Poll: Schools will reopen when?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Right now in Fairfax, sacc is set to open after two weeks. It's spring break camp but we will follow and decide if it makes sense for the kids to go. It will depend on our jobs, which have been very difficult about remote working (we both got a week and are taking a week of leave next week and after that who knows).

I’ll be very surprised if SACC opens up in two weeks.

I’m another vote for “September.”

[Anonymous]

Schools and childcare are subject to different rules.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Schools and childcare are subject to different rules.

Which is why the discussion is 2 weeks instead of 4 weeks.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Fall.

Unless they cancel Summer vacation entirely and restart mid-June. The peak of the virus season is supposed to be May.

Probably fall.

[Anonymous]

Yesterday Anthony Fauci said he hopes, HOPES this is under control in 8-9 weeks. My guess is that maybe they will have school in June and into the Fall. There are going to be a lot of parents who will be eager to get back to work if they have't been working this whole time to make up the money that was lost. Business will be booming. This is a game changing event so all the normal schedules and rules don't really mean anything anymore. We will have to adapt and roll with whatever happens.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Fall at the earliest. The 2019/20 school year is done. On top of that, school will look very different when they go back.

Repeating grades?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Fall at the earliest. The 2019/20 school year is done. On top of that, school will look very different when they go back.

Repeating grades?

No, we are 3/4 of the way through the year. They will socially promote everyone unless there is a extenuating circumstance. This is happening to the entire world, not just us. Like a said on a thread yesterday, 2020 is going to have a big fat asterisk next to it for every measurement that we use to determine human achievement/success. Things are going to be very different after this, things we looked at as normal will not be the norm anymore. Think if 9/11 happened to the entire planet, not just the US, so many things changed about our society and not just here but all over the world and that was just as a result of something that happened in the US. This is literally happening to everyone. A new normal is being created right now, and for the next few weeks and months it’s going to get even more intense.

[Anonymous]

I think it will be different in different states, like Wuhan and Hong Kong, HK recovered faster.

I say April. But I’m in Florida.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Fall at the earliest. The 2019/20 school year is done. On top of that, school will look very different when they go back.

Repeating grades?

No, we are 3/4 of the way through the year. They will socially promote everyone unless there is a extenuating circumstance. This is happening to the entire world, not just us. Like a said on a thread yesterday, 2020 is going to have a big fat asterisk next to it for every measurement that we use to determine human achievement/success. Things are going to be very different after this, things we looked at as normal will not be the norm anymore. Think if 9/11 happened to the entire planet, not just the US, so many things changed about our society and not just here but all over the world and that was just as a result of something that happened in the US. This is literally happening to everyone. A new normal is being created right now, and for the next few weeks and months it’s going to get even more intense.

I agree with this. But that success will be different for everyone. Those who had an emergency fund before and those who didn’t. Some will want to homeschool, maybe extreme testing for kids won’t matter.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Fall at the earliest. The 2019/20 school year is done. On top of that, school will look very different when they go back.

Why will school look very different?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I think it will be different in different states, like Wuhan and Hong Kong, HK recovered faster.

I say April. But I’m in Florida.

Have schools there reopened?

[Anonymous]

May

[Anonymous]

I think fall. This hasn't even started yet.

[Anonymous]

At least some universities have officially said they are closed for the rest of this semester.

K-12 schools might reopen in May, but more likely not until fall.

[Anonymous]

I’m surprised by the responses. I think MCPS will open in two weeks, take some of spring break away and move on as normal.