Oh boy. So my baby girl has a few food allergies. She had started a daycare right before the COVID pandemic and they [the school] approached me about bumping her up into a "transitional" room in December.
She would be 21 months old then. Now E is very very big (tall) for her age but she would the the youngest in the group by 3 months but she's still bigger than most of them and talks more than they do so I wasn't stressing it. Normally they range from two to 3 1/2.
The preschool itself is ability based not age based. It is also a "play based" pre-school that follows a mutilated Montessori method which I love. At most they do an hour to two hours broken up over the day.
I had posted in the FA group because I was considering not sending her due to COVID. She hasn't actually gone back to the daycare since COVID but they called me today to ask if we still wanted to try the transitional room in December. It is being done with the understanding that if it doesn't work out she'll just slip back to the daycare room.
It's a really small school and legacy plays a part as her cousin (my nephew) is going into highschool there in the fall, hence why they are willing to "hold" her spot in the daycare to see if she'll transition okay in the new room first.
So I posted in the FA group thinking they where normally pretty nice (which they where lord knows they had been amazing when I was first figuring out her FAs.)
I forget how down right nasty people can be when it comes to kids doing "better" than others.
I have worked daycare before I know the age and kid/teacher ratios so no I'm not stupid but you'd have thought I said I was sending my kid straight to freaking kindergarten the way they reacted. 😠😠
Like hello THE SCHOOL APPROACHED ME not the other way around. At the time I didn't even know they had a transitional room because she had always been in the daycare room.
*whoop*
Now that that's off my chest 😅😅. I'm kinda stuck on what to do. With COVID up in the air I'm not sure I want to commit to her going in December and they need an answer by August.
Her allergist and pediatric both said to just eat the registration fee if we don't feel it's safe but her pediatrician is strongly recommending her to start if it is safe just for the social aspect as she didn't start daycare until like 8 weeks before it shut down due to COVID.
So far the school [at least the daycare side] has been wonderful with her allergies so with that side of things i'm pretty confident but with COVID I just don't know if I want her to go or not.
I don't go back to work until she goes back and at this rate we're playing it safe and she and I are both staying home for the foreseeable future. So it's not like she HAS to go so I can work, it's just whenever we're comfortable I'll go back to work and then she'll go.
Any thoughts would be welcome.
Last edited by HannahBanana; 07/10/20 09:15 AM.
