Reply to Thought it was difficult to find child care pre-COVID?

Forum Index » Preschool and Daycare Discussion

Reply to "Thought it was difficult to find child care pre-COVID?"

Subject:

Emoticons





More smilies

Text Color: Font: Close Marks

[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]This doesn't give a lot of information.  Some of those centers probably were struggling and were going to go under regardless.  And, many got federal funds and parents like previous posters are fully paying to keep their spot (which may not be there when they want it) so where is that money going.  What concerned me was all the positive cases and how many chemicals they were spraying onto surfaces to disinfect and how much of that get injected by kids.[/quote]

The center we were at typically had very long wait lists for non siblings — like 18 months in many cases. Now they are operating at 30% capacity. How long do you think they can maintain that even with staff reductions and some people paying. The math just doesn’t work.

And they are just using typical cleaning products they would use any way. If it weren’t for mass hysteria parents like you that thought that covid posed an outsized danger in day care centers when all evidence shows that it clearly doesn’t when basic safety measures are taken like mask wearing from adults, limiting or eliminating parents and non-staff from entering the center, and increasing hand washing, then they would not be adopting these completely unnecessary and scientifically unsupported “deep cleaning” practices. They are a waste of resources and all for show. You, lady, are part of the problem and have no idea what you are talking about.

If you want a more substantive article and study, here is one from Berkeley. It’s focus is in California, but there’s no reason to think what’s happening there is markedly different that what is happening here for in many other parts of the country.

“The challenges are stark for programs that remain open:

Eight-five percent reported reduced enrollment, with the average number of students cut roughly in half.
Seventy-seven percent reported lost income, and significant numbers of providers reported they have missed rent or mortgage payments and used personal credit cards to cover expenses. Just over 40% said they have, at times, been unable to pay themselves.
Even as revenues fall, 67% reported higher staffing costs to meet health and safety requirements.
Eighty percent reported higher costs for sanitation and protective gear.”

https://news.berkeley.edu/2020/07/22/california-child-care-system-collapsing-under-covid-19-berkeley-report-says/
[/quote]

Options

	Disable HTML in this message
	Disable BB Code in this message
	Disable smilies in this message

Review message

Search Recent Topics Hottest Topics