Well Since MCPS Just Provided 45 day Notice - We’re Going Back

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Wrong! Word on the street is they are all going back in person before Thanksgiving. Maybe the budget issues made MCPS wake up and realize they need to get on the ball. Either way there are going to be a lot of private school parents withdrawing especially for those schools who pulled the old switcheroo and pretended they were going in person and then switched to DL at the last minute. A mass exodus is coming.

"Word on the street." LOL. Source: dude, trust me.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:My shiny new private school refused to open until November for hybrid (for no good reason) but now that MCPS will probably open in some capacity by November, we’re going to return to MCPS. To our HOS - thanks for an expensive 8 weeks of DL. You should have just opened like you SAID you would so your school would have at least been a better option than the publics.

You belong in public. Don’t let the door hit you on the way out!

You can take the mom out of public, but you can’t take the public out of...well, you know.

Lol. There you are.

As an independent school teacher, I hope you do go back to public. The public school parents who fled public in a panic are the most demanding parents in our community, and they’re disrespectful to staff members. The long-standing families who witness such behavior are embarrassed for them. Also, even privates that haven’t announced yet will be back by early November, likely at greater capacity than MCPS. But I’m not going to talk you into sticking around. And you can sue, but you’ll lose. I’ve seen it happen. Hopefully you have tuition insurance or a school head who just doesn’t want to deal with you.

Lies! Give an example of how public school parents are worse. Right! You can’t. I strongly dislike people like you who traffic in lies and stereotypes. Two things you should know: 95% of private school teachers graduated from public schools so you are entrusting your “special snowflakes” to be educated by teachers who had public school parents - oh my! Also, MOST private schools were struggling financially because of COVID. Believe it or not the public school parents have saved many of these schools by enrolling. Next time you see a public school parent, thank them before they leave and your little private school that spends most of its time holding the hand of your unmotivated child ( who “lacks executive functioning skills”
which is private school parent code word for “my kid is lazy”). Public school parents now see why you like privates so much. A lot of the behavior kids get away with in private would be properly addressed in public school. The secret is out! It’s not that the academics are better - the coddling is - and small class sizes allow for more coddling. We are no longer fooled by you guys!

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:My shiny new private school refused to open until November for hybrid (for no good reason) but now that MCPS will probably open in some capacity by November, we’re going to return to MCPS. To our HOS - thanks for an expensive 8 weeks of DL. You should have just opened like you SAID you would so your school would have at least been a better option than the publics.

You belong in public. Don’t let the door hit you on the way out!

You can take the mom out of public, but you can’t take the public out of...well, you know.

Lol. There you are.

As an independent school teacher, I hope you do go back to public. The public school parents who fled public in a panic are the most demanding parents in our community, and they’re disrespectful to staff members. The long-standing families who witness such behavior are embarrassed for them. Also, even privates that haven’t announced yet will be back by early November, likely at greater capacity than MCPS. But I’m not going to talk you into sticking around. And you can sue, but you’ll lose. I’ve seen it happen. Hopefully you have tuition insurance or a school head who just doesn’t want to deal with you.

Lies! Give an example of how public school parents are worse. Right! You can’t. I strongly dislike people like you who traffic in lies and stereotypes. Two things you should know: 95% of private school teachers graduated from public schools so you are entrusting your “special snowflakes” to be educated by teachers who had public school parents - oh my! Also, MOST private schools were struggling financially because of COVID. Believe it or not the public school parents have saved many of these schools by enrolling. Next time you see a public school parent, thank them before they leave and your little private school that spends most of its time holding the hand of your unmotivated child ( who “lacks executive functioning skills”
which is private school parent code word for “my kid is lazy”). Public school parents now see why you like privates so much. A lot of the behavior kids get away with in private would be properly addressed in public school. The secret is out! It’s not that the academics are better - the coddling is - and small class sizes allow for more coddling. We are no longer fooled by you guys!

Hahaha
New flash ALL schools have problem children in EVERY class. They can’t be avoided. And yes thank you very much I’ll keep that extra attention that my kid gets in a smaller class size than competing against 27 other kids and never getting any because the teacher only has the bandwidth to deal with those problem children and the ones at the top. My kid got such a wonderful public education that according to the state was passing in reading and yet turned out to be a year behind in reading. Learned how to choose the best answer out of 4.

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Anonymous wrote:My shiny new private school refused to open until November for hybrid (for no good reason) but now that MCPS will probably open in some capacity by November, we’re going to return to MCPS. To our HOS - thanks for an expensive 8 weeks of DL. You should have just opened like you SAID you would so your school would have at least been a better option than the publics.

You belong in public. Don’t let the door hit you on the way out!

You can take the mom out of public, but you can’t take the public out of...well, you know.

Lol. There you are.

