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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]No one has addressed the question of whether these recommendations are enforceable rules...?[/quote]

ACTUALLY, GUIDANCE ARE ENFORCEABLE RULES.

OSSE explained this on their weekly call yesterday  "Guidance" can be created fairly quickly and easily - to change the REGULATIONS requires much time, systems, going through various channels (basically an act of freakin' god, although that's NOT what OSSE said, those are my words).  And with this virus, they have to change on a dime - "Regulations" can't do that, but "Guidance" can.

So if it's in guidance, we have to follow it. (we, the childcare centers, I'm a director)

What I'm hoping for is a loosening of the group size fgr September.  We can't afford to only have 8 children enrolled in a classroom.  Period.  Just can't.  I am thinking of having 8 children with 2 teachers attending/working weeks 1 and 3.  And either OTHER children and 2 OTHER teachers attending/working weeks 2 and 4 of each month.  For that, though, we'd have to chnage our hours to only being open 8 hours/day rather than 10 hours (because our teachers work 8 hour days, and we can't combine children from 2 classrooms to make ratio/group size).  But hey, having every other week care for 8 hours/day is better than having NO CARE, right?

Not sure about that, though, from a parents' point of view.  But you could work from home 2 weeks of month, work from office 2 weeks of month, or work from home all 4 weeks of month, but 2 weeks with your children at home and 2 weeks iwth your children NOT home.

Of course, this means we are paying all 4 teachers to only work 2 weeks of a month.  Unless unemployment boost of $600 continues, our teachers can't afford to work only 50% time.  And we'd be getting exactly half the tuition we'd expected, and be paying our teachers to work, so.....  how can we afford this financially?????

Dunno.  Just dunno.[/quote]

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