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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.

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.

It sounds like your family has extenuating circumstances so do what you need to do, no one is forcing you to return. But likewise, you can't expect society to bend to your extenuating circumstances.

Or, people could be decent human's and take basic precautions to keep others healthy and they can live their lives too. Its sad you cannot be that kind of person.

Sorry to break it to you but masks are not basic precautions. They just aren't. I'm 100% fine being that kind of person and I'd guess 90% of the population is too. You can live your life. You just need to figure out a way to protect yourself. It's not society's job to do that. That's 100% on you. You know like back in 2019.

If it is our problem, then why do you care if kids continue virtually. If its our job to protect ourselves, its really the only option we have right now. You are contradicting yourself by saying its child abuse or neglect to keep kids virtually but in the same thread commenting it is not anyone's responsibility to keep families like ours safe and its ours. So, we choose to keep ourselves safe by staying away from families like you.

No one cares. Are you really that bored at home that your only option is whiny posting all day long? Can’t you join a virtual club or 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.

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.

It sounds like your family has extenuating circumstances so do what you need to do, no one is forcing you to return. But likewise, you can't expect society to bend to your extenuating circumstances.

Or, people could be decent human's and take basic precautions to keep others healthy and they can live their lives too. Its sad you cannot be that kind of person.

Sorry to break it to you but masks are not basic precautions. They just aren't. I'm 100% fine being that kind of person and I'd guess 90% of the population is too. You can live your life. You just need to figure out a way to protect yourself. It's not society's job to do that. That's 100% on you. You know like back in 2019.

If it is our problem, then why do you care if kids continue virtually. If its our job to protect ourselves, its really the only option we have right now. You are contradicting yourself by saying its child abuse or neglect to keep kids virtually but in the same thread commenting it is not anyone's responsibility to keep families like ours safe and its ours. So, we choose to keep ourselves safe by staying away from families like you.

+1. Believe me, most of us would rather avoid this kind of drama at our schools. We’ve got a couple at ours that probably should have elected to stay in virtual this year, they are losing their minds monitoring CO2 and trying to bring back outdoor lunch. You’re all good, particularly if your kids enjoy virtual. Just listen to them if at some point it’s not working so well.

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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.

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.

It sounds like your family has extenuating circumstances so do what you need to do, no one is forcing you to return. But likewise, you can't expect society to bend to your extenuating circumstances.

Or, people could be decent human's and take basic precautions to keep others healthy and they can live their lives too. Its sad you cannot be that kind of person.

Sorry to break it to you but masks are not basic precautions. They just aren't. I'm 100% fine being that kind of person and I'd guess 90% of the population is too. You can live your life. You just need to figure out a way to protect yourself. It's not society's job to do that. That's 100% on you. You know like back in 2019.

If it is our problem, then why do you care if kids continue virtually. If its our job to protect ourselves, its really the only option we have right now. You are contradicting yourself by saying its child abuse or neglect to keep kids virtually but in the same thread commenting it is not anyone's responsibility to keep families like ours safe and its ours. So, we choose to keep ourselves safe by staying away from families like you.

+1. Believe me, most of us would rather avoid this kind of drama at our schools. We’ve got a couple at ours that probably should have elected to stay in virtual this year, they are losing their minds monitoring CO2 and trying to bring back outdoor lunch. You’re all good, particularly if your kids enjoy virtual. Just listen to them if at some point it’s not working so well.

That's the parents for show to pretend they are superior but really doing nothing. If they were concerned, they'd have their kids in virtual. CO2 monitors aren't going to stop covid.

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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.

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.

It sounds like your family has extenuating circumstances so do what you need to do, no one is forcing you to return. But likewise, you can't expect society to bend to your extenuating circumstances.

Or, people could be decent human's and take basic precautions to keep others healthy and they can live their lives too. Its sad you cannot be that kind of person.

Sorry to break it to you but masks are not basic precautions. They just aren't. I'm 100% fine being that kind of person and I'd guess 90% of the population is too. You can live your life. You just need to figure out a way to protect yourself. It's not society's job to do that. That's 100% on you. You know like back in 2019.

