Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:None where I live. I can’t believe parents are still going along with this charade.

IME a lot of parents agree with it. Even when ours went mask optional almost everyone stills wears them voluntarily. Or I should say the parents volunteer their kids to wear them all day while they telework mask free.

Yep. It's always the people impacted least by NPIs that insist how important it is that we continue them indefinitely.

So true. Of the handful of unmasked kids in my DC’s class (including DC), all have a parent who has worked in person throughout the pandemic (and thus had been subject to all day masking).

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:None where I live. I can’t believe parents are still going along with this charade.

IME a lot of parents agree with it. Even when ours went mask optional almost everyone stills wears them voluntarily. Or I should say the parents volunteer their kids to wear them all day while they telework mask free.

Yep. It's always the people impacted least by NPIs that insist how important it is that we continue them indefinitely.

I have a three year old in day care outside of Chicago. We do the daily app. That's it. Only two kids in my son's class in masks, and one is always hanging below his nose. The masks were a joke anyway as they let the kids move about unmasked during the three (always) indoor eating times each day. And the kids weren't ever physically separated, during eating or otherwise.

What cracks me up is the repeated notices that they're doing everything possible to keep our families safe. My son's classroom was closed three different times in Jan/Feb 2022 because of cases. And then in early March, my son had a cold (I tested for COVID a few times). I kept him home for 4 school days plus a weekend. I return the next Monday to find a room full of coughing, snotty kids. So many families sent sick kids and the school didn't send them home. No testing requirements or doctors' notes.

I'm moving to a different school in the fall. I'm also moving because I'm losing my spot because I actually want to send my son to summer camp. That's a huge no-no.

Anonymous wrote:Ours requires masks but honestly the kids often don’t wear them and the teachers don’t care. We fill out a health form for check in but it’s quick and online. No temp checks, parents can’t go in the rooms but our daycare is ground floor with windows into the room so it actually makes sense to do drop off and pick up at the gate outside. We can see into the classroom so there’s nothing to ‘hide’.

They did change to 5 day quarantine with rapid test to return which is so much better.

This is about in line with ours, except without the windows. But it’s a really small center so I can see inside from the doorway drop off. Since I have Covid babies I’ve only ever done out door drop off and I honestly don’t really care. Given how chill they are about masking, I don’t really mind that either although I also wouldn’t complain if they dropped it entirely. We haven’t had a lot of Covid closures but I’m very grateful for the test to return option.

Ours requires masks but honestly the kids often don’t wear them and the teachers don’t care. We fill out a health form for check in but it’s quick and online. No temp checks, parents can’t go in the rooms but our daycare is ground floor with windows into the room so it actually makes sense to do drop off and pick up at the gate outside. We can see into the classroom so there’s nothing to ‘hide’.

They did change to 5 day quarantine with rapid test to return which is so much better.

Anonymous wrote:None where I live. I can’t believe parents are still going along with this charade.

IME a lot of parents agree with it. Even when ours went mask optional almost everyone stills wears them voluntarily. Or I should say the parents volunteer their kids to wear them all day while they telework mask free.

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Anonymous wrote:I work at a place in DC and we surveyed the parents and they want masking to continue (staff and students) so we are.

For how long? Forever?

The current end date is a week after spring break, to see what will happen with BA.2

Anonymous wrote:I work at a place in DC and we surveyed the parents and they want masking to continue (staff and students) so we are.

The problem is you actually need an end date. You can just keep "surveying parents". At that rate you may never stop. And although that might make most of your current families happy, I can assure you that future enrollment when you are one of the only places still doing it will not support it.

Anonymous wrote:Daily screening questions in the app, masks required for teachers, masks required for parents in the building (we are allowed in and in the classrooms), weekly tests for teachers, and test to return after day 5 if exposed. If sick with certain symptoms (fever, cough), you need a negative test or doctor's note to return. Masks were never required for children but all but one kid in the 3-4 class wears them.

These feel pretty reasonable to me and I like that they are actually enforcing exclusion criteria. We are sick so much less often than pre-COVID.

Really? Because I think they sound absolutely ridiculous. If you don't want your under 5s to be sick don't send them to daycare. I can assure you whatever sickness they didn't get in preschool they will surely get in elementary.

Anonymous wrote:I work at a place in DC and we surveyed the parents and they want masking to continue (staff and students) so we are.

For how long? Forever?

I work at a place in DC and we surveyed the parents and they want masking to continue (staff and students) so we are.

Daily screening questions in the app, masks required for teachers, masks required for parents in the building (we are allowed in and in the classrooms), weekly tests for teachers, and test to return after day 5 if exposed. If sick with certain symptoms (fever, cough), you need a negative test or doctor's note to return. Masks were never required for children but all but one kid in the 3-4 class wears them.

These feel pretty reasonable to me and I like that they are actually enforcing exclusion criteria. We are sick so much less often than pre-COVID.