How is MCPS determining red, yellow, green?

[Anonymous]

When you look at the dashboard some of the schools going virtual have a similar number of cases to schools that are open.
https://www.montgomeryschoolsmd.org/coronavirus/dashboard/index.aspx

[Anonymous]

The dashboard is not reflecting the most recent numbers.

[Anonymous]

It is strange to me that they wouldn't have the dashboard updated when making that kind of press conference. McKnight was sharing data updated Monday morning. The dashboard says last updated 12/22/21.

[Anonymous]

There’s an updated document that they sent around a day or two days ago and will be updating with reports of positive cases.

[Anonymous]

The red/yellow/green determination is based on a percentage of positive cases as a school. In order to compare schools, we need total numbers of staff and students at each place. I haven’t seen that to date (and it is traditionally a hard number to come by).

[Anonymous]

From the press conference, they are looking at reported positives from the last 4 days among total school population.
Green <3%
Yellow 3-5%
Red >5%

List to be updated by 7pm each day.

(And of course they can't post that before the press conference - people would flip out with no explanation to go with it. They'll still flip out, but at least there is context now.)

[Anonymous]

Based on outdated and incomplete numbers.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:From the press conference, they are looking at reported positives from the last 4 days among total school population.
Green <3%
Yellow 3-5%
Red >5%

List to be updated by 7pm each day.

(And of course they can't post that before the press conference - people would flip out with no explanation to go with it. They'll still flip out, but at least there is context now.)

Eventually every school will be red. You can’t control community spread by just moving schools to virtual when every single thing is open. Malls, movie theaters, hair salons, restaurants, bars, gyms, travel.. clearly education is not a priority in this country. Money trumps everything.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:There’s an updated document that they sent around a day or two days ago and will be updating with reports of positive cases.

The document they sent around a couple of days ago is a PDF and not updated. I also question the information in that document. It shows only 1 staff case and 3 student cases at North Chevy Chase, and yet that's one of the schools that is going virtual for 14 days starting tomorrow. Were there that many more cases from NCC from Jan. 1 at 10pm to now, or was the information in that PDF totally useless?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:From the press conference, they are looking at reported positives from the last 4 days among total school population.
Green <3%
Yellow 3-5%
Red >5%

List to be updated by 7pm each day.

(And of course they can't post that before the press conference - people would flip out with no explanation to go with it. They'll still flip out, but at least there is context now.)

Just how are they doing this? For instance my Title One school has many nonEnglish speaking parents. Are they getting all the info in how to report, testing, etc? We had many +s prior to break. Why so many upcountry schools?

[Anonymous]

I don't really understand it but we are at one of these upcounty schools going virtual. I know there were a lot of staff confirmed positive before the break that were announced via email.
Our population is highly vaccinated but also highly immigrant. My sense is that people here would be more transparent about reporting, not less. We also have a lot of multigenerational families (we happen to be one of them) and i think this community might actually be more comfortable going virtual than some others. But this is just a gut instinct. Most of my DC's friends submit to testing, etc, and a large number transitioned from virtual academy after Q1/delta.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:There’s an updated document that they sent around a day or two days ago and will be updating with reports of positive cases.

The document they sent around a couple of days ago is a PDF and not updated. I also question the information in that document. It shows only 1 staff case and 3 student cases at North Chevy Chase, and yet that's one of the schools that is going virtual for 14 days starting tomorrow. Were there that many more cases from NCC from Jan. 1 at 10pm to now, or was the information in that PDF totally useless?

I think it’s useless. The red schools list doesn’t make sense based on the document

[Anonymous]

Sorry, could someone help me.... I see the dashboard but all of the schools are listed in black and I don't see where people are getting the red/yellow/green.
Thanks!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Sorry, could someone help me.... I see the dashboard but all of the schools are listed in black and I don't see where people are getting the red/yellow/green.
Thanks!

The dashboard hasn't been updated since 12/21. (source - the dashboard)
They collected data and used date for the past 4 days (source - reported upthread based on press conference)
There will be updates to dashboard reporting soon (source - MCPS employee)

Agree with a PP upthread that they are waiting to update until after the press conference so there is context

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:From the press conference, they are looking at reported positives from the last 4 days among total school population.
Green <3%
Yellow 3-5%
Red >5%

List to be updated by 7pm each day.

(And of course they can't post that before the press conference - people would flip out with no explanation to go with it. They'll still flip out, but at least there is context now.)

Just how are they doing this? For instance my Title One school has many nonEnglish speaking parents. Are they getting all the info in how to report, testing, etc? We had many +s prior to break. Why so many upcountry schools?

Self-reported but I'm confused too. At our school we have received no communication about how to report and why would people report if schools have been out unless you have a ton of time on your hands and the resources and education to seek out a reporting mechanism during the break?

Also at a Title 1