Covid at daycare/preschool - outdated policies

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Anonymous wrote:We just got notified of a ten-day closure due to a positive case in my five-year-old's class. She is vaccinated. Her little brother also has to quarantine for the full ten days. We just did this less than a month ago. Something has gotta give!!!!!!

They're making her quarantine even though she's vaccinated? That shouldn't happen. Is the brother in the same class? Why does he need to quarantine?

You do realize that vaccinated adults and children can still get COVID and pass it on to others? If your child has been exposed, please keep them out of school, even if they are vaccinated.

Except this isn't how the public schools are handling things now. Vaccinated children in public schools don't quarantine for exposure anymore.
Do you quarantine your children if they are exposed to flu, RSV, or HFM?

Public schools are K-12 and for children 5 and over which means 100% of the population is vaccine eligible. The majority of daycare kids are under 5 and not vaccine eligible. This is why CDC has separate guidelines for daycare.

The CDC has separate guidelines for daycare because they despise women who work outside the home. There is no other logic behind it. Unvaccinated kids under age 5 are lower risk than every other age group despite being unvaccinated. As you yourself mentioned the vaccinated people can spread COVID SO WHY DO ONLY YOUNG CHILDREN HAVE TO QUARANTINE? You cannot justify it, nobody can justify it. I absolutely hate, and I mean HATE this stupid country.

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[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:We just got notified of a ten-day closure due to a positive case in my five-year-old's class. She is vaccinated. Her little brother also has to quarantine for the full ten days. We just did this less than a month ago. Something has gotta give!!!!!!

They're making her quarantine even though she's vaccinated? That shouldn't happen. Is the brother in the same class? Why does he need to quarantine?

You do realize that vaccinated adults and children can still get COVID and pass it on to others? If your child has been exposed, please keep them out of school, even if they are vaccinated.

Except this isn't how the public schools are handling things now. Vaccinated children in public schools don't quarantine for exposure anymore.
Do you quarantine your children if they are exposed to flu, RSV, or HFM?

Public schools are K-12 and for children 5 and over which means 100% of the population is vaccine eligible. The majority of daycare kids are under 5 and not vaccine eligible. This is why CDC has separate guidelines for daycare.

Do you mean other than all the schools in DC with prek 3 and 4?

[Anonymous]

I’d advocate with the local government (or at least start there). It took a lot of parents advocating to reopen schools to get it done. The elected officials have very little motivation to get things back to normal it seems (none of the Board of Surpervisors in Fairfax County cared at all about reopening schools - and I contacted almost all of them). Good luck. It will be a battle I’m sure as many are clinging to updated guidance.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:We just got notified of a ten-day closure due to a positive case in my five-year-old's class. She is vaccinated. Her little brother also has to quarantine for the full ten days. We just did this less than a month ago. Something has gotta give!!!!!!

They're making her quarantine even though she's vaccinated? That shouldn't happen. Is the brother in the same class? Why does he need to quarantine?

You do realize that vaccinated adults and children can still get COVID and pass it on to others? If your child has been exposed, please keep them out of school, even if they are vaccinated.

Except this isn't how the public schools are handling things now. Vaccinated children in public schools don't quarantine for exposure anymore.
Do you quarantine your children if they are exposed to flu, RSV, or HFM?

Public schools are K-12 and for children 5 and over which means 100% of the population is vaccine eligible. The majority of daycare kids are under 5 and not vaccine eligible. This is why CDC has separate guidelines for daycare.

Do you mean other than all the schools in DC with prek 3 and 4?

Those schools aren’t requiring masking for everyone in the school? They really should be.

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Anonymous wrote:We just got notified of a ten-day closure due to a positive case in my five-year-old's class. She is vaccinated. Her little brother also has to quarantine for the full ten days. We just did this less than a month ago. Something has gotta give!!!!!!

