Data today 7pm

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I’m guessing that they are thinking that Friday will be a snow day, so if they preemptively change it to the one day teacher changeover day and have the kids work asynchronous, then they don’t have to watch the weather. Then the county will start a 2 week virtual on Monday. Just my guess.

No, because teachers have to come in for the planning of transition and to teach virtual. They will have to announce that tomorrow is the planning day, and then friday is the bonus day.

[Anonymous]

For those say 5% is not automatic, keep in mind that they closed all 11 schools that were red yesterday. So whatever deliberation process they have clearly seems to lead to closing red schools more often than not. So, apparently the deliberation process determined that there was spread in the 11 schools which were empty for break. What a disgrace.

[Anonymous]

I’m sure that there were positives today. Only makes sense

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:There is a new report up as of 4:00pm today, but it isn't color coded and doesn't show percentages?

https://www.montgomeryschoolsmd.org/uploadedFiles/Coronavirus/dashboaird/Daily%20COVID-19%20Case%20Reports%20January%205%202022.pdf

Wow. Our high school dropped by 42 cases. There’s 0 staff out with COVID according to the new report. We should now be in the green.

Those are just the cases reported today, not the cumulative cases. There’s a separate document with the total cases since winter break started.

Yes, it's interesting to have the two sets of data.

WTH - 4pm 35 cases. 7pm 137 cases - red. Total Whiplash.

How long till MCPS take vaccinated students and staff off their lists? At what point is the entire school system essentially online? How will Special Education students who could not receive accommodations and services during the last 18 months of online learning going to receive accommodations and services now?

This is a nightmare.

My SN child, and all the other SN children I know, received services and accommodations. I have no complaints.
Don't use special needs as your pitchfork.

I don't know what utopia you're living in but I have my feet firmly planted in Montgomery County and my SN child was barely given services last year at all. And MCPS's claims of "compensatory services" have been hollow and empty, no surprise there.

If my child’s IEP is ignored like it was during the last stent with online learning, I will be filing a state and OCR complaint. My child has not regained what was lost the first time and now his school is posed to go online. Staff last time literally wrote in report after report his needs cannot be met via an online platform.

If he had COVID, that would be one thing. Of course we would quarantine him along with our entire family. But we have had him vaccinated, we did not travel during winter break, and we limit non-school socialization to keep him from catching COVID. We have given permission for the school to test him. He has no symptoms. MCPS would be preventing a healthy disabled child from receiving his accommodations and services when technically there are schools open elsewhere in the county that could provide the services and accommodations he needs.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I can't believe the people doubling down on "KEEP THE SCHOOLS OPEN IN THE NAME OF EDUCATION" crowd. There were so many kids who didn't get an actual education today just by being in the building bc they didn't have teachers. There were no bus drivers. Schools weren't cleaned because custodial staff have been out. Just because a school building is open doesn't mean kids are being educated. You all are the worst of the worst.

My kid reported to me that only 9 kids in her class showed up today. (She was estimating, so who knows, but the point is - a LOT of kids absent.)

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I can't believe the people doubling down on "KEEP THE SCHOOLS OPEN IN THE NAME OF EDUCATION" crowd. There were so many kids who didn't get an actual education today just by being in the building bc they didn't have teachers. There were no bus drivers. Schools weren't cleaned because custodial staff have been out. Just because a school building is open doesn't mean kids are being educated. You all are the worst of the worst.

Yup. This is what I've been saying all week.

The omicron writing was already on the wall.

People kept acting like there was a real choice between "send kids to school, and maybe they get COVID, but we have to live with it now" and "go virtual*."

And I kept saying the ACTUAL choice was between "go virtual now" or "send kids into a sh!tshow, watch as numbers climb and a bunch of them get COVID, only to be forced into virtual in a week or two anyway."

But out come the shocked and horrified parents who I guess had been in some sort of denial for the past few weeks.


*And many would not consider the possibility that was actually being offered-- virtual for 2-6 weeks max. They had to build up this strawman of an evil and untrustworthy MCPS that wants to keep kids out of school for the rest of the year and would use a few weeks of virtual as cover for their nefarious plan, because... uh... teachers just love virtual, it's not a gigantic pain in their butts and... administrators eating Pringles and bonbons all day and.... reasons... yeah.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:This is the wrong measurement for cases during the break.

None or very few of those people who tested positive during the past 14 days were even at the schools when they tested positive so it does not make sense based on the data to move to virtual.

Our school sent out the dates of positive tests and some were back in Dec. 23 but only reported to the school now as the families may be in quarantine and the students missed school. Several families in DD's school were traveling and cannot return due to one member of the family still being sick. They got sick during their travels. That does not impact spread at their elementary right now.

It would be interesting to know how many of the positive cases today also were not in school in the past 14 days. It is possible some of the positive cases added today were tested in school today, though it is more likely that nearly all of the positives reported so far are for kids who either tested positive over break or were sick today and stayed home and just received test results--in other words, schools are being shuttered because of sick kids who are not even there.

For our school, the 4pm and 7pm reports don’t add up.

77 cases yesterday + 35 today is only 112. MCPS now says our school now has 136. Where did the extra 24 cases come from?

[Anonymous]

So..... are red schools really going to open tomorrow or will there be an update later tonight? Odds?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:This is the wrong measurement for cases during the break.

None or very few of those people who tested positive during the past 14 days were even at the schools when they tested positive so it does not make sense based on the data to move to virtual.

