Why are you still telling daycare that your kid tested positive?

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Anonymous wrote:What is the point? The other kids were already all exposed as well as the teachers. Just tell school your child has an ear infection/you are on vacation and call it a day. It doesn't actually prevent anything and instead just makes every other family struggle. And if the other kids are going to get Covid-they are going to get it regardless of having to stay out of school for 10 days.

There is literally no point to this anymore.

Signed,
An exhausted mom who was just notified of the 5th 10 day quarantine in less than a year the same week I am starting a new job.

Amen!!! And to the people who are still fearful of COVID, get your kid vaxxed and/or pull them out and get a nanny.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:What is the point? The other kids were already all exposed as well as the teachers. Just tell school your child has an ear infection/you are on vacation and call it a day. It doesn't actually prevent anything and instead just makes every other family struggle. And if the other kids are going to get Covid-they are going to get it regardless of having to stay out of school for 10 days.

There is literally no point to this anymore.

Signed,
An exhausted mom who was just notified of the 5th 10 day quarantine in less than a year the same week I am starting a new job.

10 days is ridiculous. Our daycare lets kids come back 5 days post-exposure with a clean test. Agree about the reporting though. Last time some kid tested positive all the other kids were okay.

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Anonymous wrote:What is the point? The other kids were already all exposed as well as the teachers. Just tell school your child has an ear infection/you are on vacation and call it a day. It doesn't actually prevent anything and instead just makes every other family struggle. And if the other kids are going to get Covid-they are going to get it regardless of having to stay out of school for 10 days.

There is literally no point to this anymore.

Signed,
An exhausted mom who was just notified of the 5th 10 day quarantine in less than a year the same week I am starting a new job.

That doesnt fly for our school. We are required to bring a doctors note stating that it isnt something other than COVID if he is sick. And no one will believe we are on vacation, maybe that works for summer but it doesnt fly for the rest of the year. Not only that but my kid will be like- I missed you so and so but I got to watch TV for 8 hours with Mommy.

Your daycare requires a doctors note to return from any absence? That’s insane - they are probably getting a kickback from health insurance companies. Have Dad do the drop off - no one hassles a dad about that nonsense.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:What is the point? The other kids were already all exposed as well as the teachers. Just tell school your child has an ear infection/you are on vacation and call it a day. It doesn't actually prevent anything and instead just makes every other family struggle. And if the other kids are going to get Covid-they are going to get it regardless of having to stay out of school for 10 days.

There is literally no point to this anymore.

Signed,
An exhausted mom who was just notified of the 5th 10 day quarantine in less than a year the same week I am starting a new job.

That doesnt fly for our school. We are required to bring a doctors note stating that it isnt something other than COVID if he is sick. And no one will believe we are on vacation, maybe that works for summer but it doesnt fly for the rest of the year. Not only that but my kid will be like- I missed you so and so but I got to watch TV for 8 hours with Mommy.

Your daycare requires a doctors note to return from any absence? That’s insane - they are probably getting a kickback from health insurance companies. Have Dad do the drop off - no one hassles a dad about that nonsense.

NP, my daycare also has a requirement for this, if you match any of the COVID symptoms. Haven't considered lying about tummy/ear aches yet. I actually don't midn this for our family, because we can get rapid PCRs covered by insurance and email our doctor for a note, also covered through insurance. We can get that lined up in the amount of time it takes for the kid to recover anyway. BUT, not everyone has a close by rapid PCR, and some people are actually (maybe?) going into the dr's office to get these return-to-school notes. It is an easy bar for us to clear, but I still think it is unreasonable as a policy. It would be more reasonable to request a rapid test before return, and maybe a few days later - but that's about it.

Our daycare is also NOT doing classroom shut downs for exposure any more. I agree that is completely crazy at this stage. They also let children who have positive parents attend daycare (though in both cases I know of, the kid eventually was positive too).

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Anonymous wrote:My kids have had a lot of "ear infections" and "tummy aches". Though, that's mostly because if you reported any symptom on the list of possible COVID symptoms they daycare required a PCR test to return. I've spent over $1,000 on rapid turnaround PCR tests for that reason. Lately I've just been reporting a different symptom and using a rapid test.

The problem with the OP's comment is that, at least in Maryland, you need a doctors note to return if you miss 3 days of daycare. The other problem is that you're incentivized to report the case early because the 5-10 day isolation clock starts on the day you say symptoms started or a positive test.

I was able to bypass this when my kid got it. With the weekend, it worked out such that I could say she didn't test positive until >48 hours after she was last at daycare without impacting her return date.

I’d roll the dice—if your kid gets sick Thursday or Friday, then you don’t need a doctor’s note. Earlier in the week, I’d claim you had to leave town suddenly to visit an elderly relative who took a turn for the worse.

