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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]This just rubs me the wrong way so much.  We're at a community nursery school that sees itself as some kind of local treasure (it's been around for a long time; low turnover; hard to get it in).  It is not cheap and it's in a UMC area.  How can they ask for full payment when there's no service?? [b]You contract for the academic year when you go here. [/b] I'm tempted to burn all bridges and say we're not paying but then there's the camp issue if we go back (we're doing camp there also )and have prepaid that as well.  So much money down the drain.  [/quote]

Here is the problem.  You signed a contract that said you were accepting for the full year and you were committed to paying for the full year.  There was no clause in there that said that tuition was guaranteed that the facility would remain open.  There are any number of events that can close a facility down.  There are any number of very contagious or dangerous infections or illnesses that if one child or one staff member brought it into the school, the school would have to be closed.  There could be an accident like a truck running into the building that would close the school.  In this day and age, it isn't that unlikely that a school could have a shooting.  And on and on.  There are any number of things that can close your school down and there is no clause in the contract that they will suspend or refund any part of the tuition for a school closure.  In this case, the school closure is completely beyond their control.  They can't repair damage and reopen the school.

So, regardless of whether or not it would be nice for them to refund you the money, they are under no legal obligation to refund tuition.  On the contrary, one of the reasons that people like us pay tuition to schools is that we trust them to secure good staff and to maintain good programs.  Part of hiring and maintaining good staff is to treat them right and that means paying the teachers.  If they don't guarantee pay, then the good teachers will bail, which will devalue the care and education that children get there, which will in turn lower the desirability of the school.

Sorry that this happened, but unexpected school closings is one of the things that you need to consider before you sign the contract that says you are committed to the full year with no exit clause.[/quote]

The contract is for me to pay tuition in exchange for them providing preschool.  They are not providing preschool so they are not holding up thier end of the bargain.  Our preschool contract does not say anything about pandemics; it just says that it follows OPM for inclement weather.  And the federal government is not shut down so they should be open anyway.[/quote]

How would you feel if they were to open and your child were to contract COVID 19 there? [/quote]

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