MCPS covid cases

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Anonymous wrote:Middle school sent a letter saying someone tested positive for covid today, 9/14, and was last in the school building today on 9/14. This is the second positive test (one late last week and now today). We were not directly notified because per the school my child was in "direct contact". Based on the dates of testing positive and being in the school both today I wonder if the positive test was detected during the Opt In testing that should have started yesterday...... I plan to ask the school but not sure how much they will disclose. Anyone else experience something similar.

I think our kids go to the same middle school. It could have been caught by the random testing. I hadn’t thought about it. I assumed someone may have gone to school sick and then tested on site. It would be helpful to have more info. Sounds like both cases are in 6th grade.

I hope more people opt in for the testing. I think testing is key for the kids who can’t get the vaccine yet.

Key to what? Knocking them out of school over something where infections have outcomes similar to the flu?

http://dx.doi.org/10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2020.20495

Key to minimizing the spread. Some of us have more vulnerable family members at home and want to keep everyone safe. It’s a delicate balance but I don’t think it’s too much to ask to test and act responsibly given that Covid is still very dangerous for some individuals.

Kids have been forced to bear the brunt of the pandemic restrictions, despite being the lowest risk group. Now that the vaccines are readily available to adults, including boosters for immunocompromised individuals, we're long overdue for that to change. If adults still believe they are high risk, then they should be responsible for protecting themselves- not demanding policies that close classrooms to mitigate the risk of spread.

I’m not demanding anything and I want schools open too but when they want to test, I’ll sign up because I believe that’s the responsible thing to do. We are vaccinated at home but have a baby as well who cannot get the vaccine. We all have to make choices and decisions that’s best for our circumstances and families. It would be nice if everyone could respect that we all are facing different challenges. There is no one size fits all solution.

As you suggested, the right thing for one family may not be right for others. Yet the quarantine policy (really, how the policy is being applied) lumps everyone together when there's a positive test. That's the one-size-fits-all approach that is being misapplied here.

Want to do voluntary opt-in testing? Great, then make it truly voluntary and remove the quarantine requirements on kids that aren't sick. At the very least, do what European countries have been doing and wait until there are multiple cases in a classroom before sending the class home.

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Anonymous wrote:Middle school sent a letter saying someone tested positive for covid today, 9/14, and was last in the school building today on 9/14. This is the second positive test (one late last week and now today). We were not directly notified because per the school my child was in "direct contact". Based on the dates of testing positive and being in the school both today I wonder if the positive test was detected during the Opt In testing that should have started yesterday...... I plan to ask the school but not sure how much they will disclose. Anyone else experience something similar.

I think our kids go to the same middle school. It could have been caught by the random testing. I hadn’t thought about it. I assumed someone may have gone to school sick and then tested on site. It would be helpful to have more info. Sounds like both cases are in 6th grade.

I hope more people opt in for the testing. I think testing is key for the kids who can’t get the vaccine yet.

Key to what? Knocking them out of school over something where infections have outcomes similar to the flu?

http://dx.doi.org/10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2020.20495

Key to minimizing the spread. Some of us have more vulnerable family members at home and want to keep everyone safe. It’s a delicate balance but I don’t think it’s too much to ask to test and act responsibly given that Covid is still very dangerous for some individuals.

Kids have been forced to bear the brunt of the pandemic restrictions, despite being the lowest risk group. Now that the vaccines are readily available to adults, including boosters for immunocompromised individuals, we're long overdue for that to change. If adults still believe they are high risk, then they should be responsible for protecting themselves- not demanding policies that close classrooms to mitigate the risk of spread.

I’m not demanding anything and I want schools open too but when they want to test, I’ll sign up because I believe that’s the responsible thing to do. We are vaccinated at home but have a baby as well who cannot get the vaccine. We all have to make choices and decisions that’s best for our circumstances and families. It would be nice if everyone could respect that we all are facing different challenges. There is no one size fits all solution.

As you suggested, the right thing for one family may not be right for others. Yet the quarantine policy (really, how the policy is being applied) lumps everyone together when there's a positive test. That's the one-size-fits-all approach that is being misapplied here.

Want to do voluntary opt-in testing? Great, then make it truly voluntary and remove the quarantine requirements on kids that aren't sick. At the very least, do what European countries have been doing and wait until there are multiple cases in a classroom before sending the class home.

You want to be able to send a kid with a positive test to school? No. Just no. We are not doing that here.

