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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.

We don't have accurate numbers as this is all self reporting. This is why we need regular testing.

How would that change anything?

It probably wouldn't but I'd like to know to know if its safe for my kids to return in person.

At what point would you keep your kids home?

They are already home. Not everyone choose to return right away.

Your kids are home going on three years? Unless you have truly remarkable circumstances at home, you're doing them an enormous disservice.

DP

I have a neighbor who has kept her children home from in-person school all this time. I agree that she is doing her kids a disservice, but she claims to be immune compromised and wants to keep herself ‘safe’. The kids have no health issues.

The kids having no health issues means nothing as they can bring home covid to her. She is doing the right thing for her family.

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We saw what happened to students who’ve brought it home to medically vulnerable loved ones.

And let’s not forget kids are not immune from long Covid either. We have a neighbor who’s kid has had Covid 3 times since returning to school! Of course there are trade offs with virtual/homeschool but that has always been the case. Right now keeping the family healthy tips the balance in favor of staying home. It’s gonna be a rotten flu season too.

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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.

We don't have accurate numbers as this is all self reporting. This is why we need regular testing.

How would that change anything?

It probably wouldn't but I'd like to know to know if its safe for my kids to return in person.

At what point would you keep your kids home?

They are already home. Not everyone choose to return right away.

Your kids are home going on three years? Unless you have truly remarkable circumstances at home, you're doing them an enormous disservice.

DP

I have a neighbor who has kept her children home from in-person school all this time. I agree that she is doing her kids a disservice, but she claims to be immune compromised and wants to keep herself ‘safe’. The kids have no health issues.

We’re getting very close to a point where Child Welfare Services should get involved in such cases to consider the best interests of the children and look for signs of neglect or physical/emotional abuse.

Oh honey, that is not abuse or neglect and you clearly don’t get it.

It really is. It's not something that Child Welfare is going to focus on, but keeping kids away from in-person school/general public life for going on three years (and presumably beyond) is awful, selfish behavior. Honey.

Have you always felt this way of did you just become prejudiced against homeschooling families during the pandemic?

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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.

We don't have accurate numbers as this is all self reporting. This is why we need regular testing.

How would that change anything?

It probably wouldn't but I'd like to know to know if its safe for my kids to return in person.

At what point would you keep your kids home?

They are already home. Not everyone choose to return right away.

Your kids are home going on three years? Unless you have truly remarkable circumstances at home, you're doing them an enormous disservice.

DP

I have a neighbor who has kept her children home from in-person school all this time. I agree that she is doing her kids a disservice, but she claims to be immune compromised and wants to keep herself ‘safe’. The kids have no health issues.

We’re getting very close to a point where Child Welfare Services should get involved in such cases to consider the best interests of the children and look for signs of neglect or physical/emotional abuse.

Oh honey, that is not abuse or neglect and you clearly don’t get it.

It really is. It's not something that Child Welfare is going to focus on, but keeping kids away from in-person school/general public life for going on three years (and presumably beyond) is awful, selfish behavior. Honey.

Have you always felt this way of did you just become prejudiced against homeschooling families during the pandemic?

Homeschooling families let their kids out in public, play sports, etc. And if a homeschooling family does not, they're as abusive and selfish as PP.

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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.

We don't have accurate numbers as this is all self reporting. This is why we need regular testing.

How would that change anything?

It probably wouldn't but I'd like to know to know if its safe for my kids to return in person.

At what point would you keep your kids home?

They are already home. Not everyone choose to return right away.

Your kids are home going on three years? Unless you have truly remarkable circumstances at home, you're doing them an enormous disservice.

DP

I have a neighbor who has kept her children home from in-person school all this time. I agree that she is doing her kids a disservice, but she claims to be immune compromised and wants to keep herself ‘safe’. The kids have no health issues.

The kids having no health issues means nothing as they can bring home covid to her. She is doing the right thing for her family.

+1

We saw what happened to students who’ve brought it home to medically vulnerable loved ones.

And let’s not forget kids are not immune from long Covid either. We have a neighbor who’s kid has had Covid 3 times since returning to school! Of course there are trade offs with virtual/homeschool but that has always been the case. Right now keeping the family healthy tips the balance in favor of staying home. It’s gonna be a rotten flu season too.

at this point that's my primary concern and why I feel MCPS is letting us and our children down by giving into the anti-maskers

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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.

We don't have accurate numbers as this is all self reporting. This is why we need regular testing.

How would that change anything?

It probably wouldn't but I'd like to know to know if its safe for my kids to return in person.

