What are your plans for childcare with hybrid model school?

[Anonymous]

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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.

I wouldn’t want you caring for my child, you stupid twat.

Why are you attacking the nanny?

She is being paid to be available. It is fine if you don’t want that arrangement.

Clearly pp is upset she needs to pay someone for their time. I guess she thought a nanny should set aside 40hrs a week for free, while being paid for part time?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:OOOPs, I read wrong. So you just want an advantage for your JULY kid NEXT fall? tough titties. That K class is going to be huge.

Once again, my kid will be starting kindergarten on time in August 2021. I'm not sure what you think the advantage is here? You sound very confused.

[Anonymous]

I really don't have plan. We are 2 essential working parents. We cannot alter our schedule. We have no family here. We cannot afford a nanny. We are screwed.

[Anonymous]

We are able to work from home but need to work. One of our 3 ES children has asthma and we are concerned they will require DL for her due to high risk...not sure what we will do as we cannot do 5 days a week for the whole year and provide a decent education for her if she is home schooled/DL.

[Anonymous]

We will cobble something together. If children are in school 2 or 3 days a week, DH and I can handle WFH to cover the rest. If it's less than that, we will need to hire help to be around while we work (either from home or office, not determined yet). I'm building a network of babysitters who might be able to take one day per week for us. We have a summer nanny who I will ask to stay on if she can so that we have at least one body. But I understand that might not be possible if she wants full time work elsewhere. I would also be fine with paying a high schooler if their schedule allowed. I don't need a teacher or highly qualified nanny, I just need someone to entertain and maybe make sure the Zoom meeting is on mute for distance learning.

If all else fails, we will move in with the grandparents for a few months.

It will be a mess, but we will manage.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:We do not have flexible schedules. I'm hoping to send my kids to school like normal!

If they aren't there, they will be at some sort of day care or camp or co-op sitter like the majority of kids. Which is why they might as well just open schools! Going to school a couple days a week does very little to minimize risk in my opinion.

It’s not the fewer days itself that minimizes risk. It’s the fact that to have smaller class sizes to allow for more distancing, most schools can only accommodate a smaller number of students.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:We do not have flexible schedules. I'm hoping to send my kids to school like normal!

If they aren't there, they will be at some sort of day care or camp or co-op sitter like the majority of kids. Which is why they might as well just open schools! Going to school a couple days a week does very little to minimize risk in my opinion.

It’s not the fewer days itself that minimizes risk. It’s the fact that to have smaller class sizes to allow for more distancing, most schools can only accommodate a smaller number of students.

But then those same kids are in other random daycare settings with multiple kids on the off days.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:We do not have flexible schedules. I'm hoping to send my kids to school like normal!

If they aren't there, they will be at some sort of day care or camp or co-op sitter like the majority of kids. Which is why they might as well just open schools! Going to school a couple days a week does very little to minimize risk in my opinion.

I’m curious- why do you think there will be day care or camp available? It’s hard enough to find aftercare in normal situations. I think it will be 10xs as hard to even find a spot.

This is not sustainable. They need to open schools for 4-5 days a week for all children. They need to stop with all these crazy unworkable options. They need to focus on real options for the fall. Rent space - there is plenty of it now.

DP here. In our area there are countless TKD/gymnastics/dance places that operate after school/summer/snow day camps. Many have been operating day care during the closure and I definitely see them adapting to the hybrid school model. They make way more money on childcare than their actual classes. I don’t see childcare being an issue at all where I am, other than cost.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:If kids are only going to school 5 out of 10 days (2 one week 3 the next) can you manage that if work goes back to some level of normal? Or is everyone expecting telecommuting to be a given?
I am not sure I could do the whole year after these last few months.

My kids are already at camp starting this week.

Our plan is to unroll them and do a proven online homeschool program until Virginia can get their sh%t together. We are doing this with a few other families from their school so the kids are not alone in this. We will actually be rotating homes and have collectively hired an tutor to keep them focused and answer any questions. My mom has been coming over watching our kids through this whole thing. She has not socially distanced, we have not socially distanced. IT has been fine. Luckily none of us live in a nursing home or prison, so we are good.

We do work from home, but that does not change our need for childcare.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:We do not have flexible schedules. I'm hoping to send my kids to school like normal!