100% you just need to get creative. We have had "relatives visiting", "needing to go out of town for a funeral", "family wedding across the country". So many reasons we couldn't be in school that didn't mean other parents had to miss working to provide for their family.

It's not 2020. The constant absences from work are no longer universally acceptable.

It’s just stupid that we have to do this though- also I assume sone of you have babies/younger toddlers? My 4yo is a blabber! And I don’t feel comfortable asking him to lie….

[Anonymous]

My coworker's daycare is like this. She's blown through her PTO and is in the red. Hardly through the month of July and we still have the fall & winter sickly months to go. She's so stressed that she's contemplating quitting. She also said her husband only has about 15 or so hours of PTO left for the year.

Each time there's a close contact positive (kid in the same class), even with negative tests & vaccination, the kids have to quarantine for 10 days. And like she said, this happened twice in one month so that was a total of 20 days out of the center and yet their tuition was the same.

I told her to look for a new daycare. There has to be one out there that's not doing 10 day mandatory quarantines.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:My coworker's daycare is like this. She's blown through her PTO and is in the red. Hardly through the month of July and we still have the fall & winter sickly months to go. She's so stressed that she's contemplating quitting. She also said her husband only has about 15 or so hours of PTO left for the year.

Each time there's a close contact positive (kid in the same class), even with negative tests & vaccination, the kids have to quarantine for 10 days. And like she said, this happened twice in one month so that was a total of 20 days out of the center and yet their tuition was the same.

I told her to look for a new daycare. There has to be one out there that's not doing 10 day mandatory quarantines.

Yeah I tend to scoff a bit at the "just move!" advice because finding a new daycare that checks all your boxes can be easier said than done, but at least ours is following the CDC and we can test out of quarantine after 5 days. There's a world of difference between 5 and 10 days, and once DC is fully vaccinated they won't have to quarantine at all. But if my daycare was not following the guidance and adopting stricter policies on its own, that would probably be the impetus to explore my options. Is your co-worker's daycare still requiring quarantines for vaccinated kids?

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Anonymous wrote:What is the point? The other kids were already all exposed as well as the teachers. Just tell school your child has an ear infection/you are on vacation and call it a day. It doesn't actually prevent anything and instead just makes every other family struggle. And if the other kids are going to get Covid-they are going to get it regardless of having to stay out of school for 10 days.

There is literally no point to this anymore.

Signed,
An exhausted mom who was just notified of the 5th 10 day quarantine in less than a year the same week I am starting a new job.

That doesnt fly for our school. We are required to bring a doctors note stating that it isnt something other than COVID if he is sick. And no one will believe we are on vacation, maybe that works for summer but it doesnt fly for the rest of the year. Not only that but my kid will be like- I missed you so and so but I got to watch TV for 8 hours with Mommy.

Your daycare requires a doctors note to return from any absence? That’s insane - they are probably getting a kickback from health insurance companies. Have Dad do the drop off - no one hassles a dad about that nonsense.

Yes, its a requirement due to COVID. If he is out sick, i.e. had a cough, and we bring him back, he needs a letter stating it wasnt COVID and was a different diagnosis.

Nope, Dads count as parents at this school too!

[Anonymous]

100% agree OP. All daycares are doing is incentivizing not testing, or at least not reporting a positive test result — I’m pissed at every family that reports one.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:100% agree OP. All daycares are doing is incentivizing not testing, or at least not reporting a positive test result — I’m pissed at every family that reports one.

Weird, I’m pissed at the ones that lie.

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Anonymous wrote:100% agree OP. All daycares are doing is incentivizing not testing, or at least not reporting a positive test result — I’m pissed at every family that reports one.

Weird, I’m pissed at the ones that lie.

The lesser evil is lying, as opposed to sending a class home for 5-10 days.

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Anonymous wrote:100% agree OP. All daycares are doing is incentivizing not testing, or at least not reporting a positive test result — I’m pissed at every family that reports one.

Weird, I’m pissed at the ones that lie.

The lesser evil is lying, as opposed to sending a class home for 5-10 days.

Agree. Stop testing. If positive stay home and claim something else why you’re out. Stop ducking over everyone in the class

[Anonymous]

But the teacher has to test and if she's positive the class has to quarantine for five days anyway. And this makes her burn through her leave. It sucks.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:But the teacher has to test and if she's positive the class has to quarantine for five days anyway. And this makes her burn through her leave. It sucks.

The teacher doesn’t have to test either.

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Anonymous wrote:But the teacher has to test and if she's positive the class has to quarantine for five days anyway. And this makes her burn through her leave. It sucks.

The teacher doesn’t have to test either.

Why on earth would you want your child's teacher or classmates coming to daycare sick?