New 2022-2023 Covid Plan and Guidelines

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Anonymous wrote:I think they’re just going to start off in the fall similarly to how they ended in the spring. If there’s a surge, you may not have a bus driver and your kid may be sitting in an auditorium being babysat with 100 others not really learning if enough staff are out sick. Unless the cdc gets rid of the 5 day isolation, mcps won’t change that procedure.

Can you imagine the spread of covid if they do the auditoriums given this variant is far more contagious? How quickly will they be posting here complaining abotu that.

Absolutely. I am on day 5 of Covid right now and if I were your kids teacher, I would be coughing all over them in class tomorrow.

Fine by me. Stay home if you feel sick otherwise go to work. We’ve got to move on.

Same here. Stay home if you have a fever or feel terrible and can’t do your job. Otherwise, I’m not afraid of my kid’s teacher having a cough.

So do you even Covid test or just assume a cold and ignore?

Why would you go into work if you’d be coughing all over the students? I agree with the pp who said, “Stay home if you feel sick”.

ES Teacher

Of course I would not do that. I am just saying that after 5 days of Covid I still feel contagious...but it sure sounds like the PP would just have me treat it as a cold and move on. They would send their kids in with the same "cold"

MCPS needs to make classrooms or schools specific for those people who moved on and don't care so they can spread it around and have safer schools where parents who care. They should also require parents like that poster to work as subs once a week.

When will you move on?

I’m not being snarky.

I truly wonder what metric you plan to use in order to adjust to the fact that covid isn’t ever going away.

DP. I’ll move on when I am no longer immunocompromised. All I want is 1) for students and staff to test if they have symptoms or know they were exposed and 2) for people who know they are sick to stay home until they are no longer infectious.

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Anonymous wrote:I think they’re just going to start off in the fall similarly to how they ended in the spring. If there’s a surge, you may not have a bus driver and your kid may be sitting in an auditorium being babysat with 100 others not really learning if enough staff are out sick. Unless the cdc gets rid of the 5 day isolation, mcps won’t change that procedure.

Can you imagine the spread of covid if they do the auditoriums given this variant is far more contagious? How quickly will they be posting here complaining abotu that.

Absolutely. I am on day 5 of Covid right now and if I were your kids teacher, I would be coughing all over them in class tomorrow.

Fine by me. Stay home if you feel sick otherwise go to work. We’ve got to move on.

Same here. Stay home if you have a fever or feel terrible and can’t do your job. Otherwise, I’m not afraid of my kid’s teacher having a cough.

So do you even Covid test or just assume a cold and ignore?

Why would you go into work if you’d be coughing all over the students? I agree with the pp who said, “Stay home if you feel sick”.

ES Teacher

Of course I would not do that. I am just saying that after 5 days of Covid I still feel contagious...but it sure sounds like the PP would just have me treat it as a cold and move on. They would send their kids in with the same "cold"

MCPS needs to make classrooms or schools specific for those people who moved on and don't care so they can spread it around and have safer schools where parents who care. They should also require parents like that poster to work as subs once a week.

When will you move on?

I’m not being snarky.

I truly wonder what metric you plan to use in order to adjust to the fact that covid isn’t ever going away.

DP. I’ll move on when I am no longer immunocompromised. All I want is 1) for students and staff to test if they have symptoms or know they were exposed and 2) for people who know they are sick to stay home until they are no longer infectious.

Is your immunocompromised status temporary?

One issue with what you’re saying is that we don’t have an accurate way to determine who is infectious. Also, that’s a spectrum, rather than a simple yes/no, with people generally being less contagious as time passes.

I also don’t really understand the reason to test. If you’re saying sick kids should stay home, does it really matter what they’re sick with? If a sick child tests negative for covid, would you really say it’s ok for them to go back to school before they’re better?

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Anonymous wrote:I think they’re just going to start off in the fall similarly to how they ended in the spring. If there’s a surge, you may not have a bus driver and your kid may be sitting in an auditorium being babysat with 100 others not really learning if enough staff are out sick. Unless the cdc gets rid of the 5 day isolation, mcps won’t change that procedure.

Can you imagine the spread of covid if they do the auditoriums given this variant is far more contagious? How quickly will they be posting here complaining abotu that.

Absolutely. I am on day 5 of Covid right now and if I were your kids teacher, I would be coughing all over them in class tomorrow.

