April Janney, president and CEO of Illinois Action for Children, lists the impacts COVID-19 has had on providers: “Attendance and enrollment decreasing, overall loss of employment for those parents who had to leave work and for child care providers who had staff who had to leave. The overall employment loss, but then being at home for those parents who could work from home, having to juggle parenting, teaching and working remotely became a big challenge.”
And worse, not in the article, is that if one toddler in the class catches coronavirus anywhere – at school, home or wherever – the entire classroom closes down for two weeks. TWO WEEKS!
I’ve heard rumors of parents lying to daycare providers if their kids had coronavirus and saying “oh we took a vacation” or something just so the entire classroom doesn’t shut down for two full weeks.
How you can run a daycare and make money when a daycare shuts down classrooms two weeks at a time every few months?
And worse, not in the article, is that if one toddler in the class catches coronavirus anywhere – at school, home or wherever – the entire classroom closes down for two weeks. TWO WEEKS!
I’ve heard rumors of parents lying to daycare providers if their kids had coronavirus and saying “oh we took a vacation” or something just so the entire classroom doesn’t shut down for two full weeks.
How you can run a daycare and make money when a daycare shuts down classrooms two weeks at a time every few months?
IL is such a disaster of a state.