Will your daycare follow state closures?

[Anonymous]

Will your day care close if schools close? Specifically for home day care, if they close do you still pay them?

[Anonymous]

Mine follows DCPS. We have still paid when it’s closed for things like snow but I have no idea how an extended close will go.

[Anonymous]

I would still pay - I did during the shutdown when I wasn’t getting paid and had to take out loans. They need the money more than me and didn’t do anything wrong. It’s my job to pay my bills, not ask a poor hardworking legal immigrant woman to shoulder a burden she probably couldn’t.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I would still pay - I did during the shutdown when I wasn’t getting paid and had to take out loans. They need the money more than me and didn’t do anything wrong. It’s my job to pay my bills, not ask a poor hardworking legal immigrant woman to shoulder a burden she probably couldn’t.

Well there are plenty of legal immigrants who use child care themselves, who will not be able to afford paying their closed daycare when they are not getting paid.

[Anonymous]

I imagine if you don't pay, then you will need to seek care elsewhere when it is time to return to work.

[Anonymous]

Yes, you pay. You are paying for her to hold the spot for you so it's there when things reopen. Just like snow days, just like holidays.

[Anonymous]

Why is this even a question? Of course you pay. You should have emergency savings for this. Chances are a quarantine wouldn’t last longer than a month.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I imagine if you don't pay, then you will need to seek care elsewhere when it is time to return to work.

I have a kid starting K in the fall. If there was going to be an extended closure, I’d have to think about pulling her and piecing together coverage from there.

[Anonymous]

Ours follows the federal government. I’m not sure what they will do if they go to telework/liberal leave

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I would still pay - I did during the shutdown when I wasn’t getting paid and had to take out loans. They need the money more than me and didn’t do anything wrong. It’s my job to pay my bills, not ask a poor hardworking legal immigrant woman to shoulder a burden she probably couldn’t.

But it's ok if you don't pay the non-immigrant white women who work there?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I would still pay - I did during the shutdown when I wasn’t getting paid and had to take out loans. They need the money more than me and didn’t do anything wrong. It’s my job to pay my bills, not ask a poor hardworking legal immigrant woman to shoulder a burden she probably couldn’t.

But it's ok if you don't pay the non-immigrant white women who work there?

Depends if her DH has a job I suppose.