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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I hope this happens. The parents who got spots at private schools are not coming back unless public schools open 5 days a week. This needs to happen.

The local Catholic school has kids 3 ft apart and has been open for in-person learning almost the entire school year. No spread in the school. Public systems can be open next year, and need to. We are harming our kids.

Good for you parents who can rearrange your lives to make it happen, but I have three kids at three levels and a full time job and I'm not qualified to teach HS math or science to my teens. How good of a chemistry education do you think DS is getting at home? It's crappy. And even when schools re-open, the chemistry teacher is not coming back, so still no labs. So basically, my kid has learned very little this year. [/quote]

Why do we care what they do? If they’re happier at private they can stay. [/quote]

Families that choose private schools DO have an impact on public schools (not that they are wrong or shouldn’t do it). It means decreases funding for public schools, which arguably isn’t that big of a deal for overcrowded schools. Still, private schools draw wealthier families from public schools, so they no longer contribute to the public school’s resources (things like PTA, etc).

So that’s just great, wish all of the wealthy families well as they move on to different schools. It totally changes the dynamic of publics, and not in a great way.[/quote]

Exactly.. the consequence of schools staying closed for so long is becoming real. There will be budget cuts. There will be staff cuts. This is what a lot of the people that fought tooth and nail to keep schools closed were not thinking about. You can't close schools for a year, still pay the entire staff as if it were normal, and not expect a fairly major negative shift in funding and budgets. I imagine the fall enrollment numbers will be pretty ugly. I learned last night that 2 of my daughters closest friends are going to private, I imagine there are several others. It's sad the course this is taking. [/quote]

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