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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I see "Morning childcare is canceled. All-day childcare programs will operate on a two hour delay."

Could it be the staff at morning only programs may have other jobs and their ability to report is hours/time based? I.e. someone who can only work till 9 am, in the event of a delay, it doesn't make sense for them to come in 2 hours late when they have another location to report to? Just curious [/quote]

That’s what I’ve been saying for a couple pages back. But a lot of parents here seem to think that these workers are available all day long. Nobody can live on a salary of just a couple hours every morning so it stands to reason that many of these people have other jobs they must get to.

“It wasn’t a problem in the past!” I bet a lot of of these places operated with the wrong student to teacher ratios.  But I think parents don’t care or see it as an issue that as long as their children were at before care. [/quote]

also we seemed to have less of a problem keeping staff at before/aftercare.  Covid changed all that.  The 'before times' are gone.[/quote]

I think in this case, the before times were 2023 when child care centers could make closure/delay decisions with more independence. Even literally yesterday, the published guidance for Code Yellow allowed for before care to be open.[/quote]

+1. My kid started the first year back to in person schooling after COVID. I have no experience of pre-COVID beforecare, but our KAH site opened without issue until last year. It's possible they were operating with higher than legal ratios, but that's possible any day.[/quote]

Same.  We use BarT and they were allowed to open until last year.  They opened in 2022 and 2023.[/quote]

And correct me if I'm wrong, but even in 2024, before care could open with a 2-hr delay for Code Yellow, I think? It was just that MCPS had a string of 3 straight Code Red days, IIRC, when the roads were clear for 90% of the county.[/quote]

Looking at my e-mails from last winter, it looks like they were able to open at the usual time on 1/9/24 and on a two hour delay on 1/21/24 and 1/22/24, but on 2/6/24 were forced to stay closed?  Can someone else check that? [/quote]

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