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Payments and Financial Questions
Payment Deadlines
Please make all tuition payments by the 5th of each month to avoid the $25 late fee. If the 5th happens to land on a weekend, you have until the next Tuesday to make a payment.
Extended Hours
Extended Hours are calculated after the office has received all of the sign in/out sheets from the month. Extended Hours invoices are sent out on the 1st of the month, or if the 1st falls on a weekend, the following Monday. This allows families to include the amount in their tuition payment, if they choose to do so.
Payment Options
You may pay by cash, check, credit card, or ACH. Cash and check payments can be dropped off in your child’s classroom or at the office. Credit card and ACH payments can be made through our billing platform, Brightwheel. As of March 2024, the fees are as follows: CC – 2.95% and ACH – 0.6%, $0.25 min, $2 max. Brightwheel also offers the option to setup automatic payments.
Pick-Up and Drop-off
Drop off Time
Please work towards having your child present and ready for class by 9:30am, as this is when our morning Montessori Circle begins. Parents/Guardians are welcome to drop off and pick up within the classrooms.
Please call the office, in advance, if your child has a pre-scheduled event that takes them away from their normal schedule. This will allow our teachers to plan accordingly.
Sign In/Out Attendance Sheets
Please always sign your child in and out. These sign-in logs are not only required by the state, but they are the records that let us calculate the correct Extended Hours. Leaving a line blank means that a teacher is required to fill in a time to the best of their knowledge, and sometimes results in another parent accidentally filling in the wrong line.
Child Pick Up
A child is only allowed to be picked up by an authorized individual. This individual must either be their parent or guardian, or on the Emergency Contact Card. If you will need someone other than the people mentioned, please send the office an email with your written authorization for another party to pick up your child. You must list their full name. This new individual will then have to show their ID to our teachers before they are able to pick up your child.
Illness
When a child becomes ill at school, you may receive a call for them to be picked up for the following reasons:
Covid-19
Runny nose with green mucus
Vomiting or Diarrhea
Fever
Continuous cough or other disruptive symptoms
Pink Eye symptoms
Lice
Unexplained rashes
If your child has any of these symptoms, please keep them home until they are well. A child must have not had a fever for at least 24 hours before they can return to school.
If a symptom is continuing but not contagious or significantly affecting the child, we must receive a doctor’s note approving a child’s return to school. (For example, a minor rash from allergies).