Tested positive notices from MCPS every day

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:If a student tests positive, does the whole class quarantine and have to get tested?

They say only close contacts, but in ES I have not heard of anything but whole classrooms or grades quarantining. They should be honest about what the policy is.

I'm confused. We got a notification that a student got covid and the email says staff and students don't need to quarantine since they were not in close contact. They sit 6 to a row, take masks off at recess, how can they not be in close contact?

It is unclear how they decide who quarantine and who need not. We hear from week 1 that some one test positive, later on entire class goes into quarantine. This is just week 3 and we keep receiving notifications that we need not quarantine since the child was not in close contact and then we learn that, there is 1 K grade, two 2nd grade, four 4th grade and three 5th grade classrooms are in quarantine now. None of the quarantine stuff is in the notification.

So your school has been quarantining, just that the emails say otherwise. Do they notify the rest of the school that a particular grade with Teacher.X is in quarantine, or do they just email only that grade students' parents'?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:If a student tests positive, does the whole class quarantine and have to get tested?

They say only close contacts, but in ES I have not heard of anything but whole classrooms or grades quarantining. They should be honest about what the policy is.

I'm confused. We got a notification that a student got covid and the email says staff and students don't need to quarantine since they were not in close contact. They sit 6 to a row, take masks off at recess, how can they not be in close contact?

It is unclear how they decide who quarantine and who need not. We hear from week 1 that some one test positive, later on entire class goes into quarantine. This is just week 3 and we keep receiving notifications that we need not quarantine since the child was not in close contact and then we learn that, there is 1 K grade, two 2nd grade, four 4th grade and three 5th grade classrooms are in quarantine now. None of the quarantine stuff is in the notification.

When they say no one needs to quarantine it’s likely that the kid was not symptomatic at school and was tested after having been out of school.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:What school?

Take a guess - has to be one of the ES that reported today:

https://ww2.montgomeryschoolsmd.org/press/index.aspx?

Oh boy that list is quiet long and scary

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:There have been 14 cases at our middle school. Cumulative, so the first notices were not related to the most recent ones. About 1,400 students. It’s not good, but also not surprising or overly alarming. Schools were not going to have better stats than the community. Hoping the delta peak is here or near.

Aren't middle schoolers already vaccinated? Why are they sending kids home?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:If a student tests positive, does the whole class quarantine and have to get tested?

They say only close contacts, but in ES I have not heard of anything but whole classrooms or grades quarantining. They should be honest about what the policy is.

I'm confused. We got a notification that a student got covid and the email says staff and students don't need to quarantine since they were not in close contact. They sit 6 to a row, take masks off at recess, how can they not be in close contact?

It is unclear how they decide who quarantine and who need not. We hear from week 1 that some one test positive, later on entire class goes into quarantine. This is just week 3 and we keep receiving notifications that we need not quarantine since the child was not in close contact and then we learn that, there is 1 K grade, two 2nd grade, four 4th grade and three 5th grade classrooms are in quarantine now. None of the quarantine stuff is in the notification.

So your school has been quarantining, just that the emails say otherwise. Do they notify the rest of the school that a particular grade with Teacher.X is in quarantine, or do they just email only that grade students' parents'?

Looks like notification goes out to everyone in the school. I may be wrong but quarantine information is never communicated to the parents other than the kids who are going into quarantine due to exposure

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:There have been 14 cases at our middle school. Cumulative, so the first notices were not related to the most recent ones. About 1,400 students. It’s not good, but also not surprising or overly alarming. Schools were not going to have better stats than the community. Hoping the delta peak is here or near.

Aren't middle schoolers already vaccinated? Why are they sending kids home?

Do you live in America? There is no vaccine mandate. Also there middle schoolers who are too young to get vaccinated.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:If a student tests positive, does the whole class quarantine and have to get tested?

They say only close contacts, but in ES I have not heard of anything but whole classrooms or grades quarantining. They should be honest about what the policy is.