As an independent school teacher, I hope you do go back to public. The public school parents who fled public in a panic are the most demanding parents in our community, and they’re disrespectful to staff members. The long-standing families who witness such behavior are embarrassed for them. Also, even privates that haven’t announced yet will be back by early November, likely at greater capacity than MCPS. But I’m not going to talk you into sticking around. And you can sue, but you’ll lose. I’ve seen it happen. Hopefully you have tuition insurance or a school head who just doesn’t want to deal with you.

Lies! Give an example of how public school parents are worse. Right! You can’t. I strongly dislike people like you who traffic in lies and stereotypes. Two things you should know: 95% of private school teachers graduated from public schools so you are entrusting your “special snowflakes” to be educated by teachers who had public school parents - oh my! Also, MOST private schools were struggling financially because of COVID. Believe it or not the public school parents have saved many of these schools by enrolling. Next time you see a public school parent, thank them before they leave and your little private school that spends most of its time holding the hand of your unmotivated child ( who “lacks executive functioning skills”
which is private school parent code word for “my kid is lazy”). Public school parents now see why you like privates so much. A lot of the behavior kids get away with in private would be properly addressed in public school. The secret is out! It’s not that the academics are better - the coddling is - and small class sizes allow for more coddling. We are no longer fooled by you guys!

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Hysterical.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Here's what's gonna happen:

In about 45 days, kids with special needs and ELL students and perhaps very young students like Kindergarteners will be allowed to go back hybrid. 6th and 9th graders may get to go in in small groups once or twice to do a face to face activity and see their school.

Elementary kids could get to go back in for a little bit before February, maaaaaaaybe.

MS and HS won't be called back in until February at a minimum, because their age puts them at minimally greater risk and their social behaviors and independence make them less able to be controlled, and they behave in a riskier way.

Sometime in Spring 2021, or probably February, all students will be offered the option to do hybrid (something like 2 days per week, with the other two synchronous....or if we're really unlucky, asynchronous). At that point, about half the student population will return, and the other half will stay virtual through most of the year or all of the year. There will be more battles about an inequity shift where virtual students suffer and in-person students consume the most resources.

50/50 that the hybrid/in-person model will never happen this year due to Americans being f*c*(#&$& idiots and not wearing masks during socializing indoors in the winter, or that the schools open but have to close again and we're back to square one.

In no scenario do all students go back 100% this academic year.

Then it'll be long enough doing this that the academic week will substantially transform due to people getting used to virtual and some liking it, and/or we'll lose teachers, and/or budgets will be so severely cut they'll want some people to stay home. There will be a push for more virtual options or perhaps 4-day school weeks.

Mark. My. Words.

(FWIW, I don't foresee it being smart to go back any time soon, with the exception of students with exceptional need.)

I agree with you. They may allow seniors and possibly juniors back instead of 6th and 9th graders.

Another sticking point with MS and HS going back, after almost a year of sleeping in do you think MS and HS students will so readily agree to going back under the old bell schedule? Catching a bus at 6:30 or even 6:50 in the morning? And starting to do that when it is dark and freezing cold in the morning?

There is also going to be the issue with weather related closures. Last year was an anomaly with the lack of snow days/2 hourcdelays. Is everyone ready for winter weather? You know real snow days won’t cut it this year but teachers/students will need enough warning to bring anything home from school so they can teach from home. Are you ready for MCPS to make the announcement “hey, it looks like there will be precipitation tomorrow and since we always have 2 hour delays when it is raining in the morning because ice, let’s just have a virtual school day tomorrow”. And the precipitation never materializes. Are you ready for that?

[Anonymous]

If you make a big decision for the wrong reasons, you are guaranteed to be disappointed.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:My shiny new private school refused to open until November for hybrid (for no good reason) but now that MCPS will probably open in some capacity by November, we’re going to return to MCPS. To our HOS - thanks for an expensive 8 weeks of DL. You should have just opened like you SAID you would so your school would have at least been a better option than the publics.

You belong in public. Don’t let the door hit you on the way out!

You can take the mom out of public, but you can’t take the public out of...well, you know.

Lol. There you are.

As an independent school teacher, I hope you do go back to public. The public school parents who fled public in a panic are the most demanding parents in our community, and they’re disrespectful to staff members.The long-standing families who witness such behavior are embarrassed for them. Also, even privates that haven’t announced yet will be back by early November, likely at greater capacity than MCPS. But I’m not going to talk you into sticking around. And you can sue, but you’ll lose. I’ve seen it happen. Hopefully you have tuition insurance or a school head who just doesn’t want to deal with you.

