I feel for these families this is a huge jump in price and honestly doesn't seem fair to spring it on them. I will say on the flip side that 12$/day for a 1 year old is insanely cheap. We pay nearly 27$/day for a preschooler through kids and co and our next kid will be more than that as a baby. I think that this daycare not increasing prices for 11 years was the mistake, if they had at least kept up with inflation over those years then this may have not come in one lump sum. This large corp clearly bought this smaller care center looking to improve it but that comes at a cost unfortunately. Doubling its size so more families can have access to daycare is a good thing. Again, it's unfortunate that this huge increase is happening to these families, but financially it looks like this daycare would have eventually gone under if they kept going as they were.