Fine by me. Stay home if you feel sick otherwise go to work. We’ve got to move on.

Same here. Stay home if you have a fever or feel terrible and can’t do your job. Otherwise, I’m not afraid of my kid’s teacher having a cough.

So do you even Covid test or just assume a cold and ignore?

Why would you go into work if you’d be coughing all over the students? I agree with the pp who said, “Stay home if you feel sick”.

ES Teacher

Of course I would not do that. I am just saying that after 5 days of Covid I still feel contagious...but it sure sounds like the PP would just have me treat it as a cold and move on. They would send their kids in with the same "cold"

MCPS needs to make classrooms or schools specific for those people who moved on and don't care so they can spread it around and have safer schools where parents who care. They should also require parents like that poster to work as subs once a week.

When will you move on?

I’m not being snarky.

I truly wonder what metric you plan to use in order to adjust to the fact that covid isn’t ever going away.

DP. I’ll move on when I am no longer immunocompromised. All I want is 1) for students and staff to test if they have symptoms or know they were exposed and 2) for people who know they are sick to stay home until they are no longer infectious.

Is your immunocompromised status temporary?

One issue with what you’re saying is that we don’t have an accurate way to determine who is infectious. Also, that’s a spectrum, rather than a simple yes/no, with people generally being less contagious as time passes.

I also don’t really understand the reason to test. If you’re saying sick kids should stay home, does it really matter what they’re sick with? If a sick child tests negative for covid, would you really say it’s ok for them to go back to school before they’re better?

Of course not! But then we could contact trace and quarantine exposed kids to cut down on the spread.

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Anonymous wrote:First of all, we can all agree that CDC guidelines have been designed to get workers back on the job to pad the wallets of the already wealthy, not for acute public health reasons. Second, the CDC is about to conveniently change their guidelines right as kids go back to school to favor…wait for it..NOT public health, but keeping low wage workers at work. Shocker!

Covid is a cold. People have been going to work and school with colds forever.

Its not a cold. Grow up already.

It’s not far off if you’re vaccinated and boosted.

I’m my experience, colds have generally been far more miserable.

You were fortunate, not my experience at all.

I don't know about that. I think my experience was pretty common.

I suspect the pp is the sort of person that acts like she’s on her deathbed every time she gets sick.

I think you need some serious empathy lessons and don't care about anyone but yourself. It is not mild for everyone.

And? It is for most. If it's a concern for you, wear a quality mask. You have options.

Kids cannot mask at lunch.

A few options for you:

1) smoothie lunches through a straw, but yes they’d have to break the seal slightly
2) withdraw your kids for lunch
3) VA
4) homeschool

Stop being helpless and take control of your own life.

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Anonymous wrote:I think they’re just going to start off in the fall similarly to how they ended in the spring. If there’s a surge, you may not have a bus driver and your kid may be sitting in an auditorium being babysat with 100 others not really learning if enough staff are out sick. Unless the cdc gets rid of the 5 day isolation, mcps won’t change that procedure.

Can you imagine the spread of covid if they do the auditoriums given this variant is far more contagious? How quickly will they be posting here complaining abotu that.

Absolutely. I am on day 5 of Covid right now and if I were your kids teacher, I would be coughing all over them in class tomorrow.

Fine by me. Stay home if you feel sick otherwise go to work. We’ve got to move on.

Same here. Stay home if you have a fever or feel terrible and can’t do your job. Otherwise, I’m not afraid of my kid’s teacher having a cough.

So do you even Covid test or just assume a cold and ignore?

Why would you go into work if you’d be coughing all over the students? I agree with the pp who said, “Stay home if you feel sick”.

ES Teacher

Of course I would not do that. I am just saying that after 5 days of Covid I still feel contagious...but it sure sounds like the PP would just have me treat it as a cold and move on. They would send their kids in with the same "cold"

MCPS needs to make classrooms or schools specific for those people who moved on and don't care so they can spread it around and have safer schools where parents who care. They should also require parents like that poster to work as subs once a week.

When will you move on?

I’m not being snarky.

I truly wonder what metric you plan to use in order to adjust to the fact that covid isn’t ever going away.

DP. I’ll move on when I am no longer immunocompromised. All I want is 1) for students and staff to test if they have symptoms or know they were exposed and 2) for people who know they are sick to stay home until they are no longer infectious.

Is your immunocompromised status temporary?