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Anonymous wrote:Middle school sent a letter saying someone tested positive for covid today, 9/14, and was last in the school building today on 9/14. This is the second positive test (one late last week and now today). We were not directly notified because per the school my child was in "direct contact". Based on the dates of testing positive and being in the school both today I wonder if the positive test was detected during the Opt In testing that should have started yesterday...... I plan to ask the school but not sure how much they will disclose. Anyone else experience something similar.

I think our kids go to the same middle school. It could have been caught by the random testing. I hadn’t thought about it. I assumed someone may have gone to school sick and then tested on site. It would be helpful to have more info. Sounds like both cases are in 6th grade.

I hope more people opt in for the testing. I think testing is key for the kids who can’t get the vaccine yet.

Key to what? Knocking them out of school over something where infections have outcomes similar to the flu?

http://dx.doi.org/10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2020.20495

Key to minimizing the spread. Some of us have more vulnerable family members at home and want to keep everyone safe. It’s a delicate balance but I don’t think it’s too much to ask to test and act responsibly given that Covid is still very dangerous for some individuals.

Kids have been forced to bear the brunt of the pandemic restrictions, despite being the lowest risk group. Now that the vaccines are readily available to adults, including boosters for immunocompromised individuals, we're long overdue for that to change. If adults still believe they are high risk, then they should be responsible for protecting themselves- not demanding policies that close classrooms to mitigate the risk of spread.

We don’t want your COVID, Karen. Stay home.

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Anonymous wrote:Middle school sent a letter saying someone tested positive for covid today, 9/14, and was last in the school building today on 9/14. This is the second positive test (one late last week and now today). We were not directly notified because per the school my child was in "direct contact". Based on the dates of testing positive and being in the school both today I wonder if the positive test was detected during the Opt In testing that should have started yesterday...... I plan to ask the school but not sure how much they will disclose. Anyone else experience something similar.

I think our kids go to the same middle school. It could have been caught by the random testing. I hadn’t thought about it. I assumed someone may have gone to school sick and then tested on site. It would be helpful to have more info. Sounds like both cases are in 6th grade.

I hope more people opt in for the testing. I think testing is key for the kids who can’t get the vaccine yet.

Key to what? Knocking them out of school over something where infections have outcomes similar to the flu?

http://dx.doi.org/10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2020.20495

Key to minimizing the spread. Some of us have more vulnerable family members at home and want to keep everyone safe. It’s a delicate balance but I don’t think it’s too much to ask to test and act responsibly given that Covid is still very dangerous for some individuals.

Kids have been forced to bear the brunt of the pandemic restrictions, despite being the lowest risk group. Now that the vaccines are readily available to adults, including boosters for immunocompromised individuals, we're long overdue for that to change. If adults still believe they are high risk, then they should be responsible for protecting themselves- not demanding policies that close classrooms to mitigate the risk of spread.

I’m not demanding anything and I want schools open too but when they want to test, I’ll sign up because I believe that’s the responsible thing to do. We are vaccinated at home but have a baby as well who cannot get the vaccine. We all have to make choices and decisions that’s best for our circumstances and families. It would be nice if everyone could respect that we all are facing different challenges. There is no one size fits all solution.

As you suggested, the right thing for one family may not be right for others. Yet the quarantine policy (really, how the policy is being applied) lumps everyone together when there's a positive test. That's the one-size-fits-all approach that is being misapplied here.

Want to do voluntary opt-in testing? Great, then make it truly voluntary and remove the quarantine requirements on kids that aren't sick. At the very least, do what European countries have been doing and wait until there are multiple cases in a classroom before sending the class home.

You want to be able to send a kid with a positive test to school? No. Just no. We are not doing that here.

No. I'm saying don't quarantine a whole class if one kid has a positive test. Send the sick kid home, keep the others in school.

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Anonymous wrote:Middle school sent a letter saying someone tested positive for covid today, 9/14, and was last in the school building today on 9/14. This is the second positive test (one late last week and now today). We were not directly notified because per the school my child was in "direct contact". Based on the dates of testing positive and being in the school both today I wonder if the positive test was detected during the Opt In testing that should have started yesterday...... I plan to ask the school but not sure how much they will disclose. Anyone else experience something similar.

I think our kids go to the same middle school. It could have been caught by the random testing. I hadn’t thought about it. I assumed someone may have gone to school sick and then tested on site. It would be helpful to have more info. Sounds like both cases are in 6th grade.

