What are your day cares doing to reduce the risk of COVID infection?

[Anonymous]

Wondering what other day cares are doing as they reopen or prepare to reopen. Seems like there is little guidance on this compared to at least some discussion of potential models for elementary school. I understand there will be risk, but would like my day care to reasonably Take safety precautions. What are others seeing?

[Anonymous]

Our daycare is open for essential personnel right now. Drop off outside. No parents inside. Temperature checks. No kids with any symptoms (sniffles or cough) allowed at all. They disinfect more and try to limit you sharing.
It's a small in home daycare though. Only 8 kids per location.
I'm keeping my kid home and will at least until September and see how it goes. I've been less than thrilled with how they have communicated their policies and seriously doubt if they would tell us if a kid of a kids parents are sick.

[Anonymous]

In home daycare that we haven’t stopped going to although many parents pulled their kids. No changes that I’ve seen. Also no one has been sick.

[Anonymous]

Lock these daycares up!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Lock these daycares up!

Troll fail.

OP, there’s a pretty extensive guide put out at least for Maryland. Our preschool does:

- Extensive cleaning every day with professional equipment like HALO foggers
- Parents drop off/pick up outside the building (we can’t go in)
- Temp checks for kids and parents before the kid is allowed in
- Teachers in masks
- No more than 10 people per room (kids + teachers)

I believe MD is capping capacity at 50%. Our center said they are at about 30% as of last week, so roughly 75 kids across 16 rooms in a building that normally serves 250 kids.

Kids do not have to wear masks.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Lock these daycares up!

Troll fail.

OP, there’s a pretty extensive guide put out at least for Maryland. Our preschool does:

- Extensive cleaning every day with professional equipment like HALO foggers
- Parents drop off/pick up outside the building (we can’t go in)
- Temp checks for kids and parents before the kid is allowed in
- Teachers in masks
- No more than 10 people per room (kids + teachers)

I believe MD is capping capacity at 50%. Our center said they are at about 30% as of last week, so roughly 75 kids across 16 rooms in a building that normally serves 250 kids.

Kids do not have to wear masks.

Oh and they’ve been open the whole time, with the exception of a short period between when MD ordered all of them closed and when MD said they could reopen for essential personnel. No cases among teachers or the kids.

[Anonymous]

I have to laugh that you think there is a little guidance. There are pages and pages and pages of new rules and guidance. It is constantly changing too.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I have to laugh that you think there is a little guidance. There are pages and pages and pages of new rules and guidance. It is constantly changing too.

PP here. Yep. Our center has had to scramble to keep up with the changing guidance, as I’m sure everyone has had to do.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I have to laugh that you think there is a little guidance. There are pages and pages and pages of new rules and guidance. It is constantly changing too.

PP here. Yep. Our center has had to scramble to keep up with the changing guidance, as I’m sure everyone has had to do.

I don’t think the original poster has kept her finger on the pulse of what is happening. In fact, I think she is very lucky if she still has daycare because the way things are going it’s not looking good for lots of kids. 10 to a home or 10 to a room, only for essential personnel or rolling in the Rest of the kids as phase s re-open. Temperature checks, constant sanitation, social distancing within each room, spaced out sleeping and eating arrangements, absolutely no sicknesses or illnesses including colds or allergies. Those kids gets at home! Shorter hours or even alternating days. The list goes on and on about all the changes, rules and new procedures that are taking place. Just to name a few.

[Anonymous]

In DC OSSE has released extensive guidance. My kid’s daycare has been open the whole time (never closed) although I’ve kept my LO at home. I’m likely to return to working out of the home this summer, so will probably send LO at that point.

[Anonymous]

So centers are not allowed at full capacity? What happens to returning families if the number wanting to return exceeds the new capacity limit?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:So centers are not allowed at full capacity? What happens to returning families if the number wanting to return exceeds the new capacity limit?

That won’t happen. People are too scared to send their kids back. Ours has laid off several teachers because parents pulled their kids out.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:So centers are not allowed at full capacity? What happens to returning families if the number wanting to return exceeds the new capacity limit?

That won’t happen. People are too scared to send their kids back. Ours has laid off several teachers because parents pulled their kids out.

I strongly suspect that will be room-dependent and location-dependent. There's plenty of people that simply can't keep their kids home.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:So centers are not allowed at full capacity? What happens to returning families if the number wanting to return exceeds the new capacity limit?

That won’t happen. People are too scared to send their kids back. Ours has laid off several teachers because parents pulled their kids out.

If it does happen, people will take turns. Maybe M/W/F. Maybe week by week. Maybe morning afternoon. It will just depend on the circumstances.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:So centers are not allowed at full capacity? What happens to returning families if the number wanting to return exceeds the new capacity limit?

That won’t happen. People are too scared to send their kids back. Ours has laid off several teachers because parents pulled their kids out.

I strongly suspect that will be room-dependent and location-dependent. There's plenty of people that simply can't keep their kids home.

It will happen all over the place. Our center hasn’t had to lay off any teachers, but absolutely will need to turn families away until they are allowed to operate at a higher capacity; they already highlighted that possibility to us.