Daycare closures- still charging?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:OP here. I was just asking. So many rude and snarky replies. DCUM sucks.

Yes, DCUM does suck but realize you’re basically “just asking” if daycare teachers deserve to get paid during a forced shutdown. People are telling you to think outside your own self-centered concerns.

It’s not a “forced shutdown.” It’s a voluntary closure by the daycare provider. In all likelihood, the other children in the center do not meet exclusion criteria under state/location regulations, and probably don’t meet other criteria specified in the enrollment agreement for denying access to care. Strict adherence to the contract should mean you don’t pay during these closures.

But it doesn’t. You pay or lose your spot.

Right- because the providers are blatantly ignoring the enrollment agreements with parents. Which, as you implied, they can get away with because parents are afraid of losing the spots if they take the provider to small claims court.

[Anonymous]

Ours does not charge the families who can’t attend due to exposure in the classroom. It is a bright horizons. We get a prorated amount for the days the kids can’t attend that is credited to the following months payment.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote: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.

Of course they charge. They aren’t going to eat costs simultaneously for dozens or hundreds of families due to a pandemic they didn’t cause. Do you want them to remain open afterward?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote: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

Yes, pandemics are a bummer that way.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote: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.

Yawn. Don’t like the policies? Quit and stay home.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:OP here. I was just asking. So many rude and snarky replies. DCUM sucks.

Yes, DCUM does suck but realize you’re basically “just asking” if daycare teachers deserve to get paid during a forced shutdown. People are telling you to think outside your own self-centered concerns.

It’s not a “forced shutdown.” It’s a voluntary closure by the daycare provider. In all likelihood, the other children in the center do not meet exclusion criteria under state/location regulations, and probably don’t meet other criteria specified in the enrollment agreement for denying access to care. Strict adherence to the contract should mean you don’t pay during these closures.

But it doesn’t. You pay or lose your spot.

Right- because the providers are blatantly ignoring the enrollment agreements with parents. Which, as you implied, they can get away with because parents are afraid of losing the spots if they take the provider to small claims court.

Yeah, those damn daycare providers getting rich off soaking you!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:OP here. I was just asking. So many rude and snarky replies. DCUM sucks.

What answers did you expect? Seriously. You’re an adult.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:OP here. I was just asking. So many rude and snarky replies. DCUM sucks.

What answers did you expect? Seriously. You’re an adult.

I actually think most of the replies are from idiots. Sorry, OP. Our daycare does NOT charge for COVID closed classrooms when it was a staff member who brought COVID in. If it came from a kid, then they charge. It's not an obvious outcome so your question is valid.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:OP here. I was just asking. So many rude and snarky replies. DCUM sucks.

What answers did you expect? Seriously. You’re an adult.

I actually think most of the replies are from idiots. Sorry, OP. Our daycare does NOT charge for COVID closed classrooms when it was a staff member who brought COVID in. If it came from a kid, then they charge. It's not an obvious outcome so your question is valid.

How many times have they admitted it was a staff member who brought it in?

[Anonymous]

Yes still charge - just like when I paid for daycare for March - June 2020 so that I would have a daycare to return to if/when the pandemic ended.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:OP here. I was just asking. So many rude and snarky replies. DCUM sucks.

What answers did you expect? Seriously. You’re an adult.

I actually think most of the replies are from idiots. Sorry, OP. Our daycare does NOT charge for COVID closed classrooms when it was a staff member who brought COVID in. If it came from a kid, then they charge. It's not an obvious outcome so your question is valid.

How many times have they admitted it was a staff member who brought it in?

Three times out of six total.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:OP here. I was just asking. So many rude and snarky replies. DCUM sucks.

We’re not snarky - we’re just bitter and tired because many of us have older kids and have been through this a time or two - like Spring 2020 when many of us paid full price for months having NO clue if or when we’d have a daycare to return to. So the fact that you are asking this now when this is settled precedent for many of us is just showing that either you are a new parent new to daycare or you have had the immense privilege or luck not to have been quarantined yet.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:OP here. I was just asking. So many rude and snarky replies. DCUM sucks.

What answers did you expect? Seriously. You’re an adult.

I actually think most of the replies are from idiots. Sorry, OP. Our daycare does NOT charge for COVID closed classrooms when it was a staff member who brought COVID in. If it came from a kid, then they charge. It's not an obvious outcome so your question is valid.

How many times have they admitted it was a staff member who brought it in?

Three times out of six total.

We’re the teachers still paid in full when they didn’t charge you?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:OP here. I was just asking. So many rude and snarky replies. DCUM sucks.

What answers did you expect? Seriously. You’re an adult.

I actually think most of the replies are from idiots. Sorry, OP. Our daycare does NOT charge for COVID closed classrooms when it was a staff member who brought COVID in. If it came from a kid, then they charge. It's not an obvious outcome so your question is valid.

How many times have they admitted it was a staff member who brought it in?

Three times out of six total.

We’re the teachers still paid in full when they didn’t charge you?

Yes. The daycare absorbed it as a loss. I personally think it's bad business practice, but I'm not complaining

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:OP here. I was just asking. So many rude and snarky replies. DCUM sucks.

What answers did you expect? Seriously. You’re an adult.

I actually think most of the replies are from idiots. Sorry, OP. Our daycare does NOT charge for COVID closed classrooms when it was a staff member who brought COVID in. If it came from a kid, then they charge. It's not an obvious outcome so your question is valid.

How many times have they admitted it was a staff member who brought it in?

Three times out of six total.

Wow! How many teachers are in your daycare? Three covid cases is a lot!