They're making her quarantine even though she's vaccinated? That shouldn't happen. Is the brother in the same class? Why does he need to quarantine?

You do realize that vaccinated adults and children can still get COVID and pass it on to others? If your child has been exposed, please keep them out of school, even if they are vaccinated.

Except this isn't how the public schools are handling things now. Vaccinated children in public schools don't quarantine for exposure anymore.
Do you quarantine your children if they are exposed to flu, RSV, or HFM?

Public schools are K-12 and for children 5 and over which means 100% of the population is vaccine eligible. The majority of daycare kids are under 5 and not vaccine eligible. This is why CDC has separate guidelines for daycare.

Do you mean other than all the schools in DC with prek 3 and 4?

Those schools aren’t requiring masking for everyone in the school? They really should be.

I don't know if you've been hiding under a rock for the first half of 2022, but society has collectively decided that it's too hard for children and adults ages 5 and up to wear masks for hours each day, even during COVID surges, but children ages 2-4 can "wear them better than adults" (if by "better than adults" you mean "rarely covering their noses if they can even keep it on").

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Anonymous wrote:We just got notified of a ten-day closure due to a positive case in my five-year-old's class. She is vaccinated. Her little brother also has to quarantine for the full ten days. We just did this less than a month ago. Something has gotta give!!!!!!

They're making her quarantine even though she's vaccinated? That shouldn't happen. Is the brother in the same class? Why does he need to quarantine?

You do realize that vaccinated adults and children can still get COVID and pass it on to others? If your child has been exposed, please keep them out of school, even if they are vaccinated.

Except this isn't how the public schools are handling things now. Vaccinated children in public schools don't quarantine for exposure anymore.
Do you quarantine your children if they are exposed to flu, RSV, or HFM?

Public schools are K-12 and for children 5 and over which means 100% of the population is vaccine eligible. The majority of daycare kids are under 5 and not vaccine eligible. This is why CDC has separate guidelines for daycare.

The CDC has separate guidelines for daycare because they despise women who work outside the home. There is no other logic behind it. Unvaccinated kids under age 5 are lower risk than every other age group despite being unvaccinated. As you yourself mentioned the vaccinated people can spread COVID SO WHY DO ONLY YOUNG CHILDREN HAVE TO QUARANTINE? You cannot justify it, nobody can justify it. I absolutely hate, and I mean HATE this stupid country.

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The current situations with quarantines in daycare is untenable for working parents. I've posted before on this thread and others, but we are at a total of 72 days of quarantine from childcare between my 2 kids in the past 18 months. And they've never had covid.
And, FWIW, my Kindergartener is in aftercare at our daycare...10 out of 12 of the kids in her aftercare group are vaccinated, and yet they STILL quarantined the entire class due to one positive case in a staff member that was in the room for about a half hour. 10 days without aftercare, yet she was just fine to continue going to our public school. Thankfully, at least her little sister wasn't quarantined from daycare, as well.

Please keep this thread alive! I don’t think anyone making the policies truly understands the impact it has on working parents with daycare aged kids ( who are not vaccine eligible). The impacts are untenable!

+1. Reading the news about the administration planning for potential late June rollout of under-5 vaccines. Are we still going to do this sh*t when the toddlers are all vaxxed? Please tell me no.

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Anonymous wrote:We just got notified of a ten-day closure due to a positive case in my five-year-old's class. She is vaccinated. Her little brother also has to quarantine for the full ten days. We just did this less than a month ago. Something has gotta give!!!!!!

They're making her quarantine even though she's vaccinated? That shouldn't happen. Is the brother in the same class? Why does he need to quarantine?

You do realize that vaccinated adults and children can still get COVID and pass it on to others? If your child has been exposed, please keep them out of school, even if they are vaccinated.

Except this isn't how the public schools are handling things now. Vaccinated children in public schools don't quarantine for exposure anymore.
Do you quarantine your children if they are exposed to flu, RSV, or HFM?