I hope more people opt in for the testing. I think testing is key for the kids who can’t get the vaccine yet.

Key to what? Knocking them out of school over something where infections have outcomes similar to the flu?

http://dx.doi.org/10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2020.20495

Key to minimizing the spread. Some of us have more vulnerable family members at home and want to keep everyone safe. It’s a delicate balance but I don’t think it’s too much to ask to test and act responsibly given that Covid is still very dangerous for some individuals.

Kids have been forced to bear the brunt of the pandemic restrictions, despite being the lowest risk group. Now that the vaccines are readily available to adults, including boosters for immunocompromised individuals, we're long overdue for that to change. If adults still believe they are high risk, then they should be responsible for protecting themselves- not demanding policies that close classrooms to mitigate the risk of spread.

I’m not demanding anything and I want schools open too but when they want to test, I’ll sign up because I believe that’s the responsible thing to do. We are vaccinated at home but have a baby as well who cannot get the vaccine. We all have to make choices and decisions that’s best for our circumstances and families. It would be nice if everyone could respect that we all are facing different challenges. There is no one size fits all solution.

As you suggested, the right thing for one family may not be right for others. Yet the quarantine policy (really, how the policy is being applied) lumps everyone together when there's a positive test. That's the one-size-fits-all approach that is being misapplied here.

Want to do voluntary opt-in testing? Great, then make it truly voluntary and remove the quarantine requirements on kids that aren't sick. At the very least, do what European countries have been doing and wait until there are multiple cases in a classroom before sending the class home.

You want to be able to send a kid with a positive test to school? No. Just no. We are not doing that here.

No. I'm saying don't quarantine a whole class if one kid has a positive test. Send the sick kid home, keep the others in school.

So, basically you are ok with being irresponsible and taking the risk and don't care about the impact on other children or their families. Great... this is why we are getting regular covid positive notices.. thanks.

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Anonymous wrote:Middle school sent a letter saying someone tested positive for covid today, 9/14, and was last in the school building today on 9/14. This is the second positive test (one late last week and now today). We were not directly notified because per the school my child was in "direct contact". Based on the dates of testing positive and being in the school both today I wonder if the positive test was detected during the Opt In testing that should have started yesterday...... I plan to ask the school but not sure how much they will disclose. Anyone else experience something similar.

I think our kids go to the same middle school. It could have been caught by the random testing. I hadn’t thought about it. I assumed someone may have gone to school sick and then tested on site. It would be helpful to have more info. Sounds like both cases are in 6th grade.

I hope more people opt in for the testing. I think testing is key for the kids who can’t get the vaccine yet.

Key to what? Knocking them out of school over something where infections have outcomes similar to the flu?

http://dx.doi.org/10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2020.20495

Key to minimizing the spread. Some of us have more vulnerable family members at home and want to keep everyone safe. It’s a delicate balance but I don’t think it’s too much to ask to test and act responsibly given that Covid is still very dangerous for some individuals.

Kids have been forced to bear the brunt of the pandemic restrictions, despite being the lowest risk group. Now that the vaccines are readily available to adults, including boosters for immunocompromised individuals, we're long overdue for that to change. If adults still believe they are high risk, then they should be responsible for protecting themselves- not demanding policies that close classrooms to mitigate the risk of spread.

We don’t want your COVID, Karen. Stay home.

Sounds like you should be staying home if you're that worried about it.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Middle school sent a letter saying someone tested positive for covid today, 9/14, and was last in the school building today on 9/14. This is the second positive test (one late last week and now today). We were not directly notified because per the school my child was in "direct contact". Based on the dates of testing positive and being in the school both today I wonder if the positive test was detected during the Opt In testing that should have started yesterday...... I plan to ask the school but not sure how much they will disclose. Anyone else experience something similar.

I think our kids go to the same middle school. It could have been caught by the random testing. I hadn’t thought about it. I assumed someone may have gone to school sick and then tested on site. It would be helpful to have more info. Sounds like both cases are in 6th grade.

I hope more people opt in for the testing. I think testing is key for the kids who can’t get the vaccine yet.

MCPS hasn't started testing so this is all caught by outside testing.

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Anonymous wrote:Middle school sent a letter saying someone tested positive for covid today, 9/14, and was last in the school building today on 9/14. This is the second positive test (one late last week and now today). We were not directly notified because per the school my child was in "direct contact". Based on the dates of testing positive and being in the school both today I wonder if the positive test was detected during the Opt In testing that should have started yesterday...... I plan to ask the school but not sure how much they will disclose. Anyone else experience something similar.

