Boarding School Under COVID

RedLioness
Fri, 12 Feb 2021 21:10:06 +0000

Re: what does fall look like @ Exeter -

Fall will at worst look 25% better than this fall - they’ll adjust the schedule, stagger arrivals over a four-day period, and have us quarantine for the first 2 weeks back on campus (I don’t predict them delaying the return to campus, though). In-person classes will be off for the first week, then slowly integrate into once-a-week in person classes for each class. Open areas in scholastic buildings will be used for indoors dining later on in the term.

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Fall will at best look 90% better than this fall - all of the above plus almost in-person classes, at least two dining halls with seating, academic buildings are open throughout the term.

This is all based off impressions of what the pandemic will look like in fall and how the PEA admin has reacted thus far. I could be off.

Re:Revisits in the spring/Family Weekend in the fall -

Not happening in the traditional sense until things get significantly better. Family Weekend is a hard maybe, but even then it won’t be the same. It’s possible that Revisits will involve prospective students “sitting” in on classes and other activities via Zoom, but they’ll definitely be way different. And Family Weekend… I think it’s more likely than not that it won’t happen at all.