Public schools are K-12 and for children 5 and over which means 100% of the population is vaccine eligible. The majority of daycare kids are under 5 and not vaccine eligible. This is why CDC has separate guidelines for daycare.

The CDC has separate guidelines for daycare because they despise women who work outside the home. There is no other logic behind it. Unvaccinated kids under age 5 are lower risk than every other age group despite being unvaccinated. As you yourself mentioned the vaccinated people can spread COVID SO WHY DO ONLY YOUNG CHILDREN HAVE TO QUARANTINE? You cannot justify it, nobody can justify it. I absolutely hate, and I mean HATE this stupid country.

+1
The current situations with quarantines in daycare is untenable for working parents. I've posted before on this thread and others, but we are at a total of 72 days of quarantine from childcare between my 2 kids in the past 18 months. And they've never had covid.
And, FWIW, my Kindergartener is in aftercare at our daycare...10 out of 12 of the kids in her aftercare group are vaccinated, and yet they STILL quarantined the entire class due to one positive case in a staff member that was in the room for about a half hour. 10 days without aftercare, yet she was just fine to continue going to our public school. Thankfully, at least her little sister wasn't quarantined from daycare, as well.

Please keep this thread alive! I don’t think anyone making the policies truly understands the impact it has on working parents with daycare aged kids ( who are not vaccine eligible). The impacts are untenable!

+1. Reading the news about the administration planning for potential late June rollout of under-5 vaccines. Are we still going to do this sh*t when the toddlers are all vaxxed? Please tell me no.

Jesus I hope not, but I really don’t know. There’s a preK room at our daycare where all the kids have been 5 for a while and yet they’re all still wearing masks (parental choice, no longer required). It’s not like they are mixing with the 2yos, even outside time is separated by classroom. And we were recently updated that should anyone in your house get Covid, the daycare kid has to stay home for 15 days minimum regardless of vaccination status. I just don’t know what it will take for Covid to be treated like other illnesses.

[Anonymous]

I'm pretty sure at my son's school (a childcare center/OSSE community school) none of the parents are saying anything if they get Covid. My son is in the oldest PreK 4 class and he is vaccinated. We had a long stretch in Dec-Jan and I don't think anyone wants to deal with that anymore. They are sending them to school regardless of whether someone in the house has Covid. The OSSE rule is vaxed and negative, no quarantine. I don't think our school is actually following that rule. I think they are still on the shutting down train but the parents are over it so they just aren't saying anything.

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Anonymous wrote:I'm pretty sure at my son's school (a childcare center/OSSE community school) none of the parents are saying anything if they get Covid. My son is in the oldest PreK 4 class and he is vaccinated. We had a long stretch in Dec-Jan and I don't think anyone wants to deal with that anymore. They are sending them to school regardless of whether someone in the house has Covid. The OSSE rule is vaxed and negative, no quarantine. I don't think our school is actually following that rule. I think they are still on the shutting down train but the parents are over it so they just aren't saying anything.

Good. If someone wants to keep their kid home because they think the kid has Covid, that's fine. But they absolutely shouldn't say anything about Covid to the preschool.

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Anonymous wrote:We just got notified of a ten-day closure due to a positive case in my five-year-old's class. She is vaccinated. Her little brother also has to quarantine for the full ten days. We just did this less than a month ago. Something has gotta give!!!!!!

They're making her quarantine even though she's vaccinated? That shouldn't happen. Is the brother in the same class? Why does he need to quarantine?

You do realize that vaccinated adults and children can still get COVID and pass it on to others? If your child has been exposed, please keep them out of school, even if they are vaccinated.

Except this isn't how the public schools are handling things now. Vaccinated children in public schools don't quarantine for exposure anymore.
Do you quarantine your children if they are exposed to flu, RSV, or HFM?

Public schools are K-12 and for children 5 and over which means 100% of the population is vaccine eligible. The majority of daycare kids are under 5 and not vaccine eligible. This is why CDC has separate guidelines for daycare.