One issue with what you’re saying is that we don’t have an accurate way to determine who is infectious. Also, that’s a spectrum, rather than a simple yes/no, with people generally being less contagious as time passes.

I also don’t really understand the reason to test. If you’re saying sick kids should stay home, does it really matter what they’re sick with? If a sick child tests negative for covid, would you really say it’s ok for them to go back to school before they’re better?

Of course not! But then we could contact trace and quarantine exposed kids to cut down on the spread.

You want to bring back quarantines for contacts? That’s absurd for a virus this widespread. The CDC doesn’t even recommend it.

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A better idea is a dynamic hybrid response. Check older threads. It was all laid out. Shame on MCPS if the people they pay to monitor these boards didn't bring it to their attention.

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Anonymous wrote:I think they’re just going to start off in the fall similarly to how they ended in the spring. If there’s a surge, you may not have a bus driver and your kid may be sitting in an auditorium being babysat with 100 others not really learning if enough staff are out sick. Unless the cdc gets rid of the 5 day isolation, mcps won’t change that procedure.

Can you imagine the spread of covid if they do the auditoriums given this variant is far more contagious? How quickly will they be posting here complaining abotu that.

Absolutely. I am on day 5 of Covid right now and if I were your kids teacher, I would be coughing all over them in class tomorrow.

Fine by me. Stay home if you feel sick otherwise go to work. We’ve got to move on.

Same here. Stay home if you have a fever or feel terrible and can’t do your job. Otherwise, I’m not afraid of my kid’s teacher having a cough.

So do you even Covid test or just assume a cold and ignore?

Why would you go into work if you’d be coughing all over the students? I agree with the pp who said, “Stay home if you feel sick”.

ES Teacher

Of course I would not do that. I am just saying that after 5 days of Covid I still feel contagious...but it sure sounds like the PP would just have me treat it as a cold and move on. They would send their kids in with the same "cold"

MCPS needs to make classrooms or schools specific for those people who moved on and don't care so they can spread it around and have safer schools where parents who care. They should also require parents like that poster to work as subs once a week.

When will you move on?

I’m not being snarky.

I truly wonder what metric you plan to use in order to adjust to the fact that covid isn’t ever going away.

DP. I’ll move on when I am no longer immunocompromised. All I want is 1) for students and staff to test if they have symptoms or know they were exposed and 2) for people who know they are sick to stay home until they are no longer infectious.

Is your immunocompromised status temporary?

One issue with what you’re saying is that we don’t have an accurate way to determine who is infectious. Also, that’s a spectrum, rather than a simple yes/no, with people generally being less contagious as time passes.

I also don’t really understand the reason to test. If you’re saying sick kids should stay home, does it really matter what they’re sick with? If a sick child tests negative for covid, would you really say it’s ok for them to go back to school before they’re better?

The issue is parents like you will not keep sick kids home and have no issue infecting the rest of us. The issue is the consequences of covid are no big deal for you as you just ignore them and go about what ever you want but some of us can get very sick from it and miss work and other things like necessary medical appointments.

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Anonymous wrote:I think they’re just going to start off in the fall similarly to how they ended in the spring. If there’s a surge, you may not have a bus driver and your kid may be sitting in an auditorium being babysat with 100 others not really learning if enough staff are out sick. Unless the cdc gets rid of the 5 day isolation, mcps won’t change that procedure.

Can you imagine the spread of covid if they do the auditoriums given this variant is far more contagious? How quickly will they be posting here complaining abotu that.

Absolutely. I am on day 5 of Covid right now and if I were your kids teacher, I would be coughing all over them in class tomorrow.

Fine by me. Stay home if you feel sick otherwise go to work. We’ve got to move on.

Same here. Stay home if you have a fever or feel terrible and can’t do your job. Otherwise, I’m not afraid of my kid’s teacher having a cough.

So do you even Covid test or just assume a cold and ignore?

Why would you go into work if you’d be coughing all over the students? I agree with the pp who said, “Stay home if you feel sick”.

ES Teacher

Of course I would not do that. I am just saying that after 5 days of Covid I still feel contagious...but it sure sounds like the PP would just have me treat it as a cold and move on. They would send their kids in with the same "cold"

MCPS needs to make classrooms or schools specific for those people who moved on and don't care so they can spread it around and have safer schools where parents who care. They should also require parents like that poster to work as subs once a week.

When will you move on?

I’m not being snarky.

