What does your daycare/preschool do for weather closures?

[Anonymous]

I am curious about what others' daycares/preschools do as far as weather closures. Pre-COVID, I felt like following the local public schools make sense, but the virtual option seems to make the district our school follows (ACPS) way more likely to close than they were previously. I think following OPM (with the ability to make their own calls too, obviously) makes more sense but wondering what others' schools do?

Looking for:

(1) all-day daycare, part-time preschool, something else
(2) location
(3) weather closing parameters

Mine is as follows:

(1) all-day daycare
(2) Alexandria City
(3) ACPS

Thanks in advance!

[Anonymous]

(1) All day daycare
(2) DC
(3) OPM

But my daycare is in a federal building so they basically follow OPM/building closures for obvious reasons

[Anonymous]

Ours have always followed APS for closures. But you are right the virtual option does complicate this. We aren't quite there yet though!

They do make their own calls sometimes and when APS did their sudden closures on 1/5 and 1/6, our preschool opened for the day because it was clear those were staffing issues and not weather. Roads were clear.

But we'll see if being virtual makes them more likely to call weather days. APS is not virtual today, we used our 6th snow day. In a normal year, 6 weather days would be plenty, but that big storm, combined with covid, made us burn them faster.

[Anonymous]

(1) All day
(2) Fairfax
(3) They make decisions independent of school district and agencies. They'll typically close on days with snow events and have at least a delay the day after, but compared to how often FCPS close, they probably close/delay ~30% of those times.

[Anonymous]

Bambini DC
All day
In a public/private federal building (Reagan Bldg, so open when government is closed)
Does it’s own thing - has almost always stayed open.

[Anonymous]

1)All-day daycare center
2) MoCo
3) Follow MCPS school closing policy. Initially they followed the MCPS administrative office schedule but recently changed to the actual school closing schedule.
Today was especially infuriating. I have to work in-person and was expecting a 1-hour delay but I had to take the day off instead since they were closed for rain.

[Anonymous]

1) All-day daycare/CBO preschool
2) DC
3) DCPS

[Anonymous]

1) all day daycare
2) MoCo
3) depends on the weather & road conditions around daycare, not following anything. Like the first few of January, mcps closed 4 days of snow. My child's daycare closed 2 days. Today, my child's daycare is open as usual.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:1) all day daycare
2) MoCo
3) depends on the weather & road conditions around daycare, not following anything. Like the first few of January, mcps closed 4 days of snow. My child's daycare closed 2 days. Today, my child's daycare is open as usual.

*week

[Anonymous]

1. In home daycare
2. Alexandria
3. Typically ACPS but for example yesterday she told me I could bring my child because it didn’t turn out to be as bad as previously thought which wa a great because I had to teach virtually.

[Anonymous]

1) all day
2) MoCo
3) Technically the MCPS admin offices although a couple times in the last couple years they’ve gone rogue and closed even when the admin offices opened. Thankfully yesterday they just opened late.

[Anonymous]

Inhome daycare. Mine never closes. If you can make it there, it's open.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:1) all day daycare
2) MoCo
3) depends on the weather & road conditions around daycare, not following anything. Like the first few of January, mcps closed 4 days of snow. My child's daycare closed 2 days. Today, my child's daycare is open as usual.

*week

Fairfax County but the same. It was very unusual that they were closed for 3 days after that storm in the beginning of January, but turns out it was because they didn't have power back for 2 days.

[Anonymous]

Same as you, OP -- ACPS. I wish they would switch to OPM. There are clearly other factors (COVID spread, staff shortage) driving the local public schools to close at a hair-trigger.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I am curious about what others' daycares/preschools do as far as weather closures. Pre-COVID, I felt like following the local public schools make sense, but the virtual option seems to make the district our school follows (ACPS) way more likely to close than they were previously. I think following OPM (with the ability to make their own calls too, obviously) makes more sense but wondering what others' schools do?

Looking for:

(1) all-day daycare, part-time preschool, something else
(2) location
(3) weather closing parameters

Mine is as follows:

(1) all-day daycare
(2) Alexandria City
(3) ACPS

Thanks in advance!

I'm the same as you - all-day daycare in Alexandria, follows ACPS. Well, technically they follow ACPS for the first two consecutive days and then make an independent decision on the third day if there are 3+ days of weather closures.

I would like them to just switch to making an independent decision. With yesterday's closure, for instance, a ACPS school board member admitted on twitter that it was mostly due to staffing problems, not actually weather. My private, expensive daycare closing because the local public school has staffing problems is infuriating.