What are your plans for childcare with hybrid model school?

[Anonymous]

As a nanny this is great for us. If you want to keep my availability open, you need to pay me 40hrs. I already have a new family. Old family just wanted to pay me for part time hours, but new family is willing to pay full time to retain me in case of shut downs or schedule changes so I get guaranteed hours. I suggest you do the same if you want to keep reliable childcare. Nannies won’t stick around if they can get paid full time hours somewhere else.

[Anonymous]

Yeah, I don’t know what we’d do yet. Our older two will be in first and third next year, and all I know is that what happened the last three months CANNOT continue for the entirety of the 2020-2021 school year.

Frankly, I might push to homeschool them and then find essential childcare for school-aged kids (which we qualify for thanks to DH’s job). Two days a week in school is the bare minimum we could tolerate, and even that is stretching it. Distance learning for early elementary kids was, in our experience, a disaster.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:We’re thinking about continuing our 5-year-old in pre-K. It’s a full day program and he could just go on his off days.

This is what I'm doing but i have no idea what to do with my rising 3rd grader. Me and dh work 2 essential jobs with zero flexibility. This is horrible

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:As a nanny this is great for us. If you want to keep my availability open, you need to pay me 40hrs. I already have a new family. Old family just wanted to pay me for part time hours, but new family is willing to pay full time to retain me in case of shut downs or schedule changes so I get guaranteed hours. I suggest you do the same if you want to keep reliable childcare. Nannies won’t stick around if they can get paid full time hours somewhere else.

Thanks for the threatening tip that was unrelated to OPs question or anyone who can't afford a nanny. There's a nanny board for these posts.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Yeah, I don’t know what we’d do yet. Our older two will be in first and third next year, and all I know is that what happened the last three months CANNOT continue for the entirety of the 2020-2021 school year.

Frankly, I might push to homeschool them and then find essential childcare for school-aged kids (which we qualify for thanks to DH’s job). Two days a week in school is the bare minimum we could tolerate, and even that is stretching it. Distance learning for early elementary kids was, in our experience, a disaster.

Disaster over here too.. you are not alone.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:As a nanny this is great for us. If you want to keep my availability open, you need to pay me 40hrs. I already have a new family. Old family just wanted to pay me for part time hours, but new family is willing to pay full time to retain me in case of shut downs or schedule changes so I get guaranteed hours. I suggest you do the same if you want to keep reliable childcare. Nannies won’t stick around if they can get paid full time hours somewhere else.

Thanks for the threatening tip that was unrelated to OPs question or anyone who can't afford a nanny. There's a nanny board for these posts.

Also most people with school age children don't have nannies

[Anonymous]

There won’t be before or after care! Mixing kids like that will negate any benefit to having smaller classes during the day.

[Anonymous]

Luckily DH and I both have the flexibility to work from home as needed, but we'll probably have to hire some childcare. We won't know what until it's announced, and even when the district announces a plan we won't really be able to organize anything until we know which days and times our kids are going to be in school. I have 3 kids (2nd, 4th and 7th) and I doubt that all 3 of them will end up being scheduled to be home on the same days

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:There won’t be before or after care! Mixing kids like that will negate any benefit to having smaller classes during the day.

I laughed at that pp. Ah, grasshopper. Welcome to school!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:As a nanny this is great for us. If you want to keep my availability open, you need to pay me 40hrs. I already have a new family. Old family just wanted to pay me for part time hours, but new family is willing to pay full time to retain me in case of shut downs or schedule changes so I get guaranteed hours. I suggest you do the same if you want to keep reliable childcare. Nannies won’t stick around if they can get paid full time hours somewhere else.

Then more nannies will enter the market - teachers with masters degrees who retired or too medical leave bc they didn’t want the exposure.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:As a nanny this is great for us. If you want to keep my availability open, you need to pay me 40hrs. I already have a new family. Old family just wanted to pay me for part time hours, but new family is willing to pay full time to retain me in case of shut downs or schedule changes so I get guaranteed hours. I suggest you do the same if you want to keep reliable childcare. Nannies won’t stick around if they can get paid full time hours somewhere else.

Then more nannies will enter the market - teachers with masters degrees who retired or too medical leave bc they didn’t want the exposure.

If I left the classroom because I didn't want covid exposure, the last job I'd want would be one with kids who were in school 1/2 time, and parents working outside the home. I don't really see how that's better.

I've already lined up an online teaching job, but if that wasn't an option, I'd look for a nanny with infant/toddlers and parents working from home.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:We will be using before and after are for our kindergarten aged child.

Hahahahaha. Do you think you will have that option for the off days- or any days?

Umm yes. Aftercare is NOT on site. Aftercare is at the daycare that our youngest son goes to as well. It’s a win for every aspect. School aged kids attend when school is closed and before/after.

[Anonymous]

Honestly maybe private school, maybe moving depending on if a state in the DMV gets its act together. But I can’t see this happening. It will be completed devastating to so many families who don’t have room in their budgets.

[Anonymous]

dcmom wrote:

Anonymous wrote:We will be using before and after are for our kindergarten aged child.

I doubt it will be offered next year.

This. I’ve already heard from teachers that it will not be offered.

[Anonymous]

My husband and I are both teachers. We moved our 2 kids to Catholic school in early April when we realized how bad their public schools were at distance learning. They will stay there next year and hopefully attend full-time.