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Post by Deleted on Aug 2, 2020 13:05:19 GMT
Trump aside, I have read a few educational articles that have said Covid could be the stick that breaks the camels back and closes a lot of private schools.
1. Income due to job loss or income loss at company = lower enrollment
2. Who wants to pay $10,000+ to have a child do what every other school is doing.
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Post by SockMonkey on Aug 2, 2020 13:12:51 GMT
Trump aside, I have read a few educational articles that have said Covid could be the stick that breaks the camels back and closes a lot of private schools. 1. Income due to job loss or income loss at company = lower enrollment 2. Who wants to pay $10,000+ to have a child do what every other school is doing. On the other hand, many private schools in my area are advertising heavily offering full in-person school as the public schools choose to go remote only for safety reasons. It will be interesting to see what happens when people pay $20K to enroll their kid, there's an outbreak, and the school has to go remote anyway.
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Post by shescrafty on Aug 2, 2020 13:23:36 GMT
Trump aside, I have read a few educational articles that have said Covid could be the stick that breaks the camels back and closes a lot of private schools. 1. Income due to job loss or income loss at company = lower enrollment 2. Who wants to pay $10,000+ to have a child do what every other school is doing. On the other hand, many private schools in my area are advertising heavily offering full in-person school as the public schools choose to go remote only for safety reasons. It will be interesting to see what happens when people pay $20K to enroll their kid, there's an outbreak, and the school has to go remote anyway. Yup The county where the health officer closed schools is in my state (but not my county). Locally many parents are pulling kids out of public schools and placing them in public because of face to face vs virtual. A friend of mine is an admissions director for a local private school and they are saying they will be f2f 5 days a week and to put your kids there. I asked her 4 questions... What is the plan if: A teacher tests positive A teacher has a clear exposure from a family member A student tests positive A student has exposure from a family member She said they were working on their plan but were confident they could do it since they have smaller class sizes. ie There is no solid plan.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 2, 2020 13:37:39 GMT
Trump aside, I have read a few educational articles that have said Covid could be the stick that breaks the camels back and closes a lot of private schools. 1. Income due to job loss or income loss at company = lower enrollment 2. Who wants to pay $10,000+ to have a child do what every other school is doing. On the other hand, many private schools in my area are advertising heavily offering full in-person school as the public schools choose to go remote only for safety reasons. It will be interesting to see what happens when people pay $20K to enroll their kid, there's an outbreak, and the school has to go remote anyway. In my area because private schools receive public ed funding, private schools are closed too. I know 1 was trying to stay open and has moved their start date 2 weeks out in hopes to start but it is highly unlikely.
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Post by peasapie on Aug 2, 2020 14:21:33 GMT
Trump aside, I have read a few educational articles that have said Covid could be the stick that breaks the camels back and closes a lot of private schools. 1. Income due to job loss or income loss at company = lower enrollment 2. Who wants to pay $10,000+ to have a child do what every other school is doing. This is true. I interact a lot with private and public schools and they are in a quandary right now. People are waiting til last minute to pay tuition because many don't want to spent $40k so their kids can be at home; however, if they pull their kid they run the risk of having to reapply and not getting in when/if schools reopen, so it's a tough decision for parents, too.
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Post by crazy4scraps on Aug 2, 2020 14:35:38 GMT
Trump aside, I have read a few educational articles that have said Covid could be the stick that breaks the camels back and closes a lot of private schools. 1. Income due to job loss or income loss at company = lower enrollment 2. Who wants to pay $10,000+ to have a child do what every other school is doing. On the other hand, many private schools in my area are advertising heavily offering full in-person school as the public schools choose to go remote only for safety reasons. It will be interesting to see what happens when people pay $20K to enroll their kid, there's an outbreak, and the school has to go remote anyway. Or some rich kid gets it at school and dies.
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Post by LavenderLayoutLady on Aug 2, 2020 14:41:35 GMT
All politics aside, GOOD.
I hope he stays safe, and does the best he can with virtual school, because the virus doesn't care how well to do you are, or who your daddy is. If you get exposed, you can become ill.
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Post by ntsf on Aug 2, 2020 14:49:22 GMT
my daughter went to a private high school for kids with special needs. everything at the school was done on computer--even over 10 yrs ago. they switched to home school in the spring and from what I can tell.. it has worked pretty well. but it is a small school, small classes, every single family already had all the technology and it was integrated into every aspect of school, and every teacher followed the same format and systems. they get graded on participation too. but beyond that.. I think it is all very difficult.
