Covid Status

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The weather has been good lately, so not much to look into, other than two HS have over 30 cases in the last seven days (Rockville and Wootton).

Location Last 7 Days (#) Total Staff & Students School Cases (%)
Rockville High 33 1700 1.9
Thomas S. Wootton High 32 2099 1.5
Montgomery Blair High 27 3512 0.8
Richard Montgomery High 26 2593 1
Winston Churchill High 21 2483 0.8
Quince Orchard High 17 2390 0.7
Bethesda-Chevy Chase High 16 2535 0.6
Clarksburg High 14 2465 0.6
Walt Whitman High 14 2274 0.6
Walter Johnson High 14 3221 0.4
Central Office 13 N/A
Fairland Elementary 13 645 2
Northwest High 12 2735 0.4
Westland Middle 12 947 1.3
Albert Einstein High 11 2229 0.5
Julius West Middle 10 1495 0.7
Northwood High 10 2045 0.5
Sligo Creek Elementary 10 735 1.4
Eastern Middle 9 1013 0.9
Francis Scott Key Middle 9 1089 0.8
Beall Elementary 8 555 1.4
Earle B. Wood Middle 8 1191 0.7
Gaithersburg High 8 2738 0.3
James Hubert Blake High 8 1946 0.4
Silver Spring International Middle 8 1295 0.6
Briggs Chaney Middle 7 997 0.7
Col. Zadok Magruder High 7 1873 0.4

And even those two schools are well below outbreak levels.

When do you think the covid-doomsdayers will admit they were wrong? Shouldn’t dead bodies be piling up outside of hospitals by now?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:The weather has been good lately, so not much to look into, other than two HS have over 30 cases in the last seven days (Rockville and Wootton).

Location Last 7 Days (#) Total Staff & Students School Cases (%)
Rockville High 33 1700 1.9
Thomas S. Wootton High 32 2099 1.5
Montgomery Blair High 27 3512 0.8
Richard Montgomery High 26 2593 1
Winston Churchill High 21 2483 0.8
Quince Orchard High 17 2390 0.7
Bethesda-Chevy Chase High 16 2535 0.6
Clarksburg High 14 2465 0.6
Walt Whitman High 14 2274 0.6
Walter Johnson High 14 3221 0.4
Central Office 13 N/A
Fairland Elementary 13 645 2
Northwest High 12 2735 0.4
Westland Middle 12 947 1.3
Albert Einstein High 11 2229 0.5
Julius West Middle 10 1495 0.7
Northwood High 10 2045 0.5
Sligo Creek Elementary 10 735 1.4
Eastern Middle 9 1013 0.9
Francis Scott Key Middle 9 1089 0.8
Beall Elementary 8 555 1.4
Earle B. Wood Middle 8 1191 0.7
Gaithersburg High 8 2738 0.3
James Hubert Blake High 8 1946 0.4
Silver Spring International Middle 8 1295 0.6
Briggs Chaney Middle 7 997 0.7
Col. Zadok Magruder High 7 1873 0.4

And even those two schools are well below outbreak levels.

When do you think the covid-doomsdayers will admit they were wrong? Shouldn’t dead bodies be piling up outside of hospitals by now?

If you want a sobering statistic regarding how effective the mask mandates were, look no further than the county website. From the start of covid up until September, 20, 2021, there were 520,236 confirmed cases of covid. Exactly a year later, 722,430 new cases were confirmed. And if anyone says, but they were mild, I'd encourage you to click on the deaths. The daily deaths spike in February 22 competes well with the summer and winter of 2020.

https://coronavirus.maryland.gov/

If McKnight wants to keep everyone in-person no matter how infected a school becomes, and is fine with not mandating masks, all I can say is it's not helping her "equity" agenda any.

"Nationwide, Black people have died at 1.4 times the rate of white people."
https://covidtracking.com/race/

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Anonymous wrote:The pandemic is over. Ask Joe Biden.

He’s not wrong.

It’s not over. He is not a doctor, just an irresponsible politician who has access to far better medical care than the rest of us.

Of course it is. Deaths and hospitalizations have stabilized. This is simply what it looks like for covid to be endemic.

Of course it isn't. What's over is the free money gravy train. Although the covid pandemic is over from a policy POV, I believe this just means millions in covid money won't be available to fund MCPS pet projects.

