How is MCPS determining red, yellow, green?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Sorry, could someone help me.... I see the dashboard but all of the schools are listed in black and I don't see where people are getting the red/yellow/green.
Thanks!

The new red/yellow/green designations were mentioned in this morning's MCPS press conference. The list of red schools (going virtual tomorrow) was shared then. The list of 89 yellow schools has not been shared yet. The press conference said that additional information would be made available later today.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Sorry, could someone help me.... I see the dashboard but all of the schools are listed in black and I don't see where people are getting the red/yellow/green.
Thanks!

The dashboard hasn't been updated since 12/21. (source - the dashboard)
They collected data and used date for the past 4 days (source - reported upthread based on press conference)
There will be updates to dashboard reporting soon (source - MCPS employee)

Agree with a PP upthread that they are waiting to update until after the press conference so there is context

The positives must have been reported in the past 4 days? Are we really to believe they are seeing that many + cases in 4 days? If so my guess would be from staff calling in sick.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:From the press conference, they are looking at reported positives from the last 4 days among total school population.
Green <3%
Yellow 3-5%
Red >5%

List to be updated by 7pm each day.

(And of course they can't post that before the press conference - people would flip out with no explanation to go with it. They'll still flip out, but at least there is context now.)

Just how are they doing this? For instance my Title One school has many nonEnglish speaking parents. Are they getting all the info in how to report, testing, etc? We had many +s prior to break. Why so many upcountry schools?

Self-reported but I'm confused too. At our school we have received no communication about how to report and why would people report if schools have been out unless you have a ton of time on your hands and the resources and education to seek out a reporting mechanism during the break?

Also at a Title 1

Anecdotally, this seems to be totally haphazard. I have one kid at a school with a relatively MC/UMC parent community, and we've received ZERO communication about reporting cases. The parent list has been useful, but I think those parents are getting the reporting link from DCUM or going to the website.

I have another child at a high needs school with a lot of ELLs and they've been on top of sharing information on how to report, in three languages.

So, I think it's school-by-school rather than having any rhyme or reason.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Sorry, could someone help me.... I see the dashboard but all of the schools are listed in black and I don't see where people are getting the red/yellow/green.
Thanks!

The new red/yellow/green designations were mentioned in this morning's MCPS press conference. The list of red schools (going virtual tomorrow) was shared then. The list of 89 yellow schools has not been shared yet. The press conference said that additional information would be made available later today.

Hooooooooooooold all the way up.

89 schools = 43% of all MCPS schools

So 89 schools are in yellow?

And yellow means 3-5%?

And 11 schools flipped from (what would have been called) green/yellow to red in 2 days (1/1 to 1/3)?

Without schools even being open?

Tell me, how many of those 89 schools will stay yellow or go back down to green by the end of this week?

Any of them?

Or will the vast majority turn red?

For elementaries the difference between yellow and red should be between 1 additional case and 15 cases, but for most should be 5-10.

Do we think that a yellow ES will not find 5-10 more cases in the next few days, plus maybe a couple more to account to the cases that aged out?

What a farce. This is why my kid will not be going to school this week under any circumstances. I assume her school will turn "red" this week or next anyway.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:There’s an updated document that they sent around a day or two days ago and will be updating with reports of positive cases.

The document they sent around a couple of days ago is a PDF and not updated. I also question the information in that document. It shows only 1 staff case and 3 student cases at North Chevy Chase, and yet that's one of the schools that is going virtual for 14 days starting tomorrow. Were there that many more cases from NCC from Jan. 1 at 10pm to now, or was the information in that PDF totally useless?

Yeah, this is surprising. It’s a small school, though, with a small staff, so they didn’t need that many more cases to get to 5 percent. My guess is staffing issue here (not only teaching staff but custodial, cafeteria, paras, etc.).

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:There’s an updated document that they sent around a day or two days ago and will be updating with reports of positive cases.

The document they sent around a couple of days ago is a PDF and not updated. I also question the information in that document. It shows only 1 staff case and 3 student cases at North Chevy Chase, and yet that's one of the schools that is going virtual for 14 days starting tomorrow. Were there that many more cases from NCC from Jan. 1 at 10pm to now, or was the information in that PDF totally useless?

