Illness at schools

[Anonymous]

I teach in a MS in MCPS. We had a COVID wave in September and now have a wave of the flu. Many kids out the entire week last week with the flu returned today. We had a dance after school on Friday and out of my 115 students, all but 1 that attended the dance are home sick (assuming flu since it’s so many days later and several emailed me to say they had the flu). I had 6-10 kids out sick today in every class. We also had a lot of teachers out for illness and PD.

I was in the building Monday to do grades and surprised there wasn’t any major sanitizing of surfaces happening.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I teach in a MS in MCPS. We had a COVID wave in September and now have a wave of the flu. Many kids out the entire week last week with the flu returned today. We had a dance after school on Friday and out of my 115 students, all but 1 that attended the dance are home sick (assuming flu since it’s so many days later and several emailed me to say they had the flu). I had 6-10 kids out sick today in every class. We also had a lot of teachers out for illness and PD.

I was in the building Monday to do grades and surprised there wasn’t any major sanitizing of surfaces happening.

MCPS has never sanitized and its always been on the teachers to do it, sadly. I doubt it was jus the school dance since kids aren't masking in school.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:How would any lay person even have that information?

And why does it matter?

Kids get sick. After two years of mandated masks, this year, kids will be sick more often.

MCPS is large. At any given time, lots of MCPS kids will be sick.

Because less kids in school is less learning for classes. Teachers will have to reteach a lot. For example, science teachers have a lot of work to do to teach children that their parents are stupid and wearing masks is not making more kids sick now.
Masks were never mandated and were always removed at lunch time or at breakfast.
The number of students and teachers out sick has always been tracked in MCPS and is always a known data point.

Masks weee most definitely mandated in MCPS. Where do you live?

Never. They were removed every day at indoor lunch. Children breathe at lunch. Virus spreads. No mandate to eat with masks on.

Yes, they didn't mandate the physically impossible, but they were mandated. I have no idea what your goal is in lying about recent history now, but we know you're lying.

We also know that anyone calling other people "stupid" shouldn't also use the phrase "less kids."

DP.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:How would any lay person even have that information?

And why does it matter?

Kids get sick. After two years of mandated masks, this year, kids will be sick more often.

MCPS is large. At any given time, lots of MCPS kids will be sick.

Keep pretending.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I teach in a MS in MCPS. We had a COVID wave in September and now have a wave of the flu. Many kids out the entire week last week with the flu returned today. We had a dance after school on Friday and out of my 115 students, all but 1 that attended the dance are home sick (assuming flu since it’s so many days later and several emailed me to say they had the flu). I had 6-10 kids out sick today in every class. We also had a lot of teachers out for illness and PD.

I was in the building Monday to do grades and surprised there wasn’t any major sanitizing of surfaces happening.

How do you know that didn’t happen in the evening? I teach in a HS and have worked late on random days throughout the quarter. Every time a building service worker has come through my room and sprayed/wiped all student desks and the science lab benches. Today I saw they used also done a deeper clean of floors and corners because chair and stools were up and desks moved around.

[Anonymous]

About 20% of my school, kids and or staff, have been out over the last 2 weeks.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I teach in a MS in MCPS. We had a COVID wave in September and now have a wave of the flu. Many kids out the entire week last week with the flu returned today. We had a dance after school on Friday and out of my 115 students, all but 1 that attended the dance are home sick (assuming flu since it’s so many days later and several emailed me to say they had the flu). I had 6-10 kids out sick today in every class. We also had a lot of teachers out for illness and PD.

I was in the building Monday to do grades and surprised there wasn’t any major sanitizing of surfaces happening.

How do you know that didn’t happen in the evening? I teach in a HS and have worked late on random days throughout the quarter. Every time a building service worker has come through my room and sprayed/wiped all student desks and the science lab benches. Today I saw they used also done a deeper clean of floors and corners because chair and stools were up and desks moved around.

Because the same stains on the floors and other flat surfaces were still there this morning. Also because we don’t have a night crew. Staffing shortages caused them to just give 4 hours of overtime to the day crew. All done by 6:30pm.

[Anonymous]

Just wait till January. No Central Office plans to deal with mass outbreaks. This will be a repeat of last year.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:How would any lay person even have that information?

And why does it matter?

