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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Sorry, I'm not buying that a large part of this year's under-enrollment is in fact Covid-related.

Yea, a few Watkins' families decamped to grandparents' or other places public schools were open more than in the District, perhaps never to return. But the great majority stuck around and toughed out DL.

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You can believe what you want, but in my direct experience a lot of the current under-enrollment is due to Covid.  The parents became exasperated with DCPS incompetence and got out of dodge.[/quote]

Right, so where did they go to get out of Dodge?  Moved to the suburbs when schools in VA and MD were mostly closed, too? Went charter, when DC charters were open even less than DCPS EotP?  Moved to another party of the country, or another country?  Every DCPS family doesn't have grandparents with a giant house where local schools were open, and willing to let the kids enroll.

Sounds easy to bail on DCPS for blatant incompetence in the middle of a global pandemic, but we couldn't figure out how to make it work.[/quote]

Admittedly these are people who have the resources to pull their kids from DC schools:  many went to various southern states that kept their schools open basically the entire time.  A greater number pulled their kids out of D.C. school and pooled resources to homeschool their kids.  But certainly you can't begrudge their choice to bail:  nationally, the kids' futures have been damaged by local public schools' inaction, resulting in an average of 54 school days of lost instruction across the country:

https://ph.ucla.edu/news/press-release/2020/nov/schooling-disrupted-pandemic-united-states-likely-have-life-long-impact
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There just aren't a lot of DCPS families EotP with the resources to hire private teachers or move to southern states while holding down District-based jobs. We formed a pod with other families, with parents hiring a full-time pod supervisor to keep the kids on track with DL lessons from DCPS.  I've been in the neighborhood since the 90s and only know one family that bailed on DCPS DL to homeschool upper grades DCPS ES-age kids. The rest of us fantasized about hiring a teacher and moving at least temporarily, but found that both options were much easier said than done.  We earn more than 200K between us and don't have a crushing mortgage.

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