If DMV schools don't open in the fall, are you moving?

[Anonymous]

Yes. Not just because a second year of this will be so devastating, but because if they really can't find a way to open schools after more than a year of learning about Covid, widespread vaccine availability (which we will presumably have by the fall), and the many examples of schools around the world successfully finding a way, then I think it's time for me to accept that I can't trust DCPS to education my child and we have to go elsewhere. We can't afford private in the city, so we'd have to move somewhere with open schools or where we can live cheaply enough to afford private. We are steering clear of MoCo since they have the same problems, but I've already started pricing out houses and schools in HoCo and PG, and even Baltimore. We are nowhere near making this decision and are even still doing the lottery this year. But I can't imagine not coming up with a contingency plan at this point.

[Anonymous]

I’m in Arlington but no. We will stay. I like our schools and ink so this won’t last forever.

[Anonymous]

No, I can't afford to move. I don't know what I'll do if schools don't re-open.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:No. My kids are doing well and nobody would know they skipped a few years of schooling. I will offer both to move to Europe and have a school year there just for experience. They are dual citizens and I don't have to work. We'd live there for half the money.

OP here. My kids are doing "well" too but it's coming at the price of my sanity. I cannot and will not do another year of this.

+1. My kids might not have a mom left when this is over.

[Anonymous]

We did move temporarily in with family in another state. It’s saved my job to have the kids in school full time. I barely made it through the spring/summer as my spouse went back to work in person very early on and I was in my own with a PK4 and 3rd grader.

But we also need to come back to DC with schools open as the distance is not doing our marriage any favors.

[Anonymous]

We’d absolutely move if it looks like DCPS won’t be fully open. Missing 1.5 years of elementary school is already too much.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:No, I'm grateful the school system is acting responsibly to help stop the spread.

covid doesn't spread in schools.

Without testing every person in the building multiple times per week, with the high rate of asymptomatic spread in children, we have NO way of knowing that.

Stop. Spreading. Lies.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:No, I'm grateful the school system is acting responsibly to help stop the spread.

covid doesn't spread in schools.

Without testing every person in the building multiple times per week, with the high rate of asymptomatic spread in children, we have NO way of knowing that.

Stop. Spreading. Lies.

Our private has been open in-person since September. THey take precautions like wearing masks and distancing. No breakouts in school.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I’m in Arlington but no. We will stay. I like our schools and ink so this won’t last forever.

Yep probably only for 2 years = 1/6 of your child's entire school career.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:No. My kids are doing well and nobody would know they skipped a few years of schooling. I will offer both to move to Europe and have a school year there just for experience. They are dual citizens and I don't have to work. We'd live there for half the money.

OP here. My kids are doing "well" too but it's coming at the price of my sanity. I cannot and will not do another year of this.

+1. My kids might not have a mom left when this is over.

You are being a bit dramatic. I'm sorry you cannot handle your kids. Hire some help.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:No, I'm grateful the school system is acting responsibly to help stop the spread.

covid doesn't spread in schools.

Without testing every person in the building multiple times per week, with the high rate of asymptomatic spread in children, we have NO way of knowing that.

Stop. Spreading. Lies.

Our private has been open in-person since September. THey take precautions like wearing masks and distancing. No breakouts in school.

No one is discussing privates which are very different. In less you are at a school that does weekly testing for all staff and kids, you cannot say no outbreaks when people are asymptomatic.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Yes. Not just because a second year of this will be so devastating, but because if they really can't find a way to open schools after more than a year of learning about Covid, widespread vaccine availability (which we will presumably have by the fall), and the many examples of schools around the world successfully finding a way, then I think it's time for me to accept that I can't trust DCPS to education my child and we have to go elsewhere. We can't afford private in the city, so we'd have to move somewhere with open schools or where we can live cheaply enough to afford private. We are steering clear of MoCo since they have the same problems, but I've already started pricing out houses and schools in HoCo and PG, and even Baltimore. We are nowhere near making this decision and are even still doing the lottery this year. But I can't imagine not coming up with a contingency plan at this point.

We don't have widespread vaccines or vaccines for kids yet. You should plan to move.

[Anonymous]

Move? Of course not. My DC is in HS. It hasn’t been easy, but I treasure this time with DC and DH.

[Anonymous]

Probably I'd move my kids for at least a year to a house we should have moved them to this fall where schools have been open full time with no spread (Massachusetts small town).

[Anonymous]

Nope. My kiddo is excelling with DL and I love my charter. And I'm not moving to Trump country so I can be in-person in school districts that teach Jesus but no history.