If you’ve kept your toddler home from preschool due to omicron…
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Anonymous
| When do you plan to send them back? Waiting out the surge entirely, or sooner? What are your decision factors? |
Anonymous
| We did not and my whole family ended up with covid. Wish we had kept her hone at least the week after the holidays. |
Anonymous
I’m so sorry. I did not either, and my 3yo ended up in quarantine after poor teacher tested positive. Luckily had a strict masking policy in place and none of the kids seem to have caught it. School resumes tomorrow after 5 day quarantine and I am debating not sending. However, I do not see what will be different next week, or even the week after, and don’t want to keep LO home indefinitely. But the alternative seems like we will very likely end up with covid which I’m not thrilled about (we also have an infant at home.) Hope your family is on the mend. |
Anonymous
| My neighbors hired a babysitter for their toddler to avoid daycare. |
Anonymous
| I’m a preschool teacher and it’s a mess. Would quit if I could. And I’d absolutely keep my preschool age kid home if I had any alternative. |
Anonymous
Thank you. It’s especially frustrating because we did not go anywhere for the holidays or see anyone indoors the entire break so as to not further the spread. But DD got it at daycare. |
Anonymous
| I was planning to keep my three year old out two weeks and sure enough, second week there was a positive in class. The class has shut down so the third week is decided for me and I may as well sit out this month. This surge is suppose to peak and will end… no? |
Anonymous
| My kid has not been in preschool since 12/17. Despite this, we still all got sick this week--but not with Covid, with stomach flu. |
Anonymous
| We’re taking it week by week. Based on comments we’ve heard, some of the other parents at our school are in the “let’s have an omicron” party camp. We have a high-risk child. Hoping that if a bunch of them go out and get their kids sick on purpose, it will happen soon. |
Anonymous
| I wanted to wait until the school announced what it’s new mitigation measures would be. Announced Monday night. I don’t love them. I don’t think it’s enough, but I sent her back Tuesday because I need the care. I can’t keep her out through the rest of omicron. |
Anonymous
| I am waiting to see what things look like by the end of the week. Might send back next Wednesday (Monday is a holiday and school is requiring a test to come back). |
Anonymous
| Honestly I don’t know. I’m most concerned about hospitals being at capacity, so I’d like to wait out the surge but I don’t know how long that will be and I know 3 yr old being home all day with us working is not good for her. She’s so bored. So I guess I’m just taking it day by day. |
Anonymous
| I'm all about avoiding covid during peaks. The hospitals are very stressed right now. We're all going to get it eventually, but I don't have to get it during a peak. |
Anonymous
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2 of the 3 teachers have recently had covid (ugh) and about half the class too. My DS is vaccinated since he's already 5, so we're still sending him. He only went 2 days last week because of the snow and of course was exposed the first day back. He didn't contract it though so this week we trudge onward.
There's no good solutions. |
Anonymous
| We stayed out the first week but have sent him the last two days after his preschool mandated testing before returning and they do weekly testing in school. We don’t need the childcare but he had such a hard time adjusting to preschool last September that we were afraid it would happen again after three weeks home. I hope we made the right decision. |