If it is our problem, then why do you care if kids continue virtually. If its our job to protect ourselves, its really the only option we have right now. You are contradicting yourself by saying its child abuse or neglect to keep kids virtually but in the same thread commenting it is not anyone's responsibility to keep families like ours safe and its ours. So, we choose to keep ourselves safe by staying away from families like you.

No one cares. Are you really that bored at home that your only option is whiny posting all day long? Can’t you join a virtual club or something?

Clearly you care as you keep posting.

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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.

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.

It sounds like your family has extenuating circumstances so do what you need to do, no one is forcing you to return. But likewise, you can't expect society to bend to your extenuating circumstances.

Or, people could be decent human's and take basic precautions to keep others healthy and they can live their lives too. Its sad you cannot be that kind of person.

Sorry to break it to you but masks are not basic precautions. They just aren't. I'm 100% fine being that kind of person and I'd guess 90% of the population is too. You can live your life. You just need to figure out a way to protect yourself. It's not society's job to do that. That's 100% on you. You know like back in 2019.

If it is our problem, then why do you care if kids continue virtually. If its our job to protect ourselves, its really the only option we have right now. You are contradicting yourself by saying its child abuse or neglect to keep kids virtually but in the same thread commenting it is not anyone's responsibility to keep families like ours safe and its ours. So, we choose to keep ourselves safe by staying away from families like you.

No one cares. Are you really that bored at home that your only option is whiny posting all day long? Can’t you join a virtual club or something?

Clearly you care as you keep posting.

You realize there are multiple anonymous posters on her right? Too much long Covid messing your brain or 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.

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.

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

AKA "Life".

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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.

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.

It sounds like your family has extenuating circumstances so do what you need to do, no one is forcing you to return. But likewise, you can't expect society to bend to your extenuating circumstances.

Or, people could be decent human's and take basic precautions to keep others healthy and they can live their lives too. Its sad you cannot be that kind of person.

Sorry to break it to you but masks are not basic precautions. They just aren't. I'm 100% fine being that kind of person and I'd guess 90% of the population is too. You can live your life. You just need to figure out a way to protect yourself. It's not society's job to do that. That's 100% on you. You know like back in 2019.

If it is our problem, then why do you care if kids continue virtually. If its our job to protect ourselves, its really the only option we have right now. You are contradicting yourself by saying its child abuse or neglect to keep kids virtually but in the same thread commenting it is not anyone's responsibility to keep families like ours safe and its ours. So, we choose to keep ourselves safe by staying away from families like you.

No one cares. Are you really that bored at home that your only option is whiny posting all day long? Can’t you join a virtual club or something?

Clearly you care as you keep posting.

You realize there are multiple anonymous posters on her right? Too much long Covid messing your brain or something?

100% this. There are multiple posters responding to you. YOU are the one who can’t step away. Must be boring in your basement

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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.

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.

It sounds like your family has extenuating circumstances so do what you need to do, no one is forcing you to return. But likewise, you can't expect society to bend to your extenuating circumstances.

Or, people could be decent human's and take basic precautions to keep others healthy and they can live their lives too. Its sad you cannot be that kind of person.

Sorry to break it to you but masks are not basic precautions. They just aren't. I'm 100% fine being that kind of person and I'd guess 90% of the population is too. You can live your life. You just need to figure out a way to protect yourself. It's not society's job to do that. That's 100% on you. You know like back in 2019.

If it is our problem, then why do you care if kids continue virtually. If its our job to protect ourselves, its really the only option we have right now. You are contradicting yourself by saying its child abuse or neglect to keep kids virtually but in the same thread commenting it is not anyone's responsibility to keep families like ours safe and its ours. So, we choose to keep ourselves safe by staying away from families like you.

No one cares. Are you really that bored at home that your only option is whiny posting all day long? Can’t you join a virtual club or something?

Clearly you care as you keep posting.

You realize there are multiple anonymous posters on her right? Too much long Covid messing your brain or something?

