Is your daycare back to pre-COVID hours?

[Anonymous]

OP here. For those who have daycares with better/pre-covid hours, would you mind sharing the names of your daycares? Might help those who are looking for more flexibility

[Anonymous]

I would ask bc my daycare shows covid hours but when I asked they said, “oh no we keep forgetting to change it we are back full time regular hours “

[Anonymous]

Where are you located (or wanting to find care)

[Anonymous]

St Albans was open 7:00-6:30 before COVID. They have not returned to those hours still.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:OP here. For those who have daycares with better/pre-covid hours, would you mind sharing the names of your daycares? Might help those who are looking for more flexibility

Discovery Time in Alexandria, 7:30a-5:30pm

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Ours opens 45 min later (which is really tough) and a half hour earlier (which recently changed from an hr earlier). I really need them to open at 8 or 8.15. I'm currently looking into other options.

They are opening after 8? That’s very late.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Nope- but now it's not really a covid issue, it's staffing- they're having a hard time finding additional staff.
Our hours are still shortened in rockville- used to be 7:30-6, now 8-5 been 8-5 through pandemic.

Similar, they cite staffing issues. It is hard to hire childcare staff right now. They also have lower ratios than usual so it is probably a cost issue.

Pre covid: 745-530
Covid hours: 8:30-4, eventually (Aug 2021?) extended 8:30-4:30
Now: 8:15 - 4:45

[Anonymous]

Ours is 8:30-5:00, leans early but almost all the parents work together.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Ours opens 45 min later (which is really tough) and a half hour earlier (which recently changed from an hr earlier). I really need them to open at 8 or 8.15. I'm currently looking into other options.

They are opening after 8? That’s very late.

Ours opens at 8:30, closes at 5.

[Anonymous]

Ugh, just announced moving to 8-5. Regular hours are 7-6. The reason is that they want to be able to not combine classrooms at the beginning and end of the day. They don't have the staff for separate classrooms all day long. They'd just moved back to regular hours in August 2021. I'm lucky that I'm still working from home and able to manage with the limited hours.

We were only allowed into the building for pickup and drop off a few months ago. I wonder if they'll shut that down again soon.

A two year old classroom shut for two weeks a few weeks ago. And a K room closed today for two weeks.

[Anonymous]

Our preschool was 8 to 5 (including before and aftercare).
Now: 9 to 4.

[Anonymous]

Ours is the same as before. 7:30am to 6:30pm. Most kids are there 8:30-5ish, esp now that parents are largely wfh.