MCPS will now send kids home for ten days based on symptoms only

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:MCPS Kids will be the least educated In AMERICA

LOL

You clearly have limited experience with public schools around the country. Or even the former segregation academy private schools across the South.

Sorry my words hurt you

MCPS kids should probably just stay home indefinitely

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It's also the case that for whatever stupid reason, MCPS is not the body testing for positive cases. They should have testing centers specifically set up for this and tests for kids and teachers and staff should be free.

But since they put the onus and cost of testing on the families, they have to assume that many families won't test. Therefore, going with symptoms is pretty much all they do. You've got to remember, one case of covid can become 9 with unvaxed exposure and then each of those 9....

This is still a very contagious, very serious disease. People refusing to treat it like one are why we are in the mess we are in.

No, there was new guidance on Tuesday. The onus is no longer on families. Schools will test.

Schools will test if families opt in.

Which is another way of saying -- if the family of someone with a symptom does not opt in, we will still see quarnatines. And MCPS is quarantining entire classes right now (which makes sense--principals are in charge of contact-tracing right now, and logistically their job is much easier if they can have the teacher teach the entire class online rather than having to find another teacher to teach just some of the kids online). The testing is good, but it doesn't solve the problem.

Can someone confirm that to opt in sample testing is the only way to allow school test my child with rapid test if my child has symptom to avoid possible quarantine for the whole class? I thought I hear from the meeting that there will be announcement next week or so how to let parents approve school to do rapid testing on kid if they see any symptom.....

[Anonymous]

No one can confirm anything because details have not been released and knowing MCPS, I imagine there is no implementation plan yet.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:No one can confirm anything because details have not been released and knowing MCPS, I imagine there is no implementation plan yet.

Honestly, this is what annoys me the most about all of this. They had 18 MONTHS to figure this out, and release a half baked plan one week into school with no idea how they are going to implement it. The incompetence is really unbelievable at this point.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:MCPS Kids will be the least educated In AMERICA

LOL

You clearly have limited experience with public schools around the country. Or even the former segregation academy private schools across the South.

Sorry my words hurt you

MCPS kids should probably just stay home indefinitely

My kids are in school in person.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It's also the case that for whatever stupid reason, MCPS is not the body testing for positive cases. They should have testing centers specifically set up for this and tests for kids and teachers and staff should be free.

But since they put the onus and cost of testing on the families, they have to assume that many families won't test. Therefore, going with symptoms is pretty much all they do. You've got to remember, one case of covid can become 9 with unvaxed exposure and then each of those 9....

This is still a very contagious, very serious disease. People refusing to treat it like one are why we are in the mess we are in.

No, there was new guidance on Tuesday. The onus is no longer on families. Schools will test.

Schools will test if families opt in.

Which is another way of saying -- if the family of someone with a symptom does not opt in, we will still see quarnatines. And MCPS is quarantining entire classes right now (which makes sense--principals are in charge of contact-tracing right now, and logistically their job is much easier if they can have the teacher teach the entire class online rather than having to find another teacher to teach just some of the kids online). The testing is good, but it doesn't solve the problem.

Can someone confirm that to opt in sample testing is the only way to allow school test my child with rapid test if my child has symptom to avoid possible quarantine for the whole class? I thought I hear from the meeting that there will be announcement next week or so how to let parents approve school to do rapid testing on kid if they see any symptom.....

The best thing would be for school to contact parents once they have identified a child with covid like symptoms. The parent can give verbal consent and the school can administer the rapid test.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It's also the case that for whatever stupid reason, MCPS is not the body testing for positive cases. They should have testing centers specifically set up for this and tests for kids and teachers and staff should be free.

But since they put the onus and cost of testing on the families, they have to assume that many families won't test. Therefore, going with symptoms is pretty much all they do. You've got to remember, one case of covid can become 9 with unvaxed exposure and then each of those 9....

This is still a very contagious, very serious disease. People refusing to treat it like one are why we are in the mess we are in.

No, there was new guidance on Tuesday. The onus is no longer on families. Schools will test.

Schools will test if families opt in.

Which is another way of saying -- if the family of someone with a symptom does not opt in, we will still see quarnatines. And MCPS is quarantining entire classes right now (which makes sense--principals are in charge of contact-tracing right now, and logistically their job is much easier if they can have the teacher teach the entire class online rather than having to find another teacher to teach just some of the kids online). The testing is good, but it doesn't solve the problem.

Can someone confirm that to opt in sample testing is the only way to allow school test my child with rapid test if my child has symptom to avoid possible quarantine for the whole class? I thought I hear from the meeting that there will be announcement next week or so how to let parents approve school to do rapid testing on kid if they see any symptom.....

The best thing would be for school to contact parents once they have identified a child with covid like symptoms. The parent can give verbal consent and the school can administer the rapid test.