If they aren't there, they will be at some sort of day care or camp or co-op sitter like the majority of kids. Which is why they might as well just open schools! Going to school a couple days a week does very little to minimize risk in my opinion.

I’m curious- why do you think there will be day care or camp available? It’s hard enough to find aftercare in normal situations. I think it will be 10xs as hard to even find a spot.

This is not sustainable. They need to open schools for 4-5 days a week for all children. They need to stop with all these crazy unworkable options. They need to focus on real options for the fall. Rent space - there is plenty of it now.

I agree, but the whole thing is pretty silly. My kids are at camp right now, they will also be offering a hybrid model in the fall. However hybrid half ass school is not acceptable. We have the money and are going to put it to good use.

We have opted out of public school though for 2020/21 and will be going with a proven online home school program. my kids will be back when this idiot governor in Virginia finds his balls.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

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.

I wouldn’t want you caring for my child, you stupid twat.

Why are you attacking the nanny?

She is being paid to be available. It is fine if you don’t want that arrangement.

Clearly pp is upset she needs to pay someone for their time. I guess she thought a nanny should set aside 40hrs a week for free, while being paid for part time?

What you mean PP would not want to be paid for part-time work when full-time work was available?? Let me guess, PP also thinks that teachers should just be glad for the chance to nurture young minds and not care about pay/benefits and that anyone in a childcare or domestic services role should just be happy that they get to spend a few hours a day with little Jaeiydyyynnnn or tending her palm trees. Clearly, it's an honor to serve for whatever pittance of hours she needs, and the mere mention that those folks are serving her family would be enough to invalidate eviction notices and have the grocery store provide free food for them. Why are all these people expecting full time pay! What's next? A living wage and benefits??!?!?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:We do not have flexible schedules. I'm hoping to send my kids to school like normal!

If they aren't there, they will be at some sort of day care or camp or co-op sitter like the majority of kids. Which is why they might as well just open schools! Going to school a couple days a week does very little to minimize risk in my opinion.

I’m curious- why do you think there will be day care or camp available? It’s hard enough to find aftercare in normal situations. I think it will be 10xs as hard to even find a spot.

This is not sustainable. They need to open schools for 4-5 days a week for all children. They need to stop with all these crazy unworkable options. They need to focus on real options for the fall. Rent space - there is plenty of it now.

DP here. In our area there are countless TKD/gymnastics/dance places that operate after school/summer/snow day camps. Many have been operating day care during the closure and I definitely see them adapting to the hybrid school model. They make way more money on childcare than their actual classes. I don’t see childcare being an issue at all where I am, other than cost.

Thanks but this is a DMV centered board and there are not countless TKD/gymnastics/dance opening like that during this closure.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:We do not have flexible schedules. I'm hoping to send my kids to school like normal!

If they aren't there, they will be at some sort of day care or camp or co-op sitter like the majority of kids. Which is why they might as well just open schools! Going to school a couple days a week does very little to minimize risk in my opinion.

I’m curious- why do you think there will be day care or camp available? It’s hard enough to find aftercare in normal situations. I think it will be 10xs as hard to even find a spot.

This is not sustainable. They need to open schools for 4-5 days a week for all children. They need to stop with all these crazy unworkable options. They need to focus on real options for the fall. Rent space - there is plenty of it now.

DP here. In our area there are countless TKD/gymnastics/dance places that operate after school/summer/snow day camps. Many have been operating day care during the closure and I definitely see them adapting to the hybrid school model. They make way more money on childcare than their actual classes. I don’t see childcare being an issue at all where I am, other than cost.

Thanks but this is a DMV centered board and there are not countless TKD/gymnastics/dance opening like that during this closure.

Im in the area and I do think that if they are allowed to operate in the fall (already got 2 emails saying "camp is back on" from our TKD place and our tennis club for July) then they will certainly jump at the chance for revenue. I don't blame them. It just seems silly then to avoid school because of the idea that it will be too much exposure- since now we have doubled the kids' exposure to 2 groups with a hybrid model

[Anonymous]

Won't these TKD etc places have to adhere to the same social distancing standards as school, which probably will mean less people will be able to enroll so they can spread out?

[Anonymous]

Likely we will get a part time sitter and our kids (10 and 9) will watch a lot of TV while we work from home. Not ideal!!!!