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I'll humor you. And go where? Private? (Where are these magic spaces coming from? Where is the money coming from to pay for tuition?) Move from DC? (To where? With what job? How does that help if adjacent jurisdictions are all still DL (as they are now)? You moving to Alabama or Florida as part of a "cut off your nose to spite your face" protest?)  [/quote]

So I and many others I know discuss these options:
1.  private (generally the parochial schools because they are just as expensive as the current pod/nanny/tutoring/daycare going on)
2.  dropping out of charters and going IB if DCPS opens and the charters don't
3.  moving to the nearest suburb with public schools that open (and retaining current job but having a shitty commute)
4.  moving closer to or in with family (NYC, for ex) (also some discuss moving in with family in other countries) (this one relies on the ability to continue teleworking)

I'll note that many of these choices (aside from #1) would be forced through financial hardship; no one really WANTS to do these things.  But, for example, a friend is a single mother being forced by her public sector job to go to work in-person soon; she's got to send her young kids somewhere and doesn't make enough money for a nanny, etc., nor does she have family in the area.  What does she do?  [/quote]

Enter for a CARES room?  Take federal CARES Act leave until 12/31?  Apply to be a CARES babysitter?  She’s got some options. [/quote]

Almost certainly this person is expecting to go back in 2021, so the leave doesn't matter. And how is someone who already has a job but no time and not enough money going to replace their salaried job with working in a CARES classroom? That makes no sense.

None of these three options are available for someone with a kid in a charter.[/quote]

Then leave the charter and enroll in your inbound Dcps.  I mean come on. The beauty of charters is that you can leave when it no longer works for you![/quote]

Ah yes, unenroll from your school to maybe have a chance to get into a CARES classroom. Definitely a realistic solution. Although I am sure you knew that all of your responses have been completely flippant.[/quote]

No this is learned helplessness.  There are options.  Options she doesn’t like/doesn’t want to do....but that doesn’t mean there are no options [/quote]

lol I love this "here are some options that aren't really options!" "literally everyone has a way to solve this problem! I don't know what it is but I swear it exists!"[/quote]

It’s up to her to decide what she wants to do. It’s isn’t up to me or you to find her options. It appears she just wants to complain.  That’s fine and it’s within her rights.  But seriously, find another school, quit the job, join a pod, find a new job. Stop complaining and start finding a solution. [/quote]

It's fascinating to me that you can only imagine a world where 1. it is easy to find a better job and 2. one can afford to pay for private school and 3. one is sufficiently socially-connected to be able to join an educational pod (which I guess you're assuming is free). Now that's privilege. Some people out there are really stuck between a rock and a hard place, which apparently makes them "whiners."

What do you tell your friends when they are telling you about their struggles? Do you have friends?[/quote]

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