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[quote=Anonymous]As a former director at a (different) infant program, I've never had someone pay for this long without using it, but I know how it happens.  If I call to offer a space to someone for September, and they don't take it, that space will be filled by the next person on the waiting list.  So if a parent absolutely wanted our space at our center, and didn't want to chance it, they'd pay for a month or two.

At our center, if they didn't want to pay, they would have declined the space, and stayed exactly where they were on the waitlist for the next opening.  I couldn't have ensured there would be space in Feb/March nor could I ensure that hey would be the first to get offered that space, because by then a sibling might have had a baby born, or someone higher up on the waitlist (like a parent who worked for a client that had priority) might have needed childcare then.

But we did enrollment throughout the year, as children moved up to each new classroom.  If a school only does move ups in September, then that's what they do.

And I wouldn't have called a parent who hadn't had the baby yet to offer an opening.  Of course, by February or March I also wouldn't have had that Sept space any more, becuase it would have been filled and that baby wouldn't have been old enough to move on to toddlers.  So that family might not have gotten into our center.  At least she got into Merritt!

OP, advertise on your neighborhood listserve.  Advertise through word of mouth, tell everyone and their brother this space exists, I bet you could get it filled for a few months, anyway.  Anything helps.  And, yes, that infant would have to leave after OP's baby starts.  But the family might be in between au pairs, or know they are moving out of the area and not want to enter into a contract with a nanny or another center, so this space could be perfect.  Or whatever.  Plenty of people look for temporary openings.

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