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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]God I'm so depressed by this.

My kid and I literally cannot afford another year of distance learning, or just in-and-out of school.  I can't do it financially.  My office will start making me go in come September and there's no way I can stay home for 10 days repeatedly throughout the school year.  There won't be any "learning camps" for exposed kids -- we are all just going to have to be home.  I'll lose my job.  I don't know what to do.[/quote]

Yeah, I don’t know how they think working parents of younger kids will handle such frequent disruptions. I’m assuming there will be lots of kids left alone at home or “quarantining” with their grandparents.

And yes, kids themselves don’t deserve another disrupted school year.[/quote]

If I had a 3 or 4 year old I would probably pay for daycare for another two years to avoid this nonsense.  There are already complaints about a worker shortage and this will lead more people to quit or lose their jobs (and let’s be clear by ‘people’ I mean ‘women’.). If this is truly the policy DC has to pass some paid leave and job protection for parents specifically in this situation.[/quote]

Thank you, that's a good suggestion.  I'm a single parent with no relatives in the area.    There's no ex in the picture.  If I can't hire someone to watch an exposed kid when these quarantines happen I'll be at a loss.  [/quote]

I think you guys are overstating this. I’m a parent at Murch (opened 4 full days a week for anyone who wanted a spot). There were 2 classes quarantined from April until June. TWO.

I don’t think it is going to be as big of a problem as the hysteria here acts like it will be. [/quote]

I would like to think this, too, but Janney didn’t have ANY classes quarantined in the spring and now it happened during summer school. Is because of delta? Or travel? Or both? I don’t know. But they will need to find a more reasonable way of handling those positives or this will be a nightmare im the fall.[/quote]

I’m not sure if you are familiar with the population at Janney’s summer school but it is by and large students from outside ward 3, so yes, very very different from the ward 3 population. Notably, ward 3 has the highest vaccination rates and the kids at the summer school program are in wards with the lowest - in the 20s - vaccination rates[/quote]

Really? The kids that were lining up during the first two weeks (which we attended) seemed to be familiar faces. [/quote]

Are you sure that wasn’t the camp? My child attends the camp and I see the kids in the Acceleration program everyday. Don’t recognize a single one of them and most come in on buses[/quote]

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