At what point would you keep your kids home?

They are already home. Not everyone choose to return right away.

Your kids are home going on three years? Unless you have truly remarkable circumstances at home, you're doing them an enormous disservice.

DP

I have a neighbor who has kept her children home from in-person school all this time. I agree that she is doing her kids a disservice, but she claims to be immune compromised and wants to keep herself ‘safe’. The kids have no health issues.

We’re getting very close to a point where Child Welfare Services should get involved in such cases to consider the best interests of the children and look for signs of neglect or physical/emotional abuse.

Oh honey, that is not abuse or neglect and you clearly don’t get it.

It really is. It's not something that Child Welfare is going to focus on, but keeping kids away from in-person school/general public life for going on three years (and presumably beyond) is awful, selfish behavior. Honey.

Have you always felt this way of did you just become prejudiced against homeschooling families during the pandemic?

Homeschooling families let their kids out in public, play sports, etc. And if a homeschooling family does not, they're as abusive and selfish as PP.

Agree, people unwillingly to mask have the option to homeschool

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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.

We don't have accurate numbers as this is all self reporting. This is why we need regular testing.

How would that change anything?

It probably wouldn't but I'd like to know to know if its safe for my kids to return in person.

At what point would you keep your kids home?

They are already home. Not everyone choose to return right away.

Your kids are home going on three years? Unless you have truly remarkable circumstances at home, you're doing them an enormous disservice.

Why would it be a disservice? They have no issue with it, so why do you? Not everyone has your privilege.

Do they socialize with other kids at all?

Why do you care? You are desperate to kill or disable this parent. Does that make you feel superior?

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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.

We don't have accurate numbers as this is all self reporting. This is why we need regular testing.

How would that change anything?

It probably wouldn't but I'd like to know to know if its safe for my kids to return in person.

At what point would you keep your kids home?

They are already home. Not everyone choose to return right away.

Your kids are home going on three years? Unless you have truly remarkable circumstances at home, you're doing them an enormous disservice.

DP

I have a neighbor who has kept her children home from in-person school all this time. I agree that she is doing her kids a disservice, but she claims to be immune compromised and wants to keep herself ‘safe’. The kids have no health issues.

We’re getting very close to a point where Child Welfare Services should get involved in such cases to consider the best interests of the children and look for signs of neglect or physical/emotional abuse.

Oh honey, that is not abuse or neglect and you clearly don’t get it.

It really is. It's not something that Child Welfare is going to focus on, but keeping kids away from in-person school/general public life for going on three years (and presumably beyond) is awful, selfish behavior. Honey.

Have you always felt this way of did you just become prejudiced against homeschooling families during the pandemic?

DP. If they were also isolating their kids from peers outside of school, then I absolutely found that troubling before the pandemic. At the very least those cases should be investigated for signs of even more severe abuse.

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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.

We don't have accurate numbers as this is all self reporting. This is why we need regular testing.

How would that change anything?

It probably wouldn't but I'd like to know to know if its safe for my kids to return in person.

At what point would you keep your kids home?

They are already home. Not everyone choose to return right away.

Your kids are home going on three years? Unless you have truly remarkable circumstances at home, you're doing them an enormous disservice.

DP

I have a neighbor who has kept her children home from in-person school all this time. I agree that she is doing her kids a disservice, but she claims to be immune compromised and wants to keep herself ‘safe’. The kids have no health issues.

The kids having no health issues means nothing as they can bring home covid to her. She is doing the right thing for her family.

+1

We saw what happened to students who’ve brought it home to medically vulnerable loved ones.

And let’s not forget kids are not immune from long Covid either. We have a neighbor who’s kid has had Covid 3 times since returning to school! Of course there are trade offs with virtual/homeschool but that has always been the case. Right now keeping the family healthy tips the balance in favor of staying home. It’s gonna be a rotten flu season too.

at this point that's my primary concern and why I feel MCPS is letting us and our children down by giving into the anti-maskers

Have you actually looked at the long covid studies with control groups? Particularly when you’re looking at kids, the frequency and severity of long covid symptoms really aren’t much different than other post-viral syndromes. Often they're not even that different than the natural background rate of those symptoms. Things like fatigue, headaches, and congestion are very common.

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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.

We don't have accurate numbers as this is all self reporting. This is why we need regular testing.

How would that change anything?

It probably wouldn't but I'd like to know to know if its safe for my kids to return in person.

At what point would you keep your kids home?

They are already home. Not everyone choose to return right away.

