12 month contract

[Anonymous]

My little one's school (from prek to 8th grade) states that every enrolled families in the fall need to sign a 12 month contract from September 2020- August 2021. This is new rule & new requirement. If the school is ever failed to open due to state mandatory closure or closed for 2 weeks (because anyone get infected with covid) or parents decide to withdraw or feel unsafe to send their kids to school, parents are liable to pay for the rest of the 12 months contract.

My little one is 4 year old, only child, has been stayed home since March. We love this school, and he is prek. That is too harsh for me to sign the contract, and it took us almost 1.5 years to get off from waiting list to get in this school. We both can work from home till next year, and we worried about kid socialization development. We hesitate to sign the contract because we think that school is most likely to be closed in the late fall or early winter. That is a lot of money on the bar. What would you do?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:My little one's school (from prek to 8th grade) states that every enrolled families in the fall need to sign a 12 month contract from September 2020- August 2021. This is new rule & new requirement. If the school is ever failed to open due to state mandatory closure or closed for 2 weeks (because anyone get infected with covid) or parents decide to withdraw or feel unsafe to send their kids to school, parents are liable to pay for the rest of the 12 months contract.

My little one is 4 year old, only child, has been stayed home since March. We love this school, and he is prek. That is too harsh for me to sign the contract, and it took us almost 1.5 years to get off from waiting list to get in this school. We both can work from home till next year, and we worried about kid socialization development. We hesitate to sign the contract because we think that school is most likely to be closed in the late fall or early winter. That is a lot of money on the bar. What would you do?

They say they would provide distance learning if state mandatory closure.

[Anonymous]

Many schools have annual contracts, but in the age of COVID, a newly drafted contract should automatically waive the commitment on the part of the parents if the center is forced to close for anything longer than a couple of weeks, regardless of the reason for closure.

[Anonymous]

Most schools have contracts where you commit to the full year. There's an insurance you can purchase to help cover it if you have to leave/move, although I'm not sure what that looks like with Covid.

Schools have to plan and be able to pay their teachers. It's a valid policy. That said there's no way I would sign up for that with a 4 year old and schools looking like they could be DL most, or all, year. My 4 year old will be home next year.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:My little one's school (from prek to 8th grade) states that every enrolled families in the fall need to sign a 12 month contract from September 2020- August 2021. This is new rule & new requirement. If the school is ever failed to open due to state mandatory closure or closed for 2 weeks (because anyone get infected with covid) or parents decide to withdraw or feel unsafe to send their kids to school, parents are liable to pay for the rest of the 12 months contract.

My little one is 4 year old, only child, has been stayed home since March. We love this school, and he is prek. That is too harsh for me to sign the contract, and it took us almost 1.5 years to get off from waiting list to get in this school. We both can work from home till next year, and we worried about kid socialization development. We hesitate to sign the contract because we think that school is most likely to be closed in the late fall or early winter. That is a lot of money on the bar. What would you do?

They say they would provide distance learning if state mandatory closure.

DL for that age is more trouble than it's worth. Especially if the child doesn't already have a relationship with the teacher and peers.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:My little one's school (from prek to 8th grade) states that every enrolled families in the fall need to sign a 12 month contract from September 2020- August 2021. This is new rule & new requirement. If the school is ever failed to open due to state mandatory closure or closed for 2 weeks (because anyone get infected with covid) or parents decide to withdraw or feel unsafe to send their kids to school, parents are liable to pay for the rest of the 12 months contract.

My little one is 4 year old, only child, has been stayed home since March. We love this school, and he is prek. That is too harsh for me to sign the contract, and it took us almost 1.5 years to get off from waiting list to get in this school. We both can work from home till next year, and we worried about kid socialization development. We hesitate to sign the contract because we think that school is most likely to be closed in the late fall or early winter. That is a lot of money on the bar. What would you do?

They say they would provide distance learning if state mandatory closure.

DL for that age is more trouble than it's worth. Especially if the child doesn't already have a relationship with the teacher and peers.

Yup, even for my 4 year old who knew the teachers and kids exceptionally well, he had no interest in the zoom sessions, even though they were only 30 minutes.