
+1 on not bothering to get a lawyer. There is no point. You signed a valid contract. Public schools are a lot more fussy about absences than private. Two weeks is a long time to be absent and I can't see how you could be out that long without a doctor's note. I think you would just need to wait until the two weeks was up to enroll. That said, if it were me I would just tell my kid that you missed the deadline, she was going to private next year, and be done with it. If your child was miserable I would have a different answer, but there's no way I could spend that amount of money for nothing. She can go to public next year. |
Anonymous
Why would you hire a lawyer? To tell you how contracts work?? |
Anonymous
| You missed the deadline. The school will hold you to the payments whether the child attends or not. |
Anonymous
| I guess you tell your daughter it's not happening this year. Do it next year and plan accordingly so deadlines aren't missed. |
Anonymous
| Stay private - unfortunately you messed up |
Anonymous
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I'm sorry, OP. I think the others are right. You missed the deadline and I can't imagine what a lawyer could do for you except cost you more money. This is a good lesson to teach your daughter that deadlines matter. If she's had a very good experience it won't be a big deal to stay at the current school for another year.
Regarding tuition insurance covering 60%, is "changing one's mind" really one of the covered reasons in your policy? It certainly is not a covered reason in mine. Check this first. |