I think our kids go to the same middle school. It could have been caught by the random testing. I hadn’t thought about it. I assumed someone may have gone to school sick and then tested on site. It would be helpful to have more info. Sounds like both cases are in 6th grade.

I hope more people opt in for the testing. I think testing is key for the kids who can’t get the vaccine yet.

Key to what? Knocking them out of school over something where infections have outcomes similar to the flu?

http://dx.doi.org/10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2020.20495

Key to minimizing the spread. Some of us have more vulnerable family members at home and want to keep everyone safe. It’s a delicate balance but I don’t think it’s too much to ask to test and act responsibly given that Covid is still very dangerous for some individuals.

Kids have been forced to bear the brunt of the pandemic restrictions, despite being the lowest risk group. Now that the vaccines are readily available to adults, including boosters for immunocompromised individuals, we're long overdue for that to change. If adults still believe they are high risk, then they should be responsible for protecting themselves- not demanding policies that close classrooms to mitigate the risk of spread.

I’m not demanding anything and I want schools open too but when they want to test, I’ll sign up because I believe that’s the responsible thing to do. We are vaccinated at home but have a baby as well who cannot get the vaccine. We all have to make choices and decisions that’s best for our circumstances and families. It would be nice if everyone could respect that we all are facing different challenges. There is no one size fits all solution.

As you suggested, the right thing for one family may not be right for others. Yet the quarantine policy (really, how the policy is being applied) lumps everyone together when there's a positive test. That's the one-size-fits-all approach that is being misapplied here.

Want to do voluntary opt-in testing? Great, then make it truly voluntary and remove the quarantine requirements on kids that aren't sick. At the very least, do what European countries have been doing and wait until there are multiple cases in a classroom before sending the class home.

You want to be able to send a kid with a positive test to school? No. Just no. We are not doing that here.

No. I'm saying don't quarantine a whole class if one kid has a positive test. Send the sick kid home, keep the others in school.

So, basically you are ok with being irresponsible and taking the risk and don't care about the impact on other children or their families. Great... this is why we are getting regular covid positive notices.. thanks.

Similarly, you don't care about the educational impact these policies have had, perhaps because your kids weren't affected to the same degree. That is why MCPS somehow thought it was ok to suspend meaningful special education services for 18 months. How big of you.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

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Anonymous wrote:Middle school sent a letter saying someone tested positive for covid today, 9/14, and was last in the school building today on 9/14. This is the second positive test (one late last week and now today). We were not directly notified because per the school my child was in "direct contact". Based on the dates of testing positive and being in the school both today I wonder if the positive test was detected during the Opt In testing that should have started yesterday...... I plan to ask the school but not sure how much they will disclose. Anyone else experience something similar.

I think our kids go to the same middle school. It could have been caught by the random testing. I hadn’t thought about it. I assumed someone may have gone to school sick and then tested on site. It would be helpful to have more info. Sounds like both cases are in 6th grade.

I hope more people opt in for the testing. I think testing is key for the kids who can’t get the vaccine yet.

Key to what? Knocking them out of school over something where infections have outcomes similar to the flu?

http://dx.doi.org/10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2020.20495

Key to minimizing the spread. Some of us have more vulnerable family members at home and want to keep everyone safe. It’s a delicate balance but I don’t think it’s too much to ask to test and act responsibly given that Covid is still very dangerous for some individuals.

Kids have been forced to bear the brunt of the pandemic restrictions, despite being the lowest risk group. Now that the vaccines are readily available to adults, including boosters for immunocompromised individuals, we're long overdue for that to change. If adults still believe they are high risk, then they should be responsible for protecting themselves- not demanding policies that close classrooms to mitigate the risk of spread.

These vaccines are not 100%. Numbers are going up and the majority of adults are vaccinated. As a community we should be responsible for each other. Its funny how people like you scream it takes a village when it comes to carpooling, child care and other stuff but when it comes to health, every person for themselves.

