Will MCPS go virtual the first part of January?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Stop please! In highly vaccinated county you cannot shut down schools! Its unfair to the children and they have suffered from virtual. It doesn’t work. Omicron is not that severe. Vaccinate your 5-11 year olds instead of trying to shut down in person learning. Stop the hysteria. Everything else is open in Moco. Restaurants, bars, malls, gyms, every single place is open.

Here’s the thing - all that sh!t you cite as being open should be closed so schools can be open safely.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Stop please! In highly vaccinated county you cannot shut down schools! Its unfair to the children and they have suffered from virtual. It doesn’t work. Omicron is not that severe. Vaccinate your 5-11 year olds instead of trying to shut down in person learning. Stop the hysteria. Everything else is open in Moco. Restaurants, bars, malls, gyms, every single place is open.

Here’s the thing - all that sh!t you cite as being open should be closed so schools can be open safely.

+1 Schools should be the last place to close, not the first.

For in person learning, restaurants, bars, malls, gyms, or any indoor activity, Montgomery County should require proof of vaccinations and if last vaccine was six months ago, proof of a booster. MCPS should revisit mandatory vaccinations for its employees.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Stop please! In highly vaccinated county you cannot shut down schools! Its unfair to the children and they have suffered from virtual. It doesn’t work. Omicron is not that severe. Vaccinate your 5-11 year olds instead of trying to shut down in person learning. Stop the hysteria. Everything else is open in Moco. Restaurants, bars, malls, gyms, every single place is open.

Here’s the thing - all that sh!t you cite as being open should be closed so schools can be open safely.

Our public health officials have not decided to require those closures. We need to follow their lead. Negotiating school closures with the union as is happening in DC is a disgrace. This had become a political.process, not a science-based one.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Stop please! In highly vaccinated county you cannot shut down schools! Its unfair to the children and they have suffered from virtual. It doesn’t work. Omicron is not that severe. Vaccinate your 5-11 year olds instead of trying to shut down in person learning. Stop the hysteria. Everything else is open in Moco. Restaurants, bars, malls, gyms, every single place is open.

Here’s the thing - all that sh!t you cite as being open should be closed so schools can be open safely.

Our public health officials have not decided to require those closures. We need to follow their lead. Negotiating school closures with the union as is happening in DC is a disgrace. This had become a political.process, not a science-based one.

Exactly. MCPS is not responsible for community health. The health department is. If they're not going to close anything, then for consistency schools should be part of those entities not be closed.

[Anonymous]

MCPS teacher here. As others have posted, I hated virtual learning. I actually shed a few happy tears last spring when I finally got to have my kids back in person. I think MCPS screwed up last year when we didn't open in September. We could have easily been in-person until at least November or December. Now that I've been on break and heard about all of my co-workers who have tested positive I'm really unsure how we will be back in the building on Monday. I'm on a team of five and three are positive despite being boosted. We can put our jobs in the MCPS sub system but nobody picks them up. If MCPS were smart, they would email staff and ask them to put jobs in the sub system if they know they will be out on the 3rd. That way, the system can see how many open jobs there will be and make a decision about that first week. Right now, a teacher may or may not have emailed their principal but that doesn't let the system know the potential impact on reopening. With only two of us able to work on Monday in-person there's no way we can split the other three classes among our two. It's going to be a mess.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Stop please! In highly vaccinated county you cannot shut down schools! Its unfair to the children and they have suffered from virtual. It doesn’t work. Omicron is not that severe. Vaccinate your 5-11 year olds instead of trying to shut down in person learning. Stop the hysteria. Everything else is open in Moco. Restaurants, bars, malls, gyms, every single place is open.

Here’s the thing - all that sh!t you cite as being open should be closed so schools can be open safely.

So shouldn’t you be advocating for that rather than insisting on shutting down the schools?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:MCPS teacher here. As others have posted, I hated virtual learning. I actually shed a few happy tears last spring when I finally got to have my kids back in person. I think MCPS screwed up last year when we didn't open in September. We could have easily been in-person until at least November or December. Now that I've been on break and heard about all of my co-workers who have tested positive I'm really unsure how we will be back in the building on Monday. I'm on a team of five and three are positive despite being boosted. We can put our jobs in the MCPS sub system but nobody picks them up. If MCPS were smart, they would email staff and ask them to put jobs in the sub system if they know they will be out on the 3rd. That way, the system can see how many open jobs there will be and make a decision about that first week. Right now, a teacher may or may not have emailed their principal but that doesn't let the system know the potential impact on reopening. With only two of us able to work on Monday in-person there's no way we can split the other three classes among our two. It's going to be a mess.

