When Will MCPS Quarantine Rules Change?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Based on what I'm reading here I see there's significant misinformation on the MCPS quarantine policy.

When an elementary school, unvaccinated kid is quarantined for being a close contact, the rule is that the kid will stay home for 10 days and monitor symptoms. No test is necessary. And 1, 2, 3 or 20 negative tests won't allow the kid to return to school sooner. My kid has been quarantined. We signed up for random testing at the beginning of the school year. The school also has rapid tests available. On the day my daughter was quarantined, they were doing random tests at the school. Surprising to us, she was sent home without being tested. Moreover, no testing is required at any point for the quarantined kids. Even more shocking is the fact that siblings of the quarantined kid are neither quarantined nor tested either. When our daughter was quarantined, we had to explicitly ask the school to include her in the pool of randomly tested kids. The PCR results, which were negative, took 2 days to arrive. Therefore, we also gave her a rapid test ourselves. Obviously, we wanted to know if she had COVID, and whether we had to isolate her from her siblings. However, per MCPS, this is not required. Responsible parents may do this regardless of MCPS' policy, but for those of you arguing that MCPS is doing a stellar job, I'd say that, per MCPS rules, my kid's twin sister could have potentially infected several kids at the school as well as their parents. It's a very absurd policy indeed.

Why would a contact of a contact be expected to quarantine? That scales to absurdity.

Quarantining does more harm than good. They should just to test-to-stay if they're that worried about cases. If even they to drop surveillance testing to free up resources to do it, it would still do more good and less bad than the current procedures and policies.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Based on what I'm reading here I see there's significant misinformation on the MCPS quarantine policy.

When an elementary school, unvaccinated kid is quarantined for being a close contact, the rule is that the kid will stay home for 10 days and monitor symptoms. No test is necessary. And 1, 2, 3 or 20 negative tests won't allow the kid to return to school sooner. My kid has been quarantined. We signed up for random testing at the beginning of the school year. The school also has rapid tests available. On the day my daughter was quarantined, they were doing random tests at the school. Surprising to us, she was sent home without being tested. Moreover, no testing is required at any point for the quarantined kids. Even more shocking is the fact that siblings of the quarantined kid are neither quarantined nor tested either. When our daughter was quarantined, we had to explicitly ask the school to include her in the pool of randomly tested kids. The PCR results, which were negative, took 2 days to arrive. Therefore, we also gave her a rapid test ourselves. Obviously, we wanted to know if she had COVID, and whether we had to isolate her from her siblings. However, per MCPS, this is not required. Responsible parents may do this regardless of MCPS' policy, but for those of you arguing that MCPS is doing a stellar job, I'd say that, per MCPS rules, my kid's twin sister could have potentially infected several kids at the school as well as their parents. It's a very absurd policy indeed.

Why would a contact of a contact be expected to quarantine? That scales to absurdity.

Quarantining does more harm than good. They should just to test-to-stay if they're that worried about cases. If even they to drop surveillance testing to free up resources to do it, it would still do more good and less bad than the current procedures and policies.

I’m the PP and I certainly wasn’t suggesting that contacts of contacts should quarantine. I’m against the current quarantine policy. My point was to show how absurd it is. No test required and thus potentially spreading it to siblings. A negative test should suffice

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Based on what I'm reading here I see there's significant misinformation on the MCPS quarantine policy.

When an elementary school, unvaccinated kid is quarantined for being a close contact, the rule is that the kid will stay home for 10 days and monitor symptoms. No test is necessary. And 1, 2, 3 or 20 negative tests won't allow the kid to return to school sooner. My kid has been quarantined. We signed up for random testing at the beginning of the school year. The school also has rapid tests available. On the day my daughter was quarantined, they were doing random tests at the school. Surprising to us, she was sent home without being tested. Moreover, no testing is required at any point for the quarantined kids. Even more shocking is the fact that siblings of the quarantined kid are neither quarantined nor tested either. When our daughter was quarantined, we had to explicitly ask the school to include her in the pool of randomly tested kids. The PCR results, which were negative, took 2 days to arrive. Therefore, we also gave her a rapid test ourselves. Obviously, we wanted to know if she had COVID, and whether we had to isolate her from her siblings. However, per MCPS, this is not required. Responsible parents may do this regardless of MCPS' policy, but for those of you arguing that MCPS is doing a stellar job, I'd say that, per MCPS rules, my kid's twin sister could have potentially infected several kids at the school as well as their parents. It's a very absurd policy indeed.

Why would a contact of a contact be expected to quarantine? That scales to absurdity.

Quarantining does more harm than good. They should just to test-to-stay if they're that worried about cases. If even they to drop surveillance testing to free up resources to do it, it would still do more good and less bad than the current procedures and policies.

This contains so many falsehoods and so much information I don't even know where to begin.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Based on what I'm reading here I see there's significant misinformation on the MCPS quarantine policy.

