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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Okay I’ll play. I podded up for 3rd grade. We have four kids total in pod and we hired someone to teach them every day from 8.30-1pm. The cost is split evenly among the parents.

For me it came down to the following:

- I suspect my 3rd grader may be ADD; or at very least she gets a tremendous joy by not listening to me :). In all seriousness, she’s high energy and does poorly sitting in front of a screen all day, often declaring “I’m bored” ten minutes into school. 
- Getting any work done during those hours is next to impossible because she requires essentially constant attention and redirection.  
- I do think she’s learning her social skills from the likes of YouTube, roblox, Minecraft, or whatever - which isn’t great to say the least. Lots of 15 year old kids typing all sorta of stuff on there. The screen time is rotting the brain but I’m sympathetic to the fact that all her friends are on these games (so she sees it as the only kind of socializing she can have). It seemed like a pod could provide some limited normalcy again. 
- We sought out parents with similar risk profiles and we all took covid tests before day one. 
- Mentally all the kids seem to really benefit from having a teacher and packing a lunch, etc. It’s a bit like why they say to get up and get dressed for work even if you are at home - helps shift the mindset.

I feel incredibly snobby having a pod, but my kid is doing so much better with this than they did with me trying to manage things at home on my own, juggling work, school, lunch, etc. It makes me happy to see my daughter happy. Obviously if she or I get covid and die, this will have been quite the mistake, but then the only real alternative is to stay in strict lockdown for another year or more.

May the hate start. [/quote]

That was so incredibly helpful. Thanks for taking the time to post it.

Can I ask a few follow-up questions? Did you pull your kids out of school or are you technically still enrolled and doing what is required for attendance purposes? Are you willing to share the cost for the teaching resource? Can you share anything about how you went about finding the teacher? Thanks for any additional info you are willing to share.   [/quote]

We stayed in school. It’s more like a tutor / supervisor with some extra help on top. The cost is $1200 a family. We got super lucky on finding someone. I happen to be friends with a retired DCPS teacher who knew someone who didn’t want to go back this year due to covid. We basically guaranteed the job for the year to make it work financially (understandably our teacher wasn’t okay not going back to DCPS for what might be a 1 or 2 month job). 
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Is it $1,200/week or /month? What are you going to do if your kids go back to school?[/quote]

Month.

I’m not so worried about kids going back to school before January. It seems really unlikely, and frankly, even if they did, we’d probably push to opt out. Going back right as Thanksgiving and Christmas break occur during basically peak flu season, it just seems not so good of an idea. And having this setup gives us the privilege of choice.

Post January, I think it’s possible to go back. If that happens I suppose this person becomes an overpaid after school tutor or homework supervisor. It’s a risk I got comfortable accepting. Id day it’s equally likely we open and then close again. [/quote]

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