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Google to close child care centers, impacting two Mountain View sites

Original post made on Jan 12, 2024

Google plans to close its employee child care centers later this year, impacting two facilities in Mountain View that it rents from the Mountain View Whisman School District.


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Posted by SalsaMusic
a resident of Cuesta Park
on Jan 12, 2024 at 2:15 pm

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Well, I guess the district has an open school site if the north Bayshore gets populated


Posted by Mark
a resident of Willowgate
on Jan 13, 2024 at 9:27 am

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I would not characterize layoff of hundreds of workers from a company that employs nearly 200,000 as "large-scale". Nevertheless, the draconian child center shutdowns will certainly have a disproportionate impact on local child care availability. This seems like a step backwards for encouraging working parents to return to their offices.


Posted by Steven Goldstein
a resident of Old Mountain View
on Jan 13, 2024 at 12:47 pm

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Google just fired 35% of Mountain View’s offices. North Bayshore is dead.


Posted by ivg
a resident of Another Mountain View Neighborhood
on Jan 13, 2024 at 9:19 pm

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Remember this the next time MVWSD asks for money to build new schools: they have a vacant site at Slater.


Posted by That MV guy
a resident of Jackson Park
on Jan 14, 2024 at 12:07 am

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Lovely. Mountain View leases one of their schools (Slater) to Google only to find we now need another school (pretty obvious with so many new workers being hired). So M.V. rips up our lovely green grass playing field surrounded by tall evergreens to build a new school on the field site and then replace said field with a plastic grass field where our pets are no longer allowed and is fenced in and gate-locked most of the time. That wonderful green lawn field and wind-blocking trees are gone forever and never coming back. Nice foresight M.V.


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