Kids get sick. After two years of mandated masks, this year, kids will be sick more often.

MCPS is large. At any given time, lots of MCPS kids will be sick.

Because less kids in school is less learning for classes. Teachers will have to reteach a lot. For example, science teachers have a lot of work to do to teach children that their parents are stupid and wearing masks is not making more kids sick now.
Masks were never mandated and were always removed at lunch time or at breakfast.
The number of students and teachers out sick has always been tracked in MCPS and is always a known data point.

Masks weee most definitely mandated in MCPS. Where do you live?

Never. They were removed every day at indoor lunch. Children breathe at lunch. Virus spreads. No mandate to eat with masks on.

Yes, they didn't mandate the physically impossible, but they were mandated. I have no idea what your goal is in lying about recent history now, but we know you're lying.

We also know that anyone calling other people "stupid" shouldn't also use the phrase "less kids."

DP.

It's not physically impossible to mandate masks indoors. Lunch is eaten outside. Lots of schools did it and continue to do it. That's mandatory masking. It's keeping a mask on indoors at all times when intelligent people know that a pandemic spreads indoors in poorly ventilated rooms.

MCPS lied. They were the ones pretending like they were going to keep children safe when they had absolutely no intention to keep them safe. Wear a mask in the door and take it off inside? That's a farce and that's what happened. That's the truth. If you like believing fantasy, then keep pretending masks were mandatory. LOL.

MCPS is lying again right now and you don't even know it. Gullible MCPS we're #1 parents fall for the MCPS branding over and over again at the expense of their children.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I teach in a MS in MCPS. We had a COVID wave in September and now have a wave of the flu. Many kids out the entire week last week with the flu returned today. We had a dance after school on Friday and out of my 115 students, all but 1 that attended the dance are home sick (assuming flu since it’s so many days later and several emailed me to say they had the flu). I had 6-10 kids out sick today in every class. We also had a lot of teachers out for illness and PD.

I was in the building Monday to do grades and surprised there wasn’t any major sanitizing of surfaces happening.

The chemicals used for sanitizing are actually worse for you than the germs you are so worried about.

You don’t work in a hospital. If you want that level of sanitization, you should look elsewhere.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:How would any lay person even have that information?

And why does it matter?

Kids get sick. After two years of mandated masks, this year, kids will be sick more often.

MCPS is large. At any given time, lots of MCPS kids will be sick.

Because less kids in school is less learning for classes. Teachers will have to reteach a lot. For example, science teachers have a lot of work to do to teach children that their parents are stupid and wearing masks is not making more kids sick now.
Masks were never mandated and were always removed at lunch time or at breakfast.
The number of students and teachers out sick has always been tracked in MCPS and is always a known data point.

Masks weee most definitely mandated in MCPS. Where do you live?

Never. They were removed every day at indoor lunch. Children breathe at lunch. Virus spreads. No mandate to eat with masks on.

Yes, they didn't mandate the physically impossible, but they were mandated. I have no idea what your goal is in lying about recent history now, but we know you're lying.

We also know that anyone calling other people "stupid" shouldn't also use the phrase "less kids."

DP.

It's not physically impossible to mandate masks indoors. Lunch is eaten outside. Lots of schools did it and continue to do it. That's mandatory masking. It's keeping a mask on indoors at all times when intelligent people know that a pandemic spreads indoors in poorly ventilated rooms.

MCPS lied. They were the ones pretending like they were going to keep children safe when they had absolutely no intention to keep them safe. Wear a mask in the door and take it off inside? That's a farce and that's what happened. That's the truth. If you like believing fantasy, then keep pretending masks were mandatory. LOL.

MCPS is lying again right now and you don't even know it. Gullible MCPS we're #1 parents fall for the MCPS branding over and over again at the expense of their children.

You want MCPS to force kids to wear masks indoors at all times? Now? At this point in the pandemic? Even our high-ranking government officials aren’t advocating for masks on kids.

Why are you so anti-science. There is no good reason to force kids to wear masks indoors.

You are welcome to keep your kid in a mask as long as you choose! Good news, nobody is going to stop you.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I teach in a MS in MCPS. We had a COVID wave in September and now have a wave of the flu. Many kids out the entire week last week with the flu returned today. We had a dance after school on Friday and out of my 115 students, all but 1 that attended the dance are home sick (assuming flu since it’s so many days later and several emailed me to say they had the flu). I had 6-10 kids out sick today in every class. We also had a lot of teachers out for illness and PD.

