If schools reopen, will you send your children? (Informal poll)
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Anonymous
I don't know if public school will have a choice (I tend to doubt it, but who knows) but OP's question assumes there is a choice. Also, homeschooling is a legal choice. As for me, I will send my kids. If schools open I am sure that my job will expect more from me and we both work. I'm not too worried about my kids being harmed by it although I'm watching the information that's coming out about this kawasaki-like illness carefully. |
Anonymous
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It will depend on the measures.
My DD has asthma. Her specialist urged us to pull her and we were thinking hard about it before schools closed. The class sizes would need to be cut in 1/2. I’d want BYOD to be in effect and no sharing of materials like textbooks or “class sets” of handouts. I have no idea how they would do lab sciences since the equipment is rarely cleaned. We would have to be able to drive her. No bus, even at half sizes. We’d probably try to ask her to not eat at school so she can avoid taking off her mask. Her sister rarely ate lunch at school. A big breakfast held her until dismissal. That said, DH and I are both teachers and both have higher risk, health issues. DH is unlikely to return and I’m unsure I can keep my family safe if I go back. We might be finished with schools. |
Anonymous
| Has there been any movement on the waitlist for School without Walls? Freshman or Sophomore class? |
Anonymous
It’s just an informal poll! I’m not asking anyone to sign on the dotted line 
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Anonymous
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We will choose distance learning until we have a vaccine. |
Anonymous
Of course homeschooling is a legal option, but you have to actually fill out paperwork for that and then prove that you have educated your child. I doubt many of the people who claim they’re not sending their kids in will take the time to do that. They just expect to be given an exception. |
Anonymous
| My kids will be in 5th and 3rd and I am currently of the mind that I will send them of school opens even if there is a distance learning option. But I may feel differently depending on the situation at the time. |
Anonymous
These districts can’t even handle providing one learning option for kids; how on earth do you think they’re going to be able to balance distance and in-person? |
Anonymous
Every heard of homeschooling? The current situation is unequal: people with flexible work or with the means to hire "safe" care for their children have the luxury of doing without the group experience of school. They will either opt for distance learning through their existing school, or chose to homeschool. As usual in times of stress, the poor who are obliged to work inflexible hours out of the home will suffer most. |
Anonymous
| Yes. Pre-K |
Anonymous
| No, 1 MS and 1 HS FCPS. Schools are over enrolled and they want to add 40 modular classes in addition to the existing ones. Better solution needed. In MS they can’t even pass in the halls without bumping into each other. Supplies are limited. Not enough for 1 per student. |
Anonymous
Informal or not, it’s worthless to ask this now |
Anonymous
How old is she? Seems crazy to me to expect a kid not to eat during school hours. If a kid chooses not to and is fine, ok, I can live with that, but having that as an expectation seems extreme. |
Anonymous
| Yes. First & third-graders. |
Anonymous
| I am trying to take this week by week but I think no. PK3. |