How to fight this new anti-childcare winter weather approach?

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Anonymous wrote:OP does not comprehend that workers at childcare centers exist and go home at night.

That's a decision for their employers to make, not for MCPS to force upon private child care providers. In the past, some opened and some did not, based on local conditions and staffing capacity. It is ridiculous and offensive for MCPS to force this in a top down manner.

They aren’t “private childcare providers.” They operate under the auspices of the school district. You’re welcome to pay more and arrange daily transportation for your kid to ACTUAL private childcare providers offsite if you want different weather policies. 🤷‍♀️

Stop lying. They are private providers who rent space from MCPS.

Mmkay. And MCPS does not have to let them use their space when they’ve deemed it unsafe to do so.

Tantrum harder.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:You're lucky the school system provides these services at all. It doesn't have to. Quit your whining.

Ever hear of Maryland's Blueprint for education? PreK has been expanded and is free/sliding scale for lower-income families.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:OP does not comprehend that workers at childcare centers exist and go home at night.

That's a decision for their employers to make, not for MCPS to force upon private child care providers. In the past, some opened and some did not, based on local conditions and staffing capacity. It is ridiculous and offensive for MCPS to force this in a top down manner.

They aren’t “private childcare providers.” They operate under the auspices of the school district. You’re welcome to pay more and arrange daily transportation for your kid to ACTUAL private childcare providers offsite if you want different weather policies. 🤷‍♀️

Stop lying. They are private providers who rent space from MCPS.

Mmkay. And MCPS does not have to let them use their space when they’ve deemed it unsafe to do so.

Tantrum harder.

They haven't deemed it unsafe. It's raining.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:OP does not comprehend that workers at childcare centers exist and go home at night.

That's a decision for their employers to make, not for MCPS to force upon private child care providers. In the past, some opened and some did not, based on local conditions and staffing capacity. It is ridiculous and offensive for MCPS to force this in a top down manner.

It's the Thomas Taylor way. Heavy handed and imperious.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:OP does not comprehend that workers at childcare centers exist and go home at night.

That's a decision for their employers to make, not for MCPS to force upon private child care providers. In the past, some opened and some did not, based on local conditions and staffing capacity. It is ridiculous and offensive for MCPS to force this in a top down manner.

They aren’t “private childcare providers.” They operate under the auspices of the school district. You’re welcome to pay more and arrange daily transportation for your kid to ACTUAL private childcare providers offsite if you want different weather policies. 🤷‍♀️

Stop lying. They are private providers who rent space from MCPS.

Mmkay. And MCPS does not have to let them use their space when they’ve deemed it unsafe to do so.

Tantrum harder.

They haven't deemed it unsafe. It's raining.

Is wasnt raining at 4:45 AM when they had to make the call. I love how everyone expects them to be able to predict the future but you are too irresponsible to predict how to handle your kids in this situation

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Also this decision obviously contradicts what MCPS sent out in their 5,000 emails yesterday about the definition of a code yellow. It literally says “Before, after school, and childcare programs may operate as scheduled-check with your providers.” So…who changed it??

may=possibly, not guaranteed

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:OP does not comprehend that workers at childcare centers exist and go home at night.

That's a decision for their employers to make, not for MCPS to force upon private child care providers. In the past, some opened and some did not, based on local conditions and staffing capacity. It is ridiculous and offensive for MCPS to force this in a top down manner.

They aren’t “private childcare providers.” They operate under the auspices of the school district. You’re welcome to pay more and arrange daily transportation for your kid to ACTUAL private childcare providers offsite if you want different weather policies. 🤷‍♀️

Stop lying. They are private providers who rent space from MCPS.

So MCPS decides how/when the space will be available. Private providers using public buildings for their private businesses - and their customers - should understand this.

I would be annoyed at the change in policy from previous years. Why did they change it?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:OP does not comprehend that workers at childcare centers exist and go home at night.

That's a decision for their employers to make, not for MCPS to force upon private child care providers. In the past, some opened and some did not, based on local conditions and staffing capacity. It is ridiculous and offensive for MCPS to force this in a top down manner.

They aren’t “private childcare providers.” They operate under the auspices of the school district. You’re welcome to pay more and arrange daily transportation for your kid to ACTUAL private childcare providers offsite if you want different weather policies. 🤷‍♀️

Stop lying. They are private providers who rent space from MCPS.

Mmkay. And MCPS does not have to let them use their space when they’ve deemed it unsafe to do so.

Tantrum harder.

They haven't deemed it unsafe. It's raining.

