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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]OP here - we got the updated COVID policy from daycare today. Our rules include:

- everyone over 2 wears a mask, regardless of vaccination status
- no parents in the building, and no line allowed outside the building. Parents must wait in their car if another parent is at the door for pickup/drop off
- kids can’t come to school if they, or [i]anyone else in the family[/i], has one or more of these symptoms: fever, coughing, runny or stuffy nose, difficulty breathing, headache, stomach pain, diarrhea, or vomit
- if the kid has the above symptoms, they need a PCR to come back
- if we go out of town, the entire family needs to take rapid tests before the kid can come back
- we have to notify the daycare of a positive COVID case in the house (definitely reasonable)
- we have to notify the daycare if anyone in the house was exposed to COVID, regardless of test results

This is not what we agreed to when we enrolled. We’re going to start looking for a new daycare… unless this is just normal in the DMV? [/quote]

No, no this is not normal, and yes if I were in your shoes I would look for another daycare. I am sure the provider has their reasons for implementing such a policy, but I would not stay. For me, the most problematic thing is that it is likely against regulation to completely prohibit parents from entering the building. That is just a basic aspect of child care, it's not like you need to be going in all the time but you have a right to see the facility from time to time. The PCR requirement is super annoying and unnecessary, personally I could cope with that because we have fairly easy access to PCR testing and it would be just one day out of daycare which is reasonable when a child first shows symptoms. But I don't know if it will continue to be easy to get PCRs and get results by the next morning. The requirement to notify the provider of an exposure sounds like a precurser to excluding kids from care and honestly I just can't. I have a job. And the masking, well I will just say that my child has done so, so much better at her daycare after they dropped masks so that would also be a big issue for me.

For reference, our MoCo daycare does not require masks, encourages parents to enter the classroom with their kids, and their illness policy is the same as it was pre-pandemic, with the exception of if the child has COVID they probably need to follow CDC guidelines.

DD's teacher told me this morning the entire class has a cough and cold (DD has it too, we kept her home for a day). Nobody has tested positive (and yes we are testing).[/quote]

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