Not following the rage.

For those without children in daycare... those from the outside staring in.

You sign contracts that can be based on a yearly schedule or school schedule.

For the most part the contracts are written thinking about things like snow days. The childare people want there monies even if they are closed for snowdays. Sometimes a school can be closed as much as a week for snow. It is really rare for it to be longer though.

Thing is... no one has thought, 'What if the schools close at the beginning of march and don't reopen again till the fall?'. So you got this contract that people have signed that kind of leave the parents on the hook till it expires.

'What happens if you give them the finger and stop paying'?

Well, it is a contract. Technicaly you owe that money. But times are weird. At the moment what it really means is, 'Okie-Dokie. You can sign back up again in the fall if you want.'.

Okay, the kid is taken off the roles. What does that mean?

In some places childcare slots are hard to come by. Picture a line and you are at the end of it. When your kid is going and you are current then people in that line are waiting on your slot. Off the roles means that you are welcome at the end of the line....

And that is the real problem.