In the past year covid variants have been mild, but it's too early to take a victory lap. A single recombinant variant can put the hospitalization numbers back on the boards overnight.

https://coronavirus.health.ny.gov/covid-19-variant-data

I hope covid is not really endemic. That means its just a matter of time before the next wave of covid variant, and the next, and next..

I’m not sure what you mean. I get that you could argue that we don’t really know if we’re quite at endemic levels yet. But certainly covid will become endemic, and we have every reason to expect endemic covid case rates will significantly exceed endemic flu rates. Given vaccines and past infection have remained effective at preventing severe illness in new variants, we can expect that will generally continue.

It is also about transmission.

Temporary measures like masking, distancing and closures cannot have a sustained effect. Once they are stopped, cases would spike until the equilibrium is reached again. At this point it makes no sense to continue mitigations that we're not prepared to maintain indefinitely. You might be willing to mask indefinitely, but I'm sure you realize most people are not.

We have not had closures in over a year. Masking and distancing are basic precautions. It sucks some of us don’t get the luxury of sending our kids in person because of people like you.

If in your mind school isn’t safe now, then it was never safe during flu season.

When/how does this end for you? As I said before, masks and distancing don’t have a lasting effect. Before we had vaccines, there was some logic to the idea that we wanted to buy time until the vaccines came out. Masking and distancing weren’t intended to be permanent. There’s nothing to buy time for anymore. We already have vaccines and treatments.

Flu is not comparable and vaccines don’t stop transmission which is what I care about. And, not everyone has access to treatments. I was declined when I had Covid.

You didn’t answer the question. In your mind, what would masks and distancing be buying time for, given that there aren’t significantly more effective vaccines or treatments on the horizon? Or are you saying you want indefinite masking and distancing?

It doesn't matter what is on the horizon, it matters what we have now. I am saying I want masking and distancing now as this current variant is much more contegous. You are fortunate you don't have health issues or fortunate you have good medical care. Not everyone does.

You can't always get what you want. (but if you try real hard you'll get what you need-xanax).

Shouldn't that be Mother's Little Helper?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:The weather has been good lately, so not much to look into, other than two HS have over 30 cases in the last seven days (Rockville and Wootton).

Location Last 7 Days (#) Total Staff & Students School Cases (%)
Rockville High 33 1700 1.9
Thomas S. Wootton High 32 2099 1.5
Montgomery Blair High 27 3512 0.8
Richard Montgomery High 26 2593 1
Winston Churchill High 21 2483 0.8
Quince Orchard High 17 2390 0.7
Bethesda-Chevy Chase High 16 2535 0.6
Clarksburg High 14 2465 0.6
Walt Whitman High 14 2274 0.6
Walter Johnson High 14 3221 0.4
Central Office 13 N/A
Fairland Elementary 13 645 2
Northwest High 12 2735 0.4
Westland Middle 12 947 1.3
Albert Einstein High 11 2229 0.5
Julius West Middle 10 1495 0.7
Northwood High 10 2045 0.5
Sligo Creek Elementary 10 735 1.4
Eastern Middle 9 1013 0.9
Francis Scott Key Middle 9 1089 0.8
Beall Elementary 8 555 1.4
Earle B. Wood Middle 8 1191 0.7
Gaithersburg High 8 2738 0.3
James Hubert Blake High 8 1946 0.4
Silver Spring International Middle 8 1295 0.6
Briggs Chaney Middle 7 997 0.7
Col. Zadok Magruder High 7 1873 0.4

And even those two schools are well below outbreak levels.

When do you think the covid-doomsdayers will admit they were wrong? Shouldn’t dead bodies be piling up outside of hospitals by now?

If you want a sobering statistic regarding how effective the mask mandates were, look no further than the county website. From the start of covid up until September, 20, 2021, there were 520,236 confirmed cases of covid. Exactly a year later, 722,430 new cases were confirmed. And if anyone says, but they were mild, I'd encourage you to click on the deaths. The daily deaths spike in February 22 competes well with the summer and winter of 2020.

https://coronavirus.maryland.gov/

If McKnight wants to keep everyone in-person no matter how infected a school becomes, and is fine with not mandating masks, all I can say is it's not helping her "equity" agenda any.