If they’re boosted and infected now, they are very likely fine to be teaching on Monday.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:MCPS teacher here. As others have posted, I hated virtual learning. I actually shed a few happy tears last spring when I finally got to have my kids back in person. I think MCPS screwed up last year when we didn't open in September. We could have easily been in-person until at least November or December. Now that I've been on break and heard about all of my co-workers who have tested positive I'm really unsure how we will be back in the building on Monday. I'm on a team of five and three are positive despite being boosted. We can put our jobs in the MCPS sub system but nobody picks them up. If MCPS were smart, they would email staff and ask them to put jobs in the sub system if they know they will be out on the 3rd. That way, the system can see how many open jobs there will be and make a decision about that first week. Right now, a teacher may or may not have emailed their principal but that doesn't let the system know the potential impact on reopening. With only two of us able to work on Monday in-person there's no way we can split the other three classes among our two. It's going to be a mess.

If they’re boosted and infected now, they are very likely fine to be teaching on Monday.

If they are feeling better and no one in their house is sick by Sunday. We normalized and held up the idea of teachers going to work sick for so long. I am done with that nonsense.

I agree with the teacher pp though that it is too soon to know what staffing will be like on Monday. We’ll have a better sense by late this week. There may well be a flood of jobs posted over the weekend though given the nature of this thing.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:MCPS teacher here. As others have posted, I hated virtual learning. I actually shed a few happy tears last spring when I finally got to have my kids back in person. I think MCPS screwed up last year when we didn't open in September. We could have easily been in-person until at least November or December. Now that I've been on break and heard about all of my co-workers who have tested positive I'm really unsure how we will be back in the building on Monday. I'm on a team of five and three are positive despite being boosted. We can put our jobs in the MCPS sub system but nobody picks them up. If MCPS were smart, they would email staff and ask them to put jobs in the sub system if they know they will be out on the 3rd. That way, the system can see how many open jobs there will be and make a decision about that first week. Right now, a teacher may or may not have emailed their principal but that doesn't let the system know the potential impact on reopening. With only two of us able to work on Monday in-person there's no way we can split the other three classes among our two. It's going to be a mess.

If they’re boosted and infected now, they are very likely fine to be teaching on Monday.

If they are feeling better and no one in their house is sick by Sunday. We normalized and held up the idea of teachers going to work sick for so long. I am done with that nonsense.

I agree with the teacher pp though that it is too soon to know what staffing will be like on Monday. We’ll have a better sense by late this week. There may well be a flood of jobs posted over the weekend though given the nature of this thing.

Too sick to go in…too sick to teach virtual.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Stop please! In highly vaccinated county you cannot shut down schools! Its unfair to the children and they have suffered from virtual. It doesn’t work. Omicron is not that severe. Vaccinate your 5-11 year olds instead of trying to shut down in person learning. Stop the hysteria. Everything else is open in Moco. Restaurants, bars, malls, gyms, every single place is open.

Here’s the thing - all that sh!t you cite as being open should be closed so schools can be open safely.

Our public health officials have not decided to require those closures. We need to follow their lead. Negotiating school closures with the union as is happening in DC is a disgrace. This had become a political.process, not a science-based one.

Exactly. MCPS is not responsible for community health. The health department is. If they're not going to close anything, then for consistency schools should be part of those entities not be closed.

But don't you dare try to tell teachers how to do their jobs. Only they can tell other people how do do their jobs.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Stop please! In highly vaccinated county you cannot shut down schools! Its unfair to the children and they have suffered from virtual. It doesn’t work. Omicron is not that severe. Vaccinate your 5-11 year olds instead of trying to shut down in person learning. Stop the hysteria. Everything else is open in Moco. Restaurants, bars, malls, gyms, every single place is open.

Here’s the thing - all that sh!t you cite as being open should be closed so schools can be open safely.

