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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Most of those places aren't going to be able financially to stay open operating with the same employee costs, but half the kids.  I wouldn't plan on it.  I know one small church based program that is closing and another community based program that has said it can make it through the first 6 weeks, but not past that.  [/quote]

I work at a part time pre-school and we are in serious trouble.  We've already been relying on fundraising to operate in the black for the last couple of years so I could see this absolutely bankrupting us, which is a shame.  We've been in our community for years.  We have parents (and a few grandparents) who attended our preschool as children.  They no longer live in the immediate community but they make the drive to send their children (families coming from 45 minutes away to attend a 3 hour, 3 day a week preschool) and it would just be heartbreaking to see us close.

Our children are almost 100% from UMC families.  The children where both parents work outside the home (or even telework) often have a nanny.  The parents are enrolling their children in our school for socialization.  Every once in awhile, we get a child who goes to a full time daycare and they bring him/her to us for 3 hours 3 days a week to get an old fashioned nature and play based preschool experience.

We have been coming up with different options for the fall.  Our children attend 3 hours a day and get a snack.  The children don't have to be potty trained, so we're often changing diapers for our 3 year olds.  We're talking of reducing the hours to between 2 and 2 1/2 hours and eliminating snack.  We'd go down to 8 children per class (we have anywhere from 12 to 15 depending on the age group.)  Instead of having 4 and 5 day options for the oldest students, maybe we would do more classes but have everyone only attend only 2 or 3 days a week - so we could still accommodate 15 children in a week, just 7 would attend 2 days and 8 would attend 3 instead of 15 every day.  We would probably also eliminate a class for our youngest students.  So we would only serve 4 and 5 year olds and not 3 year olds.  We have a slightly shorter year than public school but otherwise, follow their calendar.  We start right after Labor Day and today would have been our last day of school.  Another option, depending on how things shake out, we might start earlier in Aug but take a really long break starting right after Thanksgiving and not start up again until February.  We already spend a great deal of time outside, so if we're not in school in December and January we might be able to spend all of our 2 hours outside.[/quote]

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