The CDC has separate guidelines for daycare because they despise women who work outside the home. There is no other logic behind it. Unvaccinated kids under age 5 are lower risk than every other age group despite being unvaccinated. As you yourself mentioned the vaccinated people can spread COVID SO WHY DO ONLY YOUNG CHILDREN HAVE TO QUARANTINE? You cannot justify it, nobody can justify it. I absolutely hate, and I mean HATE this stupid country.

+1
The current situations with quarantines in daycare is untenable for working parents. I've posted before on this thread and others, but we are at a total of 72 days of quarantine from childcare between my 2 kids in the past 18 months. And they've never had covid.
And, FWIW, my Kindergartener is in aftercare at our daycare...10 out of 12 of the kids in her aftercare group are vaccinated, and yet they STILL quarantined the entire class due to one positive case in a staff member that was in the room for about a half hour. 10 days without aftercare, yet she was just fine to continue going to our public school. Thankfully, at least her little sister wasn't quarantined from daycare, as well.

Please keep this thread alive! I don’t think anyone making the policies truly understands the impact it has on working parents with daycare aged kids ( who are not vaccine eligible). The impacts are untenable!

+1. Reading the news about the administration planning for potential late June rollout of under-5 vaccines. Are we still going to do this sh*t when the toddlers are all vaxxed? Please tell me no.

Jesus I hope not, but I really don’t know. There’s a preK room at our daycare where all the kids have been 5 for a while and yet they’re all still wearing masks (parental choice, no longer required). It’s not like they are mixing with the 2yos, even outside time is separated by classroom. And we were recently updated that should anyone in your house get Covid, the daycare kid has to stay home for 15 days minimum regardless of vaccination status. I just don’t know what it will take for Covid to be treated like other illnesses.

I know daycares can be hard to find, but that’s insane. You need to find a new one.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I’d advocate with the local government (or at least start there). It took a lot of parents advocating to reopen schools to get it done. The elected officials have very little motivation to get things back to normal it seems (none of the Board of Surpervisors in Fairfax County cared at all about reopening schools - and I contacted almost all of them). Good luck. It will be a battle I’m sure as many are clinging to updated guidance.

Everything is back to normal. You don't send sick kids to school and infect everyone.

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Anonymous wrote:We just got notified of a ten-day closure due to a positive case in my five-year-old's class. She is vaccinated. Her little brother also has to quarantine for the full ten days. We just did this less than a month ago. Something has gotta give!!!!!!

They're making her quarantine even though she's vaccinated? That shouldn't happen. Is the brother in the same class? Why does he need to quarantine?

You do realize that vaccinated adults and children can still get COVID and pass it on to others? If your child has been exposed, please keep them out of school, even if they are vaccinated.

Except this isn't how the public schools are handling things now. Vaccinated children in public schools don't quarantine for exposure anymore.
Do you quarantine your children if they are exposed to flu, RSV, or HFM?

Public schools are K-12 and for children 5 and over which means 100% of the population is vaccine eligible. The majority of daycare kids are under 5 and not vaccine eligible. This is why CDC has separate guidelines for daycare.

The CDC has separate guidelines for daycare because they despise women who work outside the home. There is no other logic behind it. Unvaccinated kids under age 5 are lower risk than every other age group despite being unvaccinated. As you yourself mentioned the vaccinated people can spread COVID SO WHY DO ONLY YOUNG CHILDREN HAVE TO QUARANTINE? You cannot justify it, nobody can justify it. I absolutely hate, and I mean HATE this stupid country.

