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[quote=Anonymous]My H is very frugal. Normally this is a good thing. It means we live below our means and we have great savings.

But sometimes it is annoying, especially when he refuses to hire out any household chores. We don’t have any household help with cleaning, lawn care, painting, etc.

This is annoying but I can live with it I guess. However, what is really bothering me is this issue with the kids’ school. I wanted to put them in private school this year because public is hybrid and only in session 2 days a week. He is very against this, as we have 3 kids and it would be expensive. In our area, it runs from 15-30k depending on school year. We have 2 in elementary and 1 in middle school. We ended up compromising by hiring a tutor to come for 4 hours, 3 days a week, to work with the 2 elementary kids on their distance learning assignments. He has taken over supervising the middle schooler.

It’s going ok but it’s not ideal. Ideal would be 5 day in person. Now we’re coming up on the second year of this and the district/state has said nothing about opening fully next year. I’m worried about another year of hybrid school. What can I say to get him to realize how bad this is? We have the money to put them in private. He just doesn’t think it is “worth it.” We do have a great public school but it is only open 2 days a week with no promises about next year. He is betting on it opening but I’m not convinced. It’s possible our oldest will be vaccinated by then (he’ll be 13 and in 8th grade next year) but if the younger kids aren’t, how can they open fully? I’m sure they’ll say they need to continue the social distancing/hybrid schedule.

What should I do?[/quote]

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