MCPS Officially announces schools opening as planned
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Anonymous
No, it’s moco where the omicron variant is spreading but not hospitalizing and/or killing children or adults. |
Anonymous
I believe school transmission will be similar to community transmission, which will be explosively high for a couple weeks, and will include teachers' kids and teachers and bus drivers' kid and bus drivers and so on. Just as airline flights had to be cancelled due to lack of staff. |
Anonymous
+1 DCPS is requiring proof of a negative test. The at home test kits are being distributed on Monday. School resumes on Wednesday to give time for distribution and to record results. MCPS needs another 2 weeks to get test kits from the Montgomery County Government. Even then, it’s the honor code for students to report positive results. Students don’t have to show negative results to stay in school. And forget about random testing of students. MCPS can’t even test students who had close contact with COVID classmates. It’s a sh$t show in MCPS. I hope they all enjoyed their vacations. |
Anonymous
I agree with this. Lots of staff will get sick -- how could they not? Subs won't be clamoring to fill in under these circumstances. At some point when enough staff are out, they'll close schools. Or, worse, they'll keep them open but kids with no subs or useless subs -- how many substitute teachers for Spanish class can actually teach Spanish? -- will have the kids sit around doing some mindless activity or watching a movie. |
Anonymous
| Right now we realistically do not have enough testing capacity to have reliable data about “5%” spread. I haven’t been able to schedule a COVID test until Wednesday at the earliest. |
Anonymous
Some of it will include private testing. |
Anonymous
Montgomery County is completely devoid of leadership. |
Anonymous
Home tests aren't very accurate and can be faked. Its a false sense of security. |
Anonymous
Of course people are hospitalized and some are dying. We've been lucky with kids so far but at some point our luck will run out. |
Anonymous
NP, because my school is 2500 kids who sit together all day in classrooms of 30 (no podding), many of whom wear cloth masks beneath their nose. Because those kids are sitting mere feet from one another with doors and windows closed fro 45 mins. Because a number of them come to school sick. Because they are sitting even closer with masks off at lunch time. Because they are hormonal teens and so they are still hooking up and partying outside school. Basically, high school is a germ pit in the best of times. In the last 4 days before Xmas break, my school reported 70+ positive kids plus some staff. The only thing that stopped the spread was that parent s stopped sending their kids to school. It was a ghost town the day before break. I expect it will be worse, because community spread is now much worse. |
Anonymous
I think the elementary schools are in good shape for a number of reasons. If I were a teacher I’d actually feel safest in an ES. First, most kids are recently vaccinated unlike 12-15. Second, the kids generally don’t go places without their parents. The majority of moco parents are not hosting gatherings of unmasked 3rd graders. Basically they are in more controlled environments unlike middle and high schoolers. I’m a covid minimized by moco standards but my elementary schoolers are vaccinated and haven’t had an indoor play date in 2 years. They go to school and outdoor stuff and that’s it. |
Anonymous
Many parents allow their 3-5th graders to roam neighborhoods and hang out without a lot of supervision. |
Anonymous
No, parents like you are to blame for supporting virtual for a year. That scarred everybody and now people are ready to just burn it down and get it over with. |
Anonymous
NP, but you admit you are cutting off your nose to spite your face? And using kids as pawns to do it? This is not what someone who cares about kids sounds like. Adults should do what they can to protect kids. |
Anonymous
Of course I supported virtual. We didn't have vaccines and the schools were not set up to handle covid, especially an outbreak with Delta. Now we are seeing the consequences of covid ramping up again. I have zero issue with virtual. Maybe if you'd be more flexible it would have worked for your family. If you want kids to stay in person school, consider your actions over the next few weeks. What are you willing to sacrifice to keep schools open? |