The prospect of kids not going back to school until 2021

[Anonymous]

We are screwed for the next three years or so. Prepare for mass suicides and entire families killing themselves. We have to wait for the vaccine and that is a small price to pay for mankind.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Here's what will happen:

A kid gets the virus and is a carrier and is asymptomatic.

That kid spreads it to another kid who immunocompromised or to an older staff lady who gets it and dies. Or a cluster of kids get the dreaded Kawasaki's disease related to COVID and one dies.

Mcps get sued out the wazoo. School is closed until a vaccine.


Schools won't open until 2022-2023 after wave 2 and 3 hit, or until a vaccine that actually works comes out.

This is a fantasy. DC is majority low income district. You think families have telework jobs or will pay for nannies?

[Anonymous]

In other words many people will die (more likely younger healthier people) while we wait for the perfect vaccine and zero cases- So we can save many lives (more likely sicker older less healthy people)

[Anonymous]

I just got an email that arlington co says that online learning thru 2021 is a possibility.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:We are screwed for the next three years or so. Prepare for mass suicides and entire families killing themselves. We have to wait for the vaccine and that is a small price to pay for mankind.

Do what now?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Sorry folks, I love it this way. Some effort but a full paycheck. Knowing MCPS I'm 100% sure they won't open for a long time.

You're a teacher apparently? I have two friends who teach elementary and they've both said they enjoy working from home. Now that they figured out how to use Zoom, they're settled in and don't want to go back.

If I were a teacher I would be embarrassed to admit to this, even anonymously online. My son is in elementary school. His work is so minimal. His math homework is usually one question. ONE QUESTION to turn in. He has learned zero in the last 2 months from his distance learning. Im doing my best to teach him what I can.

I have already started using outside programs which are set up in a better format for learning than our schools.

This has been a complete waste of 2 months and the fact that you love "teaching" without such a large percentage of students actually learning is scary. It doesn't matter what MCPS numbers say, even if 70% of students are logging on doesn't mean they're actually learning something.

MCPS distance learning is like taking an open book test-- and we all know how well people learn from those.

Sorry I call BS on this post. I'm an elementary school teacher who can be a bit of a smart ass cynic at times but I don't know of a single teacher in my school who doesn't wish we were all back in the building with our kids. Like it or not, there is an art to teaching that can't really be replicated online. At first I was bothered when my kids would join our Zoom classes having not watched the videos but two months in and I can barely bring myself to watch them either. They're boring AF and aren't at all what a real lesson would be like for our students. I can't even begin to think about what it's going to be like in the fall knowing it would be impossible to have us all back while adhering to the current CDC guidelines. I will say that the real MVPs are you parents. You all are rockstars trying to balance working your regular jobs, managing kids at home and still trying to support your kids education. We really appreciate it and know it's not easy for anyone involved.

You can call BS if you want. Teachers run the gamut. Some are rockstars, some are not.

[Anonymous]

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Nope, it doesn't. The mortality rate among children and young adults is very low. The risk is not to the kids, but to the adults (including elderly ones) who are at higher risk of catching it from a kid who is just a carrier and exhibits no symptoms.

Again, this is why the focus should now be on protecting the most vulnerable. The level of protection, ranging from social distancing & substantial hand washing... to total quarantine depends on the people being protected.

It's always useful to remember that you can't have school without teachers, building staff, transportation staff, and administrators, all of whom are typically adults.

And you can’t have grocery stores, electricity, telephones, gas stations, infrastructure, banks, doctors office and hospitals without adult staff either, yet we have all those things.

If some teachers and staff can’t or won’t come back, so be it. But, the kids are entitled to an education and shutting schools indefinitely because some teachers won’t come back is a gross disservice to every kid.

This may be true...but I hope that each person who feels this way is planning to become actively involved in the school systems. If you have a bachelor’s degree it is possible to become a certified teacher in a year...becoming a substitute only requires a certain number of college credits...men are especially needed in the schools as well...so please step up! I have been teaching 2 years and some of the best substitutes have been people with no background in education. We need you!

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Here's what will happen:

A kid gets the virus and is a carrier and is asymptomatic.

That kid spreads it to another kid who immunocompromised or to an older staff lady who gets it and dies. Or a cluster of kids get the dreaded Kawasaki's disease related to COVID and one dies.

Mcps get sued out the wazoo. School is closed until a vaccine.


Schools won't open until 2022-2023 after wave 2 and 3 hit, or until a vaccine that actually works comes out.

This is a fantasy. DC is majority low income district. You think families have telework jobs or will pay for nannies?

