Parents— Act Now to Prevent Daycare/PreK closures

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Anonymous wrote:I'm not handling quarantines on my own anymore. When my kids get sent home, my spouse is at least trading off days with me. The hospital and patients will have a fun time dealing with the cancelled procedures.

Yup, my DH is the essential worker too whereas I have the more flexible, currently teleworking job. But I’m sick of burning my leave and/or working until midnight for these excessive quarantines and he agrees. You reap what you sow.

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Anonymous wrote:I really don’t understand what you think demonizes childcare workers in the OP. All I said was childcare centers and prek settings don’t have an (financial) incentive to push for changes to quarantine policies because they aren’t negatively impacted by kids getting pushed into unnecessarily long quarantines. What is incorrect or unfair about that?

Sure they are, they lose business when they can't provide child care

Sure… how many child care centers are having parents drop out over quarantine/isolation requirements? As far as I can tell, nearly all are following the lead from the county and state health departments. So if you need child care, which if you’re paying a bunch of money, you probably do, then you’re stuck.

My kid’s preschool tried to move to a 7-day quarantine with a negative test, to align with the employee policy, but the county made vague threats, causing the preschool to quickly back down. While they've lobbied the county for other changes to child care policy, they didn't lobby for changes to the quarantine policy.

MoCo? I am starting to hate this county so much. My DC has had two negative PCRs- at day 4 and day 8, but still has to complete a 14 day quarantine per the county. They clearly just want to stick it to working families, which really baffles me for all the talk about equity.

Correct- MoCo’s DHHS is the problem.

Has the state chimed in on this at all? Because that seems like a problem too. I know MoCo can choose to ignore their guidance but I wish someone would show some leadership here.

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Anonymous wrote:I really don’t understand what you think demonizes childcare workers in the OP. All I said was childcare centers and prek settings don’t have an (financial) incentive to push for changes to quarantine policies because they aren’t negatively impacted by kids getting pushed into unnecessarily long quarantines. What is incorrect or unfair about that?

Sure they are, they lose business when they can't provide child care

Sure… how many child care centers are having parents drop out over quarantine/isolation requirements? As far as I can tell, nearly all are following the lead from the county and state health departments. So if you need child care, which if you’re paying a bunch of money, you probably do, then you’re stuck.

My kid’s preschool tried to move to a 7-day quarantine with a negative test, to align with the employee policy, but the county made vague threats, causing the preschool to quickly back down. While they've lobbied the county for other changes to child care policy, they didn't lobby for changes to the quarantine policy.

MoCo? I am starting to hate this county so much. My DC has had two negative PCRs- at day 4 and day 8, but still has to complete a 14 day quarantine per the county. They clearly just want to stick it to working families, which really baffles me for all the talk about equity.

Correct- MoCo’s DHHS is the problem.

Has the state chimed in on this at all? Because that seems like a problem too. I know MoCo can choose to ignore their guidance but I wish someone would show some leadership here.

Yes, and MDH is the other part of the problem. Some counties ignores MDH guidelines, or left policies to providers to decide and implement. MoCo has gone with the strongest interpretation of MDH guidance. We need Hogan to step in.

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Anonymous wrote:I really don’t understand what you think demonizes childcare workers in the OP. All I said was childcare centers and prek settings don’t have an (financial) incentive to push for changes to quarantine policies because they aren’t negatively impacted by kids getting pushed into unnecessarily long quarantines. What is incorrect or unfair about that?

Sure they are, they lose business when they can't provide child care

Sure… how many child care centers are having parents drop out over quarantine/isolation requirements? As far as I can tell, nearly all are following the lead from the county and state health departments. So if you need child care, which if you’re paying a bunch of money, you probably do, then you’re stuck.

My kid’s preschool tried to move to a 7-day quarantine with a negative test, to align with the employee policy, but the county made vague threats, causing the preschool to quickly back down. While they've lobbied the county for other changes to child care policy, they didn't lobby for changes to the quarantine policy.

MoCo? I am starting to hate this county so much. My DC has had two negative PCRs- at day 4 and day 8, but still has to complete a 14 day quarantine per the county. They clearly just want to stick it to working families, which really baffles me for all the talk about equity.

Correct- MoCo’s DHHS is the problem.

Has the state chimed in on this at all? Because that seems like a problem too. I know MoCo can choose to ignore their guidance but I wish someone would show some leadership here.

Yes, and MDH is the other part of the problem. Some counties ignores MDH guidelines, or left policies to providers to decide and implement. MoCo has gone with the strongest interpretation of MDH guidance. We need Hogan to step in.

I wrote an email to Hogan and my congresspeople last night regarding this and other issues. Its ridiculous that daycares are allowed to function unregulated in this aspect and every single HD and/or daycare is doing things differently. They just get to close willy nilly without transparency. Our director has the audacity to state the they may consider closing because some students are positive/pending results but they havent been in the building since 12/22. WTF. If they are positive, they stay home- how does their positive have any bearing on other kids attending?