Any rumors on when Hogan is going to make an announcement?

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Anonymous wrote:You are all absolutely insane if you think Hogan will not open schools in the fall. Unless there is some insane resurgence school will open in September (or August).

Hogan will not fully reopen schools in the fall. Type the word insane as many times as you want. That won't change what is in the reopening plan and what MSDE put out today for options.

He better reopen them. After that, he can close them again, as part of closing everything else, if he needs to, but he better reopen them. Kids can't stay out of school until there's a vaccine, any more than their parents can stay out of work until there's a vaccine.

Go tell him.

Yes, I will, and I'll tell my state legislators, too.

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Anonymous wrote:You are all absolutely insane if you think Hogan will not open schools in the fall. Unless there is some insane resurgence school will open in September (or August).

Hogan will not fully reopen schools in the fall. Type the word insane as many times as you want. That won't change what is in the reopening plan and what MSDE put out today for options.

He better reopen them. After that, he can close them again, as part of closing everything else, if he needs to, but he better reopen them. Kids can't stay out of school until there's a vaccine, any more than their parents can stay out of work until there's a vaccine.

Go tell him.

Yes, I will, and I'll tell my state legislators, too.

Don't worry, of course Gov Hogan is going to open schools in the fall. The people saying anything different have an agenda.

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Anonymous wrote:You are all absolutely insane if you think Hogan will not open schools in the fall. Unless there is some insane resurgence school will open in September (or August).

Hogan will not fully reopen schools in the fall. Type the word insane as many times as you want. That won't change what is in the reopening plan and what MSDE put out today for options.

He better reopen them. After that, he can close them again, as part of closing everything else, if he needs to, but he better reopen them. Kids can't stay out of school until there's a vaccine, any more than their parents can stay out of work until there's a vaccine.

Go tell him.

Yes, I will, and I'll tell my state legislators, too.

Don't worry, of course Gov Hogan is going to open schools in the fall. The people saying anything different have an agenda.

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Zero chance they won't be open. It may not be full-on packed assembly style, but they will open.

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If you listened to the Superintendent of Schools today - the school boards are going to be given extraordinary latitude to fashion educational responses in Phase II - it's not going to be anything like what we had prior to covid - she talked about going to school on alternate days or weeks - smaller class sizes with no movement between classrooms, still some distance learning, etc. etc. Give up on the fantasy that this will all be over by August. We are in this for the long haul, and fortunately, we have some smart, dedicated people who are going to try to put systems in place to handle this. That said, as smart,dedicated parents, it is incumbent on all of us for our children to figure out what we want for our individual children - and start putting in place that scaffolding now - Do you want your high schooler to enroll in college classes online (because they may be able to - and it would be challenging) - Do you want to engage a tutor for your ES or MS'er to supplement what will likely be less than ideal educational programming from the county? What would an ideal learning plan look like for your child? What does your child need? You have time to figure that out, and leaving it up to the County to 100% figure it out is not fair to them or to your kids.

I do not think that this will all be over by August.

I do think that the schools must open in August. It's not about what I, as an individual parent, will do for my individual children. It's that the public school system needs to be open. Schools are a higher priority than tourism, or plastic surgery, or haircuts.

If that’s the case, why can people get elective cosmetic procedures, but schools were closed the rest of the year? In the exact same announcement.

People can only get elective procedures IF their doctors will perform them. Doctors/Dentists are only performing procedures IF they have PPE. They aren't risking their lives for your warts.

They said elective, not cosmetic. They are not the same thing.

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Anonymous wrote:You are all absolutely insane if you think Hogan will not open schools in the fall. Unless there is some insane resurgence school will open in September (or August).

Hogan will not fully reopen schools in the fall. Type the word insane as many times as you want. That won't change what is in the reopening plan and what MSDE put out today for options.

He better reopen them. After that, he can close them again, as part of closing everything else, if he needs to, but he better reopen them. Kids can't stay out of school until there's a vaccine, any more than their parents can stay out of work until there's a vaccine.

Go tell him.

Yes, I will, and I'll tell my state legislators, too.

Don't worry, of course Gov Hogan is going to open schools in the fall. The people saying anything different have an agenda.

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Zero chance they won't be open. It may not be full-on packed assembly style, but they will open.

Zero change you are right. In your imaginary plan, where to you plan on putting all the students? On the roof?

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Anonymous wrote:You are all absolutely insane if you think Hogan will not open schools in the fall. Unless there is some insane resurgence school will open in September (or August).

