daycare shutting down our class for 10 days due to COVID

[Anonymous]

FTR our MoCo daycare does not shut down classes or the school for one or even multiple cases. They quarantine "close contacts", no idea how that is determined but it is not the full class, and quarantine is 5 days (must mask the following 5 days - not sure if under 2s have to quarantine longer since they cannot mask). Our daycare is meticulous about following rules. My impression is at least in MoCo they are not requiring classes or schools to be shut down based on COVID outbreaks.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:UGH. Someone in DC's class tested positive and they are shutting down the class for 10 days!! I thought CDC guideline was 5 days now. I hate that this will completely upend our lives - two working parents who now have to scramble for coverage.

Pandemic may be over, but COVID-related disruptions are still such a nightmare.

We’ve dealt with this 6 times now throughout the course of the pandemic (2 kids in daycare in different classrooms). In all but one instance, the positive case was a staff member. No confirmed spread within the daycare - no other associated positive tests. Daycare has received guidance to continue the 10-day quarantines from the health dept (Loudoun).
I don’t see this changing any time soon, unfortunately.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:This is getting absurd. When will someone fix this? Have any parents thought of going to the media to see if someone will do a story? It’s constant disruption to people’s lives and I think many are t aware this is still happening since the narrative is life has “returned to normal.”

Completely agree. It's disruptive when they shut down with parents working, still paying for a care they don't receive and on top of that, have to pay additional money to someone to take care of the kids.

[Anonymous]

I feel like my daycare has rolled back all of the COVID policies that were inconvenient to THEM (not combining classes, no floater teachers, only one class on the playground, etc) but kept all he ones that are inconvenient for parents (long COVID shutdowns for a positive case, drs notes and testing to return if kids have symptoms even if it's just a cold, restricted hours, masks for the kids).

No surprise I guess

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I feel like my daycare has rolled back all of the COVID policies that were inconvenient to THEM (not combining classes, no floater teachers, only one class on the playground, etc) but kept all he ones that are inconvenient for parents (long COVID shutdowns for a positive case, drs notes and testing to return if kids have symptoms even if it's just a cold, restricted hours, masks for the kids).

No surprise I guess

Yeah pretty much- for us no hot lunch either (which was provided before the pandemic). We have one year left and it’s not worth the disruption to DD to change (she loves her teachers and friends) but I’m not recommending the daycare anymore without significant caveats (whereas I used to recommend them wholeheartedly).

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:UGH. Someone in DC's class tested positive and they are shutting down the class for 10 days!! I thought CDC guideline was 5 days now. I hate that this will completely upend our lives - two working parents who now have to scramble for coverage.

Pandemic may be over, but COVID-related disruptions are still such a nightmare.

it should be five days from exposure to kid who tested positive. so if the kid who tested positive was last in on monday then 5 days would be saturday. you would need to get your kids tested on saturday or sunday to return to school monday with a negative test and no symptoms.

mask wearing would be required for day 6-10 that can removed during eating and napping.

if your school isnt masked then you get a 10 day.

I think this is our daycare’s policy too. Except the 10 day piece. In MoCo. I’d raise this with your center, OP. Other centers in VA do not follow the same guidance as yours (my coworker’s is one). You could have a case to get the policy changed.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:UGH. Someone in DC's class tested positive and they are shutting down the class for 10 days!! I thought CDC guideline was 5 days now. I hate that this will completely upend our lives - two working parents who now have to scramble for coverage.

Pandemic may be over, but COVID-related disruptions are still such a nightmare.

it should be five days from exposure to kid who tested positive. so if the kid who tested positive was last in on monday then 5 days would be saturday. you would need to get your kids tested on saturday or sunday to return to school monday with a negative test and no symptoms.

mask wearing would be required for day 6-10 that can removed during eating and napping.

if your school isnt masked then you get a 10 day.

I think this is our daycare’s policy too. Except the 10 day piece. In MoCo. I’d raise this with your center, OP. Other centers in VA do not follow the same guidance as yours (my coworker’s is one). You could have a case to get the policy changed.

This is our schools policy too. 5 days and then 5 days masked. I’m so sorry op I can’t believe they are still doing 10 days!! Will this finally change after more kids get vaccines?

[Anonymous]

Anyone in NOVA (ideally, Alexandria) have a daycare with more lax policies? We are searching for a daycare now…

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I don't understand why the Arlington VA daycare is closed for 10 days - ours stays open when there is a direct exposure. Honestly I wouldn't mind a quarantine of 5 days (an unpopular opinion on dcum)

The trouble is, it isn’t a quarantine. If you close daycare, I hire sitters and lean on family. So he has MORE exposures in a week of closed daycare than a week of open daycare.

After vaccines and people returning to normal, this has been my issue too. My kid isn’t isolating for 10 days. They are interacting with all kinds of people between daycare closure and reopening. Why are we so particular about stopping spread in daycare classrooms when we are living free everywhere else? It makes no sense

[Anonymous]

Why do parents keep reporting positive cases?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Why do parents keep reporting positive cases?

If the kid has obvious symptoms then the daycare may require a negative test to return.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Why do parents keep reporting positive cases?

Hum..maybe they are de ent people.

[Anonymous]

Who are the people still voluntarily testing for covid?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Who are the people still voluntarily testing for covid?

Decent, unselfish people with class. You don’t know them.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Who are the people still voluntarily testing for covid?

Decent, unselfish people with class. You don’t know them.

Hah, fair enough. I don’t think I want to know anyone who says they have “class.” Especially when they keep preventing classrooms full of healthy kids from being able to do to class.