Our public health officials have not decided to require those closures. We need to follow their lead. Negotiating school closures with the union as is happening in DC is a disgrace. This had become a political.process, not a science-based one.

Exactly. MCPS is not responsible for community health. The health department is. If they're not going to close anything, then for consistency schools should be part of those entities not be closed.

But don't you dare try to tell teachers how to do their jobs. Only they can tell other people how do do their jobs.

The hypocrisy is real.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Stop please! In highly vaccinated county you cannot shut down schools! Its unfair to the children and they have suffered from virtual. It doesn’t work. Omicron is not that severe. Vaccinate your 5-11 year olds instead of trying to shut down in person learning. Stop the hysteria. Everything else is open in Moco. Restaurants, bars, malls, gyms, every single place is open.

Here’s the thing - all that sh!t you cite as being open should be closed so schools can be open safely.

Our public health officials have not decided to require those closures. We need to follow their lead. Negotiating school closures with the union as is happening in DC is a disgrace. This had become a political.process, not a science-based one.

Our public health officials receive death threats when they consider closures of anything—with schools, at least, there is the countervailing force of parents who don’t want their kids sent into a COVID swamp.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Stop please! In highly vaccinated county you cannot shut down schools! Its unfair to the children and they have suffered from virtual. It doesn’t work. Omicron is not that severe. Vaccinate your 5-11 year olds instead of trying to shut down in person learning. Stop the hysteria. Everything else is open in Moco. Restaurants, bars, malls, gyms, every single place is open.

Here’s the thing - all that sh!t you cite as being open should be closed so schools can be open safely.

Our public health officials have not decided to require those closures. We need to follow their lead. Negotiating school closures with the union as is happening in DC is a disgrace. This had become a political.process, not a science-based one.

Our public health officials receive death threats when they consider closures of anything—with schools, at least, there is the countervailing force of parents who don’t want their kids sent into a COVID swamp.

You really think closing schools for 18 months was the optimal outcome? JFC. We live in different universes.

[Anonymous]

Teacher here. I taught with covid this early fall as I got it from 4 of my students who tested positive. I was not sick that time and wore a mask so it was fine. I got covid again right before winter break from another 3 students whose parents continued to send them to school sick everyday and then not pick them up when the nurse called home. They did this so that they could work and not be with the kid and did not even get them tested. Once the child comes, they are here until parents come and get them and the system is a mess. This time me I was so ill I was hospitalized for 2 days. I have an underlying autoimmune condition and am triple vaxxed but my body gave out and destroyed my pancreas and kidneys. Now, I am on medical leave. I know nobody cares because I am the exception and not the rule. But, I just thought I would share for all those who think we can just work sick, expose ourselves to their sick kids and basically just become very ill so that their children can get tax- fed schooling while they work. There is no sub so my class has been split amongst my teammates until I am cleared to work after my surgery and rehab. It is such a mess.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Teacher here. I taught with covid this early fall as I got it from 4 of my students who tested positive. I was not sick that time and wore a mask so it was fine. I got covid again right before winter break from another 3 students whose parents continued to send them to school sick everyday and then not pick them up when the nurse called home. They did this so that they could work and not be with the kid and did not even get them tested. Once the child comes, they are here until parents come and get them and the system is a mess. This time me I was so ill I was hospitalized for 2 days. I have an underlying autoimmune condition and am triple vaxxed but my body gave out and destroyed my pancreas and kidneys. Now, I am on medical leave. I know nobody cares because I am the exception and not the rule. But, I just thought I would share for all those who think we can just work sick, expose ourselves to their sick kids and basically just become very ill so that their children can get tax- fed schooling while they work. There is no sub so my class has been split amongst my teammates until I am cleared to work after my surgery and rehab. It is such a mess.

So sorry you are sick and that you serve families that can't or won't take off work when their kids are sick. That's awful. You also didn't take off work when you had Covid. Interesting.

It's not that nobody cares. It's that closing schools harms kids, and kids matter too. Sometimes people get sick and it sucks, but it doesn't mean that we need to deny in-person education to children. I don't know why teachers seem to think that because public schools are funded by taxes, that they are "free" or that that people don't have a right to expect that school systems will provide an education. It's not free.