MCPS covid cases

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:We went in with a private evaluation so we had no issue getting services and supports on paper, but when it came to actual support in the classroom, there was none. We couldn't even get them to send home the unfinished school work so we could help complete it at home. It was pathetic. The IEP wasn't worth the paper it was written on.

I'm sorry to hear this. We had kind of a mixed bag but generally ok. Most teachers worked with us on the unfinished and/or not turned in school work. Behavior management was kind of a mixed bag. Neither worked on handwriting or writing.

No schools work on handwriting. Our ES did some writing skills, which was good. We got workbooks and did it all ourselves. Agree behavior management was a mixed bag. Our principal seemed to like to be vicious toward some families and ignore things with other families. Those of us who argued things like IEP's hard our kids targeted (mine was generally very well behaved). You do what you need to do for your kids. If its serious enough, you hire an advocate/attorney and fight it but if its not then you are better off using that money for private services and tutoring. For us, all the effort paid off. But, that poster not willing to do anything and is waiting for MCPS to suddenly care, is only hurting their child as many of us can tell you, its very hard to get what your child needs in public. It sounds like they are not school aged yet and they don't realize come K. the services get fewer and they are all group help.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:In person private services were only canceled a few months and its been a year. They don't want to flex their work schedule, hire someone to transport or find someone with weekend or evening hours. Hopefully their issues will clear up with age/time as they are missing the key window for services to help the most. There are options. Many of us on the SN board can tell you low cost options if you don't have health insurance or public health insurance to cover it. Its not easy. Many of us have done it for years. I would rather regret services that I did as my child is ok vs. not doing them and watching my child struggle and regret not doing them. It was a huge sacrifice in many ways but zero regrets. Very few people get quality services from MCPS or any school district to the level many of these kids need. Once you get to ES level, there is no 1-1 speech therapy and you get put in a group with 4-6 kids with unrelated needs for 30 minutes 1-2 times a week. So, your kid gets what? Same with reading. It takes a a few years to get kids identified and by then they provide minimal help and its too little to late.

I've been a bit surprised by the lack of early evaluations and interventions with reading in MCPS. My sister is a reading specialist in an elementary school elsewhere and she evaluates all incoming kindergarteners at the beginning of the school year to identify issues and start supports. Granted, her school is smaller than most MCPS ESs, but it's strange that MCPS doesn't provide more resources for this. Our ES has 6 ESOL teachers and only 1 reading specialist.

[Anonymous]

Passing along this gem from Damascus Covid Letter:

This letter is to inform you that we were notified that an individual who was last present an individual at Damascus Elementary School who was last on-site on 9/13/2021 and tested positive for coronavirus (COVID-19) on 9/7/2021.? We were informed of the positive test result on 9/14/2021. Following Montgomery County Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS) guidelines, we notified individuals who were known to have close contact with this individual and have informed them to quarantine and monitor for symptoms, per CDC guidelines.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Passing along this gem from Damascus Covid Letter:

This letter is to inform you that we were notified that an individual who was last present an individual at Damascus Elementary School who was last on-site on 9/13/2021 and tested positive for coronavirus (COVID-19) on 9/7/2021.? We were informed of the positive test result on 9/14/2021. Following Montgomery County Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS) guidelines, we notified individuals who were known to have close contact with this individual and have informed them to quarantine and monitor for symptoms, per CDC guidelines.

What the what? Someone other than the parents must have notified the school.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Passing along this gem from Damascus Covid Letter:

This letter is to inform you that we were notified that an individual who was last present an individual at Damascus Elementary School who was last on-site on 9/13/2021 and tested positive for coronavirus (COVID-19) on 9/7/2021.? We were informed of the positive test result on 9/14/2021. Following Montgomery County Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS) guidelines, we notified individuals who were known to have close contact with this individual and have informed them to quarantine and monitor for symptoms, per CDC guidelines.

Just an idea but that (9/7) might have been the test day and they didn't get the results for 6 days (9/13 evening) and informed the school on 9/14.

That is a long time to wait to get the result but I had a test take 5 days last spring because the sample was taken just before a weekend by one of the non MoCo testing sites. Then it took several rounds of telephone tag to get the results because they didn't send emails. Looks like the sample was taken just after Labor Day and they may well have even had a backlog.

Anyway, just a possible explanation of that timeline.

[Anonymous]

Whoever wrote that letter was shook lol

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Passing along this gem from Damascus Covid Letter:

This letter is to inform you that we were notified that an individual who was last present an individual at Damascus Elementary School who was last on-site on 9/13/2021 and tested positive for coronavirus (COVID-19) on 9/7/2021.? We were informed of the positive test result on 9/14/2021. Following Montgomery County Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS) guidelines, we notified individuals who were known to have close contact with this individual and have informed them to quarantine and monitor for symptoms, per CDC guidelines.

Just an idea but that (9/7) might have been the test day and they didn't get the results for 6 days (9/13 evening) and informed the school on 9/14.

That is a long time to wait to get the result but I had a test take 5 days last spring because the sample was taken just before a weekend by one of the non MoCo testing sites. Then it took several rounds of telephone tag to get the results because they didn't send emails. Looks like the sample was taken just after Labor Day and they may well have even had a backlog.

Anyway, just a possible explanation of that timeline.

Yeah that's a good point- holidays always tend to be slower, both because of increased testing volume and fewer people working to process them.

[Anonymous]

We have had several test results come in late because the DOB was entered wrong in the system. It wasn’t until we called asking for test results that we found the truth. Imagine working a job that doesn’t allow you to call a test center during their open hours? Can definitely see it taking 6 days. This is why the health department should be the first notice and contact point for al of this, not the public.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:We have had several test results come in late because the DOB was entered wrong in the system. It wasn’t until we called asking for test results that we found the truth. Imagine working a job that doesn’t allow you to call a test center during their open hours? Can definitely see it taking 6 days. This is why the health department should be the first notice and contact point for al of this, not the public.

