Will MCPS go virtual the first part of January?

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Anonymous wrote:This huge piece all this discussion is continually missing is that all of the families who have not tested (because why if they no indication/direction)…all of the silent unknown cases that would come strolling into school come Jan 3rd. My daughter has it now and we just tested just because — not because of symptoms. I do not have it — neither does anyone else in the family but I wouldn’t be surprised if we DO test positive later this week. If they don’t delay school opening in person then cases will only rise and kids will spread even more.

So, how long do you propose to go virtual? Do you honestly think two weeks will be sufficient? Because frankly, if MCPS pulls the trigger on closure, my guess is we’re looking at two MONTHS, minimum. And f that noise.

Unfortunately if they close they won’t open till Spring again. I don’t understand, if your kid has covid keep him home and open the schools for the ones who are not sick. At this point if everyone gets tested before returning to school then it would be possible to not only open the schools safely but also to keep them open. Get your kids vaccinated. The surge will pass quickly.

My kids ARE vaccinated.

So again: f that noise.

How does being vaccinated help when many vaccinated are getting the new variant?

[Anonymous]

Unlike the surprisingly anti- science lunatics trying to run this county, actual doctor here. Not a phd. Not a microscopist. Someone who works in an actual hospital. Schools should be closed (temporarily). This isn’t hard. Glad that parent group made some Karens some lifelong friends but that’s basically the only productive thing it has done.

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FCPS just sent long memo they are opening…. Hogan is an R so could give a hoot so sure we will too.

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Anonymous wrote:Just heard from an MCPS source that their are hoping to trigger an automatic closure by hitting a certain positivity % among students but are otherwise reluctant to make a closure decision.

“Hoping”?? Dear God I hope you are making shit up.

5 percent positivity is higher than in the community right now. As in school rates are typically lower than the community it’s unlikely that this will happen at any more than two or three schools.

New poster. Where are you getting those statistics? Link?

Look at the MD Covid dashboard. For MoCo the current 7 day average of cases is about 93 out of 100,000. MCPS are looking at a 5 percent incidence over the prior 14 days per school for closure. So turning that 93/100,000 into a 14 day cumulative number 93 x 14= 1302 out of 100,000. That’s an overall rate of 1.302%. For a school to close we’d need to reach 5% and in the community we are nowhere near there right now.

Also take a look at the actual numbers per school using the MCPS Covid dashboard. Last I looked none of them were anywhere close to 5%, even at schools that seemed to have a lot of cases. You’ll have to simultaneously look up the numbers for each school. I believe that dashboard is updated on Wednesdays but not clear if they will do it this week.

Ok, please go ahead and tell me where my math is wrong or what I missed.

[Anonymous]

Caseload dump today for holiday weekend. Maybe they are looking at county stats? The ##s went up way up.

[Anonymous]

Maybe they will do the testing 12/30 and 12/31 like FCPS and use those ##s?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Just heard from an MCPS source that their are hoping to trigger an automatic closure by hitting a certain positivity % among students but are otherwise reluctant to make a closure decision.

DP, does anybody here doubt that MCPS makes decisions based on what is less likely to make people yell at them? They are weak. Doing the right thing often means getting yelled at and when that happens in my job I celebrate it.

And to be fair, it also has involved death threats (across the country). Making these decisions is not easy.

[Anonymous]

The worrisome issue is the age 5-11 unvaxxed and hospitalizations rising. Can they promote heavily vax clinics at schools for the kids? Or N95s for kids. I see them with masks under nose All the Time.

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Anonymous wrote:Just heard from an MCPS source that their are hoping to trigger an automatic closure by hitting a certain positivity % among students but are otherwise reluctant to make a closure decision.

“Hoping”?? Dear God I hope you are making shit up.

5 percent positivity is higher than in the community right now. As in school rates are typically lower than the community it’s unlikely that this will happen at any more than two or three schools.

New poster. Where are you getting those statistics? Link?

