MCDC New Operating Hours Effective November 29, 2021

MCDC Families and Staff,

As you all may have noticed, we have been very short staffed in the recent months.  This is due to a record number of teachers being out for medical leave and open teaching positions that we are trying to fill.  Our staff have been doing a tremendous job pulling together to help cover ratios by coming in early, staying late and working through lunch breaks.

Beginning next week, we will be at an historical low with staffing.  In order to cover ratios and allow our staff to work a typical nine hour day (with an hour lunch break), we are going to temporarily modify our hours beginning on Monday November 29, 2021.

Effective Monday November 29, 2021, our temporary operating hours will be 7:00am-5:15pm, for a total of 10.25 operating hours.   We do realize that this may be an inconvenience to some with your current working hours, but this is our only option to continue giving you the high quality of care for your children that you are accustomed to, meet our ratios, and avoid burnout with the staff we have now. 

It is our hope that the staffing situation will be improved no later than the end of December and we will be able to go into 2022 with our typical hours of 6:45am-5:45pm; 11 hours operating.  If the situation improves before then, we will certainly return to normal operating hours earlier.   

Thank you for your understanding and patience.  Please let me know if you have any questions.

*If you know of anyone that is interested in working in the child development field, please share my contact information with them.  Thank you!   

Kelli Wright, Director
Marshall Child Development Center
Building 4346 Morris Road

MSFC, AL 35812
(256) 544-8607
Kelli.L.Wright@nasa.gov

It is not what you do for your children, but what you have taught them to do for themselves, that will make them successful human beings.  Ann Landers