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Reply to: Thinking about school in the fall Posted July 20, 2020

Dusty, he is most likely going to go back due to financial reasons and not being ready to give up yet. I think that of any employers schools are likely to be as careful as possible, and that they will likely close soon after opening if they do open at all. And if they don’t have to close again, that means things are going well and we’ll all be glad for it! One week from today our state (Minnesota) will announce the decision re: school opening, and I suspect our thinking will move forward a lot at that point. For now we just don’t even know… I’m glad you could retire so young! In a retirement meeting we learned teachers used to do that quite often, when health insurance wasn’t so outrageously expensive. I’m glad you’re able to make it work with AirBnB, etc. We’ve also thought of that type of thing. Being flexible is for sure the key to surviving this crazy time!

Reply to: Thinking about school in the fall Posted July 19, 2020

My husband is a 61 year old high school teacher and we are going round and round about whether he can retire right now if in-person school is his only option this fall. He really shouldn’t retire till 66 if we want to maintain something close to our current modest lifestyle (keep our same house, etc.) and health insurance before Medicare kicks in (I’m only 49 and work only PT so that affects things too), but if his health and life possibly depends on it we could make it work by selling our home and finding a very cheap home with the equity. And he’s not the only one. I know quite a few teachers either leaving or thinking of retiring/leaving if it comes to their safety not being considered. I pray our governor in MN will do better than most because he is a former teacher himself.

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Reply to: Thinking about school in the fall Posted July 20, 2020

Dusty, he is most likely going to go back due to financial reasons and not being ready to give up yet. I think that of any employers schools are likely to be as careful as possible, and that they will likely close soon after opening if they do open at all. And if they don’t have to close again, that means things are going well and we’ll all be glad for it! One week from today our state (Minnesota) will announce the decision re: school opening, and I suspect our thinking will move forward a lot at that point. For now we just don’t even know… I’m glad you could retire so young! In a retirement meeting we learned teachers used to do that quite often, when health insurance wasn’t so outrageously expensive. I’m glad you’re able to make it work with AirBnB, etc. We’ve also thought of that type of thing. Being flexible is for sure the key to surviving this crazy time!

Reply to: Thinking about school in the fall Posted July 19, 2020

My husband is a 61 year old high school teacher and we are going round and round about whether he can retire right now if in-person school is his only option this fall. He really shouldn’t retire till 66 if we want to maintain something close to our current modest lifestyle (keep our same house, etc.) and health insurance before Medicare kicks in (I’m only 49 and work only PT so that affects things too), but if his health and life possibly depends on it we could make it work by selling our home and finding a very cheap home with the equity. And he’s not the only one. I know quite a few teachers either leaving or thinking of retiring/leaving if it comes to their safety not being considered. I pray our governor in MN will do better than most because he is a former teacher himself.