Our school sent out the dates of positive tests and some were back in Dec. 23 but only reported to the school now as the families may be in quarantine and the students missed school. Several families in DD's school were traveling and cannot return due to one member of the family still being sick. They got sick during their travels. That does not impact spread at their elementary right now.

It would be interesting to know how many of the positive cases today also were not in school in the past 14 days. It is possible some of the positive cases added today were tested in school today, though it is more likely that nearly all of the positives reported so far are for kids who either tested positive over break or were sick today and stayed home and just received test results--in other words, schools are being shuttered because of sick kids who are not even there.

They.

Are being.

Shuttered.

Because.

The %.

Is a proxy.

For community

Transmission.

When you have 5% reporting cases now and that SAME METRIC was 0.5% in early December, which is all they have to compare it to, you know stuff is about to hit the fan. Because viral growth is exponential growth.

That's the point. Keep schools (and yes, preferably bars and restaurants!) closed when spread in the community is very very high and rapidly increasing. Keep them open when it's not.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I can't believe the people doubling down on "KEEP THE SCHOOLS OPEN IN THE NAME OF EDUCATION" crowd. There were so many kids who didn't get an actual education today just by being in the building bc they didn't have teachers. There were no bus drivers. Schools weren't cleaned because custodial staff have been out. Just because a school building is open doesn't mean kids are being educated. You all are the worst of the worst.

Yup. This is what I've been saying all week.

The omicron writing was already on the wall.

People kept acting like there was a real choice between "send kids to school, and maybe they get COVID, but we have to live with it now" and "go virtual*."

And I kept saying the ACTUAL choice was between "go virtual now" or "send kids into a sh!tshow, watch as numbers climb and a bunch of them get COVID, only to be forced into virtual in a week or two anyway."

But out come the shocked and horrified parents who I guess had been in some sort of denial for the past few weeks.


*And many would not consider the possibility that was actually being offered-- virtual for 2-6 weeks max. They had to build up this strawman of an evil and untrustworthy MCPS that wants to keep kids out of school for the rest of the year and would use a few weeks of virtual as cover for their nefarious plan, because... uh... teachers just love virtual, it's not a gigantic pain in their butts and... administrators eating Pringles and bonbons all day and....reasons...yeah.

NP: YES!! Thank you!!! Everyone is disappointed, but this was so clearly where things were heading which is why I kept my kids home today. Are people not following the news?

[Anonymous]

We need drastic action by the state and county to SHUT DOWN bars, restaurants and malls. That's the only way to contain this.
Don't start with the schools. It's so backwards.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I can't believe the people doubling down on "KEEP THE SCHOOLS OPEN IN THE NAME OF EDUCATION" crowd. There were so many kids who didn't get an actual education today just by being in the building bc they didn't have teachers. There were no bus drivers. Schools weren't cleaned because custodial staff have been out. Just because a school building is open doesn't mean kids are being educated. You all are the worst of the worst.

Yup. This is what I've been saying all week.

The omicron writing was already on the wall.

People kept acting like there was a real choice between "send kids to school, and maybe they get COVID, but we have to live with it now" and "go virtual*."

And I kept saying the ACTUAL choice was between "go virtual now" or "send kids into a sh!tshow, watch as numbers climb and a bunch of them get COVID, only to be forced into virtual in a week or two anyway."

But out come the shocked and horrified parents who I guess had been in some sort of denial for the past few weeks.


*And many would not consider the possibility that was actually being offered-- virtual for 2-6 weeks max. They had to build up this strawman of an evil and untrustworthy MCPS that wants to keep kids out of school for the rest of the year and would use a few weeks of virtual as cover for their nefarious plan, because... uh... teachers just love virtual, it's not a gigantic pain in their butts and... administrators eating Pringles and bonbons all day and.... reasons... yeah.

Sorry, but trust has to be earned. Our kids sat at home last year for months and months for no reason.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

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Anonymous wrote:This is the wrong measurement for cases during the break.

None or very few of those people who tested positive during the past 14 days were even at the schools when they tested positive so it does not make sense based on the data to move to virtual.

Our school sent out the dates of positive tests and some were back in Dec. 23 but only reported to the school now as the families may be in quarantine and the students missed school. Several families in DD's school were traveling and cannot return due to one member of the family still being sick. They got sick during their travels. That does not impact spread at their elementary right now.

It would be interesting to know how many of the positive cases today also were not in school in the past 14 days. It is possible some of the positive cases added today were tested in school today, though it is more likely that nearly all of the positives reported so far are for kids who either tested positive over break or were sick today and stayed home and just received test results--in other words, schools are being shuttered because of sick kids who are not even there.

For our school, the 4pm and 7pm reports don’t add up.

77 cases yesterday + 35 today is only 112. MCPS now says our school now has 136. Where did the extra 24 cases come from?

Ours too. We have extra cases not reported yesterday and not in the today report.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I can't believe the people doubling down on "KEEP THE SCHOOLS OPEN IN THE NAME OF EDUCATION" crowd. There were so many kids who didn't get an actual education today just by being in the building bc they didn't have teachers. There were no bus drivers. Schools weren't cleaned because custodial staff have been out. Just because a school building is open doesn't mean kids are being educated. You all are the worst of the worst.

My kid reported to me that only 9 kids in her class showed up today. (She was estimating, so who knows, but the point is - a LOT of kids absent.)

Mine said seven were absent in a class of fifteen. I'm going to keep sending her because I think it's better for her to go, but I'm also getting ready to have her home next week.

[Anonymous]

Why the cherry picked 11 yesterday? And now the rest of us catch Covid and spread it? The new Superintendent is making a right 95 traffic mess of this….