How have you kids been force to bear the brunt of the restrictions? Have they seen friend since in the past six months? In sports or other activities? Seeing family? Dining Out? In person school? Summer camps? Your kids probably have not do much of anything unlike mine who are being forced to stay home because of behavior like yours. Your kids aren't suffering. Its our kids who are forced to stay home because as a society its every person for themselves when it comes to this stuff. So, as your village, stop calling me. Stop demanding I carpool. Stop demanding I have "playdates" which is really babysitting as you want it at my house and stop with all the other demands as I'm done with selfish people like you. I never was nor will be your village and if you cannot care about others, why should we care about you. And, I am really tired of the oh, we have covid, can you run to the store and get me... or cook for us... no, you brought this upon yourself.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Middle school sent a letter saying someone tested positive for covid today, 9/14, and was last in the school building today on 9/14. This is the second positive test (one late last week and now today). We were not directly notified because per the school my child was in "direct contact". Based on the dates of testing positive and being in the school both today I wonder if the positive test was detected during the Opt In testing that should have started yesterday...... I plan to ask the school but not sure how much they will disclose. Anyone else experience something similar.

I think our kids go to the same middle school. It could have been caught by the random testing. I hadn’t thought about it. I assumed someone may have gone to school sick and then tested on site. It would be helpful to have more info. Sounds like both cases are in 6th grade.

I hope more people opt in for the testing. I think testing is key for the kids who can’t get the vaccine yet.

Key to what? Knocking them out of school over something where infections have outcomes similar to the flu?

http://dx.doi.org/10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2020.20495

Key to minimizing the spread. Some of us have more vulnerable family members at home and want to keep everyone safe. It’s a delicate balance but I don’t think it’s too much to ask to test and act responsibly given that Covid is still very dangerous for some individuals.

Kids have been forced to bear the brunt of the pandemic restrictions, despite being the lowest risk group. Now that the vaccines are readily available to adults, including boosters for immunocompromised individuals, we're long overdue for that to change. If adults still believe they are high risk, then they should be responsible for protecting themselves- not demanding policies that close classrooms to mitigate the risk of spread.

These vaccines are not 100%. Numbers are going up and the majority of adults are vaccinated. As a community we should be responsible for each other. Its funny how people like you scream it takes a village when it comes to carpooling, child care and other stuff but when it comes to health, every person for themselves.

How have you kids been force to bear the brunt of the restrictions? Have they seen friend since in the past six months? In sports or other activities? Seeing family? Dining Out? In person school? Summer camps? Your kids probably have not do much of anything unlike mine who are being forced to stay home because of behavior like yours. Your kids aren't suffering. Its our kids who are forced to stay home because as a society its every person for themselves when it comes to this stuff. So, as your village, stop calling me. Stop demanding I carpool. Stop demanding I have "playdates" which is really babysitting as you want it at my house and stop with all the other demands as I'm done with selfish people like you. I never was nor will be your village and if you cannot care about others, why should we care about you. And, I am really tired of the oh, we have covid, can you run to the store and get me... or cook for us... no, you brought this upon yourself.

We haven't traveled at all during the pandemic, mostly because I have a young child with ASD that we've never been able to get desensitized to masks. Activities? Not much. We've tried to get our kids into private speech therapy, but with the school not resuming speech until this year it's been a real challenge to get appointments. One of my kids went to school less than 20 days last year. I'm glad he's been back every day this year, but his class is incredibly small. In a bad way (less than 5 kids in his program). I've heard simar things from other parents- it seems like anyone that really has an option is choosing private over MCPS preschool, which means his inclusive PEP class isn't actually inclusive. My other son doesn't go to MCPS. I couldn't get his IEP team to commit to letting him go to school in-person by the time I needed to commit to public or private services.

In the meantime, my immunosuppressed spouse has been working as a healthcare provider throughout the pandemic, even before the vaccines were available, because you can't simply ignore your responsibilities just because there's a pandemic going on.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Middle school sent a letter saying someone tested positive for covid today, 9/14, and was last in the school building today on 9/14. This is the second positive test (one late last week and now today). We were not directly notified because per the school my child was in "direct contact". Based on the dates of testing positive and being in the school both today I wonder if the positive test was detected during the Opt In testing that should have started yesterday...... I plan to ask the school but not sure how much they will disclose. Anyone else experience something similar.

I think our kids go to the same middle school. It could have been caught by the random testing. I hadn’t thought about it. I assumed someone may have gone to school sick and then tested on site. It would be helpful to have more info. Sounds like both cases are in 6th grade.

I hope more people opt in for the testing. I think testing is key for the kids who can’t get the vaccine yet.

