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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Our center is not paying their teachers and have told them to file unemployment. Would we be in the right to request stop payment of our tuition? Not sure what we would be paying for in this case. [/quote]

Child Care Director here. This is heartbreaking. I'm not sure how much unemployment pays but it's not 100% of salaries. The center will likely offer some reduction but will still need to cover, rent, utilities, and liability insurance, at a minimum. [/quote]

DP.  I understand the center has other expenses.  But I am also much less sympathetic to those concerns than I am to to those regarding low wage daycare employees. The center is a business.  It should have greater contingency plans -- both in terms of a cushion and insurance -- to be better able to weather some of the storm.  And, at the end of the day, they are a business and a business assumes the risks of potential loss, at least for periods of time.

If I am not receiving the service I have paid to, I am going to be fairly uninterested in continuing to make substantial payments so that the center can thrive.  At the very least, I would be expecting the owner of the center to significantly share in the pain.  I'd be more willing to pay to ensure that the teachers were paid.[/quote]

You have obviously no foresight. If you don’t pay tuition your center will not pay teachers salaries and you will lose a community service that is vital to many.  Preschools are not plentiful in the DC, Bethesda, Chevy Chase area.  It is difficult to find spots at good ones.  Why would you want them to go out of business to make it harder later because you are a frugal person with no foresight? Don’t be that person.[/quote]

They won’t go out of business, at least for any length of time, for the reasons you cite.

Care is hard to find and people have a significant need.  For that reason, once this crisis passes, businesses should be able to reopen.  Given the economic turmoil coming, landlords will have an incentive to work with tenants to allow them to continue, presumably with both the center and the landlord taking a bit of a haircut.

The easiest answer is to try to get parents to pay for a service they are not receiving, but that doesn’t make it right, especially when the center isn’t even paying its employees.  It’s pretty ridiculous for a business owner to say that his employees and customers should suffer, but he must be made whole.  [/quote]

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