Yeah, this is surprising. It’s a small school, though, with a small staff, so they didn’t need that many more cases to get to 5 percent. My guess is staffing issue here (not only teaching staff but custodial, cafeteria, paras, etc.).

NP. Total school pop is about 300 or so, so they had to have gone from 4 total cases to 15 in a couple of days.

None of this matters though-- it's all statistical noise at this point and poring over this tiny list of schools for clues is pretty meaningless when the list will be 50-100 schools long within a week.

It reminds me a bit of Feb 2020, when everyone was trying to game out if specific towns in Italy had some weird special vulnerability to COVID.

[Anonymous]

When will they post the red, yellow, green dashboard? If they're going to make this announcement, they should have the info to back it up. I'd like to see the list of yellow schools.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:When you look at the dashboard some of the schools going virtual have a similar number of cases to schools that are open.
https://www.montgomeryschoolsmd.org/coronavirus/dashboard/index.aspx

Based on what we read on other threads, dashboards are updated on every Wednesday for previous week. Hope to see updated dashboard tomorrow.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Based on outdated and incomplete numbers.

DCUM: Well, duh! It's MCPS.

[Anonymous]

UPDATED STORY: Beginning Tuesday, MCPS will post a list on its website, to be updated each school day, that shows the # of COVID-19 cases reported at each school & an indicator of how close each school is to meeting the threshold for possible closure.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:From the press conference, they are looking at reported positives from the last 4 days among total school population.
Green <3%
Yellow 3-5%
Red >5%

List to be updated by 7pm each day.

(And of course they can't post that before the press conference - people would flip out with no explanation to go with it. They'll still flip out, but at least there is context now.)

Eventually every school will be red. You can’t control community spread by just moving schools to virtual when every single thing is open. Malls, movie theaters, hair salons, restaurants, bars, gyms, travel.. clearly education is not a priority in this country. Money trumps everything.

Yep. It's worse than March 2020 if the schools go virtual but everything else is open. We have to work, so my kid's just going to KAH? What's the point?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:From the press conference, they are looking at reported positives from the last 4 days among total school population.
Green <3%
Yellow 3-5%
Red >5%

List to be updated by 7pm each day.

(And of course they can't post that before the press conference - people would flip out with no explanation to go with it. They'll still flip out, but at least there is context now.)

Just how are they doing this? For instance my Title One school has many nonEnglish speaking parents. Are they getting all the info in how to report, testing, etc? We had many +s prior to break. Why so many upcountry schools?

Probably because they're smaller and possibly because they're smaller they were able to test everyone.

Ita re non-English speakers. How are they disseminating this information to them?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Sorry, could someone help me.... I see the dashboard but all of the schools are listed in black and I don't see where people are getting the red/yellow/green.
Thanks!

The dashboard hasn't been updated since 12/21. (source - the dashboard)
They collected data and used date for the past 4 days (source - reported upthread based on press conference)
There will be updates to dashboard reporting soon (source - MCPS employee)

Agree with a PP upthread that they are waiting to update until after the press conference so there is context

The positives must have been reported in the past 4 days? Are we really to believe they are seeing that many + cases in 4 days? If so my guess would be from staff calling in sick.

We reported our kids’ positives yesterday when we got the test results.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:From the press conference, they are looking at reported positives from the last 4 days among total school population.
Green <3%
Yellow 3-5%
Red >5%

List to be updated by 7pm each day.

(And of course they can't post that before the press conference - people would flip out with no explanation to go with it. They'll still flip out, but at least there is context now.)

Just how are they doing this? For instance my Title One school has many nonEnglish speaking parents. Are they getting all the info in how to report, testing, etc? We had many +s prior to break. Why so many upcountry schools?

Probably because they're smaller and possibly because they're smaller they were able to test everyone.

Ita re non-English speakers. How are they disseminating this information to them?

MCPS routinely manages to communicate with non-English speakers.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:There’s an updated document that they sent around a day or two days ago and will be updating with reports of positive cases.

That document shows not a single school even close to 5 percent. It was updated at 10pm on 1/1.