Reply to If your daycare or childcare provider closed due to coronavirus, are they still requiring you to pay

Forum Index » Preschool and Daycare Discussion

Reply to "If your daycare or childcare provider closed due to coronavirus, are they still requiring you to pay"

Subject:

Emoticons





More smilies

Text Color: Font: Close Marks

[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Nope, sorry. This is a cost of doing business for the daycare, not me. It will just have to come out of their profit for the year. They are obviously in business to make a profit. Some years you make a profit and some years you don't so this will just have to be one of those years. Their crisis plan should not be to rely on the goodwill of their customers who aren't currently receiving services.[/quote]

I agree, but also believe they have no obligation to keep your spot. In many cases, the parties meeting in the middle seems to make sense.[/quote]

I see what you’re saying, but I don’t see people jumping at the chance to snag a spot at a center that is closed. How would that phone call down the waitlist go? “Hi, we’re not operating for the foreseeable future, but we have an opening. Put a deposit down and it’s yours.” Yes, some of the highly sought after centers might do that, but a lot of people are going to be out of work and probably not shopping around for a non-operating childcare center right now. [/quote]

Maybe.  But it’s not uncommon to have to pay for a couple of months you won’t use (baby not old enough, still on leave, haven’t moved yet) to secure a spot that won’t be there when you want it if you pass.  In some ways, this isn’t that different.

Plus, even if they can’t fill the spot while you are gone, they may not offer it to you when the reopen.  Some probably would, but others would might not, to prove a point or otherwise.  I could see them wanting to avoid resentment from families that paid the whole time towards those that didn’t but then still had a spot.[/quote]

Options

	Disable HTML in this message
	Disable BB Code in this message
	Disable smilies in this message

Review message

Search Recent Topics Hottest Topics