100% this. There are multiple posters responding to you. YOU are the one who can’t step away. Must be boring in your basement

You must be pretty bored too if you are posting here as well and worrying about covid when you've declared its over for you. If its over for you and you don't care about others, then why are you posting here. Seems a bit odd.

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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.

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.

It sounds like your family has extenuating circumstances so do what you need to do, no one is forcing you to return. But likewise, you can't expect society to bend to your extenuating circumstances.

Or, people could be decent human's and take basic precautions to keep others healthy and they can live their lives too. Its sad you cannot be that kind of person.

Sorry to break it to you but masks are not basic precautions. They just aren't. I'm 100% fine being that kind of person and I'd guess 90% of the population is too. You can live your life. You just need to figure out a way to protect yourself. It's not society's job to do that. That's 100% on you. You know like back in 2019.

If it is our problem, then why do you care if kids continue virtually. If its our job to protect ourselves, its really the only option we have right now. You are contradicting yourself by saying its child abuse or neglect to keep kids virtually but in the same thread commenting it is not anyone's responsibility to keep families like ours safe and its ours. So, we choose to keep ourselves safe by staying away from families like you.

No one cares. Are you really that bored at home that your only option is whiny posting all day long? Can’t you join a virtual club or something?

Clearly you care as you keep posting.

You realize there are multiple anonymous posters on her right? Too much long Covid messing your brain or something?

100% this. There are multiple posters responding to you. YOU are the one who can’t step away. Must be boring in your basement

You must be pretty bored too if you are posting here as well and worrying about covid when you've declared its over for you. If its over for you and you don't care about others, then why are you posting here. Seems a bit odd.

Because you're so easy to rile up. Waiting for naptime to be over.

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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.

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.

It sounds like your family has extenuating circumstances so do what you need to do, no one is forcing you to return. But likewise, you can't expect society to bend to your extenuating circumstances.

Or, people could be decent human's and take basic precautions to keep others healthy and they can live their lives too. Its sad you cannot be that kind of person.

Sorry to break it to you but masks are not basic precautions. They just aren't. I'm 100% fine being that kind of person and I'd guess 90% of the population is too. You can live your life. You just need to figure out a way to protect yourself. It's not society's job to do that. That's 100% on you. You know like back in 2019.

If it is our problem, then why do you care if kids continue virtually. If its our job to protect ourselves, its really the only option we have right now. You are contradicting yourself by saying its child abuse or neglect to keep kids virtually but in the same thread commenting it is not anyone's responsibility to keep families like ours safe and its ours. So, we choose to keep ourselves safe by staying away from families like you.

No one cares. Are you really that bored at home that your only option is whiny posting all day long? Can’t you join a virtual club or something?

Clearly you care as you keep posting.

You realize there are multiple anonymous posters on her right? Too much long Covid messing your brain or something?

100% this. There are multiple posters responding to you. YOU are the one who can’t step away. Must be boring in your basement

You must be pretty bored too if you are posting here as well and worrying about covid when you've declared its over for you. If its over for you and you don't care about others, then why are you posting here. Seems a bit odd.

Because you're so easy to rile up. Waiting for naptime to be over.

Something is seriously off about you. Your kids in MCPS should not be napping, especially at this hour.

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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.

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.

It sounds like your family has extenuating circumstances so do what you need to do, no one is forcing you to return. But likewise, you can't expect society to bend to your extenuating circumstances.

Or, people could be decent human's and take basic precautions to keep others healthy and they can live their lives too. Its sad you cannot be that kind of person.

Sorry to break it to you but masks are not basic precautions. They just aren't. I'm 100% fine being that kind of person and I'd guess 90% of the population is too. You can live your life. You just need to figure out a way to protect yourself. It's not society's job to do that. That's 100% on you. You know like back in 2019.

If it is our problem, then why do you care if kids continue virtually. If its our job to protect ourselves, its really the only option we have right now. You are contradicting yourself by saying its child abuse or neglect to keep kids virtually but in the same thread commenting it is not anyone's responsibility to keep families like ours safe and its ours. So, we choose to keep ourselves safe by staying away from families like you.