"Nationwide, Black people have died at 1.4 times the rate of white people."
https://covidtracking.com/race/

Deaths have been stable since lifting the mask mandate. Did you really not know that? The last peak was around Jan 20th, after which it plummeted before stabilizing at current levels. Masks didn't change that.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The weather has been good lately, so not much to look into, other than two HS have over 30 cases in the last seven days (Rockville and Wootton).

Location Last 7 Days (#) Total Staff & Students School Cases (%)
Rockville High 33 1700 1.9
Thomas S. Wootton High 32 2099 1.5
Montgomery Blair High 27 3512 0.8
Richard Montgomery High 26 2593 1
Winston Churchill High 21 2483 0.8
Quince Orchard High 17 2390 0.7
Bethesda-Chevy Chase High 16 2535 0.6
Clarksburg High 14 2465 0.6
Walt Whitman High 14 2274 0.6
Walter Johnson High 14 3221 0.4
Central Office 13 N/A
Fairland Elementary 13 645 2
Northwest High 12 2735 0.4
Westland Middle 12 947 1.3
Albert Einstein High 11 2229 0.5
Julius West Middle 10 1495 0.7
Northwood High 10 2045 0.5
Sligo Creek Elementary 10 735 1.4
Eastern Middle 9 1013 0.9
Francis Scott Key Middle 9 1089 0.8
Beall Elementary 8 555 1.4
Earle B. Wood Middle 8 1191 0.7
Gaithersburg High 8 2738 0.3
James Hubert Blake High 8 1946 0.4
Silver Spring International Middle 8 1295 0.6
Briggs Chaney Middle 7 997 0.7
Col. Zadok Magruder High 7 1873 0.4

If these numbers meant anything. But they don't. For example, a school with a 0 for last 7 days has 5 teachers out and all ESOL and SPED classes are cancelled while those teachers act as subs.

The above isn't data at all. It's a cover up. Like the way the cases over 10 days is now cases over 7 days. Less info is part of McKnight's all in or whatever her jingle of the day is.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:The weather has been good lately, so not much to look into, other than two HS have over 30 cases in the last seven days (Rockville and Wootton).

Location Last 7 Days (#) Total Staff & Students School Cases (%)
Rockville High 33 1700 1.9
Thomas S. Wootton High 32 2099 1.5
Montgomery Blair High 27 3512 0.8
Richard Montgomery High 26 2593 1
Winston Churchill High 21 2483 0.8
Quince Orchard High 17 2390 0.7
Bethesda-Chevy Chase High 16 2535 0.6
Clarksburg High 14 2465 0.6
Walt Whitman High 14 2274 0.6
Walter Johnson High 14 3221 0.4
Central Office 13 N/A
Fairland Elementary 13 645 2
Northwest High 12 2735 0.4
Westland Middle 12 947 1.3
Albert Einstein High 11 2229 0.5
Julius West Middle 10 1495 0.7
Northwood High 10 2045 0.5
Sligo Creek Elementary 10 735 1.4
Eastern Middle 9 1013 0.9
Francis Scott Key Middle 9 1089 0.8
Beall Elementary 8 555 1.4
Earle B. Wood Middle 8 1191 0.7
Gaithersburg High 8 2738 0.3
James Hubert Blake High 8 1946 0.4
Silver Spring International Middle 8 1295 0.6
Briggs Chaney Middle 7 997 0.7
Col. Zadok Magruder High 7 1873 0.4

If these numbers meant anything. But they don't. For example, a school with a 0 for last 7 days has 5 teachers out and all ESOL and SPED classes are cancelled while those teachers act as subs.

The above isn't data at all. It's a cover up. Like the way the cases over 10 days is now cases over 7 days. Less info is part of McKnight's all in or whatever her jingle of the day is.

That’s because we pay subs horribly. Ever look at how much traveling nurses make compared to nurses in stable full-time positions? Or even PRN nurses and locum tenens doctors working locally? On an hourly basis we have things flipped with the pay (im)balance between full-time teachers and subs.

[Anonymous]

I actually don’t think you’re crazy and we successfully avoided Covid until this summer. My Whitman junior has it for the first time right now and apparently there is a lot of Covid at Whitman right now. I called and reported it but I don’t this most people do.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:The weather has been good lately, so not much to look into, other than two HS have over 30 cases in the last seven days (Rockville and Wootton).

