Anonymous wrote:Not all universities are closed for the fall. Some are still making plans. Some are having students arrive on campus a few weeks early, and ending the fall semester at Thanksgiving.

Exactly

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Anonymous wrote:The sooner people accept this new reality the better. Schools in this area will look very different this fall. Kids will likely only be in the classroom one or two days a week. Smart parents are preparing for this new reality. You will not have school as your childcare. If that doesn’t work for you, it’s time to consider relocating to a more rural part of the US. Or, plan to homeschool.

Which do you prefer, kids staying home by themselves unsafely (or going to work with their parents unsafely), or kids going to school? Those are your choices.

She doesn’t work and therefore this whole situation makes her feel useful again (Honey I couldn’t possibly get a job! What if there’s another pandemic?)

Again with the assumptions. I work.

Sure you do. In that case what is your plan when schools don’t open in the fall as you insist they will not?

Wait. You don’t believe I work outside the home? Don’t most of us? I think every family will find a different solution. I hope some kind of childcare will be available, especially for first responders and essential employees. I am one of the lucky ones. I can do most of my work at home. My DH is working from home as well. I realize how very fortunate we are. If the schools offer solid distance learning, we will go with that. Otherwise, we will look at the k-12 option. We also have the ability to move back home to our rural hometown if we have to. Not ideal. But none of this is.

It doesn’t help to attack me for being realistic about next year. My feelings are as valid as yours. We don’t have to agree with each other to be kind to each other.

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Anonymous wrote:The sooner people accept this new reality the better. Schools in this area will look very different this fall. Kids will likely only be in the classroom one or two days a week. Smart parents are preparing for this new reality. You will not have school as your childcare. If that doesn’t work for you, it’s time to consider relocating to a more rural part of the US. Or, plan to homeschool.

Which do you prefer, kids staying home by themselves unsafely (or going to work with their parents unsafely), or kids going to school? Those are your choices.

I prefer that we didn’t have to deal with this pandemic at all. But here we are. I’m a realist. I’m being proactive in my decisions. I hope I am pleasantly surprised.

No, that's not a choice. So, which do you prefer?

I'm not talking about your individual children. You can make whatever decision you want there, however proactively you want. I'm talking about all of our children. The children, collectively. The children who belong to our society.

Anonymous wrote:It could be 5 years or a decade until effective treatment. Oh well. Let’s just sacrifice an entire generation of children to save their grandparents. Disgusting and selfish.

That's silly. Their grandparents want them to go to school. We can protect the grandparents AND have the children in school. It's not one or the other.

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Anonymous wrote:The sooner people accept this new reality the better. Schools in this area will look very different this fall. Kids will likely only be in the classroom one or two days a week. Smart parents are preparing for this new reality. You will not have school as your childcare. If that doesn’t work for you, it’s time to consider relocating to a more rural part of the US. Or, plan to homeschool.

Which do you prefer, kids staying home by themselves unsafely (or going to work with their parents unsafely), or kids going to school? Those are your choices.

I prefer that we didn’t have to deal with this pandemic at all. But here we are. I’m a realist. I’m being proactive in my decisions. I hope I am pleasantly surprised.

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Anonymous wrote:The sooner people accept this new reality the better. Schools in this area will look very different this fall. Kids will likely only be in the classroom one or two days a week. Smart parents are preparing for this new reality. You will not have school as your childcare. If that doesn’t work for you, it’s time to consider relocating to a more rural part of the US. Or, plan to homeschool.

This whole school is not childcare argument is so unbelievably insulting to teachers. And you don’t even get that.

I said nothing of the sort. The reality is that working parents depend on schools to keep their children safe while they are at work. It is likely that will not be an option this fall. Stop making baseless assumptions.

Looks like you’re the one making a bunch of assumptions here.

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Anonymous wrote:The sooner people accept this new reality the better. Schools in this area will look very different this fall. Kids will likely only be in the classroom one or two days a week. Smart parents are preparing for this new reality. You will not have school as your childcare. If that doesn’t work for you, it’s time to consider relocating to a more rural part of the US. Or, plan to homeschool.

