Preschool masking in Virginia

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Anonymous wrote:I believe the 5 and up requirement lapsed when Northam made masks optional. Our daycare isn't requiring them for my daughter that just turned 5 last month.

Which one?! Secular?

FAZ in McLean. Yes, secular.

Wow. Amazing. You like it there? Seems like they also offer kindergarten ??

I've written on here about it before. Yes, we like it there. I've had one or two kids there for 6 years and have always been pleased. My first grader did virtual K there last year and they were very flexible and great to work with. They do have teachers that are certified in teaching K and they have a curriculum, but so far they haven't had the demand. They were trying to do it last year but the other parents of Kinders that were interested wanted to do online learning so we went along with it. He was well-prepared for K last year and I currently have a pre-K'er who will be well-prepared as well. They do a good job. They are sensible with Covid precautions but don't go overboard. They don't freak out about every runny nose. We haven't had a classroom closure since June 2020. I test my kids with every illness and it's always been negative for Covid. It helps that this area is highly vaccinated, of course, and the director required all the teachers to get vaccinated as soon as it became available.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I believe the 5 and up requirement lapsed when Northam made masks optional. Our daycare isn't requiring them for my daughter that just turned 5 last month.

Which one?! Secular?

FAZ in McLean. Yes, secular.

Wow. Amazing. You like it there? Seems like they also offer kindergarten ??

I've written on here about it before. Yes, we like it there. I've had one or two kids there for 6 years and have always been pleased. My first grader did virtual K there last year and they were very flexible and great to work with. They do have teachers that are certified in teaching K and they have a curriculum, but so far they haven't had the demand. They were trying to do it last year but the other parents of Kinders that were interested wanted to do online learning so we went along with it. He was well-prepared for K last year and I currently have a pre-K'er who will be well-prepared as well. They do a good job. They are sensible with Covid precautions but don't go overboard. They don't freak out about every runny nose. We haven't had a classroom closure since June 2020. I test my kids with every illness and it's always been negative for Covid. It helps that this area is highly vaccinated, of course, and the director required all the teachers to get vaccinated as soon as it became available.

Thank you - sorry - I have trouble with the search feature on this forum. Apologies for asking you to re-state, but thank you for the information. I have reached out to them. Definitely not interested in virtual learning but would love to consider kindergarten if in person.

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Anonymous wrote:masks are not required for daycare licensing in VA.

If true, that’s deeply misunderstood by daycare administration. Every single daycare I’ve called have told me “they’re required by law.” SMDH.

Someone is lying.

[Anonymous]

Christ Presbyterian in Fairfax was mask optional all last school year. No covid in my kid's class all year. My kid is in K now so I'm not familiar with their current requirement, though I can't imagine they would have suddenly started requiring it this year.

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Anonymous wrote:So while I'm fine with them requiring masking still, I will say that most preschool directors don't seem to be able to parse out any nuance.

So ours is following any county guidelines to the letter. Despite the fact that these are guidelines, not requirements. I asked a set of rules for my 5 year old, since he is vaccinated, and they couldn't even deal with that. Told me to contact the health department.

We are leaving the center in June, so I am just going along with it. If I had more time in preschool, I'd maybe be more riled up about it.

I appreciate that they are trying to keep unvaccinated children safe. But some of the stuff our center does is bizarre. Like we can't send a lunch box because of "cross contamination". Ridiculous but whatever!

Yes, ours also follows all reccomendation, then exceeds them (outdoor masking). I still can't send a little nap time stuffie in "because, COVID", even though we can send a blanket.