Location Last 7 Days (#) Total Staff & Students School Cases (%)
Rockville High 33 1700 1.9
Thomas S. Wootton High 32 2099 1.5
Montgomery Blair High 27 3512 0.8
Richard Montgomery High 26 2593 1
Winston Churchill High 21 2483 0.8
Quince Orchard High 17 2390 0.7
Bethesda-Chevy Chase High 16 2535 0.6
Clarksburg High 14 2465 0.6
Walt Whitman High 14 2274 0.6
Walter Johnson High 14 3221 0.4
Central Office 13 N/A
Fairland Elementary 13 645 2
Northwest High 12 2735 0.4
Westland Middle 12 947 1.3
Albert Einstein High 11 2229 0.5
Julius West Middle 10 1495 0.7
Northwood High 10 2045 0.5
Sligo Creek Elementary 10 735 1.4
Eastern Middle 9 1013 0.9
Francis Scott Key Middle 9 1089 0.8
Beall Elementary 8 555 1.4
Earle B. Wood Middle 8 1191 0.7
Gaithersburg High 8 2738 0.3
James Hubert Blake High 8 1946 0.4
Silver Spring International Middle 8 1295 0.6
Briggs Chaney Middle 7 997 0.7
Col. Zadok Magruder High 7 1873 0.4

If these numbers meant anything. But they don't. For example, a school with a 0 for last 7 days has 5 teachers out and all ESOL and SPED classes are cancelled while those teachers act as subs.

The above isn't data at all. It's a cover up. Like the way the cases over 10 days is now cases over 7 days. Less info is part of McKnight's all in or whatever her jingle of the day is.

Its all self reported data and most people aren't bothering to report it.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:The weather has been good lately, so not much to look into, other than two HS have over 30 cases in the last seven days (Rockville and Wootton).

Location Last 7 Days (#) Total Staff & Students School Cases (%)
Rockville High 33 1700 1.9
Thomas S. Wootton High 32 2099 1.5
Montgomery Blair High 27 3512 0.8
Richard Montgomery High 26 2593 1
Winston Churchill High 21 2483 0.8
Quince Orchard High 17 2390 0.7
Bethesda-Chevy Chase High 16 2535 0.6
Clarksburg High 14 2465 0.6
Walt Whitman High 14 2274 0.6
Walter Johnson High 14 3221 0.4
Central Office 13 N/A
Fairland Elementary 13 645 2
Northwest High 12 2735 0.4
Westland Middle 12 947 1.3
Albert Einstein High 11 2229 0.5
Julius West Middle 10 1495 0.7
Northwood High 10 2045 0.5
Sligo Creek Elementary 10 735 1.4
Eastern Middle 9 1013 0.9
Francis Scott Key Middle 9 1089 0.8
Beall Elementary 8 555 1.4
Earle B. Wood Middle 8 1191 0.7
Gaithersburg High 8 2738 0.3
James Hubert Blake High 8 1946 0.4
Silver Spring International Middle 8 1295 0.6
Briggs Chaney Middle 7 997 0.7
Col. Zadok Magruder High 7 1873 0.4

If these numbers meant anything. But they don't. For example, a school with a 0 for last 7 days has 5 teachers out and all ESOL and SPED classes are cancelled while those teachers act as subs.

The above isn't data at all. It's a cover up. Like the way the cases over 10 days is now cases over 7 days. Less info is part of McKnight's all in or whatever her jingle of the day is.

That’s because we pay subs horribly. Ever look at how much traveling nurses make compared to nurses in stable full-time positions? Or even PRN nurses and locum tenens doctors working locally? On an hourly basis we have things flipped with the pay (im)balance between full-time teachers and subs.

They pay terribly, no sick leave and no health insurance.

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Anonymous wrote:The weather has been good lately, so not much to look into, other than two HS have over 30 cases in the last seven days (Rockville and Wootton).

