Email announcing April closure ask for full April tuition

[Anonymous]

This just rubs me the wrong way so much. We're at a community nursery school that sees itself as some kind of local treasure (it's been around for a long time; low turnover; hard to get it in). It is not cheap and it's in a UMC area. How can they ask for full payment when there's no service?? You contract for the academic year when you go here. I'm tempted to burn all bridges and say we're not paying but then there's the camp issue if we go back (we're doing camp there also )and have prepaid that as well. So much money down the drain.

[Anonymous]

So don’t pay. They’ll fill your spot in a second.

[Anonymous]

It's not money down the drain. It's to pay the humans, the teachers who care for your children every day, so they can continue to pay their own rents, mortgage, buy food for their children. Have a heart. If you are still receiving a salary, please continue to support low wage workers who do not have the ability to work from home.

[Anonymous]

OP here. I know you can make that argument and you can make it about previous places we've been but not this place. No immigrants in sight; no young teachers. It's the ladies who lunch crowd looking for something to do.

[Anonymous]

I’m wondering if it’s the same school we go to as we just got an email tonight. I will absolutely pay tuition. It *is* a local treasure and while I have the means to support it I certainly will.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:It's not money down the drain. It's to pay the humans, the teachers who care for your children every day, so they can continue to pay their own rents, mortgage, buy food for their children. Have a heart. If you are still receiving a salary, please continue to support low wage workers who do not have the ability to work from home.

Definitely. If you're an upper middle class person, keep paying low wage workers.

But if you're a billionaire or corporate CEO, STOP paying low wage workers and threaten Congress that you need bailout money.

Just another way our system is rigged for the very wealthy.

[Anonymous]

Our preschool is issuing refunds for April. They have asked that if anyone wants to make a donation to teacher salaries, they can do so. I appreciate this approach and hope any families who can afford to make a donation do so.

[Anonymous]

Seems a little crass on their part. Waive the April fee.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Our preschool is issuing refunds for April. They have asked that if anyone wants to make a donation to teacher salaries, they can do so. I appreciate this approach and hope any families who can afford to make a donation do so.

THis approach would go down much better or even issuing a 25% cost reduction as a gesture to families--the school is not after all buying any food or supplies. I would even be okay with some promise not to pay full tuition for May/June because I want to be okay with it but there was zero recognition of the lost services.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Our preschool is issuing refunds for April. They have asked that if anyone wants to make a donation to teacher salaries, they can do so. I appreciate this approach and hope any families who can afford to make a donation do so.

I am at a different school that did something like what the OP describes and I was completely turned off. If they had said please donate to a fund to keep our teachers employed I would’ve reacted very differently. Instead of doing that they basically threatened people that did not pay for a service they are not receiving with a non-priority for enrollment when they reopen. Pretty gross.

[Anonymous]

Don't pay April and risk losing your spot in the fall.

The preschool has to pay its teachers.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:OP here. I know you can make that argument and you can make it about previous places we've been but not this place. No immigrants in sight; no young teachers. It's the ladies who lunch crowd looking for something to do.

This is the one you picked and yet you have such distain.

[Anonymous]

They’re doing it because no one has asked for a tuition reduction.

So call the other parents, and together ask for a reduction.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:OP here. I know you can make that argument and you can make it about previous places we've been but not this place. No immigrants in sight; no young teachers. It's the ladies who lunch crowd looking for something to do.

This is the one you picked and yet you have such distain.

And no, ladies who lunch don't want to be near a preschool. There are asses to wipe. It's people who need the work.

[Anonymous]

No. I get the “teachers need to be paid “ argument. But how about the owners foregoing their margin and asking for “sustainer fee” that would cover the teachers and other fixed costs, but would not include owners’ profit margin? I think all (most) parents are asking for is some sort of recognition and a gesture.