Absent with Covid - getting assignments

[Anonymous]

PP, I hope you are a troll and are not actually going to send a COVID-positive kid to school.

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Anonymous wrote:Have him CC you on the emails and monitoring him doing the work.

In mcps you can’t email parents from your school email.
Agree with having him email the teachers. Also get on studentvue and canvas with him and look at the schedule for the week to determine what they are covering when. A lot will be accessible online. It can be kind of a pain to get copies of the stuff that isn’t online. If a friend can bring home the copies and les e them on your stoop, that would be great.
Mine stayed home due to a possible exposure and when she got back was given several packets of worksheets to do for her language class—due next class because the teacher intended to go over the answers in class.
If he misses the exams, know that you don’t necessarily have to make them all up right when the teacher suggests. Mine had several teachers suggest several makeups within a dab or two, and she was freaking out. I emailed the teachers to explain and they were very understanding and worked with us on rescheduling.

I'm a HS teacher with 12 students out due to Covid as of Friday. I'm sure it will be higher tomorrow. The quarter and semester end a week from this Friday. I will be giving tests in all my classes prior to that. I plan to simply look at each Covid afflicted student's grade to see if taking the test can affect it positively. If yes, I'll work on a time for those students to take the test they miss. It could mean a temporary incomplete for the quarter, particularly if the student is just starting isolation. That's not a big deal; the grade is changed to whatever is earned once the test is taken. If taking the test could hurt the current grade or wouldn't affect it, there's no reason to add to student stress by making them take the test. I'll excuse those students.

This is very helpful, I have a kid that I *may* quarantine do to a positive. I say may, because if they have to trudge through 10th grade course work completely on their own for two weeks, I may just send them. They are asymptomatic and fully vaccinated. Plus masked.
But if this is what HS teachers are being instructed to do with quarantined students, I will keep them home.

Don't be an asshat.

I will happily be an asshat for my kid. Remember when teachers said they refused to work to save their families? Well this is me saving my kid. He will collapse missing 10 days of school with zero help.

Wow. And you are why the schools shouldn't be sending tests home. They should do mandatory testing at school. People already trying to cheat the system.

Your asymptomatic positive kid could make another human (or several) seriously ill. That's highly immoral to knowingly make this decision.

Remember when teachers said they didn’t care about what was best for society and they needed to protect their families at all costs? Well, back at you. My family takes precedence this time.
And if everyone is vaccinated- spoiler alert in MoCo they are- this will not make humans seriously ill. Or do you not believe in vaccines and masks?

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Anonymous wrote:Have him CC you on the emails and monitoring him doing the work.

In mcps you can’t email parents from your school email.
Agree with having him email the teachers. Also get on studentvue and canvas with him and look at the schedule for the week to determine what they are covering when. A lot will be accessible online. It can be kind of a pain to get copies of the stuff that isn’t online. If a friend can bring home the copies and les e them on your stoop, that would be great.
Mine stayed home due to a possible exposure and when she got back was given several packets of worksheets to do for her language class—due next class because the teacher intended to go over the answers in class.
If he misses the exams, know that you don’t necessarily have to make them all up right when the teacher suggests. Mine had several teachers suggest several makeups within a dab or two, and she was freaking out. I emailed the teachers to explain and they were very understanding and worked with us on rescheduling.

I'm a HS teacher with 12 students out due to Covid as of Friday. I'm sure it will be higher tomorrow. The quarter and semester end a week from this Friday. I will be giving tests in all my classes prior to that. I plan to simply look at each Covid afflicted student's grade to see if taking the test can affect it positively. If yes, I'll work on a time for those students to take the test they miss. It could mean a temporary incomplete for the quarter, particularly if the student is just starting isolation. That's not a big deal; the grade is changed to whatever is earned once the test is taken. If taking the test could hurt the current grade or wouldn't affect it, there's no reason to add to student stress by making them take the test. I'll excuse those students.

This is very helpful, I have a kid that I *may* quarantine do to a positive. I say may, because if they have to trudge through 10th grade course work completely on their own for two weeks, I may just send them. They are asymptomatic and fully vaccinated. Plus masked.
But if this is what HS teachers are being instructed to do with quarantined students, I will keep them home.

Don't be an asshat.

I will happily be an asshat for my kid. Remember when teachers said they refused to work to save their families? Well this is me saving my kid. He will collapse missing 10 days of school with zero help.

Wow. And you are why the schools shouldn't be sending tests home. They should do mandatory testing at school. People already trying to cheat the system.

Your asymptomatic positive kid could make another human (or several) seriously ill. That's highly immoral to knowingly make this decision.

Remember when teachers said they didn’t care about what was best for society and they needed to protect their families at all costs? Well, back at you. My family takes precedence this time.
And if everyone is vaccinated- spoiler alert in MoCo they are- this will not make humans seriously ill. Or do you not believe in vaccines and masks?

By this point you should know vaccination doesn't prevent transmission - your vaxxed and positive child can definitely transmit the disease to others. There is no student vax requirement yet (there should be) or n95 mask quality requirement (there should be). There are plenty of classmates of your DC that either live with someone medically fragile (hello, the high number of multigenerational households in this area!) or someone too young to vax (less than 5). You keep your covid sick kid home for *that* reason, not other healthy and vaxxed HS students. There are also teachers who live with vulnerable people too. Some of these people will end up in the hospital, and when someone else having a heart attack has to go into the ER, there will be a delay in getting care at the appropriate time, when needed.

The CDC guidance says 5 days isolation, followed by 5 days with a good (n95/kn95 mask) without taking the mask off. Is your kid not going to eat or drink? Because they shouldn't.

And it will be parents like you who end up sending everyone into virtual. We call them bad actors.

[Anonymous]

My 7th grader is home completely well but isolating due to a positive seven days ago. His school required sending and email to a list of staff to report absence which triggered his counselor reaching out with a quarantine plan and Zoom links for check ins with his teacher. He’s self motivated and not sick so it’s been going well so far.