Location Last 7 Days (#) Total Staff & Students School Cases (%)
Rockville High 33 1700 1.9
Thomas S. Wootton High 32 2099 1.5
Montgomery Blair High 27 3512 0.8
Richard Montgomery High 26 2593 1
Winston Churchill High 21 2483 0.8
Quince Orchard High 17 2390 0.7
Bethesda-Chevy Chase High 16 2535 0.6
Clarksburg High 14 2465 0.6
Walt Whitman High 14 2274 0.6
Walter Johnson High 14 3221 0.4
Central Office 13 N/A
Fairland Elementary 13 645 2
Northwest High 12 2735 0.4
Westland Middle 12 947 1.3
Albert Einstein High 11 2229 0.5
Julius West Middle 10 1495 0.7
Northwood High 10 2045 0.5
Sligo Creek Elementary 10 735 1.4
Eastern Middle 9 1013 0.9
Francis Scott Key Middle 9 1089 0.8
Beall Elementary 8 555 1.4
Earle B. Wood Middle 8 1191 0.7
Gaithersburg High 8 2738 0.3
James Hubert Blake High 8 1946 0.4
Silver Spring International Middle 8 1295 0.6
Briggs Chaney Middle 7 997 0.7
Col. Zadok Magruder High 7 1873 0.4

If these numbers meant anything. But they don't. For example, a school with a 0 for last 7 days has 5 teachers out and all ESOL and SPED classes are cancelled while those teachers act as subs.

The above isn't data at all. It's a cover up. Like the way the cases over 10 days is now cases over 7 days. Less info is part of McKnight's all in or whatever her jingle of the day is.

That’s because we pay subs horribly. Ever look at how much traveling nurses make compared to nurses in stable full-time positions? Or even PRN nurses and locum tenens doctors working locally? On an hourly basis we have things flipped with the pay (im)balance between full-time teachers and subs.

They pay terribly, no sick leave and no health insurance.

I was diagnosed with cancer at the height of the pandemic. The hospital was full of travel nurses. They were all very young, happy to live 4 in a two bedroom Air BNB for two months, and paying off their student loans quickly with their high wages. And as soon as some other city offered higher wages, they didn’t renew their DC contracts. On at least one occasion, the hospital had to consolidate infusion departments because they couldn’t staff them. This is not how substitute teaching should work.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:The weather has been good lately, so not much to look into, other than two HS have over 30 cases in the last seven days (Rockville and Wootton).

Location Last 7 Days (#) Total Staff & Students School Cases (%)
Rockville High 33 1700 1.9
Thomas S. Wootton High 32 2099 1.5
Montgomery Blair High 27 3512 0.8
Richard Montgomery High 26 2593 1
Winston Churchill High 21 2483 0.8
Quince Orchard High 17 2390 0.7
Bethesda-Chevy Chase High 16 2535 0.6
Clarksburg High 14 2465 0.6
Walt Whitman High 14 2274 0.6
Walter Johnson High 14 3221 0.4
Central Office 13 N/A
Fairland Elementary 13 645 2
Northwest High 12 2735 0.4
Westland Middle 12 947 1.3
Albert Einstein High 11 2229 0.5
Julius West Middle 10 1495 0.7
Northwood High 10 2045 0.5
Sligo Creek Elementary 10 735 1.4
Eastern Middle 9 1013 0.9
Francis Scott Key Middle 9 1089 0.8
Beall Elementary 8 555 1.4
Earle B. Wood Middle 8 1191 0.7
Gaithersburg High 8 2738 0.3
James Hubert Blake High 8 1946 0.4
Silver Spring International Middle 8 1295 0.6
Briggs Chaney Middle 7 997 0.7
Col. Zadok Magruder High 7 1873 0.4

If these numbers meant anything. But they don't. For example, a school with a 0 for last 7 days has 5 teachers out and all ESOL and SPED classes are cancelled while those teachers act as subs.

The above isn't data at all. It's a cover up. Like the way the cases over 10 days is now cases over 7 days. Less info is part of McKnight's all in or whatever her jingle of the day is.

That’s because we pay subs horribly. Ever look at how much traveling nurses make compared to nurses in stable full-time positions? Or even PRN nurses and locum tenens doctors working locally? On an hourly basis we have things flipped with the pay (im)balance between full-time teachers and subs.

They pay terribly, no sick leave and no health insurance.

I was diagnosed with cancer at the height of the pandemic. The hospital was full of travel nurses. They were all very young, happy to live 4 in a two bedroom Air BNB for two months, and paying off their student loans quickly with their high wages. And as soon as some other city offered higher wages, they didn’t renew their DC contracts. On at least one occasion, the hospital had to consolidate infusion departments because they couldn’t staff them. This is not how substitute teaching should work.