I'm confused. We got a notification that a student got covid and the email says staff and students don't need to quarantine since they were not in close contact. They sit 6 to a row, take masks off at recess, how can they not be in close contact?

You are the first person I've heard say that the entire ES class was not quarantined. That's amazing. What school?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:If a student tests positive, does the whole class quarantine and have to get tested?

They say only close contacts, but in ES I have not heard of anything but whole classrooms or grades quarantining. They should be honest about what the policy is.

I'm confused. We got a notification that a student got covid and the email says staff and students don't need to quarantine since they were not in close contact. They sit 6 to a row, take masks off at recess, how can they not be in close contact?

It is unclear how they decide who quarantine and who need not. We hear from week 1 that some one test positive, later on entire class goes into quarantine. This is just week 3 and we keep receiving notifications that we need not quarantine since the child was not in close contact and then we learn that, there is 1 K grade, two 2nd grade, four 4th grade and three 5th grade classrooms are in quarantine now. None of the quarantine stuff is in the notification.

So your school has been quarantining, just that the emails say otherwise. Do they notify the rest of the school that a particular grade with Teacher.X is in quarantine, or do they just email only that grade students' parents'?

Looks like notification goes out to everyone in the school. I may be wrong but quarantine information is never communicated to the parents other than the kids who are going into quarantine due to exposure

They only notify the community when there is a positive case, not when kids are quarantining for symptoms. We've had multiple quarantines but only one letter because there has been only one positive test result.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:If a student tests positive, does the whole class quarantine and have to get tested?

They say only close contacts, but in ES I have not heard of anything but whole classrooms or grades quarantining. They should be honest about what the policy is.

I'm confused. We got a notification that a student got covid and the email says staff and students don't need to quarantine since they were not in close contact. They sit 6 to a row, take masks off at recess, how can they not be in close contact?

You are the first person I've heard say that the entire ES class was not quarantined. That's amazing. What school?

My kid is not in that class that is why I asked if whole school would be notified if a class gets quarantined. Ours does not show up yet on the website but we got the notification this evening that a student in grade X got it. Maybe tomorrow we will get updates about the quarantining. Todays notice says no quarantining. A child from that grade (not sure if same section where the infected kid was) sits next to my kid on the bus. I should probably just drop my kid at school.

Not naming the school, but it will show up on the website tomorrow I suppose.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:If a student tests positive, does the whole class quarantine and have to get tested?

They say only close contacts, but in ES I have not heard of anything but whole classrooms or grades quarantining. They should be honest about what the policy is.

I'm confused. We got a notification that a student got covid and the email says staff and students don't need to quarantine since they were not in close contact. They sit 6 to a row, take masks off at recess, how can they not be in close contact?

You are the first person I've heard say that the entire ES class was not quarantined. That's amazing. What school?

My kid is not in that class that is why I asked if whole school would be notified if a class gets quarantined. Ours does not show up yet on the website but we got the notification this evening that a student in grade X got it. Maybe tomorrow we will get updates about the quarantining. Todays notice says no quarantining. A child from that grade (not sure if same section where the infected kid was) sits next to my kid on the bus. I should probably just drop my kid at school.

Not naming the school, but it will show up on the website tomorrow I suppose.

If you got the notice tonight, then it will likely be posted tomorrow.
At our school, they sent a note to the community that there was a positive case. It said that you didn't need to quarantine unless you got another letter saying that. I got the quarantine letter, and it said that all students in the teacher's classes (homeroom and math) were required to quarantine for 10 days. Therefore, if you weren't in the teacher's class, then you only got the first letter--notifying you of a case--but did not have the quarantine information.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:If a student tests positive, does the whole class quarantine and have to get tested?

They say only close contacts, but in ES I have not heard of anything but whole classrooms or grades quarantining. They should be honest about what the policy is.

I'm confused. We got a notification that a student got covid and the email says staff and students don't need to quarantine since they were not in close contact. They sit 6 to a row, take masks off at recess, how can they not be in close contact?