When an elementary school, unvaccinated kid is quarantined for being a close contact, the rule is that the kid will stay home for 10 days and monitor symptoms. No test is necessary. And 1, 2, 3 or 20 negative tests won't allow the kid to return to school sooner. My kid has been quarantined. We signed up for random testing at the beginning of the school year. The school also has rapid tests available. On the day my daughter was quarantined, they were doing random tests at the school. Surprising to us, she was sent home without being tested. Moreover, no testing is required at any point for the quarantined kids. Even more shocking is the fact that siblings of the quarantined kid are neither quarantined nor tested either. When our daughter was quarantined, we had to explicitly ask the school to include her in the pool of randomly tested kids. The PCR results, which were negative, took 2 days to arrive. Therefore, we also gave her a rapid test ourselves. Obviously, we wanted to know if she had COVID, and whether we had to isolate her from her siblings. However, per MCPS, this is not required. Responsible parents may do this regardless of MCPS' policy, but for those of you arguing that MCPS is doing a stellar job, I'd say that, per MCPS rules, my kid's twin sister could have potentially infected several kids at the school as well as their parents. It's a very absurd policy indeed.

Why would a contact of a contact be expected to quarantine? That scales to absurdity.

Quarantining does more harm than good. They should just to test-to-stay if they're that worried about cases. If even they to drop surveillance testing to free up resources to do it, it would still do more good and less bad than the current procedures and policies.

This contains so many falsehoods and so much information I don't even know where to begin.

Where are the falsehoods? I can assure you that a quarantined kid does not require a negative test neither while quarantined nor to return. I’m in that situation right now. Where is the falsehood? I’m talking about elementary school kids who were close contacts.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Montgomery County is 98.9% vaccinated amongst those who are eligible.

https://dcist.com/story/21/10/11/montgomery-county-hits-99-partial-vaccination-rate-for-eligible-residents/

When will we see adjustments to the quarantine policies that are putting an unnecessary burden on our kids and caregivers? Who do we contact to get movement on this issue?

Did you read the link you posted? It's for eligible residents who have received at least one shot. The percent of eligible residents who are fully vaccinated is 90.1%.

MCPS has been adjusting its quarantine policies since school started, and I would expect MCPS to continue to do so.

No! Montgomery county is claiming (via Facebook posts) that 99.9% of residents over age 12 have received at least one dose and 90% are fully vaccinated. That 99.9% equates to only 900 eligible people in the entire county not having had a single dose. Do you really believe the number of totally unvaccinated eligible people is under 900??? Really?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Based on what I'm reading here I see there's significant misinformation on the MCPS quarantine policy.

When an elementary school, unvaccinated kid is quarantined for being a close contact, the rule is that the kid will stay home for 10 days and monitor symptoms. No test is necessary. And 1, 2, 3 or 20 negative tests won't allow the kid to return to school sooner. My kid has been quarantined. We signed up for random testing at the beginning of the school year. The school also has rapid tests available. On the day my daughter was quarantined, they were doing random tests at the school. Surprising to us, she was sent home without being tested. Moreover, no testing is required at any point for the quarantined kids. Even more shocking is the fact that siblings of the quarantined kid are neither quarantined nor tested either. When our daughter was quarantined, we had to explicitly ask the school to include her in the pool of randomly tested kids. The PCR results, which were negative, took 2 days to arrive. Therefore, we also gave her a rapid test ourselves. Obviously, we wanted to know if she had COVID, and whether we had to isolate her from her siblings. However, per MCPS, this is not required. Responsible parents may do this regardless of MCPS' policy, but for those of you arguing that MCPS is doing a stellar job, I'd say that, per MCPS rules, my kid's twin sister could have potentially infected several kids at the school as well as their parents. It's a very absurd policy indeed.

Why would a contact of a contact be expected to quarantine? That scales to absurdity.

Quarantining does more harm than good. They should just to test-to-stay if they're that worried about cases. If even they to drop surveillance testing to free up resources to do it, it would still do more good and less bad than the current procedures and policies.

I’m the PP and I certainly wasn’t suggesting that contacts of contacts should quarantine. I’m against the current quarantine policy. My point was to show how absurd it is. No test required and thus potentially spreading it to siblings. A negative test should suffice

Given it an take 10 days for Covid to show up the policy should be more restrictive than less.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Based on what I'm reading here I see there's significant misinformation on the MCPS quarantine policy.