Your kids are home going on three years? Unless you have truly remarkable circumstances at home, you're doing them an enormous disservice.

DP

I have a neighbor who has kept her children home from in-person school all this time. I agree that she is doing her kids a disservice, but she claims to be immune compromised and wants to keep herself ‘safe’. The kids have no health issues.

The kids having no health issues means nothing as they can bring home covid to her. She is doing the right thing for her family.

+1

We saw what happened to students who’ve brought it home to medically vulnerable loved ones.

And let’s not forget kids are not immune from long Covid either. We have a neighbor who’s kid has had Covid 3 times since returning to school! Of course there are trade offs with virtual/homeschool but that has always been the case. Right now keeping the family healthy tips the balance in favor of staying home. It’s gonna be a rotten flu season too.

at this point that's my primary concern and why I feel MCPS is letting us and our children down by giving into the anti-maskers

Are there any districts left with mask mandates? What do the Covid rates look like when you compare those with and without mandates? Because especially with the new variants, my understanding is that mask mandates don’t really make a difference. No one is saying a tightly fitted, medical grade mask doesn’t work, but a lot of kids and teachers werent wearing those to begin with, and you’d still have to figure out distancing for lunch, which put a lot of strain on schools last year. If you’re worried about your own kid catching Covid, get them a tightly fitted mask and make alternate arrangements for lunch, you’d have to do that regardless of whether the “anti-maskers” were forced to pull the cloth masks back out of their drawer.

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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.

We don't have accurate numbers as this is all self reporting. This is why we need regular testing.

How would that change anything?

It probably wouldn't but I'd like to know to know if its safe for my kids to return in person.

At what point would you keep your kids home?

They are already home. Not everyone choose to return right away.

Your kids are home going on three years? Unless you have truly remarkable circumstances at home, you're doing them an enormous disservice.

DP

I have a neighbor who has kept her children home from in-person school all this time. I agree that she is doing her kids a disservice, but she claims to be immune compromised and wants to keep herself ‘safe’. The kids have no health issues.

The kids having no health issues means nothing as they can bring home covid to her. She is doing the right thing for her family.

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We saw what happened to students who’ve brought it home to medically vulnerable loved ones.

And let’s not forget kids are not immune from long Covid either. We have a neighbor who’s kid has had Covid 3 times since returning to school! Of course there are trade offs with virtual/homeschool but that has always been the case. Right now keeping the family healthy tips the balance in favor of staying home. It’s gonna be a rotten flu season too.

at this point that's my primary concern and why I feel MCPS is letting us and our children down by giving into the anti-maskers

Have you actually looked at the long covid studies with control groups? Particularly when you’re looking at kids, the frequency and severity of long covid symptoms really aren’t much different than other post-viral syndromes. Often they're not even that different than the natural background rate of those symptoms. Things like fatigue, headaches, and congestion are very common.

It’s still an experiment because we don’t know the cumulative effects of multiple infections yet. Thanks for taking part in the experiment!

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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.

We don't have accurate numbers as this is all self reporting. This is why we need regular testing.

How would that change anything?

It probably wouldn't but I'd like to know to know if its safe for my kids to return in person.

At what point would you keep your kids home?

They are already home. Not everyone choose to return right away.

Your kids are home going on three years? Unless you have truly remarkable circumstances at home, you're doing them an enormous disservice.

DP

I have a neighbor who has kept her children home from in-person school all this time. I agree that she is doing her kids a disservice, but she claims to be immune compromised and wants to keep herself ‘safe’. The kids have no health issues.

We’re getting very close to a point where Child Welfare Services should get involved in such cases to consider the best interests of the children and look for signs of neglect or physical/emotional abuse.

Oh honey, that is not abuse or neglect and you clearly don’t get it.

It really is. It's not something that Child Welfare is going to focus on, but keeping kids away from in-person school/general public life for going on three years (and presumably beyond) is awful, selfish behavior. Honey.

Have you always felt this way of did you just become prejudiced against homeschooling families during the pandemic?

Homeschooling families let their kids out in public, play sports, etc. And if a homeschooling family does not, they're as abusive and selfish as PP.

Agree, people unwillingly to mask have the option to homeschool

I do know someone who has done this- they are super-concerned about catching Covid but their DC has trouble wearing a mask the whole day. So for them homeschooling makes the most sense right now.

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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.

We don't have accurate numbers as this is all self reporting. This is why we need regular testing.

How would that change anything?

It probably wouldn't but I'd like to know to know if its safe for my kids to return in person.