You are the first person I've heard say that the entire ES class was not quarantined. That's amazing. What school?

My kid is not in that class that is why I asked if whole school would be notified if a class gets quarantined. Ours does not show up yet on the website but we got the notification this evening that a student in grade X got it. Maybe tomorrow we will get updates about the quarantining. Todays notice says no quarantining. A child from that grade (not sure if same section where the infected kid was) sits next to my kid on the bus. I should probably just drop my kid at school.

Not naming the school, but it will show up on the website tomorrow I suppose.

If you got the notice tonight, then it will likely be posted tomorrow.
At our school, they sent a note to the community that there was a positive case. It said that you didn't need to quarantine unless you got another letter saying that. I got the quarantine letter, and it said that all students in the teacher's classes (homeroom and math) were required to quarantine for 10 days. Therefore, if you weren't in the teacher's class, then you only got the first letter--notifying you of a case--but did not have the quarantine information.

Also, it sounds like they may still have quarantined the whole class, as your kid is not in that class so you wouldn't be aware of who they quarantined. (I knew about the quarantine in our school because the letter said Dear Parents/Guardians in X's homeroom and math class" so I knew they quarantined all students.)

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:If a student tests positive, does the whole class quarantine and have to get tested?

They say only close contacts, but in ES I have not heard of anything but whole classrooms or grades quarantining. They should be honest about what the policy is.

I'm confused. We got a notification that a student got covid and the email says staff and students don't need to quarantine since they were not in close contact. They sit 6 to a row, take masks off at recess, how can they not be in close contact?

You are the first person I've heard say that the entire ES class was not quarantined. That's amazing. What school?

My kid is not in that class that is why I asked if whole school would be notified if a class gets quarantined. Ours does not show up yet on the website but we got the notification this evening that a student in grade X got it. Maybe tomorrow we will get updates about the quarantining. Todays notice says no quarantining. A child from that grade (not sure if same section where the infected kid was) sits next to my kid on the bus. I should probably just drop my kid at school.

Not naming the school, but it will show up on the website tomorrow I suppose.

If you got the notice tonight, then it will likely be posted tomorrow.
At our school, they sent a note to the community that there was a positive case. It said that you didn't need to quarantine unless you got another letter saying that. I got the quarantine letter, and it said that all students in the teacher's classes (homeroom and math) were required to quarantine for 10 days. Therefore, if you weren't in the teacher's class, then you only got the first letter--notifying you of a case--but did not have the quarantine information.

Also, it sounds like they may still have quarantined the whole class, as your kid is not in that class so you wouldn't be aware of who they quarantined. (I knew about the quarantine in our school because the letter said Dear Parents/Guardians in X's homeroom and math class" so I knew they quarantined all students.)

Thank you. That makes sense, not alarming everyone. I guess we will know through word of mouth which section is quarantined. How was the switch from in person to online? Was it fine for your child?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:If a student tests positive, does the whole class quarantine and have to get tested?

They say only close contacts, but in ES I have not heard of anything but whole classrooms or grades quarantining. They should be honest about what the policy is.

I'm confused. We got a notification that a student got covid and the email says staff and students don't need to quarantine since they were not in close contact. They sit 6 to a row, take masks off at recess, how can they not be in close contact?

You are the first person I've heard say that the entire ES class was not quarantined. That's amazing. What school?

My kid is not in that class that is why I asked if whole school would be notified if a class gets quarantined. Ours does not show up yet on the website but we got the notification this evening that a student in grade X got it. Maybe tomorrow we will get updates about the quarantining. Todays notice says no quarantining. A child from that grade (not sure if same section where the infected kid was) sits next to my kid on the bus. I should probably just drop my kid at school.

Not naming the school, but it will show up on the website tomorrow I suppose.

