Maryland declares preschools and daycares essential services and asks that they remain open

[Anonymous]

This is according to a letter we received this morning from our daughter's center. They said the MSDE and Hogan urged all childcare facilities to remain open, because they provide childcare to first responders. They have also been asked to try to accommodate school-aged kids of first responders.

The childcare facilities within MCPS will open today.

Just wanted to pass on this guidance, as I know there have been a lot of questions about why the daycares/preschools are still open.

I'm sure many parents are keeping their kids home anyway, but it's good news for those of us who have to go into work.

[Anonymous]

What good is it to deep clean public schools if the public is still using them. Hypothetically, schools are closed two weeks. EMT Eric drops little Emily at the daycare every day while he rushes coronavirus patients to the ER. He does this all 10 weekdays of the closure. When does the school get deep cleaned again before 67 year old Teacher Tessa who is on Humira returns to teach third graders? Don’t say Saturday and Sunday. We were told it would take five days to deep clean.

[Anonymous]

Good for Hogan. We can't respond to this emergency without good childcare for our first responders.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:What good is it to deep clean public schools if the public is still using them. Hypothetically, schools are closed two weeks. EMT Eric drops little Emily at the daycare every day while he rushes coronavirus patients to the ER. He does this all 10 weekdays of the closure. When does the school get deep cleaned again before 67 year old Teacher Tessa who is on Humira returns to teach third graders? Don’t say Saturday and Sunday. We were told it would take five days to deep clean.

There's only so much we can do. If little Emily has nowhere to go, EMT Eric can't transport any patients anywhere.

Essential services have to remain running.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:What good is it to deep clean public schools if the public is still using them. Hypothetically, schools are closed two weeks. EMT Eric drops little Emily at the daycare every day while he rushes coronavirus patients to the ER. He does this all 10 weekdays of the closure. When does the school get deep cleaned again before 67 year old Teacher Tessa who is on Humira returns to teach third graders? Don’t say Saturday and Sunday. We were told it would take five days to deep clean.

There's only so much we can do. If little Emily has nowhere to go, EMT Eric can't transport any patients anywhere.

Essential services have to remain running.

+1 They need to have childcare, otherwise they cannot go to work.

In China the childcare thing was less of a problem because of the historic only-child policies and cultural traditions. This means that over there, EMT Eric and EMT Eric's wife (let's assume she is a nurse, so both are in essential services) are BOTH only children. Now, EMT Eric only has one kid (even though one child formally ended, most urban couples only have one). So that means EMT Eric's kid is the only cherished grandbaby of FOUR grandparents who likely ALL live near EMT Eric. Two of them may even live with EMT Eric. So his kid has ample childcare. In this case, to protect the grandparents, the Chinese state will put up EMT Eric and his wife in state-owned (or temporarily under state use) hotel rooms near the hospital while the grandparents watch baby in EMT Eric's apartment.

[Anonymous]

I hope they are only permitting essential services parents to do bring their children. Because on DCUM, everyone thinks they are so important they are "essential."

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I hope they are only permitting essential services parents to do bring their children. Because on DCUM, everyone thinks they are so important they are "essential."

How the hell would you make that call?

I work in a SCIF. I'm not telling her school where I work. And yet, I have to report in.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I hope they are only permitting essential services parents to do bring their children. Because on DCUM, everyone thinks they are so important they are "essential."

THere are some employers that have not shut down or gone to WFH yet, for whatever reason. You want those poeple to lose their jobs?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I hope they are only permitting essential services parents to do bring their children. Because on DCUM, everyone thinks they are so important they are "essential."

And on DCUM we think everyone in a non-essential job is allowed to WFH. A lot of people are in non-essential jobs but their offices are open. Some are only allowing minimal WFH and are making employees report in on a rotating/shift basis.

[Anonymous]

There is no easy answer. Being sanctimonious on DCUM achieves nothing.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:This is according to a letter we received this morning from our daughter's center. They said the MSDE and Hogan urged all childcare facilities to remain open, because they provide childcare to first responders. They have also been asked to try to accommodate school-aged kids of first responders.

The childcare facilities within MCPS will open today.

Just wanted to pass on this guidance, as I know there have been a lot of questions about why the daycares/preschools are still open.

I'm sure many parents are keeping their kids home anyway, but it's good news for those of us who have to go into work.

Hmm, I wonder how this works. My daycare center is open but another is closed. How do they make the call then?

[Anonymous]

Also don't people realize WFH means WORKING-FH. Kids at home can make that impossible depending on the job.

[Anonymous]

What good is it to close all public schools But keep daycares open?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:What good is it to close all public schools But keep daycares open?

Well it is helpful in that fewer kids will be there. It's a numbers game.

[Anonymous]

DD works at an after/before care program in an MCPS school. It will reopen on Wednesday, and as far as she knows any kid who was already attending can go.

Three schools will be combining into one elementary school, so that will be a lot of kids. I get that childcare is needed, and I know the kids will not not get sick or very sick, but they are such disease vectors that I worry they will contribute to a lot more community spread.