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This is indeed a quite usual practice unfortunately. You are not paying for the service itself, you are paying for the reserved slot as the service was reserved for your child and not available for another child.Doing it this way enables child care poviders to create a budget based on the number of children they watch and pay for the appropriate staff, meals for the children, toys and other supplies. if this is a serious issue for you, I would look for a centre who only charges for the actual day your chid is there, such as a smaller home provider, as many home providers do not charge for off days.
This doesn't make sense. It is like making a reservation. You pay for the spot and if you cancel too late then you are not refunded for that fee. My daughter was in daycare from 2 - 4 years old and I didn't expect for them to take a loss for my child being sick. You would be quite upset if you didn't pay for that week because your child was sick and then they filled that spot up with another kid. You can't win both ways because at the end of the day, daycare is still a business and they need to make enough money to stay up. If not we both would have no one to care for our children when we were at work.
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