Covid Protocols in daycare/preschool

[Anonymous]

What Covid protocols are still in place at your daycare/preschool?

- Ours is still doing Rapid tests weekly, temp checks at the door, masks indoor and outdoor, and no parents inside the building, ever. -- Is this standard?

[Anonymous]

Ours requires masks for kids and parents at drop off and pick up, which is still outside. Other than that, basically all the protocols are gone.

[Anonymous]

Sounds normal for a DC daycare. I’ve never seen my child’s class or met her teachers. The director escorts children from the front door to the class to limit interactions.

[Anonymous]

Ours is still doing masks and no parents indoors. They’ve dropped the daily temperature checks. We never had weekly testing.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Ours is still doing masks and no parents indoors. They’ve dropped the daily temperature checks. We never had weekly testing.

Same here. The teachers come out for pick up and drop off so I get to meet them.

[Anonymous]

Our daycare requires masks for parents and teachers/staff. No requirement for the kids, though, regardless of age.

We just had a positive case with a teacher in my younger DD’s class that resulted in yet another 10 day quarantine…so that is still a thing.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:What Covid protocols are still in place at your daycare/preschool?

- Ours is still doing Rapid tests weekly, temp checks at the door, masks indoor and outdoor, and no parents inside the building, ever. -- Is this standard?

Why are parents not pushing back on this? It's been over 2 years. If parents keep letting this continue it will literally never end. It's so completely dumb and does nothing to help with Covid. Nothing.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:What Covid protocols are still in place at your daycare/preschool?

- Ours is still doing Rapid tests weekly, temp checks at the door, masks indoor and outdoor, and no parents inside the building, ever. -- Is this standard?

Why are parents not pushing back on this? It's been over 2 years. If parents keep letting this continue it will literally never end. It's so completely dumb and does nothing to help with Covid. Nothing.

This. It’s crazy!

[Anonymous]

Currently ours has daily temp checks, no parents inside, and optional weekly testing. They recently dropped the masks but it seems like everyone is still wearing them. Testing used to be pretty much mandatory but I'm not sure who all is still doing them.

I'm curious what the quarantine time is for others. We still have 10 days mandatory for kids testing positive as well as for close exposure in the home.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:What Covid protocols are still in place at your daycare/preschool?

- Ours is still doing Rapid tests weekly, temp checks at the door, masks indoor and outdoor, and no parents inside the building, ever. -- Is this standard?

Why are parents not pushing back on this? It's been over 2 years. If parents keep letting this continue it will literally never end. It's so completely dumb and does nothing to help with Covid. Nothing.

IME, a lot of parents around here gave bought in to the narrative that these kids need to be “protected” until they can be vaccinated (whether that vaccine e will be effective is another story). Ours lets us in the building now but we can’t go in the classrooms (which is ok with me, we still see the teachers but less drama with drop off/pickup). Masks are no longer required but something like 90% of the kids and all the teachers still wear them. Even in the older “4s” room where all the kids have now turned 5.

[Anonymous]

What do you guys predict next year will look like at daycares? We were planning to stay in our daycare for prek3 next year but now I'm thinking we should jump to our DCPS just to get back to normal quicker.

[Anonymous]

Nova daycare just adults for masks. parents allowed in.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

IME, a lot of parents around here gave bought in to the narrative that these kids need to be “protected” until they can be vaccinated (whether that vaccine e will be effective is another story). Ours lets us in the building now but we can’t go in the classrooms (which is ok with me, we still see the teachers but less drama with drop off/pickup). Masks are no longer required but something like 90% of the kids and all the teachers still wear them. Even in the older “4s” room where all the kids have now turned 5.

I think for a lot of kids these processes work better as they avoid prolonged drop offs hat make things harder for them. Unfortunately for us the strict rules about parents going in are really problematic due to some special needs that DD has. We have worked it out with our current provider but we'd love to change providers to be closer to our new home, and can't because none will allow this and it means such a transition would be harmful to DD. I am fine with a lot of these rules but I really feel public health authorities need to explicitly state that special needs (a documented delay or diagnosed condition) warrant exceptions.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Nova daycare just adults for masks. parents allowed in.

+1 Our daycare dropped all protocols except requiring masks for any adults in the building.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

IME, a lot of parents around here gave bought in to the narrative that these kids need to be “protected” until they can be vaccinated (whether that vaccine e will be effective is another story). Ours lets us in the building now but we can’t go in the classrooms (which is ok with me, we still see the teachers but less drama with drop off/pickup). Masks are no longer required but something like 90% of the kids and all the teachers still wear them. Even in the older “4s” room where all the kids have now turned 5.

I think for a lot of kids these processes work better as they avoid prolonged drop offs hat make things harder for them. Unfortunately for us the strict rules about parents going in are really problematic due to some special needs that DD has. We have worked it out with our current provider but we'd love to change providers to be closer to our new home, and can't because none will allow this and it means such a transition would be harmful to DD. I am fine with a lot of these rules but I really feel public health authorities need to explicitly state that special needs (a documented delay or diagnosed condition) warrant exceptions.

In VA it is illegal for a childcare provider or daycare to not allow parents into the building. It is explicitly stated in all the communication from the state regarding COVID