+1
The current situations with quarantines in daycare is untenable for working parents. I've posted before on this thread and others, but we are at a total of 72 days of quarantine from childcare between my 2 kids in the past 18 months. And they've never had covid.
And, FWIW, my Kindergartener is in aftercare at our daycare...10 out of 12 of the kids in her aftercare group are vaccinated, and yet they STILL quarantined the entire class due to one positive case in a staff member that was in the room for about a half hour. 10 days without aftercare, yet she was just fine to continue going to our public school. Thankfully, at least her little sister wasn't quarantined from daycare, as well.

Please keep this thread alive! I don’t think anyone making the policies truly understands the impact it has on working parents with daycare aged kids ( who are not vaccine eligible). The impacts are untenable!

+1. Reading the news about the administration planning for potential late June rollout of under-5 vaccines. Are we still going to do this sh*t when the toddlers are all vaxxed? Please tell me no.

Jesus I hope not, but I really don’t know. There’s a preK room at our daycare where all the kids have been 5 for a while and yet they’re all still wearing masks (parental choice, no longer required). It’s not like they are mixing with the 2yos, even outside time is separated by classroom. And we were recently updated that should anyone in your house get Covid, the daycare kid has to stay home for 15 days minimum regardless of vaccination status. I just don’t know what it will take for Covid to be treated like other illnesses.

This type of policy to me just helps Covid spread.

Who in the family in their right mind would test if you had to keep your daycare child out for over 2 weeks when it is completely possible they may never get it in the first place?!?!?!?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I’d advocate with the local government (or at least start there). It took a lot of parents advocating to reopen schools to get it done. The elected officials have very little motivation to get things back to normal it seems (none of the Board of Surpervisors in Fairfax County cared at all about reopening schools - and I contacted almost all of them). Good luck. It will be a battle I’m sure as many are clinging to updated guidance.

Everything is back to normal. You don't send sick kids to school and infect everyone.

Before Covid we never kept kids out of preschool or k-12 simply because their siblings or classmates were sick. Yet that’s the situation at many preschools and child care centers.

So no, things absolutely aren’t normal for kids.

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Anonymous wrote:We just got notified of a ten-day closure due to a positive case in my five-year-old's class. She is vaccinated. Her little brother also has to quarantine for the full ten days. We just did this less than a month ago. Something has gotta give!!!!!!

They're making her quarantine even though she's vaccinated? That shouldn't happen. Is the brother in the same class? Why does he need to quarantine?

You do realize that vaccinated adults and children can still get COVID and pass it on to others? If your child has been exposed, please keep them out of school, even if they are vaccinated.

Except this isn't how the public schools are handling things now. Vaccinated children in public schools don't quarantine for exposure anymore.
Do you quarantine your children if they are exposed to flu, RSV, or HFM?

Public schools are K-12 and for children 5 and over which means 100% of the population is vaccine eligible. The majority of daycare kids are under 5 and not vaccine eligible. This is why CDC has separate guidelines for daycare.

The CDC has separate guidelines for daycare because they despise women who work outside the home. There is no other logic behind it. Unvaccinated kids under age 5 are lower risk than every other age group despite being unvaccinated. As you yourself mentioned the vaccinated people can spread COVID SO WHY DO ONLY YOUNG CHILDREN HAVE TO QUARANTINE? You cannot justify it, nobody can justify it. I absolutely hate, and I mean HATE this stupid country.

+1
The current situations with quarantines in daycare is untenable for working parents. I've posted before on this thread and others, but we are at a total of 72 days of quarantine from childcare between my 2 kids in the past 18 months. And they've never had covid.
And, FWIW, my Kindergartener is in aftercare at our daycare...10 out of 12 of the kids in her aftercare group are vaccinated, and yet they STILL quarantined the entire class due to one positive case in a staff member that was in the room for about a half hour. 10 days without aftercare, yet she was just fine to continue going to our public school. Thankfully, at least her little sister wasn't quarantined from daycare, as well.

Please keep this thread alive! I don’t think anyone making the policies truly understands the impact it has on working parents with daycare aged kids ( who are not vaccine eligible). The impacts are untenable!

