Are You Worried About Coronavirus?

[Ac114]

Ohio has just announced a mandatory closing of all public schools for the next 3 weeks, effective Monday. LET THE CHAOS BEGIN!

Correction: it is ALL schools, public, private and charter.

[CenterTeacher20]

I h ave a family surprising their 2 boys with a vacation to Florida on Monday for a week. I don't know whether to exclude or not once they return.... I think it'd be smart, I want to bring it up to them today to give them time to think about it before they leave for their vacation on Monday but I dont even know how to bring it up to them. Advice?

[Snowmom]

I h ave a family surprising their 2 boys with a vacation to Florida on Monday for a week. I don't know whether to exclude or not once they return.... I think it'd be smart, I want to bring it up to them today to give them time to think about it before they leave for their vacation on Monday but I dont even know how to bring it up to them. Advice?

My letter goes out tonight. I'm placing additional temporary exclusions to my illness policy.
In it, I did ask everyone to tell me if they are traveling over Spring Break (2 weeks from now) as there may be daycare attendance restrictions in the coming weeks for families that have traveled to certain areas of the US.

[Jupadia]

So they just announced that they are closing publicly funded schools for our whole province (Ontario). So my kids have school tomorrow, then spring break for a week. After that schools will be closed till April 5. Also now I dont think the teachers strike that was possible for this same timewill have the same hold in parents. I hope they settle so my kids can go back when the virus thing has passed.

They have only just let us know of this, so I dont know if it will also effect daycare run by the province or centers located in schools.

I'm homebase so I'm not planning on closing yet, I want to remain open unless one of us living here gets it, I cant afford just to close my doors for weeks on end. I only have two of my spaces currently filled, so I dont want to losse clients.

[Cat Herder]

My Governor: "issued a call to action for educators, schools and day cares to consider closing as early as tomorrow. He said this is not a mandate, but is encouraging districts to make the best decisions for their own communities."

Boxing him up some scratch feed now, he seems a bit peckish.

[dolores]

Boxing him up some scratch feed now, he seems a bit peckish.

Lol..you are funny ::! Appreciate the laugh as the anxiety in the air is thick!

[Second Home]

Oh no! What are you going to do? We just had a case here, the guy worked 2 minutes from my house. Who knows if he was at the grocery store or drugstore at the same time as me or anyone else.

I am required to contact the health department and report the illness . I'm going to assume they will contact the family . Hopefully they will also let me know if I need to do anything about informing the other families .

They just announced that all schools in the state of Maryland will close for 2 weeks starting on Monday . More information about daycares is supposed to come tonight.

[Ariana]

All schools closed in my province until April 6th I am shutting down for 3 weeks too. Already cleared it with the families. Things are getting real and I don’t want to chance it.

Husbands office and almost all the offices in my area are shutting down and telling workers to work from home.

No idea what people are doing who have to work and now have to scramble to find childcare. Nothing being said about daycares as usual.

[Ac114]

Well they just announced 3 students from our local schools have been in contact with someone that has a confirmed case of the virus. They are under self quarantine at the moment. They are not symptomatic but we will receive updates if anything changes. 😩😩

[MomBoss]

All schools closed in my province until April 6th I am shutting down for 3 weeks too. Already cleared it with the families. Things are getting real and I don’t want to chance it.

Husbands office and almost all the offices in my area are shutting down and telling workers to work from home.

No idea what people are doing who have to work and now have to scramble to find childcare. Nothing being said about daycares as usual.

Are you still requiring payment? Im not sure what i should do if it gets bad where im at! I need to pay my bills but i dont want to be a monster.

[redmaple]

All schools closed in my province until April 6th I am shutting down for 3 weeks too. Already cleared it with the families. Things are getting real and I don’t want to chance it.

Husbands office and almost all the offices in my area are shutting down and telling workers to work from home.

No idea what people are doing who have to work and now have to scramble to find childcare. Nothing being said about daycares as usual.

Also in Ontario, and will decide by end of day if I'm closing. Looks like in my town most are staying open. Some are switching to calling themselves "daycamps" advertising they will take 10 kids as spouse is home too. For only $50 a day! Major drama unfolding over that.

Panic shopping began once the word of the 3 week school closure went out. People were posting pictures of our Walmart shelves picked clean and lines of people around the store. We have no confirmed cases in our area. Should get interesting in a few weeks when we do, when community spread actually starts.

Saying we must close the school to protect everyone, but nothing about daycare baffles me too. What age group knows the least about virus hygiene and personal space. They slobber on everything, lick everything and everyone in sight, hand you their boogers and need help wiping their nose.

[Jupadia]

Our schools are shuting down (publicly funded both our public and catholic school boards) for 3 weeks.
They have said that daycares in school buildings and other centers are still open at this time. So far no closers for daycares or home daycares are required. They are suggesting sending kids home at first signs of illness though.
I have agreed to take one extra kid after March break next week (parents already have a camp set up for then), he is a brother to one of the other children in care. I currently have low enrollment had two kids leave last month on unrelated resons. One was mom list job, and other parents were approved for subsidized care which I cant offer. Now I'm weighing the income vs the risk if I get any parents calling for temp care during the school canccled time after March break. That's if parents call.

[Cat Herder]

Our school system shut down until March 27th, closed today for a teacher's workday.

The issue I see is that spring break is scheduled for April 6th-10th. Are they really going to open for one week then close again? Stay closed through April 10th? Take away spring break entirely?

I have plans and am closed spring break, too. I don't really want to give that up. The next scheduled break longer than one day won't be until October. I need my break.

[Annalee]

Our school system shut down until March 27th, closed today for a teacher's workday.

The issue I see is that spring break is scheduled for April 6th-10th. Are they really going to open for one week then close again? Stay closed through April 10th? Take away spring break entirely?

I have plans and am closed spring break, too. I don't really want to give that up. The next scheduled break longer than one day won't be until October. I need my break.

I am not a panic person but whatever my personal feelings are, I think we will see a major shutdown of everything and the economy will be affected in the next short while. Just some FYI that I think will happen! Not saying I don't feel all this is serious just that I see this coming.

[Cat Herder]

I am not a panic person but whatever my personal feelings are, I think we will see a major shutdown of everything and the economy will be affected in the next short while. Just some FYI that I think will happen! Not saying I don't feel all this is serious just that I see this coming.

Oh, I know you are right. We peeked at our retirement funds. Like a gut punch. We've been through it before, we will go through it again. We have no choice but to continue on and scale down for the next one.