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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Director as well here (DC). When the new guidance came out in June, we did away with most of our policies. No more sending kids home for runny noses, hallelujah! Unfortunately right now I have 2classrooms that I had no choice but to shut down because a staff person with allergies just tested positive as did one of her coworkers. She is actually quite ill. So I can’t open classrooms because we are already working with a skeleton crew despite large pay increases, bonuses and the Early Childhood Pay Equity Fund set to begin dispersing this fall. Hiring is brutal because everyone wants to work from home these days. Not sure what the answer is but believe me, directors are beyond over it. Many of us are contemplating leaving the field as well.[/quote]

OP here -- that's tough. I know hiring and staffing has been a challenge for my child's daycare in NoVa too. One thing our center has done to make it a bit easier is to mandate vaccines so that staff can follow the CDC guidelines for vaccinated people (5 days quarantine + masked days 6-10, no quarantine just for exposure). That gets teachers back at work sooner and they explicitly said that was a reason for their vaccine mandate.[/quote]

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