Look at the MD Covid dashboard. For MoCo the current 7 day average of cases is about 93 out of 100,000. MCPS are looking at a 5 percent incidence over the prior 14 days per school for closure. So turning that 93/100,000 into a 14 day cumulative number 93 x 14= 1302 out of 100,000. That’s an overall rate of 1.302%. For a school to close we’d need to reach 5% and in the community we are nowhere near there right now.

Also take a look at the actual numbers per school using the MCPS Covid dashboard. Last I looked none of them were anywhere close to 5%, even at schools that seemed to have a lot of cases. You’ll have to simultaneously look up the numbers for each school. I believe that dashboard is updated on Wednesdays but not clear if they will do it this week.

Ok, please go ahead and tell me where my math is wrong or what I missed.

C'mon - use your critical reading skills. It's 5% of (unrelated) students and staff within a given school. Not community. The unrelated part means siblings, spouses, parents/kids in same family count as 1.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I think they’ll be in person on the 3rd. If they were going to go virtual, wouldn’t there have told us by now?

MCPS giving advanced notice? If past is prologue, they will send out an alert at 4:30 AM in January 3rd.

[Anonymous]

They're not going virtual. It will be school by school as needed. The superintendent has been clear on this point.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Unlike the surprisingly anti- science lunatics trying to run this county, actual doctor here. Not a phd. Not a microscopist. Someone who works in an actual hospital. Schools should be closed (temporarily). This isn’t hard. Glad that parent group made some Karens some lifelong friends but that’s basically the only productive thing it has done.

Most MDs are clinicians and lack knowledge of the scientific literature and in some cases the skills to digest it. There is plenty of science that says schools can and should be open.

A Ph.D.

[Anonymous]

I have been relatively cautious. My preschooler had COVID and it was incredibly illuminating. I knew all the data that said for the vast majority of kids COVID is not severe. But after she had it, which consisted of a 101 fever for a day and a runny nose and cough for 3 or 4 days, which is probably what most kids experience, I realized what we are doing to kids is insane. We are shuttering daycares and preschools and going to possibly virtual school for this? People have lost their minds.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Just heard from an MCPS source that their are hoping to trigger an automatic closure by hitting a certain positivity % among students but are otherwise reluctant to make a closure decision.

“Hoping”?? Dear God I hope you are making shit up.

5 percent positivity is higher than in the community right now. As in school rates are typically lower than the community it’s unlikely that this will happen at any more than two or three schools.

New poster. Where are you getting those statistics? Link?

Look at the MD Covid dashboard. For MoCo the current 7 day average of cases is about 93 out of 100,000. MCPS are looking at a 5 percent incidence over the prior 14 days per school for closure. So turning that 93/100,000 into a 14 day cumulative number 93 x 14= 1302 out of 100,000. That’s an overall rate of 1.302%. For a school to close we’d need to reach 5% and in the community we are nowhere near there right now.

Also take a look at the actual numbers per school using the MCPS Covid dashboard. Last I looked none of them were anywhere close to 5%, even at schools that seemed to have a lot of cases. You’ll have to simultaneously look up the numbers for each school. I believe that dashboard is updated on Wednesdays but not clear if they will do it this week.

Ok, please go ahead and tell me where my math is wrong or what I missed.

C'mon - use your critical reading skills. It's 5% of (unrelated) students and staff within a given school. Not community. The unrelated part means siblings, spouses, parents/kids in same family count as 1.

Jeez, how about you use your critical reading skills? I was explaining how community spread right now is MUCH lower than 5% as a reason why it is unlikely schools will close and doing so because I was asked to explain. We can also put this into context of prior research (that may or may not hold true with omicron), that school transmission is typically lower and certainly not higher than the community as a whole.

I can not comprehend what on earth your point is, unless you just want to lecture me in the meaning of the 5% MCPS policy per individual school which I understand perfectly and maintain that it is unlikely that any more than one or two schools will reach without some even bigger jumps in community transmission (bigger than anywhere else in the world).

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Unlike the surprisingly anti- science lunatics trying to run this county, actual doctor here. Not a phd. Not a microscopist. Someone who works in an actual hospital. Schools should be closed (temporarily). This isn’t hard. Glad that parent group made some Karens some lifelong friends but that’s basically the only productive thing it has done.

Should be and will be are two different things.