Covid Update from Central Office

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:We are so happy to see this update! Upgrade your masks everyone and go to school!

Only complete idiots think this is good news. Enjoy your kid’s subpar education for the remainder of the year, stuffed into auditoriums with no teachers. But they are socializing! (If you actually talked to your kid, you’d know the kids are absolutely miserable in the buildings right now)

I dont know which kids you’re talking about. Mine and their friends are so happy to be in school. And, a subpar education, if that is in fact what happens, is better than none or virtual.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:We are so happy to see this update! Upgrade your masks everyone and go to school!

Only complete idiots think this is good news. Enjoy your kid’s subpar education for the remainder of the year, stuffed into auditoriums with no teachers. But they are socializing! (If you actually talked to your kid, you’d know the kids are absolutely miserable in the buildings right now)

Actually, no. My HS student was thrilled to be in school this week and is ecstatic about the change. All of his teachers were there. Ans almost everyone was wearing kn95 masks in addition to being vaccinated and boosted, so don’t start in with it’s not safe

So were my elementary schoolers. My fourth grader was so disappointed that school was closed today.

[Anonymous]

As someone with children in the original 11 schools, I am furious. They'll let us know maybe if they have a plan by Sunday afternoon.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:We are so happy to see this update! Upgrade your masks everyone and go to school!

Only complete idiots think this is good news. Enjoy your kid’s subpar education for the remainder of the year, stuffed into auditoriums with no teachers. But they are socializing! (If you actually talked to your kid, you’d know the kids are absolutely miserable in the buildings right now)

I dont know which kids you’re talking about. Mine and their friends are so happy to be in school. And, a subpar education, if that is in fact what happens, is better than none or virtual.

+1

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:It's insane that once half of county schools went in the red zone MCPS stopped using that metric. Talk about rigging things to get the result you want! Now what am I supposed to do? By their own admission 60+ schools are unsafe. But I can't keep my kid out forever and can't afford private school (and don't want my kid to go to one even if I could). Why can't they go virtual TEMPORARILY, just until the Omicron wave passes. What are other concerned parents doing?

We're in one of the 11 schools that are already virtual. Apparently we're just supposed to wait on tenterhooks until "early next week" (as per our principal) for further updates. I'd rather they just have us finish out the 14 days, just so we know what to expect in the coming weeks. This game of "Will they, won't they" is exhausting.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:We are so happy to see this update! Upgrade your masks everyone and go to school!

Only complete idiots think this is good news. Enjoy your kid’s subpar education for the remainder of the year, stuffed into auditoriums with no teachers. But they are socializing! (If you actually talked to your kid, you’d know the kids are absolutely miserable in the buildings right now)

They're not going to be stuffed in auditoriums without teachers for the remainder of the year. But if they pivoted to virtual, we know they would be stuck in that special slice of hell for the remainder of (or near to) the year. At least as of today, this is a big victory for many across teachers, students, and parents.

Didn’t you read the plan from FCPS? That’s exactly what they are going to do too — stuff them all together with asynchronous “learning”. I’ll take DL over that any day.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:As someone with children in the original 11 schools, I am furious. They'll let us know maybe if they have a plan by Sunday afternoon.

What are you furious about? Missing on the 1.5 days of “instruction” this week? Find something else to be upset about.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:We are so happy to see this update! Upgrade your masks everyone and go to school!

Only complete idiots think this is good news. Enjoy your kid’s subpar education for the remainder of the year, stuffed into auditoriums with no teachers. But they are socializing! (If you actually talked to your kid, you’d know the kids are absolutely miserable in the buildings right now)

They're not going to be stuffed in auditoriums without teachers for the remainder of the year. But if they pivoted to virtual, we know they would be stuck in that special slice of hell for the remainder of (or near to) the year. At least as of today, this is a big victory for many across teachers, students, and parents.

No, WE do not know.

You have no source at all for this invention of your imagination, except, what? That MCPS stayed virtual longer than it expected to when a novel virus first hit and people were dropping like flies, and no one was vaccinated?

Literally every district around here did the same. Some didn't stay virtual as long, but all of them "lied" when they said it was for "2 weeks" because it was a very specific situation with almost no information.

