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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]For us it’s neither a financial nor safety decision but rather emotional well-being. This was supposed to be our 3 year old’s first year of preschool. We went and took the tour of the new COVID adjustments last week. They’re taking amazing precautions and are very prepared. Class size is small. I truly believe she’d stay healthy. BUT she’d eat lunch “alone” instead of at a communal table where conversation is encouraged and daily helpers get to pass out napkins and water. She’d wear a mask most of the day and these teachers and peers who are total strangers at the start of the year will be masked most of the time too. (All of the “get to know you” activities before school starts were canceled.) More than half the toys have been removed from the classroom so that only easily sanitized items are left. They have a “anything you touch must go in the bin to be sanitized” policy. So instead of working together and learning to share, kids will be encouraged to get a “workmat” (ie a bathmat) and pick a toy to play with alone. We can’t enter the building and must say goodbye on the first day from the parking lot.  I could go on but I think we all get the picture.

I’m crushed that she’s missing out on real preschool this year but since we don’t HAVE to send her for childcare purposes I just don’t think we can justify pushing her to do this when we already expected “normal” preschool would be a big adjustment for our sensitive, slightly anxious kid. [/quote]

Yes, same for us. We had just been starting to enroll our 3 year old back when everything started shutting down in March. I don’t see him comfortable with anything that will be in place especially when he hasn’t left our sides in months. It also doesn’t make sense for our family for him to go to preschool when my older kids will be home distance learning anyway. [/quote]

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