If you got the notice tonight, then it will likely be posted tomorrow.
At our school, they sent a note to the community that there was a positive case. It said that you didn't need to quarantine unless you got another letter saying that. I got the quarantine letter, and it said that all students in the teacher's classes (homeroom and math) were required to quarantine for 10 days. Therefore, if you weren't in the teacher's class, then you only got the first letter--notifying you of a case--but did not have the quarantine information.

Also, it sounds like they may still have quarantined the whole class, as your kid is not in that class so you wouldn't be aware of who they quarantined. (I knew about the quarantine in our school because the letter said Dear Parents/Guardians in X's homeroom and math class" so I knew they quarantined all students.)

Thank you. That makes sense, not alarming everyone. I guess we will know through word of mouth which section is quarantined. How was the switch from in person to online? Was it fine for your child?

We have only had a day online, but it was fine. My kid very much prefers to be in-person, but when the whole class is quarantined, the primary teacher does the instruction online. I feel bad for the teacher because she has a lot of kids — all of her homeroom and all the kids in her math class, most of whom are not in her homeroom — and none of the kids has any materials. But the teacher and kids are adapting, and while far from perfect, it is going okay.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:If a student tests positive, does the whole class quarantine and have to get tested?

They say only close contacts, but in ES I have not heard of anything but whole classrooms or grades quarantining. They should be honest about what the policy is.

I'm confused. We got a notification that a student got covid and the email says staff and students don't need to quarantine since they were not in close contact. They sit 6 to a row, take masks off at recess, how can they not be in close contact?

You are the first person I've heard say that the entire ES class was not quarantined. That's amazing. What school?

My kid is not in that class that is why I asked if whole school would be notified if a class gets quarantined. Ours does not show up yet on the website but we got the notification this evening that a student in grade X got it. Maybe tomorrow we will get updates about the quarantining. Todays notice says no quarantining. A child from that grade (not sure if same section where the infected kid was) sits next to my kid on the bus. I should probably just drop my kid at school.

Not naming the school, but it will show up on the website tomorrow I suppose.

If you got the notice tonight, then it will likely be posted tomorrow.
At our school, they sent a note to the community that there was a positive case. It said that you didn't need to quarantine unless you got another letter saying that. I got the quarantine letter, and it said that all students in the teacher's classes (homeroom and math) were required to quarantine for 10 days. Therefore, if you weren't in the teacher's class, then you only got the first letter--notifying you of a case--but did not have the quarantine information.

Also, it sounds like they may still have quarantined the whole class, as your kid is not in that class so you wouldn't be aware of who they quarantined. (I knew about the quarantine in our school because the letter said Dear Parents/Guardians in X's homeroom and math class" so I knew they quarantined all students.)

Thank you. That makes sense, not alarming everyone. I guess we will know through word of mouth which section is quarantined. How was the switch from in person to online? Was it fine for your child?

We have only had a day online, but it was fine. My kid very much prefers to be in-person, but when the whole class is quarantined, the primary teacher does the instruction online. I feel bad for the teacher because she has a lot of kids — all of her homeroom and all the kids in her math class, most of whom are not in her homeroom — and none of the kids has any materials. But the teacher and kids are adapting, and while far from perfect, it is going okay.

Good to hear that the kids are adapting and it is going fine. My kid did really well with the hybrid model (DC stayed home) and I was hoping we would have that option for this school year. But it is what it is, and good to know that switching between the two models is working. Agreed it is more work for the teacher.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:There have been 14 cases at our middle school. Cumulative, so the first notices were not related to the most recent ones. About 1,400 students. It’s not good, but also not surprising or overly alarming. Schools were not going to have better stats than the community. Hoping the delta peak is here or near.

I don't think you understand what "peak" means, if you think something "peaks" in the first two weeks of exposure. We have a ways to go, and since only distancing or vaccinations stop the spread, you have to realize that every single case is a new vector. Your kids aren't going to quarantine once. They're going to keep on quarantining over and over. If you're lucky they won't also be sick over and over.