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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]^ And I’m not saying only Feds do this. I know people in remote jobs in private industry too[/quote]

The funny thing is that outside of the early stage of the pandemic, I only know one person IRL that kept a baby home while working (a contractor) and even she admitted it was only possible because her mom/MIL helped out for 2-3 days per week (and once they were 18mo the kid went to daycare).  I definitely know quite a few parents who dropped or scaled back on before/aftercare, some of whom are scrambling becasue some days are full.  But are there really that many parents still WFH and caring for babies/toddlers fulltime?  How is that even functional....[/quote]

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During the first five months of the pandemic, our daycare was closed because our local school system would not allow child care providers to operate in their facilities (the providers were begging to reopen). My DH and I split days taking care of our 1 year old and working, but by the fourth month we were going absolutely insane. It was horrible. We briefly put our kid in another daycare but finally the school system relented and allowed the daycares in their buildings to reopen. This was MCPS by the way.

I think anybody that does this long term is fooling themselves and cheating their coworkers and employer or is in a position that is unnecessary.[/quote]

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