I truly wonder what metric you plan to use in order to adjust to the fact that covid isn’t ever going away.

DP. I’ll move on when I am no longer immunocompromised. All I want is 1) for students and staff to test if they have symptoms or know they were exposed and 2) for people who know they are sick to stay home until they are no longer infectious.

Is your immunocompromised status temporary?

One issue with what you’re saying is that we don’t have an accurate way to determine who is infectious. Also, that’s a spectrum, rather than a simple yes/no, with people generally being less contagious as time passes.

I also don’t really understand the reason to test. If you’re saying sick kids should stay home, does it really matter what they’re sick with? If a sick child tests negative for covid, would you really say it’s ok for them to go back to school before they’re better?

Of course not! But then we could contact trace and quarantine exposed kids to cut down on the spread.

You want to bring back quarantines for contacts? That’s absurd for a virus this widespread. The CDC doesn’t even recommend it.

Better option would be mandatory weekly testing and several days of testing for contacts. The CDC is a hot mess in their covid recommendations and failed us.

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Anonymous wrote:First of all, we can all agree that CDC guidelines have been designed to get workers back on the job to pad the wallets of the already wealthy, not for acute public health reasons. Second, the CDC is about to conveniently change their guidelines right as kids go back to school to favor…wait for it..NOT public health, but keeping low wage workers at work. Shocker!

Covid is a cold. People have been going to work and school with colds forever.

Its not a cold. Grow up already.

It’s not far off if you’re vaccinated and boosted.

I’m my experience, colds have generally been far more miserable.

You were fortunate, not my experience at all.

I don't know about that. I think my experience was pretty common.

I suspect the pp is the sort of person that acts like she’s on her deathbed every time she gets sick.

I think you need some serious empathy lessons and don't care about anyone but yourself. It is not mild for everyone.

From the person who wants the rest of the world to change their behavior so she doesn’t have to take responsibility for herself…

What are you talking about? We are extremely careful and not the fake careful people pretend to be. I want basic precautions. That’s not unreasonable given how contagious this is.

There are certainly some posters here demanding ridiculous Covid policies on everyone because they won’t take whatever individual measures are necessary to protect themselves. There's no reason for indefinite masking or quarantine policies at this point.

Clearly you don’t get Covid and the high transmission rate. Of course those of us concerned still mask but it’s not that simple in a large school with 1000+ students and staff.

You clearly don’t get that Covid is with us permanently. You’re not going to escape it if you’re willing to rejoin society.

Permanent mask mandates and kicking healthy kids out of school aren’t going to change that.

We do get its permanent and we have people like you to thank. No, I'm not willing to get covid over and over again. NO one is saying permanent mask mandates but given the high level of transmission and large schools, they make sense right now. And, kids who have covid are not healthy.

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Anonymous wrote:First of all, we can all agree that CDC guidelines have been designed to get workers back on the job to pad the wallets of the already wealthy, not for acute public health reasons. Second, the CDC is about to conveniently change their guidelines right as kids go back to school to favor…wait for it..NOT public health, but keeping low wage workers at work. Shocker!

Covid is a cold. People have been going to work and school with colds forever.

Its not a cold. Grow up already.

It’s not far off if you’re vaccinated and boosted.

I’m my experience, colds have generally been far more miserable.

You were fortunate, not my experience at all.

I don't know about that. I think my experience was pretty common.

I suspect the pp is the sort of person that acts like she’s on her deathbed every time she gets sick.

I think you need some serious empathy lessons and don't care about anyone but yourself. It is not mild for everyone.

From the person who wants the rest of the world to change their behavior so she doesn’t have to take responsibility for herself…

What are you talking about? We are extremely careful and not the fake careful people pretend to be. I want basic precautions. That’s not unreasonable given how contagious this is.

There are certainly some posters here demanding ridiculous Covid policies on everyone because they won’t take whatever individual measures are necessary to protect themselves. There's no reason for indefinite masking or quarantine policies at this point.

Clearly you don’t get Covid and the high transmission rate. Of course those of us concerned still mask but it’s not that simple in a large school with 1000+ students and staff.

You clearly don’t get that Covid is with us permanently. You’re not going to escape it if you’re willing to rejoin society.

Permanent mask mandates and kicking healthy kids out of school aren’t going to change that.

