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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I'm in Va., we all know there's a stay at home order thru June 10. Our in-home closed 3 weeks ago and expected full payment for April, which we paid. So that's 7 weeks of payment with zero care.

DH and I are both working -- our provider has kids and has posted on social media that she allows them to do playdates with other kids but outside and they know them well so it's all well and good. It's obviously not.

We have involved grandparents, two with asthma and two with diabetes. We aren't seeing them at this time, but I cannot imagine ever sending kids back to this daycare even when they re-open -- too much concern about what being in group of kids from many families, plus several workers and the kids in home of owner would mean for safety of our loved ones as this virus works its way through the area.

We are both employed now in industries that are currently very busy, but expect to take a beating and have been warned that while no furloughs/layoffs planned now, it won't always be that way.

the owner is a neighbor. I feel this pressure -- both in writing from owner to families and from society at large -- that if we are getting paid, then so should the daycare. This feels nuts to me -- this is not her fault, but to pay a significant amount of $ for three months of daycare we won't use with potential job loss on the horizon seems insane. Are we heartless to pull kids out?[/quote]

It's an in home daycare, which makes it worse that they charged 100%. How many staff? If it's one of those with a permit (v. License) to care for up to 5 kids, I'd try to talk to the owner that even the centers who have to pay rent and teacher salaries are offering discounts. 
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