Key to what? Knocking them out of school over something where infections have outcomes similar to the flu?

http://dx.doi.org/10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2020.20495

Key to minimizing the spread. Some of us have more vulnerable family members at home and want to keep everyone safe. It’s a delicate balance but I don’t think it’s too much to ask to test and act responsibly given that Covid is still very dangerous for some individuals.

Kids have been forced to bear the brunt of the pandemic restrictions, despite being the lowest risk group. Now that the vaccines are readily available to adults, including boosters for immunocompromised individuals, we're long overdue for that to change. If adults still believe they are high risk, then they should be responsible for protecting themselves- not demanding policies that close classrooms to mitigate the risk of spread.

I’m not demanding anything and I want schools open too but when they want to test, I’ll sign up because I believe that’s the responsible thing to do. We are vaccinated at home but have a baby as well who cannot get the vaccine. We all have to make choices and decisions that’s best for our circumstances and families. It would be nice if everyone could respect that we all are facing different challenges. There is no one size fits all solution.

As you suggested, the right thing for one family may not be right for others. Yet the quarantine policy (really, how the policy is being applied) lumps everyone together when there's a positive test. That's the one-size-fits-all approach that is being misapplied here.

Want to do voluntary opt-in testing? Great, then make it truly voluntary and remove the quarantine requirements on kids that aren't sick. At the very least, do what European countries have been doing and wait until there are multiple cases in a classroom before sending the class home.

You want to be able to send a kid with a positive test to school? No. Just no. We are not doing that here.

No. I'm saying don't quarantine a whole class if one kid has a positive test. Send the sick kid home, keep the others in school.

So, basically you are ok with being irresponsible and taking the risk and don't care about the impact on other children or their families. Great... this is why we are getting regular covid positive notices.. thanks.

Similarly, you don't care about the educational impact these policies have had, perhaps because your kids weren't affected to the same degree. That is why MCPS somehow thought it was ok to suspend meaningful special education services for 18 months. How big of you.

Either you were very lucky or something as prior to covid, there was very little meaningful special education and therapies for kids. If you were concerned, you got private services. We paid a fortune in private services for our kid. Better than complaining and doing nothing like you probably are doing.

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Anonymous wrote:Middle school sent a letter saying someone tested positive for covid today, 9/14, and was last in the school building today on 9/14. This is the second positive test (one late last week and now today). We were not directly notified because per the school my child was in "direct contact". Based on the dates of testing positive and being in the school both today I wonder if the positive test was detected during the Opt In testing that should have started yesterday...... I plan to ask the school but not sure how much they will disclose. Anyone else experience something similar.

I think our kids go to the same middle school. It could have been caught by the random testing. I hadn’t thought about it. I assumed someone may have gone to school sick and then tested on site. It would be helpful to have more info. Sounds like both cases are in 6th grade.

I hope more people opt in for the testing. I think testing is key for the kids who can’t get the vaccine yet.

Key to what? Knocking them out of school over something where infections have outcomes similar to the flu?

http://dx.doi.org/10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2020.20495

Key to minimizing the spread. Some of us have more vulnerable family members at home and want to keep everyone safe. It’s a delicate balance but I don’t think it’s too much to ask to test and act responsibly given that Covid is still very dangerous for some individuals.

Kids have been forced to bear the brunt of the pandemic restrictions, despite being the lowest risk group. Now that the vaccines are readily available to adults, including boosters for immunocompromised individuals, we're long overdue for that to change. If adults still believe they are high risk, then they should be responsible for protecting themselves- not demanding policies that close classrooms to mitigate the risk of spread.

These vaccines are not 100%. Numbers are going up and the majority of adults are vaccinated. As a community we should be responsible for each other. Its funny how people like you scream it takes a village when it comes to carpooling, child care and other stuff but when it comes to health, every person for themselves.

How have you kids been force to bear the brunt of the restrictions? Have they seen friend since in the past six months? In sports or other activities? Seeing family? Dining Out? In person school? Summer camps? Your kids probably have not do much of anything unlike mine who are being forced to stay home because of behavior like yours. Your kids aren't suffering. Its our kids who are forced to stay home because as a society its every person for themselves when it comes to this stuff. So, as your village, stop calling me. Stop demanding I carpool. Stop demanding I have "playdates" which is really babysitting as you want it at my house and stop with all the other demands as I'm done with selfish people like you. I never was nor will be your village and if you cannot care about others, why should we care about you. And, I am really tired of the oh, we have covid, can you run to the store and get me... or cook for us... no, you brought this upon yourself.