Lies! Give an example of how public school parents are worse. Right! You can’t. I strongly dislike people like you who traffic in lies and stereotypes. Two things you should know: 95% of private school teachers graduated from public schools so you are entrusting your “special snowflakes” to be educated by teachers who had public school parents - oh my! Also, MOST private schools were struggling financially because of COVID. Believe it or not the public school parents have saved many of these schools by enrolling. Next time you see a public school parent, thank them before they leave and your little private school that spends most of its time holding the hand of your unmotivated child ( who “lacks executive functioning skills”
which is private school parent code word for “my kid is lazy”). Public school parents now see why you like privates so much. A lot of the behavior kids get away with in private would be properly addressed in public school. The secret is out! It’s not that the academics are better - the coddling is - and small class sizes allow for more coddling. We are no longer fooled by you guys!

completely false at least at the better private schools. who traffics in lies?

[Anonymous]

This whole entire thread is a bunch of lies and nonsense yet again. New attempt to sow confusion and stoke anger, same people behind it with the same self-serving motivations.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:This whole entire thread is a bunch of lies and nonsense yet again. New attempt to sow confusion and stoke anger, same people behind it with the same self-serving motivations.

Huh? Where’s the bad motivation. There are plenty of public school parents who are now re-thinking their enrollment in private now that mcps is re-opening and many privates are running scared and haven’t opened. Perfectly reasonable to be considering this.

[Anonymous]

Perhaps some of the smaller schools are worried but the mainstays, the schools in the top 20-30? Nah, no way are they worried. They will have wait lists and more applicants than spots no matter what. Here is why: the money doesn't matter for most private parents.

We're not making our choices for schooling based on how much it costs. I know it is a hard concept to grasp for a lot of people who choose public but our family and those of our friends and family are choosing the private schools we choose because of our perception of benefits that make it worth the cost.

The fact that a public school system is reopening does not make even one iota of a difference for our family. And I can tell you point blank that the three private schools in which our children are enrolled won't even blink when MCPS or some other system reopens. It will not make a difference in their student population at all.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Ok lets break this down dcum. If poster is not a troll. What private school in moco (dcum) does monthly contracts and put out language to open in November?

My guess is OP meant they did the 10 month payment plan so they haven’t paid all that much yet and just plan to stop making payments.

Oh okay. I thought good credit was a thing but I don't know how nonpayment works. Unless its tuition insurance.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Let’s just see what happens with Fall flu 😷/Covid. If all good good if not enjoy the DL

Debbie downer speculator.

Went to my GP for my flu shot and he’s been to tons of virtual conferences. Flu season in latAm was very mild. Zero deaths in Argentina. And with niL travel or illegal immigration from the Southern Hemisphere to the northern these days, It won’t be brought up here rapidly like usual.

FYI the four strains in this years shot are not from last Dec-Feb flu season here, it’s always from the Southern Hemisphere’s winter flu season strains from August. It was record low in numbers due to social distancing.

As usual mass media won’t cover it, doesn’t fit the apocalypse narrative.

Next excuse?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Perhaps some of the smaller schools are worried but the mainstays, the schools in the top 20-30? Nah, no way are they worried. They will have wait lists and more applicants than spots no matter what. Here is why: the money doesn't matter for most private parents.

We're not making our choices for schooling based on how much it costs. I know it is a hard concept to grasp for a lot of people who choose public but our family and those of our friends and family are choosing the private schools we choose because of our perception of benefits that make it worth the cost.

The fact that a public school system is reopening does not make even one iota of a difference for our family. And I can tell you point blank that the three private schools in which our children are enrolled won't even blink when MCPS or some other system reopens. It will not make a difference in their student population at all.

+1 agreed. We're new to private for our kids and I hope we never have to go back, at least before highschool. I feel so spoiled for me and my kids. Our budget is very tight but I'm going to do what we can to make it work a few years. these es years are so important.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Let’s just see what happens with Fall flu 😷/Covid. If all good good if not enjoy the DL

Debbie downer speculator.

Went to my GP for my flu shot and he’s been to tons of virtual conferences. Flu season in latAm was very mild. Zero deaths in Argentina. And with niL travel or illegal immigration from the Southern Hemisphere to the northern these days, It won’t be brought up here rapidly like usual.

FYI the four strains in this years shot are not from last Dec-Feb flu season here, it’s always from the Southern Hemisphere’s winter flu season strains from August. It was record low in numbers due to social distancing.

As usual mass media won’t cover it, doesn’t fit the apocalypse narrative.

Next excuse?

Myopic much? The point is that with the winter comes other respiratory illnesses and symptoms that are the same as those of COVID. Cold and arid weather? Dry nasal passages, sinus infections/congestion, sneezing, coughing (from post-nasal drip), and sometimes a mild fever. Colds? Congestion, headaches, loss of taste/smell. Influenza? Congesion, high temperatures, coughing, GI distress. You are so focused on furthering your own narrow point of view that you miss the forest from the trees.

[Anonymous]

OP seems rather impulsive and rash.

The question she should be asking herself is:

Which DL do I prefer, and if it’s the private one, is it worth the money?

Because I guarantee that most kids aren’t returning to school any time soon.