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Anonymous wrote:Thanks everyone. Spending another year on school is not ideal- we can "afford" it in that we won't start getting out of debt until both kids are in public school, but we won't struggle to put food on the table (knock wood). I decided to put the deposit down on the spot. If by some miracle we are back 5 days a week in the fall, I'll gladly forfeit the deposit.

Can you please share the preschool?

I think Clarendon Child Care Center had something, but it probably isn’t 5 days.

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Anonymous wrote:Very good chance for 12+ since they’ll likely be vaccinated. Under that, who knows?

Science says they do not need the vaccine, the chances of under 12 contracting and transmitting the virus are extremely rare. For folks that are not comfortable sending their kids in without the vaccine, they will have DL as an option. But since most adults will have the vaccine by summer at the latest, I see kids being in school 5 days/week in September.

Please provide a link to some scientific/medical evidence to what you're claiming. I have been told the opposite from our doctors... that younger children carry the virus but tend to have more mild symptoms. There are a small number of kids who get very ill from multisystem inflammatory syndrome and sadly, a very small percentage of those children have died from it. That syndrome is rare, but I have not heard any doctors say that chances of young children "contracting and transmitting the virus" is rare, as you are claiming.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Very good chance for 12+ since they’ll likely be vaccinated. Under that, who knows?

Science says they do not need the vaccine, the chances of under 12 contracting and transmitting the virus are extremely rare. For folks that are not comfortable sending their kids in without the vaccine, they will have DL as an option. But since most adults will have the vaccine by summer at the latest, I see kids being in school 5 days/week in September.

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I personally know 5 elementary school kids who currently have Covid.

Yeah, 'cause Covid is everywhere. In your family. Your grocery store. At the gas station. Unless you've been living a 100% hermetically sealed life, you'll likely be exposed to the virus. That's what happens when there's massive community spread. But all in all, schools have NOT been a focal point of transmission. There aren't any dramatic, chilling numbers coming out of schools across the country that fully reopened months ago.

Slim to none.

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If people would get their act together and not behave badly, then we could have students in class 5 days a week with state-mandated child-size N95s and lunch room plastic panels between students (no talking at lunch). Virtual option would be offered for high-risk students or families who cannot receive a vaccine for medical reasons.

This is on Northam - keeping restaurants, bars and gyms open is the problem.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Very good chance for 12+ since they’ll likely be vaccinated. Under that, who knows?

Science says they do not need the vaccine, the chances of under 12 contracting and transmitting the virus are extremely rare. For folks that are not comfortable sending their kids in without the vaccine, they will have DL as an option. But since most adults will have the vaccine by summer at the latest, I see kids being in school 5 days/week in September.

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I personally know 5 elementary school kids who currently have Covid.

Anonymous wrote:Thanks everyone. Spending another year on school is not ideal- we can "afford" it in that we won't start getting out of debt until both kids are in public school, but we won't struggle to put food on the table (knock wood). I decided to put the deposit down on the spot. If by some miracle we are back 5 days a week in the fall, I'll gladly forfeit the deposit.

Can you please share the preschool?

Thanks everyone. Spending another year on school is not ideal- we can "afford" it in that we won't start getting out of debt until both kids are in public school, but we won't struggle to put food on the table (knock wood). I decided to put the deposit down on the spot. If by some miracle we are back 5 days a week in the fall, I'll gladly forfeit the deposit.

I would take the spot.

Anonymous wrote:Very good chance for 12+ since they’ll likely be vaccinated. Under that, who knows?

Science says they do not need the vaccine, the chances of under 12 contracting and transmitting the virus are extremely rare. For folks that are not comfortable sending their kids in without the vaccine, they will have DL as an option. But since most adults will have the vaccine by summer at the latest, I see kids being in school 5 days/week in September.

I think they’re good. If all the adults are vaccinated this summer... the risk will be much lower.

Anonymous wrote:I would put the deposit down at the preschool. You can always walk away from the deposit if by some miracle APS is 5 days a week. I don’t think it will be though. There is so much misinformation out there about a kids’ vaccine. First, the trials for the really young kids has not even begun. Second, even if the vaccine proves effective, there is no way it will get get a EUA given that the risk of Covid complications is extremely low. There will be a very high hurdle for this being approved for kids.

But this is why I think we will have 5 days of school next year. I am in FCPS but I am confident that this thing is going to look like a completely different animal by summer.