Hogan will not fully reopen schools in the fall. Type the word insane as many times as you want. That won't change what is in the reopening plan and what MSDE put out today for options.

He better reopen them. After that, he can close them again, as part of closing everything else, if he needs to, but he better reopen them. Kids can't stay out of school until there's a vaccine, any more than their parents can stay out of work until there's a vaccine.

Go tell him.

Yes, I will, and I'll tell my state legislators, too.

Don't worry, of course Gov Hogan is going to open schools in the fall. The people saying anything different have an agenda.

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Zero chance they won't be open. It may not be full-on packed assembly style, but they will open.

Zero change you are right. In your imaginary plan, where to you plan on putting all the students? On the roof?

What? They'll be in class. They may not have full-school assemblies etc.

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Anonymous wrote:You are all absolutely insane if you think Hogan will not open schools in the fall. Unless there is some insane resurgence school will open in September (or August).

Hogan will not fully reopen schools in the fall. Type the word insane as many times as you want. That won't change what is in the reopening plan and what MSDE put out today for options.

He better reopen them. After that, he can close them again, as part of closing everything else, if he needs to, but he better reopen them. Kids can't stay out of school until there's a vaccine, any more than their parents can stay out of work until there's a vaccine.

Go tell him.

Yes, I will, and I'll tell my state legislators, too.

Don't worry, of course Gov Hogan is going to open schools in the fall. The people saying anything different have an agenda.

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Zero chance they won't be open. It may not be full-on packed assembly style, but they will open.

Zero change you are right. In your imaginary plan, where to you plan on putting all the students? On the roof?

What? They'll be in class. They may not have full-school assemblies etc.

They won't be in classes. That's too many people, too close together in one room. Time for you to wake up.

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Anonymous wrote:You are all absolutely insane if you think Hogan will not open schools in the fall. Unless there is some insane resurgence school will open in September (or August).

Hogan will not fully reopen schools in the fall. Type the word insane as many times as you want. That won't change what is in the reopening plan and what MSDE put out today for options.

He better reopen them. After that, he can close them again, as part of closing everything else, if he needs to, but he better reopen them. Kids can't stay out of school until there's a vaccine, any more than their parents can stay out of work until there's a vaccine.

Go tell him.

Yes, I will, and I'll tell my state legislators, too.

Don't worry, of course Gov Hogan is going to open schools in the fall. The people saying anything different have an agenda.

+1
Zero chance they won't be open. It may not be full-on packed assembly style, but they will open.

Zero change you are right. In your imaginary plan, where to you plan on putting all the students? On the roof?

What? They'll be in class. They may not have full-school assemblies etc.

They won't be in classes. That's too many people, too close together in one room. Time for you to wake up.

What's your agenda? This is 4 months away. You have NO IDEA what will happen. All evidence points to schools opening NOT causing spread.

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Remember - flattening the curve is not about stopping transmission, it's about slowing it so we don't fill all the available beds.

Transmission will continue until we have a vaccine. We don't want to overwhelm our hospitals the way NYC did.

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Anonymous wrote:Remember - flattening the curve is not about stopping transmission, it's about slowing it so we don't fill all the available beds.

Transmission will continue until we have a vaccine. We don't want to overwhelm our hospitals the way NYC did.

Right. The biggest problem with reopening before a vaccine or effective treatment is lack of sufficient contact tracing. I know we are trying to set up contact tracing, but it’s virtually impossible to do it effectively at this point in a pandemic.

Now, I think we have to reopen before a vaccine or treatment because the economic impact of not doing so will be absolutely devastating (even more than now). But, while we can surge hospital capacity, testing, and PPE, we can’t stop the inevitable spike in cases that will happen when we reopen without really good contact tracing.

So we just have to hope that the PPE and surge capacity we have will be sufficient. That’s also why it’s really important for people to be careful and continue to take precautions.

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Anonymous wrote:Remember - flattening the curve is not about stopping transmission, it's about slowing it so we don't fill all the available beds.

Transmission will continue until we have a vaccine. We don't want to overwhelm our hospitals the way NYC did.

Right. The biggest problem with reopening before a vaccine or effective treatment is lack of sufficient contact tracing. I know we are trying to set up contact tracing, but it’s virtually impossible to do it effectively at this point in a pandemic.

Now, I think we have to reopen before a vaccine or treatment because the economic impact of not doing so will be absolutely devastating (even more than now). But, while we can surge hospital capacity, testing, and PPE, we can’t stop the inevitable spike in cases that will happen when we reopen without really good contact tracing.

