When you pay for preschool and have snow days?

meghans30 · January 2011

So we've already paid our son's tuition at a private preschool for the year. He goes 3x per week from 8:30-3:30. I live in New England and we have gotten the most snow I have seen in about 20 years so a lot of snow days! The school follows the schedule of the local public school and cancels school accordingly also. My question is, will the private pre-k also extend the year like the public school does? I am a teacher also, so we are lucky that I am home when they have snow days, but I will also have to make them up.

xbrooklyngrl · January 2011

I doubt it. My DD's pre-school also follows the Board of Ed as far as days off but they don't follow when it comes to the last day of school, that's already set in stone

Heidisean · January 2011

I also send my dd to a private preschool and they still get out when scheduled whereas the rest of the school will be extended because they have to follow a certain amt of days.

DevonPow · January 2011

I AM SO SICK OF SNOW DAYS!!!! Schools here were off Monday, Tuesday, and Today - bleah.

DS's preschool right now is year round, but for my friends in non year round schools they do not extend the school year for snow days.

Off to shovel now....

meghans30 · January 2011

xbrooklyngrl:
I doubt it. My DD's pre-school also follows the Board of Ed as far as days off but they don't follow when it comes to the last day of school, that's already set in stone

Boo! I get paid regardless, so I understand having to whether there is school or not. I just feel like he hasn't been to school on a regular basis in so long, but in the big scheme of things he hasn't missed that many days; it's only because he doesn't go on Tuesday/ Thursday, plus there has been a holiday.

I am officially sick of winter!

Glendi2.0 · January 2011

DD attends a private pre-K program along with kids who go full-time... the part-time kids have a set end date in the spring, which doesn't change, regardless of all the snow days. Kind of a racket, if you ask me...

belle204 · January 2011

A's director sent out an email saying they will likely add some make-up days on at the end. Guess we'll see.

jlw2505 · January 2011

My daycare (preschool for the little one) has never closed due to weather in the 4 years my kids have been going (started at the center as infants) and my older DD's Pre-K follows the schools calendar which has also not had any snow days yet this year. I pay for the Pre-k and would still pay even if school was closed. The Pre-K is a year round program for the most part so we don't make up days.

CBKMRB · January 2011

xbrooklyngrl:
I doubt it. My DD's pre-school also follows the Board of Ed as far as days off but they don't follow when it comes to the last day of school, that's already set in stone

Same here

Sunrise77 · January 2011

No, private schools around here do not tend to add-on snow days at the end of the year. Usually only preschools within the public schools (we attend one of these) make up days.

hcmamm1 · January 2011

our private preschool also offers kinder. preschool will not be made up, but kinder will.

buler23 · January 2011

I operate a preschool We tell the parents in the beginning of the year that after three snow days we will make up school. The local schools do the same - the build in three snow days and then after that they take away from breaks. We try and follow the same makeup schedule for convenience.

luckyluvr · January 2011

Kind of unrelated, but how in the world do you guys deal with not knowing exactly when school ends? We don't have snow, so that's not an issue, but our school calendar is voted on and approved in Feb. of the prior year, so the start date is set in stone. I'd go nuts if I didn't have an exact end date to aim for (as a teacher).

lsufan · January 2011

Last year, we missed almost 3 weeks in a row due to snow. We got one extra day added on. Preschool was still done by the end of May, but the public schools had to make up days, extending the school year until the 4th of July.

UGAbride · January 2011

This reallllly ticks me off, to think I've paid for all these days and my boys have missed over a week of school already due to snow. Our school (private, through a church) follows the county school schedule, when it's convenient for them. We start a MONTH later than the public schools, and get out at least 2 weeks earlier...so it seems there is plenty of room to add a week on at the end, no?! The public schools have decided to make up the snow days by invoking a bunch of built in snow days, which happen to be mostly on Fridays and Tuesdays (making that a full day instead of a planned early release)...but guess what, my boys don't attend on those two days - our school does not operate on Fridays. I definitely think the best way for our preschool to make up these days would be to add a week on at the end of the year, since we don't have any testing to cram the days in before like the public schools do, and we'd STILL be getting out before public schools (for those preschool teachers that have kids in school). Haven't heard an official word from our director yet, but I'm hoping she does something equitable...it sure hurt to hand her a full month's tuition check, plus another check for registration for next year on our first day back, when my boys had not been able to attend for over a month due to snow and holidays

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