MD is looking into closed preschools charging tuition -- doesn't think it's right

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The schools that furloughed all their teachers and are still charging parents full tuition are criminal. I hope Hogan forces them to stop charging for a service they aren't providing.

+1000

[Anonymous]

That tweet says daycare, not preschools.
They aren’t the same thing necessarily.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:That tweet says daycare, not preschools.
They aren’t the same thing necessarily.

Somehow I don’t think they’ll differentiate because they’re not idiots, like the people on this forum.

[Anonymous]

I think it’s going to get complicated with the state meddling in business contracts. I think the way they enforce this will strictly be based on how the contracts to your individual preschools and daycare‘s are written.

[Anonymous]

Our center is cancelling any requirement to give advance notice to leave, so staying and paying tuition while the center is closed is completely voluntary. Nobody who can't stay enrolled is being charged tuition for April. People who are still paying are doing to contribute towards teacher salaries, etc.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The people who are still paying preschool tuition are doing so to reserve their spots for next year.

Uh not me. I’ve now paid for 6 weeks of preschool that I can’t use. And we were already scheduled to leave at the end of May. I have not been given an option to stop paying.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Oh boo hoo. I'm a parent at a for-profit center and this is very simple. Parents get together, collect money (we're using paypal) and distribute it to teachers. Not sure what the problem is here.

How is a Paypal collection covering the employer's part of the teacher's health insurance premiums, their social security and medicare contributions, etc?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:That tweet says daycare, not preschools.
They aren’t the same thing necessarily.

Somehow I don’t think they’ll differentiate because they’re not idiots, like the people on this forum.

I am familiar with the general debates here about whether daycares and preschools differ. But, whatever differences there may be, why would the differences matter here?

If one were forbidden to charge tuition when closed, why wouldn’t the other? And if only one were, which would it be and why?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The schools that furloughed all their teachers and are still charging parents full tuition are criminal. I hope Hogan forces them to stop charging for a service they aren't providing.

+1000

Wait places stayed open and aren’t paying teachers!?!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:That tweet says daycare, not preschools.
They aren’t the same thing necessarily.

Somehow I don’t think they’ll differentiate because they’re not idiots, like the people on this forum.

I am familiar with the general debates here about whether daycares and preschools differ. But, whatever differences there may be, why would the differences matter here?

If one were forbidden to charge tuition when closed, why wouldn’t the other? And if only one were, which would it be and why?

It doesn’t matter. PP is just obsessed with this stupid notion that there’s a difference.

[Anonymous]

There is no such thing as online preschool. They are in a no win situation as they may not be able to afford to return and those families will lose care if people don't pay but I do think they should reduce tuition. They need to get the insurance, utilities and rent paid at a minimum.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:There is no such thing as online preschool. They are in a no win situation as they may not be able to afford to return and those families will lose care if people don't pay but I do think they should reduce tuition. They need to get the insurance, utilities and rent paid at a minimum.

Yep. If their BI insurance doesn’t cover this, they need to be applying for small business assistance.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Oh boo hoo. I'm a parent at a for-profit center and this is very simple. Parents get together, collect money (we're using paypal) and distribute it to teachers. Not sure what the problem is here.

How is a Paypal collection covering the employer's part of the teacher's health insurance premiums, their social security and medicare contributions, etc?

It's a donation of cash directly to the teachers who have been laid off and are collecting unemployment.

I'm not sure what you think the alternative is. If you think you can get even half of families to keep paying full tuition every month so you can keep paying all of these expenses, then you are living in a different world than the one I am living in.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:This is a bad situation all around. I expect many many daycares to close.

Then they should ask for donations. Not charge for a service they aren't providing and threaten to take people's spots away.

Not PP, but it is a bad situation for everyone. Not just for parents. It's not the daycares's fault that a pandemic happened and they were ordered to shut down. I'm sure they would prefer for everything to be normal so that they can provide that service. Two weeks isn't a lot of time to come up with a contingency plan for the next several months, so I think daycares are allowed a grace period to figure things out.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:This is a bad situation all around. I expect many many daycares to close.

Then they should ask for donations. Not charge for a service they aren't providing and threaten to take people's spots away.

Not PP, but it is a bad situation for everyone. Not just for parents. It's not the daycares's fault that a pandemic happened and they were ordered to shut down. I'm sure they would prefer for everything to be normal so that they can provide that service. Two weeks isn't a lot of time to come up with a contingency plan for the next several months, so I think daycares are allowed a grace period to figure things out.

It really doesn't matter what you think. Families can't or won't pay. Sure some will. But not enough to pay salaries. It's just math.