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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Daycares are also closing early because of staff shortages and ratios. It is already a high burn out profession not having enough people to cover shifts or the low pay, long hours. It is very difficult to find people willing to work daycare. So instead of having to pay overtime or even benefits, daycare hours are cut short.

Also, there is a lot of enhanced cleaning going on which means disinfecting every single toy and this takes up time as well.[/quote]

The child-care/education/pre-school arena is understandably frazzled and fraying.  As much as we want the global pandemic to be fully behind us, it's simply not.  We are still working through it and will be for another year or so.  And that's only if another deadly variant doesn't come our way.  All child care facilities I'm aware of are looking to hire teachers, bus drivers, teaching assistants, etc. Many are operating their third year in red ink due to the requirement to reduce enrollment to comply with physical distancing mandates.  Many parents, for some reason, have decided to become unreasonably demanding this year when their child's school is simply struggling to survive and do they best they can with masking, extra cleaning, physical distancing, ad nauseum.  We all still need to be giving each other grace and understanding if we plan to successfully get through this as a community.[/quote]

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