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Post by katybee on Aug 2, 2020 14:54:10 GMT
Trump aside, I have read a few educational articles that have said Covid could be the stick that breaks the camels back and closes a lot of private schools. 1. Income due to job loss or income loss at company = lower enrollment 2. Who wants to pay $10,000+ to have a child do what every other school is doing. On the other hand, many private schools in my area are advertising heavily offering full in-person school as the public schools choose to go remote only for safety reasons. It will be interesting to see what happens when people pay $20K to enroll their kid, there's an outbreak, and the school has to go remote anyway. Yes....our local Christian school is BOOMING—because they are offering “normal” school —in person, no masks, no social distancing. I have several of my former students that will be attending. They will either make us look really stupid and overreacting—or they will have an outbreak. I guess we’ll know in a few months...
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Post by Bridget in MD on Aug 2, 2020 14:56:14 GMT
Trump aside, I have read a few educational articles that have said Covid could be the stick that breaks the camels back and closes a lot of private schools. 1. Income due to job loss or income loss at company = lower enrollment 2. Who wants to pay $10,000+ to have a child do what every other school is doing.My daughter attends a private HS and my son was at the public middle school. DD's school is already 1:1 ipads, so 2 days after they were sent home, they literally"flipped the switch" and attended class online, workload and interaction was as normal. My son was assigned "work" thru edgenuity, and it was a joke at best. I realize the public schools were scrambling, but this was kids just phoning it in, if they even bothered to do that. It was pass/fail, maybe 90 min of canned work (the teachers had no say in curriculum or content, but kept "office hours" for 2 hrs a day so a kid could ask for help or I guess they would check to see if a student was on progress). So their experiences were night and day. This year, he'll be a freshman, and i hear the public schools were going to schoology, but our neighboring county had that and I didnt hear ringing endorsements with that either, but it HAS to be better than what we had last spring. I won't know, bc he'll be at the same HS as my DD. While ya, I'm paying tuition and they won't be in class, I don't think it will be the shitshow public schools will experience (although currently the plan is half the school is F2F for 2 days, then the other half goes in the next 2 days).
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Post by revirdsuba99 on Aug 2, 2020 15:09:49 GMT
Several people have used this. What does it mean?
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Post by crazy4scraps on Aug 2, 2020 15:12:05 GMT
Several people have used this. What does it mean? Face to face for a set number of days.
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Post by luckyjune on Aug 2, 2020 15:13:56 GMT
We have a small group of squeaky wheels who are LIVID over our district's decision for remote learning. Everything from "I want my property taxes back" to "If I'm doing the teachers' jobs, they should give me half their salary" to "I'm enrolling my kid in private school! You won't get any money from the state for MY kids!" My favorite was "We need a superintendent who will take risks and send kids back to class in the buildings!" Covid seems to bring out the childish thinking in people.
Funnily enough, our district's decision was made based on a decision made by our county health department, which does have the authority to shut down schools, both public and private. So, go pay your tuition, buy your uniforms, and end up going remote, just like the rest of us. Even greater, we live in an area where there are very few private schools because the public schools tend to be very good. Seats are limited, for sure. Also, our state online program is close to capacity (my neighbor's daughter is going there, not for Covid reasons, and she was told they have very few spots left).
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Post by Deleted on Aug 2, 2020 15:24:06 GMT
We have a small group of squeaky wheels who are LIVID over our district's decision for remote learning. Everything from "I want my property taxes back" to "If I'm doing the teachers' jobs, they should give me half their salary" to "I'm enrolling my kid in private school! You won't get any money from the state for MY kids!" My favorite was "We need a superintendent who will take risks and send kids back to class in the buildings!" Covid seems to bring out the childish thinking in people. Funnily enough, our district's decision was made based on a decision made by our county health department, which does have the authority to shut down schools, both public and private. So, go pay your tuition, buy your uniforms, and end up going remote, just like the rest of us. Even greater, we live in an area where there are very few private schools because the public schools tend to be very good. Seats are limited, for sure. Also, our state online program is close to capacity (my neighbor's daughter is going there, not for Covid reasons, and she was told they have very few spots left). Oh yeah the I want my taxes back, I expect to be paid teacher salary comments have me both 😱 and 😂🤣 Oh and parents are seeking to hire teachers to teach their kids...even though their kid will be on line with a teacher 🤨 Dh is a high school math teacher. We are both like parents do realize teachers will be teaching right?!
