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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]We are a new family who will very likely enroll in the next few weeks for 9th grade. We do not want public school and the other DC area privates are either too "elite" or two rigid. SSFS seems like a good fit for us. I don't think it's all that risky. My understanding is that they wouldn't have reopened if they didn't believe they could make it work long term because what's the point of just reopening for a couple more years. It's worth it for us to not have to be in public school.[/quote]

I don’t think the risk comes from what the school believes/hopes- more from what will actually happen, which no one knows just yet.

Of course the hope is they’ll stay open. They have someone guaranteeing the loan for 3 years and many well wishers. If they can turn it around and attract students again to go back to their normal count, they’ll stay open baying 3 years. But if the current roughly ~350 kids continues to drop or doesn’t reach the average norm of ~650 to stay in operation then in 3 years they will close again.

Will that happen? Who knows. The school wasn’t able to hold on to students so clearly they have to make a change to bring them back. But no one can know if they will.

That’s the risk. If you e decided that in 3 years the school still not  able to make it work is okay than of course you should give it a shot. That’s a decision up to each individual family. [/quote]

Yes, it is a decision up to each family and one that mine (OP here) already made.  I did not ask for your amateur assessment or opinion.  You don't know that they can't stay open beyond 3 years with a number less than their historical average of 650.  Part of the "figuring out" of the future will include many possibilities including perhaps being a smaller school for a longer period of time.  I'm so sick of all the uninformed guessing that gets posted on any SSFS forum.  [/quote]

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