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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Help me understand. What is the typical schedule for morning care?

If that morning staff is normally scheduled to be off by 9 AM then I can understand canceling care because I’m assuming most of those people or many of those people have other jobs they must get to. Nobody can live off a salary that only pays for 2 to 3 hours a day.

If they operate on a normal schedule, they would work until 9 AM and then you have staff we need to go to their second job which would mean the student to teacher ratio would be off.

If you operate on a two hour delay again many of the staff would not be able to work because they have other job commitments.

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That's a theoretical possibility, but before recently, they did exactly that, and it was fine. Beforecare opened at the usual time and there was staff there until school started, KAH at least used to open on days when school was cancelled for weather, and they had no problem getting staff for the whole day. If that's the justification, it's obviously not what's happening in reality. There's no reason to cancel because you can imagine a problem that we know isn't real from experience.[/quote]

How do we know KAH, etc. haven't been complaining to MCPS to make this change because the logistics have been too hard?[/quote]

It certainly has not been KAH complaining.  Bob is very clearly disappointed and apologetic when they are forced to close, and when I inquired about it last year he emailed right back and encouraged me and others to contact MCPS to try to get them given more discretion back.

Also it doesn't make sense that they would complain.  The providers have always been allowed to close even on days when they had the freedom to stay open, and sometimes did choose to close or delay based on their assessment of local weather conditions/staffing/etc, and everyone' understood and respected those decisions.  Same as any other child care provider in the county.  Why would they demand less freedom to choose rather than more?[/quote]

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