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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Can someone please tell me why APS is having a harder time with re-opening compared to all our neighbors and daycares/private schools? Why is it less safe for Arlington?? [/quote]

Because fundamentally a private school relies on its tuition paying students.  Students don't pay tuition for virtual school (especially when it is the school choosing to be virtual, not the edict of the government.)  So they had to open to open in the future.   The same goes for daycare.   APS relies on the taxpayers.  The teachers/ admin, etc get paid regardless of whether or not school is open.  The incentives are completely different.[/quote]

100%. Whenever posters bring up private schools, daycares, preschools, what's the difference? They are a business! They are driven by money.[/quote]

Also, apparently,  they can set hard and fast mitigation rules that public schools seem to waver on for whatever reason.  They can more easily eject the non compliant, and they can create a kind of school community bubble that isn’t possible when mingling with the unwashed masses.  I am not trying to sound elitist, just being realistic.  The families of public school kids, for economic reasons, are more likely to have to mingle with the community at large.[/quote]

Yes and no.  The dynamics of kicking kids out are a bit more complicated than that for a private school.  For instance, if a family is a consistent donor to the school, the HoS may be under a lot of pressure from the board not to kick the kid out despite infractions because then the donation dollars leave with them.  You can buy yourself a good amount of accommodation in a private school if you’re willing to put up the $$.[/quote]

For this kind of accommodation, that is unlikely, because it would spark outrage from other families who also donate to the school.[/quote]

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