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[quote=Anonymous]There may be more going on here.

1. OP says her BIL is making $400,000 a year in construction. My hunch is that he isn't making anything near that right now because there is a lot less construction going on. If he has his own construction company, he may be struggling to pay his workers or, even if he's furloughed them, to pay for their benefits to continue.  And lots of non-profits are shedding staff and/or cutting pay. So, maybe the sister and brother in law are under more financial pressure than OP realizes.

2. I have had some wonderful nannies who were absolutely great with my kids, but whom I would never have dreamed of asking to educate my kids. Sometimes this was because the nanny wasn't all that well educated herself. Sometimes it was because they had some beliefs which differ from my own. Even in hiring a nanny, I would make it clear what my own religious beliefs are and explain that --while I didn't care what the nanny believed--she wasn't to discuss her beliefs with my kids or express any negatives about my beliefs with them. But when it comes to the curriculum, these differences can become extremely important. And sometimes it is the subject matter.

Maybe one sister thinks that children should have formal sex education explaining 'the facts of life" by the age of 7, while the other thinks that is too young.                              Maybe one sister thinks 7 year olds should learn about the Holocaust and the other thinks it can wait. Maybe one sister includes "classics" in teaching literature which the other thinks are racist or sexist. (My daughter's best friend loved Pippi Longstocking books; some of them are racist. I like Wilde's The Happy Prince; a Jewish friend thinks it is anti-Semitic.)  Or maybe the OP believes in "unschooling" and BIL is adamantly opposed. [/quote]

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