We haven't traveled at all during the pandemic, mostly because I have a young child with ASD that we've never been able to get desensitized to masks. Activities? Not much. We've tried to get our kids into private speech therapy, but with the school not resuming speech until this year it's been a real challenge to get appointments. One of my kids went to school less than 20 days last year. I'm glad he's been back every day this year, but his class is incredibly small. In a bad way (less than 5 kids in his program). I've heard simar things from other parents- it seems like anyone that really has an option is choosing private over MCPS preschool, which means his inclusive PEP class isn't actually inclusive. My other son doesn't go to MCPS. I couldn't get his IEP team to commit to letting him go to school in-person by the time I needed to commit to public or private services.

In the meantime, my immunosuppressed spouse has been working as a healthcare provider throughout the pandemic, even before the vaccines were available, because you can't simply ignore your responsibilities just because there's a pandemic going on.

You could have done zoom for speech therapy and you could have done ABA. You are just making excuses as plenty of kids maintained services during covid.

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Anonymous wrote:Middle school sent a letter saying someone tested positive for covid today, 9/14, and was last in the school building today on 9/14. This is the second positive test (one late last week and now today). We were not directly notified because per the school my child was in "direct contact". Based on the dates of testing positive and being in the school both today I wonder if the positive test was detected during the Opt In testing that should have started yesterday...... I plan to ask the school but not sure how much they will disclose. Anyone else experience something similar.

I think our kids go to the same middle school. It could have been caught by the random testing. I hadn’t thought about it. I assumed someone may have gone to school sick and then tested on site. It would be helpful to have more info. Sounds like both cases are in 6th grade.

I hope more people opt in for the testing. I think testing is key for the kids who can’t get the vaccine yet.

Key to what? Knocking them out of school over something where infections have outcomes similar to the flu?

http://dx.doi.org/10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2020.20495

Key to minimizing the spread. Some of us have more vulnerable family members at home and want to keep everyone safe. It’s a delicate balance but I don’t think it’s too much to ask to test and act responsibly given that Covid is still very dangerous for some individuals.

Kids have been forced to bear the brunt of the pandemic restrictions, despite being the lowest risk group. Now that the vaccines are readily available to adults, including boosters for immunocompromised individuals, we're long overdue for that to change. If adults still believe they are high risk, then they should be responsible for protecting themselves- not demanding policies that close classrooms to mitigate the risk of spread.

I’m not demanding anything and I want schools open too but when they want to test, I’ll sign up because I believe that’s the responsible thing to do. We are vaccinated at home but have a baby as well who cannot get the vaccine. We all have to make choices and decisions that’s best for our circumstances and families. It would be nice if everyone could respect that we all are facing different challenges. There is no one size fits all solution.

As you suggested, the right thing for one family may not be right for others. Yet the quarantine policy (really, how the policy is being applied) lumps everyone together when there's a positive test. That's the one-size-fits-all approach that is being misapplied here.

Want to do voluntary opt-in testing? Great, then make it truly voluntary and remove the quarantine requirements on kids that aren't sick. At the very least, do what European countries have been doing and wait until there are multiple cases in a classroom before sending the class home.

You want to be able to send a kid with a positive test to school? No. Just no. We are not doing that here.

No. I'm saying don't quarantine a whole class if one kid has a positive test. Send the sick kid home, keep the others in school.

So, basically you are ok with being irresponsible and taking the risk and don't care about the impact on other children or their families. Great... this is why we are getting regular covid positive notices.. thanks.

Similarly, you don't care about the educational impact these policies have had, perhaps because your kids weren't affected to the same degree. That is why MCPS somehow thought it was ok to suspend meaningful special education services for 18 months. How big of you.

Either you were very lucky or something as prior to covid, there was very little meaningful special education and therapies for kids. If you were concerned, you got private services. We paid a fortune in private services for our kid. Better than complaining and doing nothing like you probably are doing.

Interesting. Really doubling down on that take that free appropriate public education isn’t important. I know a lot of people here feel that way, but most aren’t willing to come out so blatantly with that position.

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Anonymous wrote:Middle school sent a letter saying someone tested positive for covid today, 9/14, and was last in the school building today on 9/14. This is the second positive test (one late last week and now today). We were not directly notified because per the school my child was in "direct contact". Based on the dates of testing positive and being in the school both today I wonder if the positive test was detected during the Opt In testing that should have started yesterday...... I plan to ask the school but not sure how much they will disclose. Anyone else experience something similar.

