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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]It seems deeply irresponsible to continue using tuition dollars to continue paying preschool and daycare employees when unemployment compensation is available.

Next time, they should get insurance.

Time to get lawyers involved, as this will go on for months.[/quote]

I am sympathetic to parents who won’t or can’t pay when care is stopped. But to call it deeply irresponsible to pay teachers because of unemployment, which covers only a fraction of income, seems ridiculous.

Even in DC, I doubt we will lawyers involved.  Centers almost certainly won’t sue parents who stop paying, most of whom have the right to withdraw with relatively little notice any way.  And if a parent who withdraws loses a spot, there wouldn’t be a basis to sue to get it back when this is over.

The only place where litigation seems at least slightly plausible is schools where parents paid the full year tuition and now argue they should get a refund.  But even that isn’t that likely.[/quote]

I’m sorry, but are daycare employees and preschool teachers a special class or something? Are they superior to restaurant workers, airplane pilots, etc.?

Whatever percentage of lost income you get in unemployment is what you get.

Whether you paid tuition all at once or in 10 payments is immaterial.

There will be refunds, one way or another (if the K is silent on acts of god).[/quote]

Did you even read my post?  I never said they were special or that a school needs to pay it teachers.  But I am certainly not going to fault a school that does it as long as it can.

And you are very wrong that it doesn’t matter whether you have paid yet or not.  Bird in hand is a powerful difference as the party trying to compel payment or compel a refund is at a significant disadvantage.[/quote]

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