I was in the building Monday to do grades and surprised there wasn’t any major sanitizing of surfaces happening.

The chemicals used for sanitizing are actually worse for you than the germs you are so worried about.

You don’t work in a hospital. If you want that level of sanitization, you should look elsewhere.

Source?

[Anonymous]

I saw where a high school gave breathazlyzers to every student going into homecoming without changing the
Mouthpiece....and everyone got sick. Did your MS do that?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I teach in a MS in MCPS. We had a COVID wave in September and now have a wave of the flu. Many kids out the entire week last week with the flu returned today. We had a dance after school on Friday and out of my 115 students, all but 1 that attended the dance are home sick (assuming flu since it’s so many days later and several emailed me to say they had the flu). I had 6-10 kids out sick today in every class. We also had a lot of teachers out for illness and PD.

I was in the building Monday to do grades and surprised there wasn’t any major sanitizing of surfaces happening.

The chemicals used for sanitizing are actually worse for you than the germs you are so worried about.

You don’t work in a hospital. If you want that level of sanitization, you should look elsewhere.

Source?

Check out the material safety data sheet for any of the products used. Not sure if this link will work, but pick any of them.

https://cf-store.widencdn.net/kavokerr/3/2/2/32278e5b-e8a2-40ed-a330-942e58f1268a.pdf?response-content-disposition=attachment%3B%20filename%3D%22CaviCide-EN-GHS-SDS-05-17-22%20US_CAN.pdf%22&Expires=1668063680&Signature=LAIfpZuqb~JhuCRupZapgO57udCkCQw6b12~k0HfrmHX9lgdR-COAu6jz6FA36RgZMTOA1qUitVqj9nCd-Rt9ZdktKEa~eWGTX~UnkTXh7b6bO1OvvZyUaxElTKif4ZfUR6JQoEBOg6ww4gk~AOyoarhTfSKrMzE-h8~B7BmeNd-QxmPJG8BTDQ8HgqvFc7fXVRPlfBCdw0IHX5PHzZj4PjbrbvbOaBXH2jY4AFpM-sMexVJwD2D1W0t35e08Ci3hF-7JSJOQIfGrJqOlEAa9UDOtN8m2JupPm1fK0rEif-el5XozDw9hfC32JwvimZuHRNYbXVc3lz~QS-G1lX0iQ__&Key-Pair-Id=APKAJD5XONOBVWWOA65A

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:How would any lay person even have that information?

And why does it matter?

Kids get sick. After two years of mandated masks, this year, kids will be sick more often.

MCPS is large. At any given time, lots of MCPS kids will be sick.

Because less kids in school is less learning for classes. Teachers will have to reteach a lot. For example, science teachers have a lot of work to do to teach children that their parents are stupid and wearing masks is not making more kids sick now.
Masks were never mandated and were always removed at lunch time or at breakfast.
The number of students and teachers out sick has always been tracked in MCPS and is always a known data point.

Masks weee most definitely mandated in MCPS. Where do you live?

Never. They were removed every day at indoor lunch. Children breathe at lunch. Virus spreads. No mandate to eat with masks on.

Yes, they didn't mandate the physically impossible, but they were mandated. I have no idea what your goal is in lying about recent history now, but we know you're lying.

We also know that anyone calling other people "stupid" shouldn't also use the phrase "less kids."

DP.

It's not physically impossible to mandate masks indoors. Lunch is eaten outside. Lots of schools did it and continue to do it. That's mandatory masking. It's keeping a mask on indoors at all times when intelligent people know that a pandemic spreads indoors in poorly ventilated rooms.

MCPS lied. They were the ones pretending like they were going to keep children safe when they had absolutely no intention to keep them safe. Wear a mask in the door and take it off inside? That's a farce and that's what happened. That's the truth. If you like believing fantasy, then keep pretending masks were mandatory. LOL.

MCPS is lying again right now and you don't even know it. Gullible MCPS we're #1 parents fall for the MCPS branding over and over again at the expense of their children.

Yes, kids and adults got sick. Kids and adults will always get sick. This should not be news to anyone.

How did you get through the years when your kids were in daycare/preschool?