MCPS will now send kids home for ten days based on symptoms only

[Anonymous]

I work in an elementary school. Is anyone really surprised we're heading in this direction? We will be virtual again by mid October. All of us are cringing at the thought but with all these cases it's inevitable.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I sent my kid in on day 2 with diarrhea. Deal with it.

And what a great parent you are.

Wasn't breaking any rules 🤷‍♂️

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I work in an elementary school. Is anyone really surprised we're heading in this direction? We will be virtual again by mid October. All of us are cringing at the thought but with all these cases it's inevitable.

All what cases? How many cases? They're not quarantining based on cases, they're quarantining based on symptoms, most of which can have many causes that aren't covid.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Pretty easy to get the negative test and get everyone back within a day. Seems like NBD.

Really? I’ve got lots of kids in my school with parents who don’t speak English and are tremendously confused by American school procedures. So the whole class is hostage to their ability to take off work and find a clinic with a test?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Pretty easy to get the negative test and get everyone back within a day. Seems like NBD.

Sure. It’s easy for you. It’s easy for me too. But we’re not in charge here. The kid who was sent home is, or their family is. You have no idea who that family is and whether they have the money, time or resources to take their kids for a test. What if they just don’t care? Then the entire class is home for the full 10 days.

Such selfish jackasss families should be quarantined by society!!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I sent my kid in on day 2 with diarrhea. Deal with it.

And what a great parent you are.

How could you do that to your kid? He’ll be diarrhea boy until graduation.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:How are defining close contact again?

Regardless of the definition in practice it means the entire class in elementary.

What if the student is a bus rider? Does that mean everyone on the bus quarantine?

Oh crap.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:How are defining close contact again?

Regardless of the definition in practice it means the entire class in elementary.

What if the student is a bus rider? Does that mean everyone on the bus quarantine?

Oh crap.

Is the bus a classroom or is it eating or outdoors?

[Anonymous]

So if my kid gets a cold and I decide to keep him home…I should say that we are truant because if I tell them that he is sick, then the entire class will be in quarantine?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I sent my kid in on day 2 with diarrhea. Deal with it.

And what a great parent you are.

How could you do that to your kid? He’ll be diarrhea boy until graduation.

Hahaha lol but no he took a ton of kaopectate before he left. He was fine.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Y'all ready to rise up about this are crazy. And not very good readers.

What this policy says is, your kid's in class with Joey, Joey throws up on him, we're not allowed to test Joey because he's showing symptoms, just for screening, so *every* possible social and logistical lever will be used to make sure Joey gets tested before he returns to school, including his parents' desire to be able to send him back here AND your outrage about the effect it would have on your kids if Joey doesn't get tested.

So. No sick kids come to school, but also, parents of well kids spend as little time as possible *ever in our lives* wondering whether our kids have been exposed to COVID, despite the fact that we're in the middle of a Delta surge. That's a huge upside.

What? You’re saying the policy is meant to severely discourage parents from sending sick kids to school, and then encourage them to test their students when they do get sick? I think you’re expecting too much from the public. Lots of parents don’t know anything about policies. We have kids showing up on foot at the front door of the school every time there’s a holiday or teacher service day because their parents don’t know there’s no school. Kids don’t get picked up at the end of the day because mom’s boyfriend doesn’t know what time school ends. This new policy is not going to be a deterrent.

[Anonymous]

The policy is reasonable.

1. When a child presents himself with any symptom, there is no way to rule out covid. It might be just sniffles but there is nothing to tell you that it is not covid.
2. So err on side of caution for the greater good. Send everyone home. Have the kid who showed symptoms prove, with a negative test, that it is not COVID, and then resume normal classes.
3. If the kid does turn out to be covid positive, then you have pre-emptively reduced the risk of all his classmates getting infected.

Bottomline: parents dont send your kids with symptoms to school. If you do and LARLA complains, YOU are the reason 25 other kids are being forced to get their kids out of school.

Now an opinion:
YOU are the problem because you are selfish. Stop treating school like daycare that watches over your kid. Kids are remarkably resilient behaviorally and will cope with zoom, just as they have coped with masks or pizza every friday night.

Its you who needs to change your attitude: have some responsibility, some COMMUNAL responsibility for heavens sake. Otherwise folks like you (who send sick kids to school) should be ostracized by society. You selfish stupid people can GFY!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

The policy is reasonable.

1. When a child presents himself with any symptom, there is no way to rule out covid. It might be just sniffles but there is nothing to tell you that it is not covid.
2. So err on side of caution for the greater good. Send everyone home. Have the kid who showed symptoms prove, with a negative test, that it is not COVID, and then resume normal classes.
3. If the kid does turn out to be covid positive, then you have pre-emptively reduced the risk of all his classmates getting infected.

Bottomline: parents dont send your kids with symptoms to school. If you do and LARLA complains, YOU are the reason 25 other kids are being forced to get their kids out of school.

Now an opinion:
YOU are the problem because you are selfish. Stop treating school like daycare that watches over your kid. Kids are remarkably resilient behaviorally and will cope with zoom, just as they have coped with masks or pizza every friday night.

Its you who needs to change your attitude: have some responsibility, some COMMUNAL responsibility for heavens sake. Otherwise folks like you (who send sick kids to school) should be ostracized by society. You selfish stupid people can GFY!

What would your next step be if the family simply declines to get their child tested? Or just doesn’t understand?

[Anonymous]

It's an extremely bad rule because
1. Delta is sneaky. You feel fine in the morning and you can't breath by lunch. Trying to leverage social pressure onto the child/family isn't the right thing this time
2. The people who DO know but send the sick kid in anyway aren't the people who give a damn if you're all out too.
.3. It's much too disruptive to the learning process
4. You could just do test to stay like other states but you're using g our kids for political posturing

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

The policy is reasonable.

1. When a child presents himself with any symptom, there is no way to rule out covid. It might be just sniffles but there is nothing to tell you that it is not covid.
2. So err on side of caution for the greater good. Send everyone home. Have the kid who showed symptoms prove, with a negative test, that it is not COVID, and then resume normal classes.
3. If the kid does turn out to be covid positive, then you have pre-emptively reduced the risk of all his classmates getting infected.

Bottomline: parents dont send your kids with symptoms to school. If you do and LARLA complains, YOU are the reason 25 other kids are being forced to get their kids out of school.

Now an opinion:
YOU are the problem because you are selfish. Stop treating school like daycare that watches over your kid. Kids are remarkably resilient behaviorally and will cope with zoom, just as they have coped with masks or pizza every friday night.

Its you who needs to change your attitude: have some responsibility, some COMMUNAL responsibility for heavens sake. Otherwise folks like you (who send sick kids to school) should be ostracized by society. You selfish stupid people can GFY!

What would your next step be if the family simply declines to get their child tested? Or just doesn’t understand?

I don’t have a problem with the policy but THIS! This is a problem. A whole class is at the mercy of one student, and if that family can’t or won’t test, everyone loses.