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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I'm a full time employee at a hospital in Massachusetts. A single mother who my son goes to daycare 5 days a week. It is now December 2022 COVID is over!!! Daycares should not be closing every day of the year. My paid time has gone completely down the drain from calling out of work for non sense. We are paying for child care because parents are reliant on these daycares to take care of our children while we are at work. On top of that we have to pay the daycare regardless if they take days off and or if our child is not attending that day. This is completely unfair to parents who are trying to attend work to make a living, meanwhile these daycares are collecting their paychecks every week while they are home having days off. Also having to find someone to watch your child while daycare is closed and also paying that person for the day. The economy is not right for this to be happening. Families cannot afford to be paying for daycare and a backup person. THIS NEEDS TO STOP!!!! It is imperative that changes need to be made about these strict policies that these daycares have. Daycares are clearly taking advantage of families during these past three years.  [/quote]

What daycares are closing for covid anymore? Even Montgomery County stopped doing that months ago.

You need to switch providers.[/quote]

You are in Massachusetts and your health department and daycare licensing may have completely different rules than down here. Montgomery county was one of the strictest in terms of Covid closures. Technically, daycares are still supposed to report any Covid illnesses to the health department, and the health department may advise daycare classrooms to shut down, or entire schools to shut down, but I think this has gone by the wayside.  If your state and local jurisdiction has dropped Covid mandated closures but your daycare is keeping them then you should be looking for a different daycare.

I understand your struggles, but daycares weren’t taking advantage. They still had to charge because they still had to maintain their spaces and pay their employees. Otherwise they would have to shut down and let people go and you would be out of a daycare permanently. Believe me when I say that nobody working in Daycare, whether owners, directors, or employees are living high on the hog. 
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MoCo DHHS never ordered child care providers or preschools to close. Once MSDE allowed them to reopen a couple months into the pandemic, all subsequent closures were entirely at the discretion of the provider.[/quote]

2020/2021 we were absolutely ordered to shut down classrooms and entire schools. They  used heavy language and our licenses were threatened, and since we had received Covid money to pay our employees, we were told that we had to follow the health department in regards to Covid guidelines and threatened to have to pay back the money. The county backtracked and gave ho-hum explanations further along because they were receiving pushback from the parents and the general public. Even a few months ago, we received a memo stating that we would still need to follow the health departments guidelines and recommendations in terms of exclusion and closures. It was fine print buried at the bottom of a document but it’s still there. It’s also largely ignored. I looked back at 2020 and 2021 and it was a time of mass confusion and fear among my colleagues and other daycare owners.

I have gone back to pre-Covid sick guidelines for children. I have a strict individual sickness policy, but it prevents large virus outbreaks, and is much better for all of the parents and children in the long run.

I am glad it’s all over. [/quote]

Honestly, as someone who spent countless hours talking to state and county officials about this, I only have so much pitty for you. Yes, you were being lied to and misled, but you were in a much, much better position to resolve this quickly than parents were. Did you ever talk to Steven Hicks in MSDE? Earl Stoddard in the county executive's office? Sean O’Donnell in DHHS? Did you tell any of them what OCC and Early Childhood Services were telling you? Did you go yo thr press, or even the county council, when your questions weren’t answered directly?

I doubt it.[/quote]

You’re ridiculous. They were under no obligation to go to all of these extreme measures.

Don’t like the policies now? Find a new daycare.[/quote]

Yes, that’s my point. They didn’t have to follow the extreme Covid measures. They chose to, and then hid behind the county.[/quote]

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