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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Agree with all the PPs that teachers (and everyone) need to adjust their risk expectations if they want to work. My employer closed the office this spring, but has made it clear that we all need to plan to be back after Labor Day. I work in downtown DC in a 12 story office building, take the metro, and if I don’t show up to work I won’t have a job anymore. DH in the same situation. There is more risk to lots of people’s jobs right now, even if you aren’t on the front lines like some health care workers or grocery store employees.

Does anyone really think that if we start with DL this fall things will get better over and we will be “normal” F2F by Jan 2021? Realistically, even if we get a vaccine by Jan 2021, it won’t be produced and distributed at scale until 2022, and that’s a best-case scenario. If DL continues for that long or longer, a lot of parents with means will pull their kids out of public schools and find another solution - private or home schooling, which will result in severe budget cuts and decline in school quality. 
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I have a kid in private school (high school) and a kid in public school (middle school) and I'll tell you that private school kid's distance learning -- while I still don't want to do it in the Fall -- was heads and shoulders above the public school.  Now I get the reasons why that is, and understand the parameters the public schools have to work with.  But I want my kids educated and not waste any more time, so I'd much rather pay the tuition for that private school DL.

I'm not talking Big 3/Big 5, we're in an outer 'burb and this isn't one of those private schools.  Nor is the tuition anything near it.  But my HSer worked hard to finish his junior year from home, while my 8th grader was occupied maybe an hour a day with just busy work.  [/quote]

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