A question about Daycare ...

Truely_Desi · Post by **Truely_Desi** » Wed Feb 27, 2008 2:34 am

Hello guys,

My 3 yerars old baby has just started going to Day care. I am paying $100/wk and my question is do they charge for the days he does not go there.

The situation is, My baby had fallen sick and he did not go for 2 alternate weeks (1went/2Absent/3went/Absent)...the daycare people were asking fee for those 2 weeks too. I kept update the daycare staff that he is sick and won't come.

Please share your experiences, I don't know if daycare rules are like that.

Appreciate your responses.

Thanks,
TD

ananthd · Post by **ananthd** » Wed Feb 27, 2008 2:41 am

Most daycare centers will charge for days you don't go(unless you explicitly have switched daycare).

Some of them grant 'vacation' for India trips & such and this may have to be pre-arranged; in those cases, they may charge 50%, ymmv.

Patnababu · Post by **Patnababu** » Wed Feb 27, 2008 3:37 am

Daycare is generally not pay-per-use.

PB

twinnies · Post by **twinnies** » Wed Feb 27, 2008 4:51 am

Check with your day care if they can count these two weeks as vacation. We pay 50% of the normal rate for the vacation weeks.

DosaiLvr · Post by **DosaiLvr** » Wed Feb 27, 2008 7:35 am

We used to call the daycare and let them know if our child(ren) were going to miss daycare for 2 or more days. We would pay a reduced amt. for those days.

We pulled the children out of the daycare when we went on a extended trip to India and re-enrolled them after we returned. There was some savings inspite of the re-enrollment/registeration fee etc.

vijay · Post by **vijay** » Thu Feb 28, 2008 11:50 pm

OP, that is correct charge. Once you enroll you have to pay regardless. Only thing is that most places allow you to accrue vacation time where you dont pay (typ 1 day for every month of fees payed)

ana · Post by **ana** » Tue Mar 04, 2008 8:13 pm

$100 per week is cheaper for day care I think. Maybe I need to look at day care costs now. which area is this?

Manoyanamano · Post by **Manoyanamano** » Tue Mar 04, 2008 9:59 pm

Yep - I was also wondering about this . $ 100 is on the low end . I am paying around 220 for 8 hours - 5 day a week:emdgust:

wish2r2i · Post by **wish2r2i** » Thu Mar 06, 2008 8:55 pm

My 3 yr old goes to a montessori school and they charge $675 per month. The school is open 6:30 am-6:30 pm with no timing restrictions. They offer chinese and spanish classes for free but you have to pay extra for other classes.

ana · Post by **ana** » Thu Mar 06, 2008 9:07 pm

what are the other classes that they offer?