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Post by AmeliaBloomer on Aug 2, 2020 15:26:49 GMT
I’ve been amused for weeks now by the idea of the First Couple filling out out the school survey about instructional options this year. Dad would scrawl “Open the School now! GOOD!” in huge letters with his black sharpie and his ginormous signature. And then display it for Mom and the poor WH valet like it’s an executive order. He wouldn’t actually answer the questions. Because words.
Mom would covertly white-out all Dad’s feedback later and choose distance learning for all the questions except one she puzzles over. Because English. She would end in a one-word flourish of a signature. Because “Melania.” Like Madonna. And end with a pithy “Be best!”
And then maybe a parent Zoom meeting with Dad interrupting other parents’ questions. Because mean questions. And then a 15 minute demonstration of him drinking water and walking down a ramp. And Mom sitting behind him shaking her head when he speaks and making rabbit ears on his head with her fingers.
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Post by Really Red on Aug 2, 2020 15:28:09 GMT
Fortunately, I don't have kids in school (except college) any more. However, my son's private school? No comparison to what my daughters' public school was doing. Last year, when all the schools went online, the private school was 100% prepared. Teachers were helping students one-on-one and the learning was nearly seamless. Not at ALL what it was like for the public schools.
So you do get what you pay for. I am certain that Barron will not be missing out on his education at all.
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Post by sam9 on Aug 2, 2020 15:28:17 GMT
School here is scheduled to be 100% face to face, starting on August 26/27. If it needs to change to virtual, I will most likely quit my job (even though I’m working at home until at least the end of this calendar year) and try my hand at homeschooling. Online this spring was ridiculous and largely left up to what individual teachers felt like doing. I have no expectations that fall would be any better based on what my sister has told me is being "planned".
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Post by myshelly on Aug 2, 2020 16:26:55 GMT
Counties here tried to issue health orders like that.
Our state attorney general said they do not have the authority.
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Post by Eddie-n-Harley on Aug 2, 2020 16:27:20 GMT
We have a small group of squeaky wheels who are LIVID over our district's decision for remote learning. Everything from "I want my property taxes back" to "If I'm doing the teachers' jobs, they should give me half their salary" to "I'm enrolling my kid in private school! You won't get any money from the state for MY kids!" Back of the line, buddy, behind all those people who pay property taxes and don't have any kids enrolled at all. :eyeroll:
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Post by Bridget in MD on Aug 2, 2020 16:50:27 GMT
Fortunately, I don't have kids in school (except college) any more. However, my son's private school? No comparison to what my daughters' public school was doing. Last year, when all the schools went online, the private school was 100% prepared. Teachers were helping students one-on-one and the learning was nearly seamless. Not at ALL what it was like for the public schools. So you do get what you pay for. I am certain that Barron will not be missing out on his education at all. This was basically my experience!
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Post by Jili on Aug 2, 2020 16:52:35 GMT
I’ve been amused for weeks now by the idea of the First Couple filling out out the school survey about instructional options this year. Dad would scrawl “Open the School now! GOOD!” in huge letters with his black sharpie and his ginormous signature. And then display it for Mom and the poor WH valet like it’s an executive order. He wouldn’t actually answer the questions. Because words. Mom would covertly white-out all Dad’s feedback later and choose distance learning for all the questions except one she puzzles over. Because English. She would end in a one-word flourish of a signature. Because “ Melania.” Like Madonna. And end with a pithy “Be best!” And then maybe a parent Zoom meeting with Dad interrupting other parents’ questions. Because mean questions. And then a 15 minute demonstration of him drinking water and walking down a ramp. And Mom sitting behind him shaking her head when he speaks and making rabbit ears on his head with her fingers. Fun to imagine, but the truth is that it’s unlikely that DT knows anything about his son’s school, education, etc.
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Post by Darcy Collins on Aug 2, 2020 16:57:51 GMT
My friend just decided to keep her son at private school. They'd originally planned for him to start freshman year at the same public high school their senior attends. They saw too saw the direct comparison of what happens when everything went virtual in March. By far the biggest advantage the private school had was the ability to do synchronous learning. The district mandated early that our public high schools could not implement synchronous learning. While we were already 1:1 with devices, too many families did not have reliable Internet not to mention the kids who needed to watch siblings or simply couldn't log on if the baby was sleeping or the parent was working.
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Post by revirdsuba99 on Aug 2, 2020 17:08:26 GMT
Several people have used this. What does it mean? Face to face for a set number of days. Thank you!