But sure, that definitely means that any pivot to virtual would end the same way. Absolutely.

I can't believe that those of us who advocated for a sensible, orderly preemptive pivot to virtual before all this mess were called the "hysterical" ones operating on "feelings," not "data."

The DATA predicted all of this spread, staffing issues, etc. would very likely happen if we reopened normally after winter break.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:We are so happy to see this update! Upgrade your masks everyone and go to school!

Only complete idiots think this is good news. Enjoy your kid’s subpar education for the remainder of the year, stuffed into auditoriums with no teachers. But they are socializing! (If you actually talked to your kid, you’d know the kids are absolutely miserable in the buildings right now)

They're not going to be stuffed in auditoriums without teachers for the remainder of the year. But if they pivoted to virtual, we know they would be stuck in that special slice of hell for the remainder of (or near to) the year. At least as of today, this is a big victory for many across teachers, students, and parents.

Didn’t you read the plan from FCPS? That’s exactly what they are going to do too — stuff them all together with asynchronous “learning”. I’ll take DL over that any day.

Agree. They’re copying the testing of dcps and the auditorium stuffing fcps. And then when our kids get Covid at school, they’ll make them stay home for 10 days.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:It's insane that once half of county schools went in the red zone MCPS stopped using that metric. Talk about rigging things to get the result you want! Now what am I supposed to do? By their own admission 60+ schools are unsafe. But I can't keep my kid out forever and can't afford private school (and don't want my kid to go to one even if I could). Why can't they go virtual TEMPORARILY, just until the Omicron wave passes. What are other concerned parents doing?

But it is safe. The entire world is a red zone right now, so school is as safe as any building and safer than most. Kids belong in school.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:As someone with children in the original 11 schools, I am furious. They'll let us know maybe if they have a plan by Sunday afternoon.

What are you furious about? Missing on the 1.5 days of “instruction” this week? Find something else to be upset about.

Wow. I’m not in the 11 schools but you are horrible. Those families had kids home this entire week while yours could go to school. They also don’t know what arrangements to make for next week as you plan to send yours back to school. They are obvious victims of this experiment.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:We are so happy to see this update! Upgrade your masks everyone and go to school!

Only complete idiots think this is good news. Enjoy your kid’s subpar education for the remainder of the year, stuffed into auditoriums with no teachers. But they are socializing! (If you actually talked to your kid, you’d know the kids are absolutely miserable in the buildings right now)

They're not going to be stuffed in auditoriums without teachers for the remainder of the year. But if they pivoted to virtual, we know they would be stuck in that special slice of hell for the remainder of (or near to) the year. At least as of today, this is a big victory for many across teachers, students, and parents.

No, WE do not know.

You have no source at all for this invention of your imagination, except, what? That MCPS stayed virtual longer than it expected to when a novel virus first hit and people were dropping like flies, and no one was vaccinated?

Literally every district around here did the same. Some didn't stay virtual as long, but all of them "lied" when they said it was for "2 weeks" because it was a very specific situation with almost no information.

But sure, that definitely means that any pivot to virtual would end the same way. Absolutely.

I can't believe that those of us who advocated for a sensible, orderly preemptive pivot to virtual before all this mess were called the "hysterical" ones operating on "feelings," not "data."

The DATA predicted all of this spread, staffing issues, etc. would very likely happen if we reopened normally after winter break.

If they had just done a two week virtual start to January, we'd be halfway through, with only 2 real virtual days anyway thanks to snow. Instead we're stuck in this chaotic mess.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:As someone with children in the original 11 schools, I am furious. They'll let us know maybe if they have a plan by Sunday afternoon.

What are you furious about? Missing on the 1.5 days of “instruction” this week? Find something else to be upset about.

I'm furious that our school is being held to a different standard, and one that they essentially admit they wrongly interpreted and moved to virtual too quickly. We'll wait until Sunday to figure out if we will continue virtually or in person.

[Anonymous]

I just want to point out the letter says students are required to isolate at home for 10 days if they test positive. It does not say whether teacher/staff are beholden to the 10 day isolation. I don’t think this was an accident…

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:As someone with children in the original 11 schools, I am furious. They'll let us know maybe if they have a plan by Sunday afternoon.

I’m so sorry. I would be livid.