This.

I wouldn't opt in to regular testing, but if my child was either having symptoms or considered a close contact I would support the testing.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It's also the case that for whatever stupid reason, MCPS is not the body testing for positive cases. They should have testing centers specifically set up for this and tests for kids and teachers and staff should be free.

But since they put the onus and cost of testing on the families, they have to assume that many families won't test. Therefore, going with symptoms is pretty much all they do. You've got to remember, one case of covid can become 9 with unvaxed exposure and then each of those 9....

This is still a very contagious, very serious disease. People refusing to treat it like one are why we are in the mess we are in.

No, there was new guidance on Tuesday. The onus is no longer on families. Schools will test.

Schools will test if families opt in.

Which is another way of saying -- if the family of someone with a symptom does not opt in, we will still see quarnatines. And MCPS is quarantining entire classes right now (which makes sense--principals are in charge of contact-tracing right now, and logistically their job is much easier if they can have the teacher teach the entire class online rather than having to find another teacher to teach just some of the kids online). The testing is good, but it doesn't solve the problem.

Can someone confirm that to opt in sample testing is the only way to allow school test my child with rapid test if my child has symptom to avoid possible quarantine for the whole class? I thought I hear from the meeting that there will be announcement next week or so how to let parents approve school to do rapid testing on kid if they see any symptom.....

The best thing would be for school to contact parents once they have identified a child with covid like symptoms. The parent can give verbal consent and the school can administer the rapid test.

So you know for sure that the schools have rapid tests ready to administer and will take verbal consent and rapid test results? They’re not going to send everyone home anyway while awaiting PCR as confirmation?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It's also the case that for whatever stupid reason, MCPS is not the body testing for positive cases. They should have testing centers specifically set up for this and tests for kids and teachers and staff should be free.

But since they put the onus and cost of testing on the families, they have to assume that many families won't test. Therefore, going with symptoms is pretty much all they do. You've got to remember, one case of covid can become 9 with unvaxed exposure and then each of those 9....

This is still a very contagious, very serious disease. People refusing to treat it like one are why we are in the mess we are in.

No, there was new guidance on Tuesday. The onus is no longer on families. Schools will test.

Schools will test if families opt in.

Which is another way of saying -- if the family of someone with a symptom does not opt in, we will still see quarnatines. And MCPS is quarantining entire classes right now (which makes sense--principals are in charge of contact-tracing right now, and logistically their job is much easier if they can have the teacher teach the entire class online rather than having to find another teacher to teach just some of the kids online). The testing is good, but it doesn't solve the problem.

Can someone confirm that to opt in sample testing is the only way to allow school test my child with rapid test if my child has symptom to avoid possible quarantine for the whole class? I thought I hear from the meeting that there will be announcement next week or so how to let parents approve school to do rapid testing on kid if they see any symptom.....

The best thing would be for school to contact parents once they have identified a child with covid like symptoms. The parent can give verbal consent and the school can administer the rapid test.

So you know for sure that the schools have rapid tests ready to administer and will take verbal consent and rapid test results? They’re not going to send everyone home anyway while awaiting PCR as confirmation?

What does anyone know for sure?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:No one can confirm anything because details have not been released and knowing MCPS, I imagine there is no implementation plan yet.

Honestly, this is what annoys me the most about all of this. They had 18 MONTHS to figure this out, and release a half baked plan one week into school with no idea how they are going to implement it. The incompetence is really unbelievable at this point.

Were you expecting something different? They don't want to know the spread or they'd have to close down schools. The best way to keep them open is to pretend there is no covid/spread. Our school said they will start testing when they get the tests but haven't gotten them yet. Parents need to test their own kids.

They also changed the dashboard to hide all the summer covid positives.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:No one can confirm anything because details have not been released and knowing MCPS, I imagine there is no implementation plan yet.

Honestly, this is what annoys me the most about all of this. They had 18 MONTHS to figure this out, and release a half baked plan one week into school with no idea how they are going to implement it. The incompetence is really unbelievable at this point.

Were you expecting something different? They don't want to know the spread or they'd have to close down schools. The best way to keep them open is to pretend there is no covid/spread. Our school said they will start testing when they get the tests but haven't gotten them yet. Parents need to test their own kids.

They also changed the dashboard to hide all the summer covid positives.

If they wanted to pretend there was no spread than why are they sending entire classes home? It seems to me like they are overestimating the potential spread.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:No one can confirm anything because details have not been released and knowing MCPS, I imagine there is no implementation plan yet.

Honestly, this is what annoys me the most about all of this. They had 18 MONTHS to figure this out, and release a half baked plan one week into school with no idea how they are going to implement it. The incompetence is really unbelievable at this point.

