My almost 2 year old has always struggled with separation anxiety at nursery, mostly just at drop off. He's now starting anew nursery, he's had 1 session with me there for 1 hour, then 3 two hour sessions without me there. He still obviously gets upset at drop off and struggles to calm down. This happened at his previous nursery but after a couple of months he stopped crying within a couple of minutes of me leaving. He only goes one day a week so i think that's why it's took a while to become used to it.
His new nursery think he needs another week of settling in sessions (then possibly more depending on how he goes), but I think that this will not help. I think he needs to start doing the full days to really get used to the routine and begin to trust the staff.
Aibu to think he just needs to start instead of doing these random 2 hour slots?