When an elementary school, unvaccinated kid is quarantined for being a close contact, the rule is that the kid will stay home for 10 days and monitor symptoms. No test is necessary. And 1, 2, 3 or 20 negative tests won't allow the kid to return to school sooner. My kid has been quarantined. We signed up for random testing at the beginning of the school year. The school also has rapid tests available. On the day my daughter was quarantined, they were doing random tests at the school. Surprising to us, she was sent home without being tested. Moreover, no testing is required at any point for the quarantined kids. Even more shocking is the fact that siblings of the quarantined kid are neither quarantined nor tested either. When our daughter was quarantined, we had to explicitly ask the school to include her in the pool of randomly tested kids. The PCR results, which were negative, took 2 days to arrive. Therefore, we also gave her a rapid test ourselves. Obviously, we wanted to know if she had COVID, and whether we had to isolate her from her siblings. However, per MCPS, this is not required. Responsible parents may do this regardless of MCPS' policy, but for those of you arguing that MCPS is doing a stellar job, I'd say that, per MCPS rules, my kid's twin sister could have potentially infected several kids at the school as well as their parents. It's a very absurd policy indeed.

Why would a contact of a contact be expected to quarantine? That scales to absurdity.

Quarantining does more harm than good. They should just to test-to-stay if they're that worried about cases. If even they to drop surveillance testing to free up resources to do it, it would still do more good and less bad than the current procedures and policies.

I’m the PP and I certainly wasn’t suggesting that contacts of contacts should quarantine. I’m against the current quarantine policy. My point was to show how absurd it is. No test required and thus potentially spreading it to siblings. A negative test should suffice

Given it an take 10 days for Covid to show up the policy should be more restrictive than less.

OMG stop with all this fancy science! It's not convenient to have kids around. It cuts into my me time.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Montgomery County is 98.9% vaccinated amongst those who are eligible.

https://dcist.com/story/21/10/11/montgomery-county-hits-99-partial-vaccination-rate-for-eligible-residents/

When will we see adjustments to the quarantine policies that are putting an unnecessary burden on our kids and caregivers? Who do we contact to get movement on this issue?

Did you read the link you posted? It's for eligible residents who have received at least one shot. The percent of eligible residents who are fully vaccinated is 90.1%.

MCPS has been adjusting its quarantine policies since school started, and I would expect MCPS to continue to do so.

No! Montgomery county is claiming (via Facebook posts) that 99.9% of residents over age 12 have received at least one dose and 90% are fully vaccinated. That 99.9% equates to only 900 eligible people in the entire county not having had a single dose. Do you really believe the number of totally unvaccinated eligible people is under 900??? Really?

So, now you’re claiming that MoCo government is lying? I hope you have some basis to back that up.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Based on what I'm reading here I see there's significant misinformation on the MCPS quarantine policy.

When an elementary school, unvaccinated kid is quarantined for being a close contact, the rule is that the kid will stay home for 10 days and monitor symptoms. No test is necessary. And 1, 2, 3 or 20 negative tests won't allow the kid to return to school sooner. My kid has been quarantined. We signed up for random testing at the beginning of the school year. The school also has rapid tests available. On the day my daughter was quarantined, they were doing random tests at the school. Surprising to us, she was sent home without being tested. Moreover, no testing is required at any point for the quarantined kids. Even more shocking is the fact that siblings of the quarantined kid are neither quarantined nor tested either. When our daughter was quarantined, we had to explicitly ask the school to include her in the pool of randomly tested kids. The PCR results, which were negative, took 2 days to arrive. Therefore, we also gave her a rapid test ourselves. Obviously, we wanted to know if she had COVID, and whether we had to isolate her from her siblings. However, per MCPS, this is not required. Responsible parents may do this regardless of MCPS' policy, but for those of you arguing that MCPS is doing a stellar job, I'd say that, per MCPS rules, my kid's twin sister could have potentially infected several kids at the school as well as their parents. It's a very absurd policy indeed.

Why would a contact of a contact be expected to quarantine? That scales to absurdity.

Quarantining does more harm than good. They should just to test-to-stay if they're that worried about cases. If even they to drop surveillance testing to free up resources to do it, it would still do more good and less bad than the current procedures and policies.

I’m the PP and I certainly wasn’t suggesting that contacts of contacts should quarantine. I’m against the current quarantine policy. My point was to show how absurd it is. No test required and thus potentially spreading it to siblings. A negative test should suffice

Given it an take 10 days for Covid to show up the policy should be more restrictive than less.

OMG stop with all this fancy science! It's not convenient to have kids around. It cuts into my me time.

So disgusting.

We all know you secretly love the pandemic and quarantines so you have more of an excuse to not get a job.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Based on what I'm reading here I see there's significant misinformation on the MCPS quarantine policy.