We do get its permanent and we have people like you to thank. No, I'm not willing to get covid over and over again. NO one is saying permanent mask mandates but given the high level of transmission and large schools, they make sense right now. And, kids who have covid are not healthy.

That you think there was ever a possibility to avoid Covid becoming permanent shows what little grasp of reality you have. The transmission rates we’re seeing now is the new normal. People aren’t going to accept mask mandates being part of that new normal, nor are they going to quarantine themselves or their kids every time they’re exposed to someone that has Covid.

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Anonymous wrote:First of all, we can all agree that CDC guidelines have been designed to get workers back on the job to pad the wallets of the already wealthy, not for acute public health reasons. Second, the CDC is about to conveniently change their guidelines right as kids go back to school to favor…wait for it..NOT public health, but keeping low wage workers at work. Shocker!

Covid is a cold. People have been going to work and school with colds forever.

Its not a cold. Grow up already.

It’s not far off if you’re vaccinated and boosted.

I’m my experience, colds have generally been far more miserable.

You were fortunate, not my experience at all.

I don't know about that. I think my experience was pretty common.

I suspect the pp is the sort of person that acts like she’s on her deathbed every time she gets sick.

I think you need some serious empathy lessons and don't care about anyone but yourself. It is not mild for everyone.

From the person who wants the rest of the world to change their behavior so she doesn’t have to take responsibility for herself…

What are you talking about? We are extremely careful and not the fake careful people pretend to be. I want basic precautions. That’s not unreasonable given how contagious this is.

There are certainly some posters here demanding ridiculous Covid policies on everyone because they won’t take whatever individual measures are necessary to protect themselves. There's no reason for indefinite masking or quarantine policies at this point.

Clearly you don’t get Covid and the high transmission rate. Of course those of us concerned still mask but it’s not that simple in a large school with 1000+ students and staff.

You clearly don’t get that Covid is with us permanently. You’re not going to escape it if you’re willing to rejoin society.

Permanent mask mandates and kicking healthy kids out of school aren’t going to change that.

We do get its permanent and we have people like you to thank. No, I'm not willing to get covid over and over again. NO one is saying permanent mask mandates but given the high level of transmission and large schools, they make sense right now. And, kids who have covid are not healthy.

That you think there was ever a possibility to avoid Covid becoming permanent shows what little grasp of reality you have. The transmission rates we’re seeing now is the new normal. People aren’t going to accept mask mandates being part of that new normal, nor are they going to quarantine themselves or their kids every time they’re exposed to someone that has Covid.

We get it Margery, here’s praying the NIH finally fires you

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Anonymous wrote:First of all, we can all agree that CDC guidelines have been designed to get workers back on the job to pad the wallets of the already wealthy, not for acute public health reasons. Second, the CDC is about to conveniently change their guidelines right as kids go back to school to favor…wait for it..NOT public health, but keeping low wage workers at work. Shocker!

Covid is a cold. People have been going to work and school with colds forever.

Its not a cold. Grow up already.

It’s not far off if you’re vaccinated and boosted.

I’m my experience, colds have generally been far more miserable.

You were fortunate, not my experience at all.

I don't know about that. I think my experience was pretty common.

I suspect the pp is the sort of person that acts like she’s on her deathbed every time she gets sick.

I think you need some serious empathy lessons and don't care about anyone but yourself. It is not mild for everyone.

From the person who wants the rest of the world to change their behavior so she doesn’t have to take responsibility for herself…

What are you talking about? We are extremely careful and not the fake careful people pretend to be. I want basic precautions. That’s not unreasonable given how contagious this is.

There are certainly some posters here demanding ridiculous Covid policies on everyone because they won’t take whatever individual measures are necessary to protect themselves. There's no reason for indefinite masking or quarantine policies at this point.

Clearly you don’t get Covid and the high transmission rate. Of course those of us concerned still mask but it’s not that simple in a large school with 1000+ students and staff.

You clearly don’t get that Covid is with us permanently. You’re not going to escape it if you’re willing to rejoin society.

Permanent mask mandates and kicking healthy kids out of school aren’t going to change that.

We do get its permanent and we have people like you to thank. No, I'm not willing to get covid over and over again. NO one is saying permanent mask mandates but given the high level of transmission and large schools, they make sense right now. And, kids who have covid are not healthy.

That you think there was ever a possibility to avoid Covid becoming permanent shows what little grasp of reality you have. The transmission rates we’re seeing now is the new normal. People aren’t going to accept mask mandates being part of that new normal, nor are they going to quarantine themselves or their kids every time they’re exposed to someone that has Covid.

