Closure Policy?

[mommyneedsadayoff]

One thing is are they walking to work? I mean they can get their kid to by walking. What happens when they get stuck in it commuting to work. I close when schools close now. I know i am at home and dont need to travel in it. Your parents do and unless you are prepared to be stuck passed closing with children you need to explain that. I also would not open for 1 or 2 kids either.

That was my thought too. It's not so much about them being able to get to my house to drop off, as it is about them being able to get to my house to pick up on time. As well as making sure emergency services are able to get to my house if needed. We rarely have snow days, because it's just a fact of life here, but when we do it's usually because they are shutting down highways and roads, in which case that would affect Emergency Services, so therefore I close as well. Also, my area has had an influx of people from out of state who moved here for work, and many of them have no clue how to drive in the winter, so they usually heed the warnings. If they close roads, you can actually get ticketed for driving on them also, so people tend to stay put.

[LittleExplorers]

Lucky. :: Those are my earliest arrivals and last departures on school closure days.

Oh no! On early release weather days sometimes mine have to stay until the bus route is done. I have really great parents.

[Cat Herder]

Oh no! On early release weather days sometimes mine have to stay until the bus route is done. I have really great parents.

:::: I do, too. And they did the first year or so until their kids hit 2 or a sibling came along. You know the drill. Can't blame them, they take way too much work home now. :dislike:

[BrynleeJean]

These are all great points. My policy states I close for severe weather days that the local ISDs do just because I know local daycares do that and when i think about it i wonder why. Ive heard one of my directors say its so we can ensure the parents are traveling with their children safely basically. But i have a neighbor who brings their kid from right across the street and sometimes works from home.

Id say Im keeping the policy because if i have it at all it as to be for ALL parents.
AND
because i know for my area personally, there is so much traffic at the slightest bit of rain. I mean 5 car pile up, one main freeway SHUT DOWN kind of traffic so this would be why i would close.
Id imagine the families would either drop their kids off at open and speed on the black ice to get to work on time and then come picking up late like they had no idea there would be traffic
OR
bring their kid and go sit in PJs at home with hot cocoa watching christmas movies all day

im sticking to my closures