When an elementary school, unvaccinated kid is quarantined for being a close contact, the rule is that the kid will stay home for 10 days and monitor symptoms. No test is necessary. And 1, 2, 3 or 20 negative tests won't allow the kid to return to school sooner. My kid has been quarantined. We signed up for random testing at the beginning of the school year. The school also has rapid tests available. On the day my daughter was quarantined, they were doing random tests at the school. Surprising to us, she was sent home without being tested. Moreover, no testing is required at any point for the quarantined kids. Even more shocking is the fact that siblings of the quarantined kid are neither quarantined nor tested either. When our daughter was quarantined, we had to explicitly ask the school to include her in the pool of randomly tested kids. The PCR results, which were negative, took 2 days to arrive. Therefore, we also gave her a rapid test ourselves. Obviously, we wanted to know if she had COVID, and whether we had to isolate her from her siblings. However, per MCPS, this is not required. Responsible parents may do this regardless of MCPS' policy, but for those of you arguing that MCPS is doing a stellar job, I'd say that, per MCPS rules, my kid's twin sister could have potentially infected several kids at the school as well as their parents. It's a very absurd policy indeed.

Why would a contact of a contact be expected to quarantine? That scales to absurdity.

Quarantining does more harm than good. They should just to test-to-stay if they're that worried about cases. If even they to drop surveillance testing to free up resources to do it, it would still do more good and less bad than the current procedures and policies.

I’m the PP and I certainly wasn’t suggesting that contacts of contacts should quarantine. I’m against the current quarantine policy. My point was to show how absurd it is. No test required and thus potentially spreading it to siblings. A negative test should suffice

DP and I agree that the policy makes no sense- they are assuming that there will be spread throughout the classroom, hence sending entre classes home rather than adhering to the 3ft guideline, yet have no interest in following up to see just how much spread there was? What are they afraid of exactly? If there WAS spread, then they can hold it up as proof that this policy is necessary, if not then they don't have to keep sending entire classes home.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Montgomery County is 98.9% vaccinated amongst those who are eligible.

https://dcist.com/story/21/10/11/montgomery-county-hits-99-partial-vaccination-rate-for-eligible-residents/

When will we see adjustments to the quarantine policies that are putting an unnecessary burden on our kids and caregivers? Who do we contact to get movement on this issue?

Did you read the link you posted? It's for eligible residents who have received at least one shot. The percent of eligible residents who are fully vaccinated is 90.1%.

MCPS has been adjusting its quarantine policies since school started, and I would expect MCPS to continue to do so.

No! Montgomery county is claiming (via Facebook posts) that 99.9% of residents over age 12 have received at least one dose and 90% are fully vaccinated. That 99.9% equates to only 900 eligible people in the entire county not having had a single dose. Do you really believe the number of totally unvaccinated eligible people is under 900??? Really?

So, now you’re claiming that MoCo government is lying? I hope you have some basis to back that up.

As of today, 10/25, the CDC says 99.9% of MoCo residents 12 and up have had at least one dose, and 90.8% are fully vaccinated.

https://covid.cdc.gov/covid-data-tracker/#county-view|Maryland|24031|Risk|community_transmission_level

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Based on what I'm reading here I see there's significant misinformation on the MCPS quarantine policy.

When an elementary school, unvaccinated kid is quarantined for being a close contact, the rule is that the kid will stay home for 10 days and monitor symptoms. No test is necessary. And 1, 2, 3 or 20 negative tests won't allow the kid to return to school sooner. My kid has been quarantined. We signed up for random testing at the beginning of the school year. The school also has rapid tests available. On the day my daughter was quarantined, they were doing random tests at the school. Surprising to us, she was sent home without being tested. Moreover, no testing is required at any point for the quarantined kids. Even more shocking is the fact that siblings of the quarantined kid are neither quarantined nor tested either. When our daughter was quarantined, we had to explicitly ask the school to include her in the pool of randomly tested kids. The PCR results, which were negative, took 2 days to arrive. Therefore, we also gave her a rapid test ourselves. Obviously, we wanted to know if she had COVID, and whether we had to isolate her from her siblings. However, per MCPS, this is not required. Responsible parents may do this regardless of MCPS' policy, but for those of you arguing that MCPS is doing a stellar job, I'd say that, per MCPS rules, my kid's twin sister could have potentially infected several kids at the school as well as their parents. It's a very absurd policy indeed.

Why would a contact of a contact be expected to quarantine? That scales to absurdity.

Quarantining does more harm than good. They should just to test-to-stay if they're that worried about cases. If even they to drop surveillance testing to free up resources to do it, it would still do more good and less bad than the current procedures and policies.

This contains so many falsehoods and so much information I don't even know where to begin.

Where are the falsehoods? I can assure you that a quarantined kid does not require a negative test neither while quarantined nor to return. I’m in that situation right now. Where is the falsehood? I’m talking about elementary school kids who were close contacts.

+1 where are the falsehoods? My DS was quarantined because one kid in his class had a false positive (positive rapid, negative PCR). Yet the whole class had to stay home for 10 days. There was NO requirement for my DS to get a PCR test. We did it out of an abundance of caution, but there's actually a disincentive to test because of the risk you might get a false positive and force the class into extended quarantine.