What is your daycare doing with the new CDC guidelines?

[Anonymous]

We are currently visiting family so I don’t know what our daycare is doing yet. I would love to hear though, what is your daycare doing? Are teachers now allowed to go mask-free? Will kids above 2? I’m comfortable with that but want to understand what other daycares are doing.

[Anonymous]

Ours is already mask optional for kids under 5 (Virginia).

I am hoping the teachers can go mask-free soon. It would be lovely for my DD to see their smiling faces. (They are all vaccinated.)

[Anonymous]

Ours hasn't announced anything. Based on photos all the kids (except the one that doesn't use a mask due to special needs) are still wearing masks (some better than others, as usual).

[Anonymous]

Ours is waiting for more guidance. As always. From the county I guess? They still havent adopted the change in CDC’s updated quarantine guidance because the county’s interpretation of it caused more confusion. Their stance has generally been to default to whosoever guidance is more conservative among the county/state/CDC.

[Anonymous]

Ours hasn't announced any changes. For us masks have always been optional under 5. In the 2s room, hardly anyone wore them. DD is now in the 3s room and 14 of the 15 kids there mask (including her). Teachers are required to mask. In the photos from today it looks like all of the kids who regularly mask are still masking, so I don't think the CDC guidelines have had any impact on behavior. The kids really don't seem to care about it.

[Anonymous]

Nothing has changed. Kids and teachers are still masked. The teachers are still taking the kids out of our cars with temperature checks. I don’t see their policy changing anytime soon.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Ours is waiting for more guidance. As always. From the county I guess? They still havent adopted the change in CDC’s updated quarantine guidance because the county’s interpretation of it caused more confusion. Their stance has generally been to default to whosoever guidance is more conservative among the county/state/CDC.

What county?

[Anonymous]

Our school used to only require masks for kids 5 and up, then went to 2 and up in January, and are starting mask optional tomorrow. This is in VA. Teachers and parents are still required to wear masks inside the building, but I suspect that will change in the next month.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Ours hasn't announced any changes. For us masks have always been optional under 5. In the 2s room, hardly anyone wore them. DD is now in the 3s room and 14 of the 15 kids there mask (including her). Teachers are required to mask. In the photos from today it looks like all of the kids who regularly mask are still masking, so I don't think the CDC guidelines have had any impact on behavior. The kids really don't seem to care about it.

This is a really big assumption. Bear in mind children that are 3 probably don't remember anything before the pandemic. They can't express themselves the way you and I can. It's honestly infuriating to me when adults assume kids are "fine" with masking. You don't know that. I promise you.

[Anonymous]

I’m in DC. Masks nominally required for 2+ but no one is super strict about enforcing it. I don’t expect any changes and haven’t heard anything from them about.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Ours hasn't announced any changes. For us masks have always been optional under 5. In the 2s room, hardly anyone wore them. DD is now in the 3s room and 14 of the 15 kids there mask (including her). Teachers are required to mask. In the photos from today it looks like all of the kids who regularly mask are still masking, so I don't think the CDC guidelines have had any impact on behavior. The kids really don't seem to care about it.

This is a really big assumption. Bear in mind children that are 3 probably don't remember anything before the pandemic. They can't express themselves the way you and I can. It's honestly infuriating to me when adults assume kids are "fine" with masking. You don't know that. I promise you.

+1. We thought our 2yo was fine seeing mostly masked (non-family) adults all the time, and she probably is, but that doesn't mean it's developmentally optimal. Even with her daycare not requiring masks and us not making her wear one except on flights, she sees a LOT of masked faces, and we were struck by how much more sociable and delighted she was with unmasked adults on a beach vacation in the South recently. It was enough of a difference that we really noticed how it changed her social interactions.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Ours is waiting for more guidance. As always. From the county I guess? They still havent adopted the change in CDC’s updated quarantine guidance because the county’s interpretation of it caused more confusion. Their stance has generally been to default to whosoever guidance is more conservative among the county/state/CDC.

What county?

Montgomery

[Anonymous]

They’ve said “masks are recommended” - My 2 yr old goes through multiple masks per day due to licking it from the inside (gross) and hates it - says “yuck” and throws it in the ground when I try to get it on him - but will allow the teachers to put it on, although it’s normally below his nose. We’ll be dropping it. We’ve had covid recently, as have at least a few other kids in his class. My 4 yr old I will give the choice.

[Anonymous]

Ours has stopped the daily temperature checks but they’re not lifting the mask rules yet-MoCo.

[Anonymous]

DC

Nothing has changed so far. Still 10 day exposure quarantine, 7 day travel quarantine, temp checks, masks required for anyone over 2 and PCR required for any symptom including runny nose.

I’ve given up hope. We’re moving.