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If a family is getting a nanny or a parent at home you should be able to do the 20-45 minutes per day of writing practice, readalouds, art projects, weekly class meetings, etc rather than ask a school to not serve you and possibly lose out on their per pupil funding when they need all the resources they can get. [/
PP here. I think you misunderstood. Obviously if there is no in-person school people are going to have to do whatever they need to do to get by -- everyone is struggling with this situation (I would not say that I am "managing" particularly well). I meant that if there is in-person school and some families choose to send their kids to private daycare instead, I feel weird about saying the schools should save those spots for them when another kid could occupy it this year. If everything is DL, even kids going to daycare could probably participate with DL minimally. I was just talking about in-person slots. Some folks can't afford a private option and those who can shouldn't also get to hold on to DCPS slots that could go to students whose parents don't have the option of paying someone to watch their kids.[/quote]

This is ridiculous. Would you like us to quit our jobs or hire nannies instead? My daycare is cheaper than a nanny, we have a sibling there, our kiddo has been happy there for more than 3 years and we adore the center model. You want us to give up that for 90 minutes of zoom a week, and to either have to pull our youngest out of an environment we love that we planned on for several years or what? Let our older one watch TV all day while we try to work? Have an affordable but untrained sitter? Increase our risk and our entire center’s risk by trading care with strangers who happen to also have toddlers? Just because we can afford to keep our current spot doesn’t mean we deserve to lose the lottery spot we won for the next EIGHT years at a school we love in our neighborhood. We can’t afford to move to an area with better schools. We can’t be sure we’ll win the lottery again. We can’t afford to lose our jobs and the nanny choice isn’t a good one for us for many reasons. Feel free to give up your seat. [/quote]

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