I think our kids go to the same middle school. It could have been caught by the random testing. I hadn’t thought about it. I assumed someone may have gone to school sick and then tested on site. It would be helpful to have more info. Sounds like both cases are in 6th grade.

I hope more people opt in for the testing. I think testing is key for the kids who can’t get the vaccine yet.

Key to what? Knocking them out of school over something where infections have outcomes similar to the flu?

http://dx.doi.org/10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2020.20495

Key to minimizing the spread. Some of us have more vulnerable family members at home and want to keep everyone safe. It’s a delicate balance but I don’t think it’s too much to ask to test and act responsibly given that Covid is still very dangerous for some individuals.

Kids have been forced to bear the brunt of the pandemic restrictions, despite being the lowest risk group. Now that the vaccines are readily available to adults, including boosters for immunocompromised individuals, we're long overdue for that to change. If adults still believe they are high risk, then they should be responsible for protecting themselves- not demanding policies that close classrooms to mitigate the risk of spread.

These vaccines are not 100%. Numbers are going up and the majority of adults are vaccinated. As a community we should be responsible for each other. Its funny how people like you scream it takes a village when it comes to carpooling, child care and other stuff but when it comes to health, every person for themselves.

How have you kids been force to bear the brunt of the restrictions? Have they seen friend since in the past six months? In sports or other activities? Seeing family? Dining Out? In person school? Summer camps? Your kids probably have not do much of anything unlike mine who are being forced to stay home because of behavior like yours. Your kids aren't suffering. Its our kids who are forced to stay home because as a society its every person for themselves when it comes to this stuff. So, as your village, stop calling me. Stop demanding I carpool. Stop demanding I have "playdates" which is really babysitting as you want it at my house and stop with all the other demands as I'm done with selfish people like you. I never was nor will be your village and if you cannot care about others, why should we care about you. And, I am really tired of the oh, we have covid, can you run to the store and get me... or cook for us... no, you brought this upon yourself.

We haven't traveled at all during the pandemic, mostly because I have a young child with ASD that we've never been able to get desensitized to masks. Activities? Not much. We've tried to get our kids into private speech therapy, but with the school not resuming speech until this year it's been a real challenge to get appointments. One of my kids went to school less than 20 days last year. I'm glad he's been back every day this year, but his class is incredibly small. In a bad way (less than 5 kids in his program). I've heard simar things from other parents- it seems like anyone that really has an option is choosing private over MCPS preschool, which means his inclusive PEP class isn't actually inclusive. My other son doesn't go to MCPS. I couldn't get his IEP team to commit to letting him go to school in-person by the time I needed to commit to public or private services.

In the meantime, my immunosuppressed spouse has been working as a healthcare provider throughout the pandemic, even before the vaccines were available, because you can't simply ignore your responsibilities just because there's a pandemic going on.

You could have done zoom for speech therapy and you could have done ABA. You are just making excuses as plenty of kids maintained services during covid.

lol. We tried Zoom speech therapy. That fact that you brought it up at all tells me either you either never tried it or your kids are older and/or neurotypical.

And if you know what ABA is, then you should know 1) it’s not for every kid with developmental delays or disorders, and 2) it’s not a substitute for ST/OT. Further, daycare/preschool restrictions have not been letting RBTs in, and full-time ABA programs are only appropriate for a particularly small set of kids.

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Anonymous wrote:Middle school sent a letter saying someone tested positive for covid today, 9/14, and was last in the school building today on 9/14. This is the second positive test (one late last week and now today). We were not directly notified because per the school my child was in "direct contact". Based on the dates of testing positive and being in the school both today I wonder if the positive test was detected during the Opt In testing that should have started yesterday...... I plan to ask the school but not sure how much they will disclose. Anyone else experience something similar.

I think our kids go to the same middle school. It could have been caught by the random testing. I hadn’t thought about it. I assumed someone may have gone to school sick and then tested on site. It would be helpful to have more info. Sounds like both cases are in 6th grade.

I hope more people opt in for the testing. I think testing is key for the kids who can’t get the vaccine yet.

MCPS hasn't started testing so this is all caught by outside testing.

Op here- I actually asked the principal and they confirmed that the student tested positive at school due to the ability for them to give a rapid test today. The opt in testing has not started at our middle school yet but apparently if a child is sick they have the ability to give the rapid at school with parent permission. Not sure why the student even came to school sick but possibly they experienced first symptoms in class….