The Barn Yard Child Care center not only requires that you sign a 1-year contract with no refund if dissatisfied, but they do not tell you before you enroll that they are closed for what is equivilent to more than a month of being closed. While closings for holidays is absolutely acceptable, they have other closings that are not dislosed in the parent handbook nor anywhere before you enroll. They have a ""winter break"" when they close for more than a week between Christmas and through New Year, they also have another full week of closing before labor day to ""train teachers"". Most other day care centers find other times to train teachers that do not place hardships on parents' schedules. They also close and do not tell you this, at 12 noon, serving no lunch for children due to ""early dismissal"" the day before Thanksgiving and the day before Christmas. Working parents cannot even get a half day of work in because on those early dismissal days, you have to leave at 11 am to pick up your child by 12 noon. In total they close earlier than most daycares do, Barn Yard closes at 5:30 pm and they take more vacation days, more breaks, that total more than a month's time, and yet parents are still obligated to pay for all of it when there is no service exchanged. They also close based on the public school system's weather-related closings, while most daycares close only if road conditions are unsafe and it is a state of emergency. So before you consider this place, make sure you have at least 5 weeks of vacation time to cover the care of your child while the center is on ""break"". You can find a better daycare with more convenient balance for working families.
Pros: Teachers are caring and friendly, but you can find this elsewhere as well
Cons: Too many closed days that is uncommon to day care centers that parents must still pay for.
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