I'm still not really buying your story, sorry. It still comes down to money for you in all of your arguments, and you are putting the cost of daycare over the well being of your child. Any human rights tribunal and any judge worth their salt will still ask you why you continued to place your child knowingly into a situation that causes them harm. Once you were made aware of the situation, you are also doing something very wrong and you are also harming your child by continuing to bring them. I don't think the providers on here are misunderstanding this at all.
Why did you not put in notice at the daycare? The only way I can see a daycare trying to sue for collections would be if you did not follow the contract and tried to leave without paying. When I terminate contracts or parents terminate contracts, we need to give each other two weeks paid notice. I offer care during that time barring I am not ending the contract for extreme disrespect or threats, but lots of parents make the CHOICE to not send their child during that time. You have the same CHOICE as a consumer. You have the ability to choose a different daycare/kindergarten - you did that. You have the CHOICE to follow your contract and still protect your kid by not sending them while paying the notice period. You didn't make that choice. I DON'T GET THAT!
If you work at your mom's home in an informal setting, I don't understand why you couldn't set up a five year old in a different room with books and activities and a few movies so you could be near them for a few days and not have to worry about what is happening in the daycare situation. Yet, you still continue to send your kid, and then have the nerve to call us uninformed because we called you out on that decision.
I also have a 67 year old father and very involved grandfather in my kids' lives who works when he can get work. If one of his grandchildren was treated like this, he would never object to taking the kids for a few days so they wouldn't have to go back to a situation that causes them harm. He would be up in arms about it, actually. Well-being of children trumps money every time. Of course I would never make him make that choice, because as a mother, I could NEVER ever put my kid knowingly back into a situation that would cause them harm. Not for a minute. Not for a second. Even if I would be living on the street, I'd choose that over willingly sending them back to a harmful situation. Where is your husband in all of this? I am really concerned because it seems that no one else is upset about this human rights atrocity. If it is that bad, wouldn't others be stepping in? Wouldn't they want this child safe? The fact that NO ONE is stepping in, or is as upset as you are, or is totally cool with this kid finishing the week up in a daycare that you are planning to take a case to the human rights tribunal is messed up to me!
Your cause is noble. It is good that you don't want anyone else to go through what your child has gone through. But if you keep sending your child and make them endure this struggle everyday while you are trying to save a dime, it makes all your good efforts go out the window. You are also teaching your child that everyone else's struggle is more important than fighting their struggle, right here, right now at this moment. Your kid is right in front of you. Do right by them! Fight THEIR battle! Make them feel safe and heard RIGHT NOW and take them out of a situation you don't feel is right, and don't make them go back! Anything you have to say to a human rights tribunal will hold no water if you continue to let your kid suffer as you have stated they are suffering in this situation. That's not on the daycare. You are knowingly doing this to them, putting them in this situation day after day, and blaming money being the reason. Sorry, that's on you, and I don't think any of us are uninformed or "just not getting it" for saying that's just not right.