Were you expecting something different? They don't want to know the spread or they'd have to close down schools. The best way to keep them open is to pretend there is no covid/spread. Our school said they will start testing when they get the tests but haven't gotten them yet. Parents need to test their own kids.

They also changed the dashboard to hide all the summer covid positives.

If they wanted to pretend there was no spread than why are they sending entire classes home? It seems to me like they are overestimating the potential spread.

That's just a BS line from the keep schools closed forever crowd. Testing has never been a priority in our national plan, and MCPS is no different. However, there absolutely should have been a plan to test symptomatic kids and to test close contacts with rapid tests to allow them to continue coming to school.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:No one can confirm anything because details have not been released and knowing MCPS, I imagine there is no implementation plan yet.

Honestly, this is what annoys me the most about all of this. They had 18 MONTHS to figure this out, and release a half baked plan one week into school with no idea how they are going to implement it. The incompetence is really unbelievable at this point.

Were you expecting something different? They don't want to know the spread or they'd have to close down schools. The best way to keep them open is to pretend there is no covid/spread. Our school said they will start testing when they get the tests but haven't gotten them yet. Parents need to test their own kids.

They also changed the dashboard to hide all the summer covid positives.

If they wanted to pretend there was no spread than why are they sending entire classes home? It seems to me like they are overestimating the potential spread.

That's just a BS line from the keep schools closed forever crowd. Testing has never been a priority in our national plan, and MCPS is no different. However, there absolutely should have been a plan to test symptomatic kids and to test close contacts with rapid tests to allow them to continue coming to school.

There are only about 3-4K kids in virtual academy so stop making up non-sense when MCPS has made provisions for families whose kids do better in virtual or want a safer environment. Testing is a recommendation in keeping kids safe given how large our schools are. Given its opt-in and many families are refusing, it just speaks volumes to those families behavior that puts all our kids at risk. If you are behaving appropriately, you'd support testing and have no issue with it as you'd want to keep all kids safe. So, the only way to do it now is to pretend there is no spread. The way to say no spread is no testing. Many families will not take their kids to test so no covid. And, if your kids get covid, oh well... right, its only the sniffles anyway. Although the parents of the dead kids all over the world might tell you differently or the parents of kids who have long term health issues.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:No one can confirm anything because details have not been released and knowing MCPS, I imagine there is no implementation plan yet.

Honestly, this is what annoys me the most about all of this. They had 18 MONTHS to figure this out, and release a half baked plan one week into school with no idea how they are going to implement it. The incompetence is really unbelievable at this point.

Were you expecting something different? They don't want to know the spread or they'd have to close down schools. The best way to keep them open is to pretend there is no covid/spread. Our school said they will start testing when they get the tests but haven't gotten them yet. Parents need to test their own kids.

They also changed the dashboard to hide all the summer covid positives.

If they wanted to pretend there was no spread than why are they sending entire classes home? It seems to me like they are overestimating the potential spread.

That's just a BS line from the keep schools closed forever crowd. Testing has never been a priority in our national plan, and MCPS is no different. However, there absolutely should have been a plan to test symptomatic kids and to test close contacts with rapid tests to allow them to continue coming to school.

There are only about 3-4K kids in virtual academy so stop making up non-sense when MCPS has made provisions for families whose kids do better in virtual or want a safer environment. Testing is a recommendation in keeping kids safe given how large our schools are. Given its opt-in and many families are refusing, it just speaks volumes to those families behavior that puts all our kids at risk. If you are behaving appropriately, you'd support testing and have no issue with it as you'd want to keep all kids safe. So, the only way to do it now is to pretend there is no spread. The way to say no spread is no testing. Many families will not take their kids to test so no covid. And, if your kids get covid, oh well... right, its only the sniffles anyway. Although the parents of the dead kids all over the world might tell you differently or the parents of kids who have long term health issues.

Yawn. Don't you ever get tired of saying the same thing over and over again? Step away from your job at the troll farm and work on improving your English. You will be more effective in spreading your fear and misinformation if you improve your writing skills. Aim higher.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

There are only about 3-4K kids in virtual academy so stop making up non-sense when MCPS has made provisions for families whose kids do better in virtual or want a safer environment. Testing is a recommendation in keeping kids safe given how large our schools are. Given its opt-in and many families are refusing, it just speaks volumes to those families behavior that puts all our kids at risk. If you are behaving appropriately, you'd support testing and have no issue with it as you'd want to keep all kids safe. So, the only way to do it now is to pretend there is no spread. The way to say no spread is no testing. Many families will not take their kids to test so no covid. And, if your kids get covid, oh well... right, its only the sniffles anyway. Although the parents of the dead kids all over the world might tell you differently or the parents of kids who have long term health issues.

As the PP said, if you're pretending that there's no spread, it's really, really weird to have a policy that sends whole classes home based on potential exposure to someone who isn't even a confirmed case.