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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I’m grateful for this thread as I haven’t seen it addressed by prominent outlets or DC govt even though a lot of people in the DMV depend on daycare. I want to continue paying but if my facility isn’t even open, does it seem fair to ask for a reduced price? We have been told the daycare will be closed until the end of April. Our notification of closure/pay came in a group text with little explanation and I haven’t heard from anyone in over a week. There’s no heat/lights on right now so why do I need to pay full price every week? Would it be splitting hairs to ask for more transparency (in a more elegant way than I just put it of course).[/quote]

Of course it wouldn't! I'm not paying my dry cleaner's bills. I'm not paying the bills for the baristas at the coffee shop I go to that's closed down. Why should we all pay for a service that we're not receiving? I can understand a few weeks, but 2 or 3 months of paying $1,500 bills, or more, for each kid?

We're not made of money. Not happening. [/quote]If you are not made of money the people who provide you these services are made of less. Obviously no one can continute to pay indefinitely for services they aren't receiving but this is an unusual time. If you think you will run out of money in a month realize that people who live paycheck to paycheck will be out of money next week. Lobby your government to provide relief where it is truly needed and maybe we can all collectively see our way out of this. Financially, emotionally and intact as decent human beings.[/quote]

I can’t lobby them - I am trying to work FT (at the same time as DH is, too) and trying to entertain three young kids who haven’t been anywhere but our property for a long time. Plus, MD assembly adjourned early.

I have to decide this week and I think I will withdraw/stop paying. We had a contractual agreement; I paid for one month of nothing already (not even tax benefits of donating even though that’s essentially what it was).  This is a weird situation, but that applies to me as well as to them. [/quote]

Get a live-in nanny for short-term.[/quote]

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