My daughter's in-home daycare is preparing new contracts for the 2020 year and has removed the 2-week termination notice. Instead, they are requiring us to put in writing the expected scope of care for the year (Full year, January-June, etc...), and if we take our daughter out early, we must pay for the amount of care we originally planned.In our example, we are planning to move her to a pre-K program in September. If we decide for any reason to take her out sooner, we are on the hook for payments up until September. This could potentially be thousands of dollars for care we would not receive.Has anyone heard of this? The daycare is requiring us to essentially sign a lease with no flexibility to leave. I have already told the provider that I will not sign this kind of agreement, and we are waiting for their response.A little more background; the provider's daughter took over operations of the daycare at the beginning of the year. Since January, she has:increased the price 8%,extended paid vacation from 2 weeks to 5 weeks (in addition to 12 holidays)Changed hours of operation from 6 PM close to 5:30 PM, which is a big deal for many parentsThe removal of a reasonable termination notice (usually 2-4 weeks) is just one more in a series of bad policy changes. I'm not sure how to proceed at this point, but I think we may have to find an alternative provider. via /r/Parenting https://ift.tt/2oHsVz1
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