+1. Reading the news about the administration planning for potential late June rollout of under-5 vaccines. Are we still going to do this sh*t when the toddlers are all vaxxed? Please tell me no.

Jesus I hope not, but I really don’t know. There’s a preK room at our daycare where all the kids have been 5 for a while and yet they’re all still wearing masks (parental choice, no longer required). It’s not like they are mixing with the 2yos, even outside time is separated by classroom. And we were recently updated that should anyone in your house get Covid, the daycare kid has to stay home for 15 days minimum regardless of vaccination status. I just don’t know what it will take for Covid to be treated like other illnesses.

This type of policy to me just helps Covid spread.

Who in the family in their right mind would test if you had to keep your daycare child out for over 2 weeks when it is completely possible they may never get it in the first place?!?!?!?

There are a lot of perverse incentives in daycares. I need a doctor's note if my kid is out sick for 3 days? OK, I guess I'll just send them back on day 3 then.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:We just got notified of a ten-day closure due to a positive case in my five-year-old's class. She is vaccinated. Her little brother also has to quarantine for the full ten days. We just did this less than a month ago. Something has gotta give!!!!!!

They're making her quarantine even though she's vaccinated? That shouldn't happen. Is the brother in the same class? Why does he need to quarantine?

You do realize that vaccinated adults and children can still get COVID and pass it on to others? If your child has been exposed, please keep them out of school, even if they are vaccinated.

Except this isn't how the public schools are handling things now. Vaccinated children in public schools don't quarantine for exposure anymore.
Do you quarantine your children if they are exposed to flu, RSV, or HFM?

Public schools are K-12 and for children 5 and over which means 100% of the population is vaccine eligible. The majority of daycare kids are under 5 and not vaccine eligible. This is why CDC has separate guidelines for daycare.

The CDC has separate guidelines for daycare because they despise women who work outside the home. There is no other logic behind it. Unvaccinated kids under age 5 are lower risk than every other age group despite being unvaccinated. As you yourself mentioned the vaccinated people can spread COVID SO WHY DO ONLY YOUNG CHILDREN HAVE TO QUARANTINE? You cannot justify it, nobody can justify it. I absolutely hate, and I mean HATE this stupid country.

+1
The current situations with quarantines in daycare is untenable for working parents. I've posted before on this thread and others, but we are at a total of 72 days of quarantine from childcare between my 2 kids in the past 18 months. And they've never had covid.
And, FWIW, my Kindergartener is in aftercare at our daycare...10 out of 12 of the kids in her aftercare group are vaccinated, and yet they STILL quarantined the entire class due to one positive case in a staff member that was in the room for about a half hour. 10 days without aftercare, yet she was just fine to continue going to our public school. Thankfully, at least her little sister wasn't quarantined from daycare, as well.

Please keep this thread alive! I don’t think anyone making the policies truly understands the impact it has on working parents with daycare aged kids ( who are not vaccine eligible). The impacts are untenable!

+1. Reading the news about the administration planning for potential late June rollout of under-5 vaccines. Are we still going to do this sh*t when the toddlers are all vaxxed? Please tell me no.

Jesus I hope not, but I really don’t know. There’s a preK room at our daycare where all the kids have been 5 for a while and yet they’re all still wearing masks (parental choice, no longer required). It’s not like they are mixing with the 2yos, even outside time is separated by classroom. And we were recently updated that should anyone in your house get Covid, the daycare kid has to stay home for 15 days minimum regardless of vaccination status. I just don’t know what it will take for Covid to be treated like other illnesses.

I know daycares can be hard to find, but that’s insane. You need to find a new one.

We simply aren’t testing ourselves or older sibling. When the kid in daycare has symptoms we do test as required, but they follow the CDC guidance for isolation (return after day 5 with mask if symptoms are better). They say the household member quarantine guidance comes from the health dept. so I assume other daycares in the area are similar. I can’t drive to another county for childcare.