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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]He’s just speaking the truth. That’s why everyone on this thread is upset. Why not acknowledge your privilege and then have a conversation?![/quote]

What privilege?  I work hard to afford private for my kid.    So?   You made other choices.  People that bash others using the tired “privileged” label sound like envious middle school children.   Get over it.   People are more successful then you.[/quote]

The privilege is not going to private school. It’s suggesting to public health officials during a global pandemic that your school is special and deserves special rules.[/quote]

But this wasn’t what it was.  There is no question that private schools have smaller class sizes and the ability to pivot to meet CDC guidelines in a way the public schools did not.  Our son has 12 kids in his class.  They were set-up to be 6 feet apart with plexi-glass dividers, windows open, classes outside where possible.  Why were these facts not considered?  Instead, he dismissed all private schools without regard to meet safety measures.  We are very cautious.  But this was never about keeping kids safe because, if it were, he would have looked at what schools were capable of.  This was always about closing down the private that could comply with safety recommendations because the public could not.  And the data support this:  private schools, with these measures, have been open for months, safely.  And now the publics are starting to do what they have been doing since the fall, albeit slower and for fewer days.  Please don’t make this a class way, because the fact is that all of our children deserved better - the private didn’t deserve to be labeled spoiled kids of rich people and shut down for basically that fact when they prepared plans demonstrating their ability to safely bring kids back; and the public school kids deserved more than solving the problem by saying “see, the privates are home too” rather than working to try and implement similar safety measures.  [/quote]

CDC guidelines were not set in a vacuum. They are always contingent on levels of community spread. Local officials operated in the dark because no one in the federal government wanted to set consistent guidelines. This is not like Singapore where you can close the perimeter and control what happens within. I get your frustration, but honestly no one knew what was going on from week to week. You want a plan? Criteria? You don’t think the local officials were begging for guidance here? The mismanagement of the pandemic at the federal level is truly at a criminal level and cost many innocent lives. I don’t understand why there is so much outrage about one local official, who didn’t even shut down your schools.

As for the people who say it’s envy etc., I feel sad that you are so out of touch with what the majority of people feel about private school. My kids are in them and we are very happy with our school. But we are aware that most people do not envy kids in private school! They are proud of their public schools and honestly wary of the privilege, elitism, and bubble mentality that can develop in these communities. Comments like the ones people are making here about envy and lawsuits will be viewed with total disbelief and contempt by those outside the private school sphere. It’s as if people here don’t realize what has been happening in the world at large this year.[/quote]

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