This whole school is not childcare argument is so unbelievably insulting to teachers. And you don’t even get that.

I said nothing of the sort. The reality is that working parents depend on schools to keep their children safe while they are at work. It is likely that will not be an option this fall. Stop making baseless assumptions.

Then working parents won't be able to work. Why is that a good idea?

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Anonymous wrote:The sooner people accept this new reality the better. Schools in this area will look very different this fall. Kids will likely only be in the classroom one or two days a week. Smart parents are preparing for this new reality. You will not have school as your childcare. If that doesn’t work for you, it’s time to consider relocating to a more rural part of the US. Or, plan to homeschool.

Which do you prefer, kids staying home by themselves unsafely (or going to work with their parents unsafely), or kids going to school? Those are your choices.

She doesn’t work and therefore this whole situation makes her feel useful again (Honey I couldn’t possibly get a job! What if there’s another pandemic?)

Again with the assumptions. I work.

Sure you do. In that case what is your plan when schools don’t open in the fall as you insist they will not?

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Anonymous wrote:The sooner people accept this new reality the better. Schools in this area will look very different this fall. Kids will likely only be in the classroom one or two days a week. Smart parents are preparing for this new reality. You will not have school as your childcare. If that doesn’t work for you, it’s time to consider relocating to a more rural part of the US. Or, plan to homeschool.

Which do you prefer, kids staying home by themselves unsafely (or going to work with their parents unsafely), or kids going to school? Those are your choices.

She doesn’t work and therefore this whole situation makes her feel useful again (Honey I couldn’t possibly get a job! What if there’s another pandemic?)

Again with the assumptions. I work.

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Anonymous wrote:The sooner people accept this new reality the better. Schools in this area will look very different this fall. Kids will likely only be in the classroom one or two days a week. Smart parents are preparing for this new reality. You will not have school as your childcare. If that doesn’t work for you, it’s time to consider relocating to a more rural part of the US. Or, plan to homeschool.

This whole school is not childcare argument is so unbelievably insulting to teachers. And you don’t even get that.

I said nothing of the sort. The reality is that working parents depend on schools to keep their children safe while they are at work. It is likely that will not be an option this fall. Stop making baseless assumptions.

It could be 5 years or a decade until effective treatment. Oh well. Let’s just sacrifice an entire generation of children to save their grandparents. Disgusting and selfish.

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Anonymous wrote:The sooner people accept this new reality the better. Schools in this area will look very different this fall. Kids will likely only be in the classroom one or two days a week. Smart parents are preparing for this new reality. You will not have school as your childcare. If that doesn’t work for you, it’s time to consider relocating to a more rural part of the US. Or, plan to homeschool.

Which do you prefer, kids staying home by themselves unsafely (or going to work with their parents unsafely), or kids going to school? Those are your choices.

She doesn’t work and therefore this whole situation makes her feel useful again (Honey I couldn’t possibly get a job! What if there’s another pandemic?)

Wait until a single kid gets Kawasaki's disease related to COVID they contracted at school and there is a death. The outrage will be insane.

Anonymous wrote:The sooner people accept this new reality the better. Schools in this area will look very different this fall. Kids will likely only be in the classroom one or two days a week. Smart parents are preparing for this new reality. You will not have school as your childcare. If that doesn’t work for you, it’s time to consider relocating to a more rural part of the US. Or, plan to homeschool.

This whole school is not childcare argument is so unbelievably insulting to teachers. And you don’t even get that.

Anonymous wrote:The sooner people accept this new reality the better. Schools in this area will look very different this fall. Kids will likely only be in the classroom one or two days a week. Smart parents are preparing for this new reality. You will not have school as your childcare. If that doesn’t work for you, it’s time to consider relocating to a more rural part of the US. Or, plan to homeschool.

Which do you prefer, kids staying home by themselves unsafely (or going to work with their parents unsafely), or kids going to school? Those are your choices.