No one cares. Are you really that bored at home that your only option is whiny posting all day long? Can’t you join a virtual club or something?

Clearly you care as you keep posting.

You realize there are multiple anonymous posters on her right? Too much long Covid messing your brain or something?

100% this. There are multiple posters responding to you. YOU are the one who can’t step away. Must be boring in your basement

You must be pretty bored too if you are posting here as well and worrying about covid when you've declared its over for you. If its over for you and you don't care about others, then why are you posting here. Seems a bit odd.

Because you're so easy to rile up. Waiting for naptime to be over.

Something is seriously off about you. Your kids in MCPS should not be napping, especially at this hour.

Some people have more than one kid 😳😳

[Anonymous]

DCUMS - I caution that the health and safety of our children, teachers, staff and their families may be impacted. Please to not delete this one again.

There are at least three new variants coming up that MCPS needs to take into account when deciding whether to go virtual or remask. I caution that this is not a laughing matter. I would take this seriously. These variants were not really on the radar last month. My guess is that we may see these variants in MCPS schools as early as the end of November to as late as February?

https://newsofcanada.net/increasing-cases-of-variants-bq-1-and-xbb-could-render-covid-drugs-virtually-useless-study-finds/

BQ.1 AND BQ 1.1 SUMMARY:
"previous infections from BA.5 and antibody drugs, including Evusheld and Bebtelovimab, are not sufficient to prevent a BQ.1 infection."
"BQ.1 and BQ.1.1 are both spreading extremely fast in parts of Europe."
"the number of BQ.1.1 infections is doubling every week. That kind of exponential growth will ensure that the variant becomes globally dominant in the short term."

BA.2.75.2 SUMMARY:
“the most neutralization-resistant variant evaluated to date”
"spreading rapidly in Singapore, India and regions of Europe"

XBB SUMMARY:
"combines two different Omicron lines (BJ.1 and BM.1.1.1) to make something so good at evading immunity (from previous infections or vaccines) that it’s close to SARS-CoV-1"
“may trigger a significant immune system escape on a scale never seen before,”
"nearly at the level of the SARS-CoV-1 virus (then known simply as “SARS”) that caused an outbreak in 2003"
"could render the new vaccines relatively useless"

OVERALL:
“Such a rapid and simultaneous emergence of multiple variants with enormous growth benefits is unprecedented,”
“These results suggest that current herd immunity and BA.5 vaccine boosters may not provide broad enough protection against infection.”

[Anonymous]

[“These results suggest that current herd immunity and BA.5 vaccine boosters may not provide broad enough protection against infection.”]

So a lot of people might get infected. And?

[Anonymous]

Variant tracker. Remember that it is unclear how many times you can be re-infected, so please take precautions and encourage masking.

https://covariants.org/per-country?region=United+States

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:[“These results suggest that current herd immunity and BA.5 vaccine boosters may not provide broad enough protection against infection.”]

So a lot of people might get infected. And?

You must be new on the post.

A. Covid is not like the flu.
1. Lung scarring (pulmonary fibrosis) seems to be the biggest long-term concern with multiple re-infections. https://www.pulmonaryfibrosis.org/researchers-healthcare-providers/clinical-resources/covid-19
2. Heart-disease risk soars after COVID — even with a mild case https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-022-00403-0
3. There is other damage associated with even mild covid cases. https://www.hopkinsmedicine.org/health/conditions-and-diseases/coronavirus/covid-long-haulers-long-term-effects-of-covid19

B. Not enough data to say covid is not an issue, but there is mounting evidence multiple re-infections cause cumulative damage
1. Covid only hit in 2020 so there is no grown up child in their 40's to study.
2. Some damage heals, but some appears to be cumulative and permanent.
3. Until it's too late, no one actually knows how much damage a child's body can tolerate, or whether issues will manifest later in adulthood.

If you want to argue, I can re-post all the articles, again. But I would prefer if you just move onto another post, since you waste my time.