At what point would you keep your kids home?

They are already home. Not everyone choose to return right away.

Your kids are home going on three years? Unless you have truly remarkable circumstances at home, you're doing them an enormous disservice.

Why would it be a disservice? They have no issue with it, so why do you? Not everyone has your privilege.

Do they socialize with other kids at all?

Why do you care? You are desperate to kill or disable this parent. Does that make you feel superior?

JFC if you don't see the issue with kids not being able to socialize with other kids you're beyond help.

I seriously hope you're a troll but I fear you're not. These kids are going to be beyond messed up, but hey they didn't get covid, so that's something.

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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.

We don't have accurate numbers as this is all self reporting. This is why we need regular testing.

How would that change anything?

It probably wouldn't but I'd like to know to know if its safe for my kids to return in person.

At what point would you keep your kids home?

They are already home. Not everyone choose to return right away.

Your kids are home going on three years? Unless you have truly remarkable circumstances at home, you're doing them an enormous disservice.

Why would it be a disservice? They have no issue with it, so why do you? Not everyone has your privilege.

Do they socialize with other kids at all?

Why do you care? You are desperate to kill or disable this parent. Does that make you feel superior?

JFC if you don't see the issue with kids not being able to socialize with other kids you're beyond help.

I seriously hope you're a troll but I fear you're not. These kids are going to be beyond messed up, but hey they didn't get covid, so that's something.

No one is saying these kids aren't safely socializing outside of school. Tons of outdoors activities available, especially this time of year, which is 100x times different than packed schools with ZERO mitigation.

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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.

We don't have accurate numbers as this is all self reporting. This is why we need regular testing.

How would that change anything?

It probably wouldn't but I'd like to know to know if its safe for my kids to return in person.

At what point would you keep your kids home?

They are already home. Not everyone choose to return right away.

Your kids are home going on three years? Unless you have truly remarkable circumstances at home, you're doing them an enormous disservice.

DP

I have a neighbor who has kept her children home from in-person school all this time. I agree that she is doing her kids a disservice, but she claims to be immune compromised and wants to keep herself ‘safe’. The kids have no health issues.

We’re getting very close to a point where Child Welfare Services should get involved in such cases to consider the best interests of the children and look for signs of neglect or physical/emotional abuse.

Oh honey, that is not abuse or neglect and you clearly don’t get it.

It really is. It's not something that Child Welfare is going to focus on, but keeping kids away from in-person school/general public life for going on three years (and presumably beyond) is awful, selfish behavior. Honey.

Have you always felt this way of did you just become prejudiced against homeschooling families during the pandemic?

DP. If they were also isolating their kids from peers outside of school, then I absolutely found that troubling before the pandemic. At the very least those cases should be investigated for signs of even more severe abuse.

Grow up and stop wasting child welfare's time with reports that would be screened out.

If you want these kids to return to in person you need to be part of the solution which is keeping all students and their families safe. If there is no masking, no testing, no distancing and everything is back to normal, its a hard no for our family. We don't have your privilege.

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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.

We don't have accurate numbers as this is all self reporting. This is why we need regular testing.

How would that change anything?

It probably wouldn't but I'd like to know to know if its safe for my kids to return in person.

At what point would you keep your kids home?

They are already home. Not everyone choose to return right away.

Your kids are home going on three years? Unless you have truly remarkable circumstances at home, you're doing them an enormous disservice.

DP

I have a neighbor who has kept her children home from in-person school all this time. I agree that she is doing her kids a disservice, but she claims to be immune compromised and wants to keep herself ‘safe’. The kids have no health issues.

We’re getting very close to a point where Child Welfare Services should get involved in such cases to consider the best interests of the children and look for signs of neglect or physical/emotional abuse.

Oh honey, that is not abuse or neglect and you clearly don’t get it.

It really is. It's not something that Child Welfare is going to focus on, but keeping kids away from in-person school/general public life for going on three years (and presumably beyond) is awful, selfish behavior. Honey.

Have you always felt this way of did you just become prejudiced against homeschooling families during the pandemic?

DP. If they were also isolating their kids from peers outside of school, then I absolutely found that troubling before the pandemic. At the very least those cases should be investigated for signs of even more severe abuse.

Grow up and stop wasting child welfare's time with reports that would be screened out.

If you want these kids to return to in person you need to be part of the solution which is keeping all students and their families safe. If there is no masking, no testing, no distancing and everything is back to normal, its a hard no for our family. We don't have your privilege.

You mean the privilege of not being a psychopath?