How many days a year is your daycare/preschool closed?

[Anonymous]

DH is saying our preschool is closed a lot. It’s closer to a school program (it includes a proper K year), so it follows something like a school schedule:

7 teacher training days throughout the year (it’s year round)
Closed on Memorial Day
Closed the day before and after Thanksgiving
Closed between Christmas and New Year’s

In total, it’s 12 days throughout the calendar year. I think that’s appropriate to give teachers time off during the holidays and training/classroom setup time.

Thoughts?

[Anonymous]

That's it? There are many other holidays they could take.

[Anonymous]

Ours follows the federal government holidays, is closed for one week in August, is closed between Christmas and New Years, plus snow days. That comes out to more than 12 days for sure and I think it's very reasonable.

[Anonymous]

Ours is only closed on the federal holidays - New Years Day, Memorial Day, 4th of July, Labor Day, Thanksgiving and Christmas. (I think that's it, they're def open on President's, MLK & Columbus)

Teacher training and staff development are all done during evenings or weekends. Each lead teacher takes a day a month (in the center) to work on planning, so their students are flexed with another teacher or a floater comes in.

[Anonymous]

That’s nothing.

I worked at a popular Fed. center that closed the week between Christmas & New Year’s, 2 weeks in Aug., all Fed. holidays, the days before & after Thanksgiving, and 4 more half-days each year.

Also worked at a University Center that closed winter break, spring break, all Fed. holidays, and 2 weeks in summer.

My dc is now at a center that is only closed Fed. holidays and the day after Thanksgiving.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Ours is only closed on the federal holidays - New Years Day, Memorial Day, 4th of July, Labor Day, Thanksgiving and Christmas. (I think that's it, they're def open on President's, MLK & Columbus)

Teacher training and staff development are all done during evenings or weekends. Each lead teacher takes a day a month (in the center) to work on planning, so their students are flexed with another teacher or a floater comes in.

I wouldn’t want to send my kid to a center where the low-paid staff were expected to work extra hours as a regular part of the job.

[Anonymous]

Our inhome has 3 weeks of annual leave a year. A week of those are federal holidays that we'd be off anyways for (Christmas, Thanksgiving, Memorial day, labor day) and then there's a week around Christmas and a week in the spring or fall. I like when it's a week straight because then we just fly the grandparents in or schedule our own vacation around it.

[Anonymous]

Our preschool is closed all the federal holidays (not Veterans day). The day after Thanksgiving and 12/24 and 12/26. They were closed on Good Friday too (before Easter).

Other than that, they are open. It's been awesome.

My younger one is at an in-home. She closes for the above, but also closes a few random times like the Friday before Mother's day (child care provider day apparently). And then she takes 2 solid weeks of vacation at some point during the year. It's a lot, but the trade off is that she is really flexible at other times. Like during the blizzard of 2016, public schools were closed the whole week (she follows FCPS for weather closures) but she opened up after 3 days because her driveway and roads were cleared.

[Anonymous]

Our center closes for most Federal holidays, but not Columbus or Veterans Days; instead, they close the day after Thanksgiving and one day around Christmas. They close two days each summer for professional development days, which we know well in advance. They also tend to follow OPM for snow closings.

We don't pay through the nose to send our kids to a center that has lengthy holidays. Nope. The staff receive paid vacation and all of our kids' caregivers have taken regular trips throughout the year (some several weeks at a time).

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Our preschool is closed all the federal holidays (not Veterans day). The day after Thanksgiving and 12/24 and 12/26. They were closed on Good Friday too (before Easter).

Other than that, they are open. It's been awesome.

My younger one is at an in-home. She closes for the above, but also closes a few random times like the Friday before Mother's day (child care provider day apparently). And then she takes 2 solid weeks of vacation at some point during the year. It's a lot, but the trade off is that she is really flexible at other times. Like during the blizzard of 2016, public schools were closed the whole week (she follows FCPS for weather closures) but she opened up after 3 days because her driveway and roads were cleared.

Yeah my inhome is open all snow days. She says if you can make it to her house, she's open.

[Anonymous]

Our Catholic preschool is closed all federal holidays, the day after thanksgiving, 3 days at christmas, good friday, and the last week of August.

Sounds like you have it pretty good, OP.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Our preschool is closed all the federal holidays (not Veterans day). The day after Thanksgiving and 12/24 and 12/26. They were closed on Good Friday too (before Easter).

Other than that, they are open. It's been awesome.

My younger one is at an in-home. She closes for the above, but also closes a few random times like the Friday before Mother's day (child care provider day apparently). And then she takes 2 solid weeks of vacation at some point during the year. It's a lot, but the trade off is that she is really flexible at other times. Like during the blizzard of 2016, public schools were closed the whole week (she follows FCPS for weather closures) but she opened up after 3 days because her driveway and roads were cleared.

Yeah my inhome is open all snow days. She says if you can make it to her house, she's open.

Our in home is only closed when the federal government is closed.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Our preschool is closed all the federal holidays (not Veterans day). The day after Thanksgiving and 12/24 and 12/26. They were closed on Good Friday too (before Easter).

Other than that, they are open. It's been awesome.

My younger one is at an in-home. She closes for the above, but also closes a few random times like the Friday before Mother's day (child care provider day apparently). And then she takes 2 solid weeks of vacation at some point during the year. It's a lot, but the trade off is that she is really flexible at other times. Like during the blizzard of 2016, public schools were closed the whole week (she follows FCPS for weather closures) but she opened up after 3 days because her driveway and roads were cleared.

Yeah my inhome is open all snow days. She says if you can make it to her house, she's open.

Our in home is only closed when the federal government is closed.

She doesn't take vacations?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Our preschool is closed all the federal holidays (not Veterans day). The day after Thanksgiving and 12/24 and 12/26. They were closed on Good Friday too (before Easter).

Other than that, they are open. It's been awesome.

My younger one is at an in-home. She closes for the above, but also closes a few random times like the Friday before Mother's day (child care provider day apparently). And then she takes 2 solid weeks of vacation at some point during the year. It's a lot, but the trade off is that she is really flexible at other times. Like during the blizzard of 2016, public schools were closed the whole week (she follows FCPS for weather closures) but she opened up after 3 days because her driveway and roads were cleared.

Yeah my inhome is open all snow days. She says if you can make it to her house, she's open.

Our in home is only closed when the federal government is closed.

Well luckily mine doesn't follow the federal government. We're dual feds who have forced telework when our offices close due to weather. I have no annual leave to take because I'm still in the negative from maternity leave, so I need to work.

[Anonymous]

Federal holidays
2 teacher conference days
1 teacher training day
1 full week in August
Early release on Good Friday and one other day I forget
Follows the Federal snow closing and delays