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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I sent a letter earlier this week and just received this response (form letter) from the Legislative Affairs coordinator for the BOE:
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The Board appreciates the critical importance of child care to families throughout Montgomery County, and MCPS is working closely with our local and state health officials around the next steps to reopen these services.
 
Montgomery County is setting its own reopening timetables separately from the rest of the state in the context of the specific public health conditions in this region.  While Governor Hogan instituted Phase 2 in the state, Montgomery County did not initiate that phase of reopening locally for another two weeks.  Even as Montgomery County enters Phase 2, there will be concerns specific to child care in school facilities that may differ from child care providers that operate in their own or other spaces.  MCPS is developing and implementing summer programming in multiple modalities and working through the multiple operational and health systems that must be in place to allow students to return to school buildings.  All of these activities must take place in the context of social distancing that limits the total numbers of people permitted to be in school buildings.
 
As we continue our work to finalize the health, safety, and operational plans for reopening school facilities, we recognize how important access to child care is for our families and our community.  We will continue to provide as much access to facilities as quickly as possible within the context of school system operations and public health constraints that are required by our state and local public health officials.  We will provide the community updates as we work through this process.  [/quote]
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That last paragraph is interesting. If they recognize how important access to child care is for the community, wouldn't they have reached out to any of these major providers for input, updates, etc.? I mean really...[/quote]

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