Burgundy Farm

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Anonymous wrote:SSSAS just pulled a Burgandy Farms move. Not cool.

Really....WOW!!!!

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Potomac not far behind either-will probably announce full DL next Friday or at most 1 day in person for US and 2 days for everyone else. SMH...

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Browne has run a summer camp on campus all summer. That has given them the info and esperience about how to operate safely. We are pleased with Browne's plan.

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This is not a surprise, as Covid #s are worse now than in July. Regarding Burgundy, my understanding is that teachers, staff, admin & parents were all included in the committees. But the data changed over the past few weeks. We Knew that an announcement was coming mid-August, and I was not holding my breath. I’m sad for my kids to be starting remote, but the numbers are moving in the wrong direction. Schools are in an impossible position due to complete lack of leadership at a national or even state level.

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Anonymous wrote:Browne has run a summer camp on campus all summer. That has given them the info and esperience about how to operate safely. We are pleased with Browne's plan.

SSSA has had a successful summer camp as well. Didn't stop them from going DL.

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Anonymous wrote:This is not a surprise, as Covid #s are worse now than in July. Regarding Burgundy, my understanding is that teachers, staff, admin & parents were all included in the committees. But the data changed over the past few weeks. We Knew that an announcement was coming mid-August, and I was not holding my breath. I’m sad for my kids to be starting remote, but the numbers are moving in the wrong direction. Schools are in an impossible position due to complete lack of leadership at a national or even state level.

Don’t kid yourself- Burgundy will be closed all year unless there is a vaccine

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Chances are your child's teachers are also scrambling to figure out child care.

Are they also paying $70K for virtual school for two kids at the same time? I am stretched to my limit by this cost. I simply do not have the capacity to pay for this plus a person to come in and watch my kids do virtual school all day while I go into the office.

Um. You're stretched to the limit to pay $70,000 a year. More than probably most Burgundy teachers make in a year, you have in disposable income for an education at a school because you're scared of public schools. Cry me a river. You're completely out of touch with what ACTUAL inconvenience is in this country. I'm stunned you can't see that.

Not every Burgundy family pays full tuition. Not all of us are wealthy. And, not everyone goes to Burgundy because they are "scared" of public schools, but thanks for the vitriol. No matter your financial situation, it is a HUGE "inconvenience" - since you used that word - to anyone. The exception might be families with stay-at-home parents. But, this is a hardship for eveyone and yes, that includes those who are paying full freight to send X number of children.

The response wasn’t about you. But please take offense. Also, reminder that if you have 70,000 dollars of disposable income you are likely in the upper 5 percent in this country. And you’re attacking teachers who make 40,000 before taxes? Shame on you. Spoiled and clueless.

Just because we have $70,000 in disposable income does not mean we are somehow spoiled and clueless. If we are paying this much money for school we deserve a product worthy of this price. If you don’t like your teaching job, quit.

I'm not a teacher, but your vitriol shouldn't be against teachers during a global pandemic with a disease that people don't know the half of when it comes to long term impact. And yes, you are spoiled and clueless if you're able to pay $70,000 in disposable income and whining about what you 'deserve'. It's a global pandemic with a terrible federal response, we all deserved a better response and deserve to be healthy. Everything else is icing on the cake in this current snapshot of history. Get some perspective.

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It’s a freaking pandemic people.

Lives are being lost or health is being drastically affected.

Anyone who believes kids will social distance and wear masks properly is delusional. I don’t care how big someone’s campus is. Kids are like magnets to each other. Period.

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Anonymous wrote:Browne has run a summer camp on campus all summer. That has given them the info and esperience about how to operate safely. We are pleased with Browne's plan.

SSSA has had a successful summer camp as well. Didn't stop them from going DL.

This is what I don't understand.... How do run a camp but can't find away to bring some kids back on campus.

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Maybe so. But that’s why there are target dates along the way to reassess. If our #s start looking like NY then things might be different. But that seems unlikely.

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Anonymous wrote:Browne has run a summer camp on campus all summer. That has given them the info and esperience about how to operate safely. We are pleased with Browne's plan.

SSSA has had a successful summer camp as well. Didn't stop them from going DL.

This is what I don't understand.... How do run a camp but can't find away to bring some kids back on campus.

Especially when you have a huge campus like Burgundy and you were marketing that big campus as the reason why they could effectively hold socially distanced school.

I feel like these schools marketed themselves heavily as ready for in-person, stuffed the classes to capacity, took the money of parents who were desperate for an in-person option, and are now laughing all the way to the bank.

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New York is quadruple the size people and had 428k cases w/32k deaths. VA has 104K cases w/2k deaths..You really want to compare?

And guess what, they are still opening PUBLIC schools. There you have it!

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Anonymous wrote:New York is quadruple the size people and had 428k cases w/32k deaths. VA has 104K cases w/2k deaths..You really want to compare?

And guess what, they are still opening PUBLIC schools. There you have it!

One thing NYC has always been good at is running school in shifts, especially with the support of the public transit system. In the old days, it was to deal with overcrowding--many schools had two student shifts--the first started SUPER early in the AM and the second ended at night. High schoolers all took the subway anyway and a lot of younger kids had parents that worked nights, so it was convenient.

After 9-11 students at the impacted schools in the zone actually ended up doing their learning as part of the late/night shift at other campuses.

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Anonymous wrote:Browne has run a summer camp on campus all summer. That has given them the info and esperience about how to operate safely. We are pleased with Browne's plan.

Ok, I see that Browne school administrators have found this thread.

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Anonymous wrote:Browne has run a summer camp on campus all summer. That has given them the info and esperience about how to operate safely. We are pleased with Browne's plan.

Ok, I see that Browne school administrators have found this thread.

Not at all hater

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I'm not a teacher, but your vitriol shouldn't be against teachers during a global pandemic with a disease that people don't know the half of when it comes to long term impact. And yes, you are spoiled and clueless if you're able to pay $70,000 in disposable income and whining about what you 'deserve'. It's a global pandemic with a terrible federal response, we all deserved a better response and deserve to be healthy. Everything else is icing on the cake in this current snapshot of history. Get some perspective.


+1000

It’s a freaking pandemic people.

Lives are being lost or health is being drastically affected.

Anyone who believes kids will social distance and wear masks properly is delusional. I don’t care how big someone’s campus is. Kids are like magnets to each other. Period.

That's fine but then the school can't give people what they promised and they should offer them the opportunity to withdraw and get their money back.