Anonymous
01/21/2022 11:29
Subject: What does your daycare/preschool do for weather closures?
Anonymous wrote:I am curious about what others' daycares/preschools do as far as weather closures. Pre-COVID, I felt like following the local public schools make sense, but the virtual option seems to make the district our school follows (ACPS) way more likely to close than they were previously. I think following OPM (with the ability to make their own calls too, obviously) makes more sense but wondering what others' schools do?
Looking for:
(1) all-day daycare, part-time preschool, something else
(2) location
(3) weather closing parameters
Mine is as follows:
(1) all-day daycare
(2) Alexandria City
(3) ACPS
Thanks in advance!
I'm the same as you - all-day daycare in Alexandria, follows ACPS. Well, technically they follow ACPS for the first two consecutive days and then make an independent decision on the third day if there are 3+ days of weather closures.
I would like them to just switch to making an independent decision. With yesterday's closure, for instance, a ACPS school board member admitted on twitter that it was mostly due to staffing problems, not actually weather. My private, expensive daycare closing because the local public school has staffing problems is infuriating.
Anonymous
01/21/2022 10:52
Subject: What does your daycare/preschool do for weather closures?
Same as you, OP -- ACPS. I wish they would switch to OPM. There are clearly other factors (COVID spread, staff shortage) driving the local public schools to close at a hair-trigger.
Anonymous
01/21/2022 10:45
Subject: What does your daycare/preschool do for weather closures?
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:1) all day daycare
2) MoCo
3) depends on the weather & road conditions around daycare, not following anything. Like the first few of January, mcps closed 4 days of snow. My child's daycare closed 2 days. Today, my child's daycare is open as usual.
*week
Fairfax County but the same. It was very unusual that they were closed for 3 days after that storm in the beginning of January, but turns out it was because they didn't have power back for 2 days.
Anonymous
01/21/2022 10:25
Subject: What does your daycare/preschool do for weather closures?
Inhome daycare. Mine never closes. If you can make it there, it's open.
Anonymous
01/21/2022 10:19
Subject: What does your daycare/preschool do for weather closures?
1) all day
2) MoCo
3) Technically the MCPS admin offices although a couple times in the last couple years they’ve gone rogue and closed even when the admin offices opened. Thankfully yesterday they just opened late.
2) MoCo
3) Technically the MCPS admin offices although a couple times in the last couple years they’ve gone rogue and closed even when the admin offices opened. Thankfully yesterday they just opened late.
Anonymous
01/21/2022 07:03
Subject: What does your daycare/preschool do for weather closures?
1. In home daycare
2. Alexandria
3. Typically ACPS but for example yesterday she told me I could bring my child because it didn’t turn out to be as bad as previously thought which wa a great because I had to teach virtually.
2. Alexandria
3. Typically ACPS but for example yesterday she told me I could bring my child because it didn’t turn out to be as bad as previously thought which wa a great because I had to teach virtually.
Anonymous
01/21/2022 06:01
Subject: What does your daycare/preschool do for weather closures?
Anonymous wrote:1) all day daycare
2) MoCo
3) depends on the weather & road conditions around daycare, not following anything. Like the first few of January, mcps closed 4 days of snow. My child's daycare closed 2 days. Today, my child's daycare is open as usual.
*week
Anonymous
01/21/2022 06:00
Subject: What does your daycare/preschool do for weather closures?
1) all day daycare
2) MoCo
3) depends on the weather & road conditions around daycare, not following anything. Like the first few of January, mcps closed 4 days of snow. My child's daycare closed 2 days. Today, my child's daycare is open as usual.
2) MoCo
3) depends on the weather & road conditions around daycare, not following anything. Like the first few of January, mcps closed 4 days of snow. My child's daycare closed 2 days. Today, my child's daycare is open as usual.
Anonymous
01/20/2022 22:33
Subject: What does your daycare/preschool do for weather closures?
1) All-day daycare/CBO preschool
2) DC
3) DCPS
2) DC
3) DCPS
Anonymous
01/20/2022 22:32
Subject: What does your daycare/preschool do for weather closures?
1)All-day daycare center
2) MoCo
3) Follow MCPS school closing policy. Initially they followed the MCPS administrative office schedule but recently changed to the actual school closing schedule.
Today was especially infuriating. I have to work in-person and was expecting a 1-hour delay but I had to take the day off instead since they were closed for rain.
2) MoCo
3) Follow MCPS school closing policy. Initially they followed the MCPS administrative office schedule but recently changed to the actual school closing schedule.
Today was especially infuriating. I have to work in-person and was expecting a 1-hour delay but I had to take the day off instead since they were closed for rain.
Anonymous
01/20/2022 21:20
Subject: Re:What does your daycare/preschool do for weather closures?
Bambini DC
All day
In a public/private federal building (Reagan Bldg, so open when government is closed)
Does it’s own thing - has almost always stayed open.
All day
In a public/private federal building (Reagan Bldg, so open when government is closed)
Does it’s own thing - has almost always stayed open.
Anonymous
01/20/2022 10:46
Subject: What does your daycare/preschool do for weather closures?
(1) All day
(2) Fairfax
(3) They make decisions independent of school district and agencies. They'll typically close on days with snow events and have at least a delay the day after, but compared to how often FCPS close, they probably close/delay ~30% of those times.
(2) Fairfax
(3) They make decisions independent of school district and agencies. They'll typically close on days with snow events and have at least a delay the day after, but compared to how often FCPS close, they probably close/delay ~30% of those times.
Anonymous
01/20/2022 10:38
Subject: What does your daycare/preschool do for weather closures?
Ours have always followed APS for closures. But you are right the virtual option does complicate this. We aren't quite there yet though!
They do make their own calls sometimes and when APS did their sudden closures on 1/5 and 1/6, our preschool opened for the day because it was clear those were staffing issues and not weather. Roads were clear.
But we'll see if being virtual makes them more likely to call weather days. APS is not virtual today, we used our 6th snow day. In a normal year, 6 weather days would be plenty, but that big storm, combined with covid, made us burn them faster.
They do make their own calls sometimes and when APS did their sudden closures on 1/5 and 1/6, our preschool opened for the day because it was clear those were staffing issues and not weather. Roads were clear.
But we'll see if being virtual makes them more likely to call weather days. APS is not virtual today, we used our 6th snow day. In a normal year, 6 weather days would be plenty, but that big storm, combined with covid, made us burn them faster.
Anonymous
01/20/2022 10:34
Subject: What does your daycare/preschool do for weather closures?
(1) All day daycare
(2) DC
(3) OPM
But my daycare is in a federal building so they basically follow OPM/building closures for obvious reasons
(2) DC
(3) OPM
But my daycare is in a federal building so they basically follow OPM/building closures for obvious reasons
Anonymous
01/20/2022 09:43
Subject: What does your daycare/preschool do for weather closures?
I am curious about what others' daycares/preschools do as far as weather closures. Pre-COVID, I felt like following the local public schools make sense, but the virtual option seems to make the district our school follows (ACPS) way more likely to close than they were previously. I think following OPM (with the ability to make their own calls too, obviously) makes more sense but wondering what others' schools do?
Looking for:
(1) all-day daycare, part-time preschool, something else
(2) location
(3) weather closing parameters
Mine is as follows:
(1) all-day daycare
(2) Alexandria City
(3) ACPS
Thanks in advance!
Looking for:
(1) all-day daycare, part-time preschool, something else
(2) location
(3) weather closing parameters
Mine is as follows:
(1) all-day daycare
(2) Alexandria City
(3) ACPS
Thanks in advance!