Our small, doing-everything-right daycare is closed for 2 weeks due to outbreak
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Anonymous
| Multiple kids and parents in different classrooms testing positive. Just an FYI for anyone who thinks private schools/daycares will have it easy this fall. |
Anonymous
| No one thinks it will easy. We just think trying is better than keeping kids trapped at home on screens all fall. |
Anonymous
| What state/city? |
Anonymous
I don’t disagree. That’s why we are at daycare. But people should expect periodic unexpected closures. |
Anonymous
+1 |
Anonymous
There's another thread today where parents who chose all DL, or who initially didn't but who now see the point of all DL, say they realize that in-person school will end up being disruptive and stressful for children because there will be repeated quarantines. Kid is in school. Kid is told to stay home because a classmate was positive. Kid returns to school but shortly after, another quarantine gets ordered after another positive. And so on. It will become a constant stress for kids not knowing when they might be kept home at any point. And parents will not have the convenience of kids bring back in school allowing parents to have a consistent work schedule without kids present: At some point--probably multiple, repeated points that cannot be predicted--the kids will be home again and again. The SAME issues of child care and "do we try to do DL while they're on quarantine?" and "I can't help with DL while I work!" etc. will all be there--only no one will be able to predict when the kids will or won't be suddenly back home.... All the "we want them in schools so they won't be staring at screens" means little when the reality is that kids will end up going back and forth between school and home much more randomly than if they can just be at home consistently. At least parents won't have to scramble over and over to occupy or find temporary care for kids on very short notice, repeatedly. Schools in Miss. reopened, cases spiked immediately in one school and now something like 116 students snd staff (mostly students) are out on quarantine. Do you not see how this is only going to keep happening unless we actually shut down and get the virus chain of transmission under better control? |
Anonymous
| Sorry to hear OP. My friend’s camp in Alexandria also just got shut down due to an outbreak. |
Anonymous
| Why is this surprising? |
Anonymous
| That is the risk of being in a groups setting right now. Are you in the DC area? Is anyone seriously ill? |
Anonymous
Sincerely asking (we also have kids in daycare now), how do they know it was transmitted at school? I’m sorry to hear that. Hope everyone is ok. |
Anonymous
| Where? |
Anonymous
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Very predictable
Inevitable really |
Anonymous
| Not sure anyone thinks it will be easy but there have been daycare’s and camps open all over the area literally since this started and I have not heard of one outbreak. |
Anonymous
Honestly. Complete overreaction for a virus with such a low death rate. People with several comorbidities should already be staying home. |
Anonymous
Why would you hear about it if you aren’t in that school? It’s fine to accept the risks but please don’t bury your head because you haven’t heard about anything. OP just told you something - it’s not big enough to make the news, but clearly it still happens. |