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[quote=Anonymous]My freshman’s school gave several  options - defer for 1 year, stay home  and do distant learning, or come to school (dorm or off campus). They require all students coming to dorm from certain areas to come 2 weeks early to quarantine in their rooms before classes start. If there are roommates 1 will be put in another room or hotel. School is covering cost of delivering 2 free meals a day and administering 2 tests during that time - 1 on day 1 and another 11-14 days in. Anyone with positive test will be isolated.

Kid will be able to go to lobby to pick up packages and Deliveries and can hang with kids on his floor only, but I guess if 1 tests positive they all must quarantine.

DS insisted on going. To him, This is so much better than staying home another year. And we are okay with it, but expecting him to be back hone if things change fir the worse.

This fall He has 3 classes 100% online and the 2 that have less than 15 students will be blended/in person (altho all classes have an online option fir kids who want to do virtual).

Moving in will be tough, as everything has to be taken up in 1 trip (to avoid contacts) and only 1 parent/helper is allowed (period!) and can only stay for an hour or so. But my son doesn’t have much. I can imagine it’s harder for the kids who bring a lot of clothes and decor.

Trying to find the silver lining we think that this situation could be a good gradual adjustment  into college - the smaller class sizes at least. 
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