Look you won, there is no mask mandate, no testing, no quarantines and no precautions. We get it, you don't care about anyone but your self and your needs, not even your kids and their health. Masking is something simple we can do to help keep each other and ourselves healthy. Kids will be fine with mask mandates as they were last school year.

When your kids go without teachers for a week or two, don't complain. When your kid gets sick, don't complain (well, you wouldn't as you'd send them sick). When you have to drive your kid to school or the bus is late as they have to loop back around and do two runs as your driver is out sick, don't complain.

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Anonymous wrote:First of all, we can all agree that CDC guidelines have been designed to get workers back on the job to pad the wallets of the already wealthy, not for acute public health reasons. Second, the CDC is about to conveniently change their guidelines right as kids go back to school to favor…wait for it..NOT public health, but keeping low wage workers at work. Shocker!

Covid is a cold. People have been going to work and school with colds forever.

Its not a cold. Grow up already.

It’s not far off if you’re vaccinated and boosted.

I’m my experience, colds have generally been far more miserable.

You were fortunate, not my experience at all.

I don't know about that. I think my experience was pretty common.

I suspect the pp is the sort of person that acts like she’s on her deathbed every time she gets sick.

I think you need some serious empathy lessons and don't care about anyone but yourself. It is not mild for everyone.

And? It is for most. If it's a concern for you, wear a quality mask. You have options.

Kids cannot mask at lunch.

A few options for you:

1) smoothie lunches through a straw, but yes they’d have to break the seal slightly
2) withdraw your kids for lunch
3) VA
4) homeschool

Stop being helpless and take control of your own life.

Here's an idea, make schools "safe" for all students and their families. Funny how others want VA shut down and think its unhealthy, and yet, those same folks will not make it safe for those kids to return.

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Anonymous wrote:I think they’re just going to start off in the fall similarly to how they ended in the spring. If there’s a surge, you may not have a bus driver and your kid may be sitting in an auditorium being babysat with 100 others not really learning if enough staff are out sick. Unless the cdc gets rid of the 5 day isolation, mcps won’t change that procedure.

Can you imagine the spread of covid if they do the auditoriums given this variant is far more contagious? How quickly will they be posting here complaining abotu that.

Absolutely. I am on day 5 of Covid right now and if I were your kids teacher, I would be coughing all over them in class tomorrow.

Fine by me. Stay home if you feel sick otherwise go to work. We’ve got to move on.

Same here. Stay home if you have a fever or feel terrible and can’t do your job. Otherwise, I’m not afraid of my kid’s teacher having a cough.

So do you even Covid test or just assume a cold and ignore?

Why would you go into work if you’d be coughing all over the students? I agree with the pp who said, “Stay home if you feel sick”.

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Of course I would not do that. I am just saying that after 5 days of Covid I still feel contagious...but it sure sounds like the PP would just have me treat it as a cold and move on. They would send their kids in with the same "cold"

MCPS needs to make classrooms or schools specific for those people who moved on and don't care so they can spread it around and have safer schools where parents who care. They should also require parents like that poster to work as subs once a week.

When will you move on?

I’m not being snarky.

I truly wonder what metric you plan to use in order to adjust to the fact that covid isn’t ever going away.

DP. I’ll move on when I am no longer immunocompromised. All I want is 1) for students and staff to test if they have symptoms or know they were exposed and 2) for people who know they are sick to stay home until they are no longer infectious.

Is your immunocompromised status temporary?

One issue with what you’re saying is that we don’t have an accurate way to determine who is infectious. Also, that’s a spectrum, rather than a simple yes/no, with people generally being less contagious as time passes.

I also don’t really understand the reason to test. If you’re saying sick kids should stay home, does it really matter what they’re sick with? If a sick child tests negative for covid, would you really say it’s ok for them to go back to school before they’re better?

Of course not! But then we could contact trace and quarantine exposed kids to cut down on the spread.

You want to bring back quarantines for contacts? That’s absurd for a virus this widespread. The CDC doesn’t even recommend it.

The CDC is a joke right now.

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Anonymous wrote:A better idea is a dynamic hybrid response. Check older threads. It was all laid out. Shame on MCPS if the people they pay to monitor these boards didn't bring it to their attention.

There is no good way to do hybrid.