Why is it better to pay so poorly that you basically need to find people practically willing to donate their time? Hospitals were able to stay staffed precisely because of the wages they were paying traveling and PRN nurses.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:The weather has been good lately, so not much to look into, other than two HS have over 30 cases in the last seven days (Rockville and Wootton).

Location Last 7 Days (#) Total Staff & Students School Cases (%)
Rockville High 33 1700 1.9
Thomas S. Wootton High 32 2099 1.5
Montgomery Blair High 27 3512 0.8
Richard Montgomery High 26 2593 1
Winston Churchill High 21 2483 0.8
Quince Orchard High 17 2390 0.7
Bethesda-Chevy Chase High 16 2535 0.6
Clarksburg High 14 2465 0.6
Walt Whitman High 14 2274 0.6
Walter Johnson High 14 3221 0.4
Central Office 13 N/A
Fairland Elementary 13 645 2
Northwest High 12 2735 0.4
Westland Middle 12 947 1.3
Albert Einstein High 11 2229 0.5
Julius West Middle 10 1495 0.7
Northwood High 10 2045 0.5
Sligo Creek Elementary 10 735 1.4
Eastern Middle 9 1013 0.9
Francis Scott Key Middle 9 1089 0.8
Beall Elementary 8 555 1.4
Earle B. Wood Middle 8 1191 0.7
Gaithersburg High 8 2738 0.3
James Hubert Blake High 8 1946 0.4
Silver Spring International Middle 8 1295 0.6
Briggs Chaney Middle 7 997 0.7
Col. Zadok Magruder High 7 1873 0.4

If these numbers meant anything. But they don't. For example, a school with a 0 for last 7 days has 5 teachers out and all ESOL and SPED classes are cancelled while those teachers act as subs.

The above isn't data at all. It's a cover up. Like the way the cases over 10 days is now cases over 7 days. Less info is part of McKnight's all in or whatever her jingle of the day is.

That’s because we pay subs horribly. Ever look at how much traveling nurses make compared to nurses in stable full-time positions? Or even PRN nurses and locum tenens doctors working locally? On an hourly basis we have things flipped with the pay (im)balance between full-time teachers and subs.

Traveling nurses are actually trained to do the job they’re hired for. The long-term sub in my kid’s honors high school math class is not.

So yes, I agree we should be paying subs more, *commensurate with their qualifications*.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:The weather has been good lately, so not much to look into, other than two HS have over 30 cases in the last seven days (Rockville and Wootton).

Location Last 7 Days (#) Total Staff & Students School Cases (%)
Rockville High 33 1700 1.9
Thomas S. Wootton High 32 2099 1.5
Montgomery Blair High 27 3512 0.8
Richard Montgomery High 26 2593 1
Winston Churchill High 21 2483 0.8
Quince Orchard High 17 2390 0.7
Bethesda-Chevy Chase High 16 2535 0.6
Clarksburg High 14 2465 0.6
Walt Whitman High 14 2274 0.6
Walter Johnson High 14 3221 0.4
Central Office 13 N/A
Fairland Elementary 13 645 2
Northwest High 12 2735 0.4
Westland Middle 12 947 1.3
Albert Einstein High 11 2229 0.5
Julius West Middle 10 1495 0.7
Northwood High 10 2045 0.5
Sligo Creek Elementary 10 735 1.4
Eastern Middle 9 1013 0.9
Francis Scott Key Middle 9 1089 0.8
Beall Elementary 8 555 1.4
Earle B. Wood Middle 8 1191 0.7
Gaithersburg High 8 2738 0.3
James Hubert Blake High 8 1946 0.4
Silver Spring International Middle 8 1295 0.6
Briggs Chaney Middle 7 997 0.7
Col. Zadok Magruder High 7 1873 0.4

If these numbers meant anything. But they don't. For example, a school with a 0 for last 7 days has 5 teachers out and all ESOL and SPED classes are cancelled while those teachers act as subs.

The above isn't data at all. It's a cover up. Like the way the cases over 10 days is now cases over 7 days. Less info is part of McKnight's all in or whatever her jingle of the day is.

