Daycare to Reopen

[Anonymous]

Our daycare wrote today that they plan to reopen on 4/1. It feels like a weird money grab attempt. OSSE has no hard rules on closing daycares. We can’t afford to pay for daycare that we aren’t receiving. But we are also afraid to lose our place in the competitive DC daycare world. Isn’t it dangerous for them to even consider opening?

[Anonymous]

Are you paying someone else to watch your kid while daycare is closed?

Personally I wouldn't feel safe sending my kid when we are still on upswing..I wouldn't be surprised if they wrote later saying they are extending their closure.

[Anonymous]

It’s terrible but if you don’t pay (open or not) they may go out of business and you won’t have a slot. I’m continuing to pay my provider yet not sending my kids but am lucky enough to be able to do so. So many tough decisions to make these days.

[Anonymous]

I am hoping they backtrack on that decision, because it's a terrible one.

[Anonymous]

The Goddard preschool out here in ex-burbia is still open and has no plans to close.

I know a SAHM that's still sending her PK kid because she doesn't want to deal with both her kids at the same time.

[Anonymous]

Jeez, look I am somehow expected to telework a full schedule and care for my toddler but nope. I get feeling overwhelmed and wishing I didn't somehow have to ma lnage both. But this stuff is going to spread the virus further and overwhelm hospitals which means more deaths.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Jeez, look I am somehow expected to telework a full schedule and care for my toddler but nope. I get feeling overwhelmed and wishing I didn't somehow have to ma lnage both. But this stuff is going to spread the virus further and overwhelm hospitals which means more deaths.

+1. However planning to quit my job and pull out of daycare because I can’t do both parenting young children and teleworking full time for months on end. I decided it’s time to be a parent and when this is all over I’ll look for something else.

[Anonymous]

How many times do I have to say this?! Ok, here goes again:

EVERY state considers childcare an essential service.

Should you keep your kid home if you can? Yes.

But nurses, doctors, and other essential workers HAVE to have a place for their little kids to go. Many are also trying to accommodate school aged kids of essential employees.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:How many times do I have to say this?! Ok, here goes again:

EVERY state considers childcare an essential service.

Should you keep your kid home if you can? Yes.

But nurses, doctors, and other essential workers HAVE to have a place for their little kids to go. Many are also trying to accommodate school aged kids of essential employees.

Yes. But the longer this goes on, the more we will have to decide what is essential. Sure in the short term we can define that more narrowly as frontline health care workers and utility workers, but two months down the line, do you want someone processing unemployment claims? Mechanics to fix cars of the health workers? There are services we may not think of as essential until they are no longer there.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:How many times do I have to say this?! Ok, here goes again:

EVERY state considers childcare an essential service.

Should you keep your kid home if you can? Yes.

But nurses, doctors, and other essential workers HAVE to have a place for their little kids to go. Many are also trying to accommodate school aged kids of essential employees.

Yes but they aren't limiting it to that. My daycare closed but is running emergency locations and transferring personnel there. They also said you can contact and request care if you are an essential employee and still need to work.

That's fine. Flat reopening is not.

[Anonymous]

Love that people are too terrified to go back to work but will send their kids to daycare and are complaining that schools are closed. Lol.

You either want complete isolation or you don't.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Love that people are too terrified to go back to work but will send their kids to daycare and are complaining that schools are closed. Lol.

You either want complete isolation or you don't.

Most people who are sending their kids to daycare are not terries of going to work, they are being told not to come into the office. Those that are terrified are in fact keeping kids home.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:How many times do I have to say this?! Ok, here goes again:

EVERY state considers childcare an essential service.

Should you keep your kid home if you can? Yes.

But nurses, doctors, and other essential workers HAVE to have a place for their little kids to go. Many are also trying to accommodate school aged kids of essential employees.

Yes but they aren't limiting it to that. My daycare closed but is running emergency locations and transferring personnel there. They also said you can contact and request care if you are an essential employee and still need to work.

That's fine. Flat reopening is not.

I’m curious how they are treating federal employees- as I understand it, they are being treated as essential by the federal govt but not necessarily at the state level?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Love that people are too terrified to go back to work but will send their kids to daycare and are complaining that schools are closed. Lol.

You either want complete isolation or you don't.

Most people who are sending their kids to daycare are not terries of going to work, they are being told not to come into the office. Those that are terrified are in fact keeping kids home.

It seems that those who are sending their kids to daycare should be "allowed" to return to the office if they want to.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:How many times do I have to say this?! Ok, here goes again:

EVERY state considers childcare an essential service.

Should you keep your kid home if you can? Yes.

But nurses, doctors, and other essential workers HAVE to have a place for their little kids to go. Many are also trying to accommodate school aged kids of essential employees.

Yes but they aren't limiting it to that. My daycare closed but is running emergency locations and transferring personnel there. They also said you can contact and request care if you are an essential employee and still need to work.

That's fine. Flat reopening is not.

I’m curious how they are treating federal employees- as I understand it, they are being treated as essential by the federal govt but not necessarily at the state level?

PP here. I am a fed and the daycare is in a federal building. They specifically referenced "mission critical" non teleworking personnel in their email saying you could request an exception.