What happens when a day care center abruptly closes? Some Baltimore parents found out.

There is a special kind of stress in finding and paying for day care for your children. Then there is the terror of leaving your child for the first time. But what’s the emotion when you’re told the center you’ve come to rely on shuts its doors? Shock, frustration and sadness, said parents picking up their children on July 28 from the Baltimore Montessori preschool in Locust Point, after they were notified by state education officials that the center’s license was suspended.