That’s because we pay subs horribly. Ever look at how much traveling nurses make compared to nurses in stable full-time positions? Or even PRN nurses and locum tenens doctors working locally? On an hourly basis we have things flipped with the pay (im)balance between full-time teachers and subs.

Traveling nurses are actually trained to do the job they’re hired for. The long-term sub in my kid’s honors high school math class is not.

So yes, I agree we should be paying subs more, *commensurate with their qualifications*.

A lot of that is because they’re paid so poorly. Who would work for $150/day with no benefits? Only someone with no other options.

Regardless, a lot of subs have qualifications on par with a junior elementary school teacher. They make about $64k plus benefits. Over 195 duty days, that's $330/day. Adjusting for a non-guaranteed, part-time job with no benefits, we should be paying subs at least about $430/day if we don't want loosers.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The weather has been good lately, so not much to look into, other than two HS have over 30 cases in the last seven days (Rockville and Wootton).

Location Last 7 Days (#) Total Staff & Students School Cases (%)
Rockville High 33 1700 1.9
Thomas S. Wootton High 32 2099 1.5
Montgomery Blair High 27 3512 0.8
Richard Montgomery High 26 2593 1
Winston Churchill High 21 2483 0.8
Quince Orchard High 17 2390 0.7
Bethesda-Chevy Chase High 16 2535 0.6
Clarksburg High 14 2465 0.6
Walt Whitman High 14 2274 0.6
Walter Johnson High 14 3221 0.4
Central Office 13 N/A
Fairland Elementary 13 645 2
Northwest High 12 2735 0.4
Westland Middle 12 947 1.3
Albert Einstein High 11 2229 0.5
Julius West Middle 10 1495 0.7
Northwood High 10 2045 0.5
Sligo Creek Elementary 10 735 1.4
Eastern Middle 9 1013 0.9
Francis Scott Key Middle 9 1089 0.8
Beall Elementary 8 555 1.4
Earle B. Wood Middle 8 1191 0.7
Gaithersburg High 8 2738 0.3
James Hubert Blake High 8 1946 0.4
Silver Spring International Middle 8 1295 0.6
Briggs Chaney Middle 7 997 0.7
Col. Zadok Magruder High 7 1873 0.4

What does weather have to do with it? They still have school inside (and largely unmasked). Over the summer, the doomsayers on this board said that MCPS should have been brought to its knees by now. I know it's frustrating for them that they haven't got the Armageddon they're seeking.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:The weather has been good lately, so not much to look into, other than two HS have over 30 cases in the last seven days (Rockville and Wootton).

Location Last 7 Days (#) Total Staff & Students School Cases (%)
Rockville High 33 1700 1.9
Thomas S. Wootton High 32 2099 1.5
Montgomery Blair High 27 3512 0.8
Richard Montgomery High 26 2593 1
Winston Churchill High 21 2483 0.8
Quince Orchard High 17 2390 0.7
Bethesda-Chevy Chase High 16 2535 0.6
Clarksburg High 14 2465 0.6
Walt Whitman High 14 2274 0.6
Walter Johnson High 14 3221 0.4
Central Office 13 N/A
Fairland Elementary 13 645 2
Northwest High 12 2735 0.4
Westland Middle 12 947 1.3
Albert Einstein High 11 2229 0.5
Julius West Middle 10 1495 0.7
Northwood High 10 2045 0.5
Sligo Creek Elementary 10 735 1.4
Eastern Middle 9 1013 0.9
Francis Scott Key Middle 9 1089 0.8
Beall Elementary 8 555 1.4
Earle B. Wood Middle 8 1191 0.7
Gaithersburg High 8 2738 0.3
James Hubert Blake High 8 1946 0.4
Silver Spring International Middle 8 1295 0.6
Briggs Chaney Middle 7 997 0.7
Col. Zadok Magruder High 7 1873 0.4

What does weather have to do with it? They still have school inside (and largely unmasked). Over the summer, the doomsayers on this board said that MCPS should have been brought to its knees by now. I know it's frustrating for them that they haven't got the Armageddon they're seeking.

Colder weather brings kids inside when not at school, leading to more community cases which then spread more in schools. Inverse down in Texas and Florida as hot weather chased people inside all summer. Very different curves between hot and cold climates the last couple years.