Of all the inconsistencies and bad decisions how schools are the first thing closed and daycare is considered absolutely essential is the one that cracks me up the most. Pre k kids, we HAVE to make sure they have a place to go. Born a few months later? Sorry it's mandatory we shut that down.

Working from home with a 3 year old is not easy. We've been doing it since last Thursday


At this point though, people are getting accustomed to kids in the background during conference calls

I've been looking into this and I do not think we have conclusive evidence to determine: are children catching this virus and not showing symptoms (carriers) or are they literally not catching the virus at all (not active carriers).

The dataset I've seen show that 2.4% of everyone tested are in the age group of daycare children.

So it is an interesting question, we know some children are impacted, but we also don't have a lot of data that children are this massive asymptomatic carrier group.

I'd be interested if anyone has seen any new data, because it is interesting.

Edit: found an interesting take and may have answered my own question.
https://www.cnn.com/2020/03/11/health/coronavirus-children-sick/index.html

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The study in Pediatrics also showed strong evidence for human-to-human transmission, according to researchers. More than 90% of all pediatric patients were either asymptomatic (4.4%) or showed mild (50.9%) or moderate (38.8%) symptoms."

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The asymptomatic cases are MUCH lower than what is portrayed by the media. Only 4.4% of the 90% of milder cases are not showing symptoms that would make them be turned away by daycares under new regulations.

Our child's daycare is open, we have chosen not to send her for the reasons mentioned by OP. We don't really see how a childcare center is "safe" when all other areas with 10+ are not.

The funny thing about it is the owners sent a message out to parents encouraging them to refer families in need of assistance to the center. Seemed like a not wise health move to openly invite new children to the center during this time.

TxAg82 said:

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This is purely a financial decision at this point. Daycares are funded by tuition. If they close, most parents aren't going to continue to pay tuition very long. Public schools are funded by property tax. If they close we are all still going to pay our property taxes next year. Their funding stream is safe.

Until daycare centers are told to close. They will choose to remain open.

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How do private K-12 schools fit into your paradigm? Ours follows the recommendations of BISD and CSISD and is closed. We are starting lessons from home and online learning for a 9 and 6 year old this coming Monday. Wish us luck!

dr_boogs said:

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TxAg82 said:

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This is purely a financial decision at this point. Daycares are funded by tuition. If they close, most parents aren't going to continue to pay tuition very long. Public schools are funded by property tax. If they close we are all still going to pay our property taxes next year. Their funding stream is safe.

Until daycare centers are told to close. They will choose to remain open.

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How do private K-12 schools fit into your paradigm? Ours follows the recommendations of BISD and CSISD and is closed. We are starting lessons from home and online learning for a 9 and 6 year old this coming Monday. Wish us luck!

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That is a good question. Do private K-12 programs have to follow the same restrictions as the public schools for closing? My daycare's policy has always been to follow our local ISDs schedule. They did the same for this... for the first week. Then shed the policy so they can reopen.

I agree this makes zero sense biologically. Maybe for infants under 6 months but after 6 months of age they are virus spreading machines.

I don't know if they are regulated by the state or if each school is able to make its own decision.

dr_boogs said:

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TxAg82 said:

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This is purely a financial decision at this point. Daycares are funded by tuition. If they close, most parents aren't going to continue to pay tuition very long. Public schools are funded by property tax. If they close we are all still going to pay our property taxes next year. Their funding stream is safe.

Until daycare centers are told to close. They will choose to remain open.

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How do private K-12 schools fit into your paradigm? Ours follows the recommendations of BISD and CSISD and is closed. We are starting lessons from home and online learning for a 9 and 6 year old this coming Monday. Wish us luck!

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Same here, except our school tends to follow CFISD. Three kids in 4th and 5th grades. Last week was spring break. 1st half of this week the school and teachers were setting up platforms for online learning. I spent a good amount of time of this week setting up computers and helping kids with log-ins and new apps so that all 3 kids could learn online while mom (and dad, when possible) can work from home. Assignments began yesterday.

Yesterday I turned into a screaming shrew. One of my kids did a quiz online while watching tv; I wasn't aware of this. NO TV!! TV IS OFF UNTIL ALL WORK IS DONE!! DO NOT TAKE A QUIZ IN FRONT OF THE TV AGAIN!!