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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Yes!!! We also have a in-school before/aftercare childcare provider that planned to open at their discretion but was forbidden by MCPS. 
Our elementary school doesn’t open its doors until 9:05 so with a two hour delay that is 11:05 (with 11:25 start time). All out of “an abundance of caution” for a tiny part of this huge county.

OP (and I) are not asking for MCPS to FORCE before-school care to be open. We are asking them to ALLOW these businesses who operate within the building to use their own discretion about whether to open (I.e. on a two-hour delay from their normal hours) based on what they know about the safety and availability of their staff. Especially on the context of MCPS acknowledging that they are making decisions for a vast area and are often taking closure actions that are completely unnecessary in most of the county. 
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This also worked for years. This is a new policy. There was no disaster when the childcare companies and their employers figured it out. [/quote]

There was still a lot of moaning and complaining from parents here when the businesses closed. [/quote]

Are you talking about the pandemic when MCPS forced childcare providers to stay closed for 5 months while the state was begging child care providers to open for essential workers?[/quote]

To be fair, it was initially Elrich that prevented child care operators from reopening, not MCPS. The county was threatening child care operators that attempted to reopen.[/quote]

No, it was MCPS that forced child care providers to stay closed for 5 months, stop rewriting history[/quote]

I said "initially."

First the state closed child care operators at the start of the shutdown. A couple weeks later, they created a path for providers to apply to become essential-worker child care providers, with special requirements, administrative/approval processes, which were obligated to take on kids of essential workers even if they weren't their initial clients. This was a messy process, and there were extended periods of time when the state was not processing these applications.

Late spring, the state removed the prohibitions that prevented normal, licensed child care providers from operating. However, Montgomery County maintained they still could not operate here. And with the state ending the special process for essential-worker childcare providers (since it wasn't needed anymore- any licensed provider could reopen), there was a a period of time when there was no path for a child care provider to reopen in Montgomery County.

This was worked out, mostly, over the summer. At that point, programs operating out of MCPS facilities could have reopened, but MCPS preventing them from doing so.[/quote]

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