MCPS and DC are two very different places in terms of the litigiousness of public school parents. North Bethesda parents love to sue Central Office.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Here's what will happen:

A kid gets the virus and is a carrier and is asymptomatic.

That kid spreads it to another kid who immunocompromised or to an older staff lady who gets it and dies. Or a cluster of kids get the dreaded Kawasaki's disease related to COVID and one dies.

Mcps get sued out the wazoo. School is closed until a vaccine.

Schools won't open until 2022-2023 after wave 2 and 3 hit, or until a vaccine that actually works comes out.

No, MCPS won't. It would be very expensive to sue, and the plaintiff would be highly unlikely to win.

Class action lawsuits.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Here's what will happen:

A kid gets the virus and is a carrier and is asymptomatic.

That kid spreads it to another kid who immunocompromised or to an older staff lady who gets it and dies. Or a cluster of kids get the dreaded Kawasaki's disease related to COVID and one dies.

Mcps get sued out the wazoo. School is closed until a vaccine.


Schools won't open until 2022-2023 after wave 2 and 3 hit, or until a vaccine that actually works comes out.

This is a fantasy. DC is majority low income district. You think families have telework jobs or will pay for nannies?

MCPS and DC are two very different places in terms of the litigiousness of public school parents. North Bethesda parents love to sue Central Office.

North Bethesda? Like, the area around White Flint? I've never noticed a rash of lawsuits coming from that area. What am I missing?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Here's what will happen:

A kid gets the virus and is a carrier and is asymptomatic.

That kid spreads it to another kid who immunocompromised or to an older staff lady who gets it and dies. Or a cluster of kids get the dreaded Kawasaki's disease related to COVID and one dies.

Mcps get sued out the wazoo. School is closed until a vaccine.

Schools won't open until 2022-2023 after wave 2 and 3 hit, or until a vaccine that actually works comes out.

No, MCPS won't. It would be very expensive to sue, and the plaintiff would be highly unlikely to win.

Class action lawsuits.

An immunocompromised kid gets covid from another kid at school, and then files a class-action lawsuit? Iamnotalawyer, but I don't think that's how class-action lawsuits work.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Everyone crying lawsuit is nuts. In order to win, you will need to prove causation which will be impossible because covid is prevalent AND you will need to prove that the parents/workers did not “assume the risk” by sending their kid to school which will also be impossible given that covid awareness is being force fed to us at every turn.

Actually for a civil suit, you really need to convince a jury that MCPS was aware of the risks and bowed to pressure from squeaky wheel parents. I don’t think it’ll be hard at all to do that.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Here's what will happen:

A kid gets the virus and is a carrier and is asymptomatic.

That kid spreads it to another kid who immunocompromised or to an older staff lady who gets it and dies. Or a cluster of kids get the dreaded Kawasaki's disease related to COVID and one dies.

Mcps get sued out the wazoo. School is closed until a vaccine.

Schools won't open until 2022-2023 after wave 2 and 3 hit, or until a vaccine that actually works comes out.

No, MCPS won't. It would be very expensive to sue, and the plaintiff would be highly unlikely to win.

Class action lawsuits.

An immunocompromised kid gets covid from another kid at school, and then files a class-action lawsuit? Iamnotalawyer, but I don't think that's how class-action lawsuits work.

It won’t just be one kid.

Parents are already planning a class action lawsuit over DL.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Dcps won’t open until a vaccine, but there may never be a vaccine. Our kids may never go back to school. This is an unacceptable policy.

This is what concerns me the most. Everyone keeps talking about how we can open schools etc. "when there's a vaccine," but there may never be one, or it will be one like the flu shot that people won't get, or it will be five years away. What's the plan then?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Here's what will happen:

A kid gets the virus and is a carrier and is asymptomatic.

That kid spreads it to another kid who immunocompromised or to an older staff lady who gets it and dies. Or a cluster of kids get the dreaded Kawasaki's disease related to COVID and one dies.

Mcps get sued out the wazoo. School is closed until a vaccine.

Schools won't open until 2022-2023 after wave 2 and 3 hit, or until a vaccine that actually works comes out.

No, MCPS won't. It would be very expensive to sue, and the plaintiff would be highly unlikely to win.

Class action lawsuits.

An immunocompromised kid gets covid from another kid at school, and then files a class-action lawsuit? Iamnotalawyer, but I don't think that's how class-action lawsuits work.

It won’t just be one kid.

Parents are already planning a class action lawsuit over DL.

It also won't be just one adult. Kids aren't the only people in school buildings.