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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]This is OP. As background, in early Feb. I liquidated some equity savings because I thought there would be a market crash, and I bought some extra sanitizer and bleach cleaning products. I also moved up my routine health appointments when I could. When school ended in March, I told my kids they would likely not be back in in-person school until 2021 earliest. In other words, my track record isn't perfect and I got some stuff wrong (I thought grocery stores/restaurants might be closed for longer periods of time), but my predictions have been generally correct so far. I think that there won't be regular in-person education for years. It would be great if I am wrong, though!

What I am struggling with is what now. I know I am likely right, but what do I do with that? I don't want to move to a place that is pandemic-ignorant or pretends it does not exist. Mask-wearing is essential. But I believe with adequate distancing and PPE, schools could open, at least some smaller private schools. I am just not sure how to find those.

Those of you who have suggestions, thank you. Much appreciated.

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Tons of offices and office buildings are sitting empty. Once this stretches on, like late fall, businesses will pull out of their leases or not renew.  All of the sudden the biggest problem/cost for private schools will be eliminated - there will be fairly cheap commercial real estate. I think it likely, once people realize that numbers will not be good enough for public schools, with risk averse litigious teachers and parents, to open in 2021, new private schools will blow up. DL will be a failure.  Fall 2021, when DCPSS opens up once again DL, at least 25% of current dcps will be in these new privates.  Charter schools are a wild card. No ideas there. [/quote]

So I think your kids will be fine if you can make it this year and afford about 10,000-15,000 per kid next year.  If your kids are SN, however, they are screwed.

I think a lot of good teachers will jump ship to these privates, DL being a huge amount of work with little reward. Kids will suffer so much.

I am hoping I am wrong and people come to their senses when they see this isn't going away in 6 month and take a mitigation strategy. But it's hard to argue for mitigation when that means that people will get sick. Much easier to argue for a policy that no one gets sick. At least not at school.  They'll get sick in pods and daycare and from babysitters, but somehow as long as it wasn't from school, it's OK.[/quote]

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