Would you send your kid to boarding school this year?

[Anonymous]

if you could afford it?

Do you think the kids would just end up back at home due to Covid?

[Anonymous]

Considering the schools make their money only if students are present, I assume they will do everything they can to keep the students safe. Yes, I would send.

[Anonymous]

Depends on the school, depends on their plan, depends if you are comfortable with a sudden closure...

[Anonymous]

Hell no. And I would definitely consider private in-person day school, depending on precautions.

[Anonymous]

Seems like that would be a safe environment, if they ask everyone to stay on campus -- like a little enclosed town. I would -- and I would move there myself for a job. Great way to not worry about catching it IMO.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Seems like that would be a safe environment, if they ask everyone to stay on campus -- like a little enclosed town. I would -- and I would move there myself for a job. Great way to not worry about catching it IMO.

You’d still have employees coming and going, delivery people on campus, parents visiting, etc.

[Anonymous]

I would never send my kids to boarding school because of all the sex, drugs and booze and iffy teachers.

[Anonymous]

I’ve spoken with several people with kids at boarding school. Seems like all are making the kids quarantine for 2-3 weeks in the beginning with testing along the way. At Choate they quarantine by dorm for three weeks forming a pod. At Deerfield, the kids have to stay in their rooms for two weeks, getting meals delivered.

The smaller schools in more remote areas have it easier than the big ones with a sizable day student population.

[Anonymous]

Yes Op, absolutely. Anything to get my kid in school getting an aducation.

And I would ordinarily never consider private school, let alone boarding school.

[Anonymous]

Only if they don't come home til Thanksgiving, and you then have then quarantine at home.

[Anonymous]

Nope.

[Anonymous]

Op here. Thanks for the replies. It doesn’t seem like it would be completely sealed off to the public. Teachers and staff would come and go and they have day students.

[Anonymous]

Hell no. Basically an ivy-covered cruise ship open to the public.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Op here. Thanks for the replies. It doesn’t seem like it would be completely sealed off to the public. Teachers and staff would come and go and they have day students.

They would need to make day students stay home and make teachers stay on campus entirely or teach remotely. Agree staff could spread.

[Anonymous]

I have friends who teach at one. It has a complicated plan and there are some loopholes. Basically a bubble plan. 90% of faculty live on campus. Most (like my friends) are homeschooling their younger kids. Teachers are teaching in person and on zoom. Kids who have any symptoms move to a sick dorm or to the local hospital isolation wing. No dining hall—all food to go and eaten in dorms.

But admin, facilities folks, kitchen staff will all come and go. And some teachers will be sending their kids to local schools or away to college and they could come back. Faculty even living on campus will go to town to go to the grocery store. So basically they don’t know how it’s going to go.