When do you think school will be back to normal?
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Anonymous
| When do you think school will go back to normal? Like how it was pre-shutdown. Meaning- full classrooms, class in person everyday, aftercare running, etc. I think we can all see it won't be the fall semester, sadly. Is there any hope for spring semester? I know no one has a crystal ball with this pandemic, but I'm trying to make educated guesses as I try to forecast how our family can navigate the kid/career balance. If things might be back to normal, or even near normal (class everyday but no aftercare, for example) I'd try to keep muddling along for the fall (keep baby in daycare, some how figure out how to manage the kindergartner at home 3 days a week with both parents still working FT). Maybe explore FMLA or creatively using leave. BUT, if this is going to go on for the entire academic year, I feel like I'd rather know now and throw in the towel, quit to stay home (even though I REALLY have no desire to be a SAHM, no shade) and at least save the daycare $ I'd otherwise be spending for fall. Sigh, this is so $h!tty. |
Anonymous
| 2021. |
Anonymous
| Honestly? probably fall 2021. |
Anonymous
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OP I feel the same way. Although DH went into work, it was hard to juggle my own work alongside a 2nd and 4th grader.
While DC ended its school year early, I look off the following week just to relax a bit. It took a lot out of me. |
Anonymous
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WHO now says asymptomatic spread of coronavirus is "very rare."
https://www.cnbc.com/2020/06/08/asymptomatic-coronavirus-patients-arent-spreading-new-infections-who-says.html?__source=twitter%7Cmain |
Anonymous
| As soon as labor day |
Anonymous
This. |
Anonymous
| Looking sooner every day. |
Anonymous
Labor Day 2021? |
Anonymous
What makes you say this? |
Anonymous
They will be open inperson on September 1. Full normality second half of the year. This news is huge. |
Anonymous
| Please be in the fall. My SN kid is struggling so much. We can't take another quarter or half year of distance learning. |
Anonymous
Agreed. If no spike in the next few weeks after the protests, we’re off to the races. |
Anonymous
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My guess is that the soonest it could happen would be early 2021. Maybe things will look so good for the next few months that we start back normally in August/September, but I have a hard time believing that there won't be a spike at some point in the fall/winter that messes things up.
BUT if you like your job and want to keep it, I think it is worth doing everything in your power to just get through this time. Could you hire a nanny/babysitter to take care of both kids? It would be more expensive than daycare, but likely less expensive than you leaving your job. And then in a year you would still have your job. |
Anonymous
Uh, the evidence from Europe. The lowest MD caseload since April. The new info from WHO that asymptomatic (ie, kids) people don’t really transmit. |