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To the editor:
The time has come to reexamine the place of Sursum Corda, the Child Care and Learning Center, in our community. While there is no doubt that Rappahannock needs a quality child care organization, particularly to meet the needs of many working mothers, serious questions are now being raised as to how well the Child Care and Learning Center is meeting these needs and at whose expense.
The Center has felt it necessary to raise its tuition to a rate that makes it virtually impossible for a woman to work and keep her child at Sursum Corda and come out ahead. Few parents put their children in daycare so that they can have the ‘‘pleasure and luxury” of working without the goal of actually earning money towards the support of their family. Furthermore, The Child Care and Learning Center now feels justified in issuing warrants to take a number of former clients to court to collect certain so-called unpaid fees, some as little as $20, despite the fact that these parents withdrew their children from the school out of dismay, frustration, or moral objection to the school’s program and policies — and in some cases before services contracted for in advance were received.
A school which claims it has so many children clamoring for spaces in its program that it cannot meet the need (and has to build a large new facility), should not feel compelled to charge parents a month’s fee for care that the child won’t receive because the parent has chosen to remove their child permanently from the program. The Center should be able to go to their alleged waiting list and quickly fill that space without any loss of income to
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