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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Talk me down. Last night I woke up at 2am worried about this and never went back to sleep. We are a PK family and never got an IPL spot last year. Our school was among the worst in the city in terms of IPL last year (I am specifically not naming it because it's a struggling school for a variety of reasons and the failure is not necessarily about incompetence but more some terrible circumstances). We tried to lottery out of the school but have failed thus far and our numbers are not looking good. Our kid spent the second half of last year in a part time PK program that was great in many ways but really only a few hours a week and just not sufficient for our childcare needs. We can't afford that plus childcare, and we need childcare, so we didn't re-enroll this year. We're waitlisted at another private PK with a more comprehensive schedule that we think we can swing on our budget (it will be tight) but no guarantees we'll get in.

I am so scared things are going to shut down again. I think it will finally break me. We would have moved last year but we are in a condo and the market is not great -- we have a neighbor who has been on the market for months and we were hoping that would sell quickly and then we'd list but now I don't know. I am holding onto my job by a thread but I don't think I can do this another year. I feel like it's all going to happen again -- the last minute announcement of closure, the pointless DL for kids who can't really do it, the promises of reopening and it never materializing. I feel so stuck. Our families live very far away and don't have room for us if we went there. We'd have to rent something near them and I don't know how we'd do that if we couldn't rent our place out as well, which is no guarantee.

I'm just venting. It feels like it's all happening again.[/quote]

I'm sorry you are feeling this. Totally understand what you are going through. I think that DCPS could do many different things and be creative about this.  In the midst of delta, I don't think reopening all elementary schools for everyone, having 30 person classrooms, full cafeterias is a good idea.  That said, why can't DCPS reopen for PK-2 because this is really the group that virtual makes the least sense (kids 3, 4, 5, 6 don't have the attention span or the maturity to sit through these virtual classes).  Then DCPS can have a more flexible virtual/in-person for 3-5 to alleviate the crowding at elementary schools.  Middle school and High schools should all be open because kids have access to vaccines.  That is just one thought and there are probably many more, but DCSP is not thinking of alternate plans and burying their heads in the sand.[/quote]

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