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Post by huskermom98 on Aug 2, 2020 17:35:50 GMT
It really wasn't a question as to whether or not we'd keep our 12yo is private school this year, even if they spend most of it online (now granted we pay a fraction of what some schools cost). They did a great job of transitioning to online learning and only missed one day of classes after spending Spring Break getting ready. Sure, it wasn't quite the same as being in person, but they met with the kids on Zoom twice a week for each core class and new material was taught. Our other son's public school was a joke because they couldn't teach anything new, they could only offer ways to improve your existing grade. We know it will be different this year, but we are happy to keep DS12 in private school regardless.
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Post by spitfiregirl on Aug 2, 2020 19:17:20 GMT
On the other hand, many private schools in my area are advertising heavily offering full in-person school as the public schools choose to go remote only for safety reasons. It will be interesting to see what happens when people pay $20K to enroll their kid, there's an outbreak, and the school has to go remote anyway. Yes....our local Christian school is BOOMING—because they are offering “normal” school —in person, no masks, no social distancing. I have several of my former students that will be attending. They will either make us look really stupid and overreacting—or they will have an outbreak. I guess we’ll know in a few months... our school just closed the summer program because 2 staff and a kid tested positive. They closed the whole program. I wonder what will happen to your local schools...
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Post by belgravia on Aug 2, 2020 19:51:43 GMT
Fortunately, I don't have kids in school (except college) any more. However, my son's private school? No comparison to what my daughters' public school was doing. Last year, when all the schools went online, the private school was 100% prepared. Teachers were helping students one-on-one and the learning was nearly seamless. Not at ALL what it was like for the public schools. So you do get what you pay for. I am certain that Barron will not be missing out on his education at all. This was basically my experience! Same with us. My daughter graduated from her private school in June.
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Post by Peal on Aug 2, 2020 22:25:44 GMT
I live in a rural district. There are 12,000 students K-12. Our district is offering 3 options: F2F, online, or, in an act that defies logic, duel enrollment wherein the student takes core classes online but goes to school for electives and extracurricular activities. Either you think it's too dangerous to send your kid to school, or you don't. Half and half doesn't protect them from the virus.
Anyway, Friday is the deadline for making your decision. As of today, only 4.5% of student's parents have indicated they want online. 550 students between K and 12th grade.
I only have one student left in the public school system. Last spring the students got out what they put into it. And since their grades couldn't go down and they couldn't fail a class, very few put anything into it. But my Senior was taking a concurrent enrollment class and his teacher had new content every day and DS kept up with everyday and he ended up completing it with college credit. He also managed to complete HUGE projects for other classes, including a computer simulation of one of the Gemini missions. I would say he had a good experience considering the difficulties. My younger DS, while he wasn't especially challenged, that wasn't a different experience than he would have had if he were in class. School doesn't challenge him.
DS wants to try F2F. I hope the district has concrete plans for when they have to pivot to online. Because I think that's where everyone is going to end up anyway. They have said if they do pivot to not expect the generous grading system used during the spring. I think a lot of kids will struggle.
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Post by myshelly on Aug 2, 2020 22:36:16 GMT
Yes....our local Christian school is BOOMING—because they are offering “normal” school —in person, no masks, no social distancing. I have several of my former students that will be attending. They will either make us look really stupid and overreacting—or they will have an outbreak. I guess we’ll know in a few months... our school just closed the summer program because 2 staff and a kid tested positive. They closed the whole program. I wonder what will happen to your local schools... Our local high school had 2 COVID DEATHS after they reopened to admin and support staff. They’re staying open. It was two school custodians who died after working together.
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Post by inkedup on Aug 2, 2020 22:50:22 GMT
Trump aside, I have read a few educational articles that have said Covid could be the stick that breaks the camels back and closes a lot of private schools. 1. Income due to job loss or income loss at company = lower enrollment 2. Who wants to pay $10,000+ to have a child do what every other school is doing. On the other hand, many private schools in my area are advertising heavily offering full in-person school as the public schools choose to go remote only for safety reasons. It will be interesting to see what happens when people pay $20K to enroll their kid, there's an outbreak, and the school has to go remote anyway. The private schools (all religious) in our area were offering full time face to face with no masks or social distancing required. Several people we know enrolled their kids in a certain mega church's school because of this. The governor has ordered schools in our county closed, but we also live in SoCal Trump country, so who knows if these schools will follow Newsom's orders.
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