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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]We are at a daycare center in NoVA.  Daycare’s policy is to shut down a classroom for 10 days upon a confirmed positive case (either student or staff) in that room.  Policy is dictated by the county health department.  Our daycare doesn’t require masks for children under 5, and there’s no test to stay option.
We just completed our 6th shutdown since Nov 2020 between my 2 kids.  Each shutdown has been due to a positive staff member.  None of those cases resulted in further spread within the school.  That’s 60 days’ worth of juggling childcare and work between my DH and myself, cobbling together a mixture of leave, WFH, working late at night, etc.  it is untenable.
Meanwhile, we had an RSV outbreak in both the infant and toddler classrooms last summer, yet no classroom shutdown was required. [/quote]

I'm in Arlington and this is not the case at our school.  They shut down twice, once in summer 2021 and once in January 2022.  Though the snow that week really helped them there.  They did pivot to asking everyone to test their children in the morning before bringing them to school.  So if there is a positive case, they ask everyone to test before arriving and they ask for proof.  If people don't do it, they have tests on hand and you can do it in the parking lot before sending them in.

[b]I'd change schools if they are still shutting down a classroom for 10 days for every positive case[/b].[/quote]

Well, we aren’t in Arlington, and this seems to be the policy for the majority of the centers in our area, so I don’t really have an option to switch.  I’m just hoping we can make it through this wave without another classroom closure.[/quote]

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