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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My oldest is slated to go to LBSS in the fall. Do you think we will be able to have 4500 people together in September (estimate of students + plus teachers there)?  I am ok with it but I just really not sure that school board will be?? Thoughts?[/quote]

Not sure but this is the type of thing people need to be thinking about. Their school may not be large/overcrowded, but several are. The system is at the mercy of the most crowded. It may very well be a situation where k-6 is 5 days whereas MS/HS are hybrid at least to start. This is how some private schools have had to do it this year. It's really going to depend on the vaccine rollout, community transmission, and local public health regulations in place at that time.

Last night Fauci said vaccines will be available to anyone starting in July but getting them into arms could take another couple of months after that. That puts us into early fall. We just don't know what community numbers will look like as more adults and older teens get vaccinated. We are waiting to see if this past wave was it or if we will enter another one due to new variants. Warmer weather may save us from that, but who knows. We certainly aren't in spring yet.

People who can't handle the uncertainty need to look at private school or learn to embrace uncertainty. As much as everyone wants a guarantee for 5 days in the fall they're not going to get it from this school board or superintendent. They will say "that is our plan/goal" which is not a commitment. People may feel as though they are owed a guarantee but the reality is that no one owes you anything. Learning to live with uncertainty is a skill some parent have had no choice but to master (e.g., parents of kids who are medically fragile). You can tell many parents here have not mastered that skill and do not know what to do with themselves.[/quote]

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