Planet Homeschool Refund Policy

Membership Fee

Co-op membership fees are nonrefundable:

  • as of September 1 for Fall Semester
  • as of December 30 for Spring Semester

If you request to cancel your family’s membership before those dates, your membership fee minus a $5 processing fee will be refunded within 3 business days.

If you request to cancel your family’s membership after our co-op or the course instructors have cancelled all courses in which your child(ren) were enrolled, then your family’s entire membership fee will be refunded, with no processing fee withheld, regardless of date.

Requests must be made via email to PlanetHomeschoolMN+membership@gmail.com.

 

Tuition and Supplies

Instructors will refund all tuition and supplies fees for class registrations canceled before a class’s Minimum Student Date (the date on which a class will be canceled if the minimum number of students has not yet registered). However, because it costs your instructors to issue refunds, families should not pay for a class before its Minimum Student Date (that is, before the invoice’s Payment Due Date), so there should be no need to issue such refunds. (This wasn’t really a problem before COVID-19. PayPal started keeping its fees for refunds on October 11, 2019, and our co-op had far fewer cancellations due to low enrollment before COVID-19.)

After the class’s Minimum Student Date, instructors set their own policies for cancellations that do not drop the class below its minimum number of students.

Refunds are a private transaction between families and instructors but instructors and families should inform our co-op’s lead volunteers of any refunds or adjustments made. Those transactions will then be recorded manually so that the family’s financial records are accurate and complete.

 

2022–2023 Instructor Refund Policies for Late Cancellations

For cancellations made after a class’s Minimum Student Date:

Dr. Tom Anderson

  • Late Cancellation Refund Policy: Pro-rata refund for the number of classes remaining minus the supplies fee, provided that the cancellation does not drop the class below its minimum student number.

Sarah Beggs and Janet Lewis of Fiber Works MPLS

  • Late Cancellation Refund Policy: Pro-rata refund for the number of classes remaining minus $25, provided that the cancellation does not drop the class below its minimum student number.

Kimberly Guedes

  • Late Cancellation Refund Policy: Pro-rata refund for the number of classes remaining minus the supplies fee for cancellation requests made before the fourth class meeting, provided that the cancellation does not drop the class below its minimum student number.

Tim Hereid

  • Late Cancellation Refund Policy: No refunds after the first day of class.

Peter Hoh

  • Late Cancellation Refund Policy: Full refund up to three days before the first class session, provided that the cancellation does not drop the class below its minimum student number.
  • Cancellations during the first six sessions of the semester will receive a 50% tuition refund, provided that the cancellation does not drop the class below its minimum student number.
  • Supplies fees will not be refunded after the third class session.

Dan Hoisington

  • Late Cancellation Refund Policy: Pro-rata refund for the number of classes remaining minus the supplies fee, provided that the cancellation does not drop the class below its minimum student number.

Rebekah Jorgensen

  • Late Cancellation Refund Policy: Pro-rata refund for the number of classes remaining minus the supplies fee, provided that the cancellation does not drop the class below its minimum student number.

Kathy Oaks

  • Late Cancellation Refund Policy: Pro-rata refund for the number of classes remaining minus the supplies fee, provided that the cancellation does not drop the class below its minimum student number.

Theresa Redfern-Hall

  • Late Cancellation Refund Policy: Refunds will be determined on a case-by-case basis provided that the cancellation does not drop the class below its minimum registration number.

Suzanne Sensei

  • Late Cancellation Refund Policy: Refunds will be determined on a case-by-case basis provided that the cancellation does not drop the class below its minimum registration number.

Lukas Brasherfons, Maria Signorelli, and Logan Verdoorn of Shakespearean Youth Theatre

  • Late Cancellation Refund Policy: No refunds except in case of cancellation due to an emergency.

Mrs. Angie Szyman

  • Late Cancellation Refund Policy: Cancellations must be made 2-weeks in advance, and then the remaining lessons paid for will be reimbursed.