So we just have to hope that the PPE and surge capacity we have will be sufficient. That’s also why it’s really important for people to be careful and continue to take precautions.

Other than Singapore and a surge in the virus among its migrant community, most countries that have opened in Europe and Asia have not seen much of a surge. South Korea is down to zero cases a day despite opening, and Germany is proceeding to the next phase of its opening.

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Anonymous wrote:Remember - flattening the curve is not about stopping transmission, it's about slowing it so we don't fill all the available beds.

Transmission will continue until we have a vaccine. We don't want to overwhelm our hospitals the way NYC did.

Right. The biggest problem with reopening before a vaccine or effective treatment is lack of sufficient contact tracing. I know we are trying to set up contact tracing, but it’s virtually impossible to do it effectively at this point in a pandemic.

Now, I think we have to reopen before a vaccine or treatment because the economic impact of not doing so will be absolutely devastating (even more than now). But, while we can surge hospital capacity, testing, and PPE, we can’t stop the inevitable spike in cases that will happen when we reopen without really good contact tracing.

So we just have to hope that the PPE and surge capacity we have will be sufficient. That’s also why it’s really important for people to be careful and continue to take precautions.

Other than Singapore and a surge in the virus among its migrant community, most countries that have opened in Europe and Asia have not seen much of a surge. South Korea is down to zero cases a day despite opening, and Germany is proceeding to the next phase of its opening.

South Korea and Germany both have extensive contact tracing programs.

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Anonymous wrote:Remember - flattening the curve is not about stopping transmission, it's about slowing it so we don't fill all the available beds.

Transmission will continue until we have a vaccine. We don't want to overwhelm our hospitals the way NYC did.

Right. The biggest problem with reopening before a vaccine or effective treatment is lack of sufficient contact tracing. I know we are trying to set up contact tracing, but it’s virtually impossible to do it effectively at this point in a pandemic.

Now, I think we have to reopen before a vaccine or treatment because the economic impact of not doing so will be absolutely devastating (even more than now). But, while we can surge hospital capacity, testing, and PPE, we can’t stop the inevitable spike in cases that will happen when we reopen without really good contact tracing.

So we just have to hope that the PPE and surge capacity we have will be sufficient. That’s also why it’s really important for people to be careful and continue to take precautions.

Other than Singapore and a surge in the virus among its migrant community, most countries that have opened in Europe and Asia have not seen much of a surge. South Korea is down to zero cases a day despite opening, and Germany is proceeding to the next phase of its opening.

Much of the rest of the world has better testing (per capita) than we do. Far better.

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Anonymous wrote:You are all absolutely insane if you think Hogan will not open schools in the fall. Unless there is some insane resurgence school will open in September (or August).

Hogan will not fully reopen schools in the fall. Type the word insane as many times as you want. That won't change what is in the reopening plan and what MSDE put out today for options.

He better reopen them. After that, he can close them again, as part of closing everything else, if he needs to, but he better reopen them. Kids can't stay out of school until there's a vaccine, any more than their parents can stay out of work until there's a vaccine.

Go tell him.

Yes, I will, and I'll tell my state legislators, too.

Don't worry, of course Gov Hogan is going to open schools in the fall. The people saying anything different have an agenda.

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Zero chance they won't be open. It may not be full-on packed assembly style, but they will open.

Zero change you are right. In your imaginary plan, where to you plan on putting all the students? On the roof?

What? They'll be in class. They may not have full-school assemblies etc.

They won't be in classes. That's too many people, too close together in one room. Time for you to wake up.

Lol.

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Anonymous wrote:What did Salmon say about A/B days or alternate weeks?

She said the MD Together Recovery Plan outlines ideas and suggestions that systems can use to recover...and cited those as examples of things that could be considered. She clarified that there are no mandates in that document.

Thank you. Was that as Phase 2 or for the fall?

She didn't specify but did say that "full return" could not be until Phase 3...Phase 2 could include small groups of students with social distancing in place (like for small group instruction for students with disabilities)

Well since we are miraculously at phase 1 next week I’m pretty sure they’ll be back in school in the fall.

You are pretty wrong. Phase 3 is vaccine or effective treatment. Not anytime soon.

You realize these phases are not legally mandated right? There will be extraordinary pressure to reopen schools in the fall.

So people would like to send there kids to school to kill other people... basically. Your sloppy kid will go around infecting teachers and other staff members. Then idiots like you will take your sloppy kiddo to the grocery store and Target so more people can be infected. You will be infected and pass it along to your colleagues. And the poor nurses and doctors will have to deal with the results of your stupidity.