Is wasnt raining at 4:45 AM when they had to make the call. I love how everyone expects them to be able to predict the future but you are too irresponsible to predict how to handle your kids in this situation

They could definitely have let schools make a case by case decision on childcare. MCPS has never done it this way before Taylor. Taylor hates working moms, that is pretty clear.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Also this decision obviously contradicts what MCPS sent out in their 5,000 emails yesterday about the definition of a code yellow. It literally says “Before, after school, and childcare programs may operate as scheduled-check with your providers.” So…who changed it??

may=possibly, not guaranteed

. Check with provider = their decision

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

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Anonymous wrote:OP does not comprehend that workers at childcare centers exist and go home at night.

That's a decision for their employers to make, not for MCPS to force upon private child care providers. In the past, some opened and some did not, based on local conditions and staffing capacity. It is ridiculous and offensive for MCPS to force this in a top down manner.

They aren’t “private childcare providers.” They operate under the auspices of the school district. You’re welcome to pay more and arrange daily transportation for your kid to ACTUAL private childcare providers offsite if you want different weather policies. 🤷‍♀️

Stop lying. They are private providers who rent space from MCPS.

Mmkay. And MCPS does not have to let them use their space when they’ve deemed it unsafe to do so.

Tantrum harder.

They haven't deemed it unsafe. It's raining.

Is wasnt raining at 4:45 AM when they had to make the call. I love how everyone expects them to be able to predict the future but you are too irresponsible to predict how to handle your kids in this situation

I expect them to do what has consistently worked in other years. Close schools if they're unsure, but allow childcare providers to make their own decisions about opening. That's not predicting the future that's learning from the past.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:OP does not comprehend that workers at childcare centers exist and go home at night.

That's a decision for their employers to make, not for MCPS to force upon private child care providers. In the past, some opened and some did not, based on local conditions and staffing capacity. It is ridiculous and offensive for MCPS to force this in a top down manner.

They aren’t “private childcare providers.” They operate under the auspices of the school district. You’re welcome to pay more and arrange daily transportation for your kid to ACTUAL private childcare providers offsite if you want different weather policies. 🤷‍♀️

Stop lying. They are private providers who rent space from MCPS.

So MCPS decides how/when the space will be available. Private providers using public buildings for their private businesses - and their customers - should understand this.

I would be annoyed at the change in policy from previous years. Why did they change it?

Because Thomas Taylor hates working moms

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Yes!!! We also have a in-school before/aftercare childcare provider that planned to open at their discretion but was forbidden by MCPS.
Our elementary school doesn’t open its doors until 9:05 so with a two hour delay that is 11:05 (with 11:25 start time). All out of “an abundance of caution” for a tiny part of this huge county.

OP (and I) are not asking for MCPS to FORCE before-school care to be open. We are asking them to ALLOW these businesses who operate within the building to use their own discretion about whether to open (I.e. on a two-hour delay from their normal hours) based on what they know about the safety and availability of their staff. Especially on the context of MCPS acknowledging that they are making decisions for a vast area and are often taking closure actions that are completely unnecessary in most of the county.

This also worked for years. This is a new policy. There was no disaster when the childcare companies and their employers figured it out.

There was still a lot of moaning and complaining from parents here when the businesses closed.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:OP does not comprehend that workers at childcare centers exist and go home at night.

This is a dumb, lazy response to a legitimate concern. There's zero reason why childcare workers and their employers can't be allowed to make their own decisions about whether they're able to open like all other businesses.

maybe the school district is protecting those workers to we continue to have child care workers.

There is no danger that we're going to run out of childcare workers if they're asked to commute in the rain.

yes, treating people even more poorly surely will result in them wanting to take those jobs, which already have trouble finding consistent employees.

Asking child care workers to come to work in the rain is not treating them poorly.

MCPS teachers and staff are the ones being treated poorly by having 4 hours of child care taken away from them this morning due to rain (but only a 2 hour delay for them to come to work.) Why aren't you concerned about the need to treat teachers well to keep them?

They need a backup plan. Or maybe I should say, multiple backup plans. I'm actually watching my neighbor's ES kids this morning for that very reason beacuse mom is a HS teacher, dad is out of town, and grandma is sick.....

Are you Thomas Taylor trying to justify being a complete dick by saying random neighbors should provide free unplanned child are?

No! I'm actually very empathetic to my neighbor but it seems the new reality is that what was once a pretty reliable childcare plan is no longer. She seemed to know it too because she messaged me yesterday to ask "just in case."

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:You don’t. You assume that the schools don’t care about childcare and plan accordingly.

By paying a private company hundreds of dollars per month to watch your child. Except MCPS won't let them.

[Anonymous]

Is it the case that child care centers can't use the building until after school office or building staff arrive?