This. If there are going to be outbreaks we should see them this or next week. Otherwise, lots of folks have worried too much.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:We have had several test results come in late because the DOB was entered wrong in the system. It wasn’t until we called asking for test results that we found the truth. Imagine working a job that doesn’t allow you to call a test center during their open hours? Can definitely see it taking 6 days. This is why the health department should be the first notice and contact point for al of this, not the public.

This. If there are going to be outbreaks we should see them this or next week. Otherwise, lots of folks have worried too much.

Thanks covid denier. I don't care about outbreaks for other people's kids. I care about my kids catching it from other kids whose parents have no issue with them getting or spreading covid.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:We went in with a private evaluation so we had no issue getting services and supports on paper, but when it came to actual support in the classroom, there was none. We couldn't even get them to send home the unfinished school work so we could help complete it at home. It was pathetic. The IEP wasn't worth the paper it was written on.

I'm sorry to hear this. We had kind of a mixed bag but generally ok. Most teachers worked with us on the unfinished and/or not turned in school work. Behavior management was kind of a mixed bag. Neither worked on handwriting or writing.

My child had IEP since preschool age, so she has IEP established right away with service & support when she enters kindergarten this school year. As of now, we have paid a lot of money on private evaluation and weekly private ST and OT since she was 3, and we never fully rely on MCPS IEP because there are many factors and quality of services are not within our control. My child is mainstream, and I assume that she will have IEP for many many years because of her needs from her diagnosis (ASD, adhd and anxiety). There has been zero communication from school special educator/para-educator (to service a few kids at same time in classroom, push in) or speech therapist (pull out, group speech service, not 1:1) , and I am not sure if I should reach out to them through a brief email to say “hello” and ask how my child doing like sometime in October? Too early or too late to email? Too annoying if I do that? Anyone knows if IEP normally will reach out to me to give me some tips or school reports at all this school year if I don’t do anything now?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:We went in with a private evaluation so we had no issue getting services and supports on paper, but when it came to actual support in the classroom, there was none. We couldn't even get them to send home the unfinished school work so we could help complete it at home. It was pathetic. The IEP wasn't worth the paper it was written on.

I'm sorry to hear this. We had kind of a mixed bag but generally ok. Most teachers worked with us on the unfinished and/or not turned in school work. Behavior management was kind of a mixed bag. Neither worked on handwriting or writing.

My child had IEP since preschool age, so she has IEP established right away with service & support when she enters kindergarten this school year. As of now, we have paid a lot of money on private evaluation and weekly private ST and OT since she was 3, and we never fully rely on MCPS IEP because there are many factors and quality of services are not within our control. My child is mainstream, and I assume that she will have IEP for many many years because of her needs from her diagnosis (ASD, adhd and anxiety). There has been zero communication from school special educator/para-educator (to service a few kids at same time in classroom, push in) or speech therapist (pull out, group speech service, not 1:1) , and I am not sure if I should reach out to them through a brief email to say “hello” and ask how my child doing like sometime in October? Too early or too late to email? Too annoying if I do that? Anyone knows if IEP normally will reach out to me to give me some tips or school reports at all this school year if I don’t do anything now?

You can reach out but this was our experience too. The mcps slo would respond to our private slp.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:We have had several test results come in late because the DOB was entered wrong in the system. It wasn’t until we called asking for test results that we found the truth. Imagine working a job that doesn’t allow you to call a test center during their open hours? Can definitely see it taking 6 days. This is why the health department should be the first notice and contact point for al of this, not the public.

This. If there are going to be outbreaks we should see them this or next week. Otherwise, lots of folks have worried too much.

Thanks covid denier. I don't care about outbreaks for other people's kids. I care about my kids catching it from other kids whose parents have no issue with them getting or spreading covid.

Seems like there might be a connection between outbreaks (or lack thereof) among kids who aren't your kids, and your kids catching it (or not catching it) from those kids?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:We have had several test results come in late because the DOB was entered wrong in the system. It wasn’t until we called asking for test results that we found the truth. Imagine working a job that doesn’t allow you to call a test center during their open hours? Can definitely see it taking 6 days. This is why the health department should be the first notice and contact point for al of this, not the public.

This. If there are going to be outbreaks we should see them this or next week. Otherwise, lots of folks have worried too much.

Thanks covid denier. I don't care about outbreaks for other people's kids. I care about my kids catching it from other kids whose parents have no issue with them getting or spreading covid.

Seems like there might be a connection between outbreaks (or lack thereof) among kids who aren't your kids, and your kids catching it (or not catching it) from those kids?

Ha, PP was a jumble of "WTF?"

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:We have had several test results come in late because the DOB was entered wrong in the system. It wasn’t until we called asking for test results that we found the truth. Imagine working a job that doesn’t allow you to call a test center during their open hours? Can definitely see it taking 6 days. This is why the health department should be the first notice and contact point for al of this, not the public.

This. If there are going to be outbreaks we should see them this or next week. Otherwise, lots of folks have worried too much.

Thanks covid denier. I don't care about outbreaks for other people's kids. I care about my kids catching it from other kids whose parents have no issue with them getting or spreading covid.

Seems like there might be a connection between outbreaks (or lack thereof) among kids who aren't your kids, and your kids catching it (or not catching it) from those kids?

Ha, PP was a jumble of "WTF?"

The bolded text sums up the bad attitude that many parents seem to embrace because they fail to grasp were in this together and that's also why covid isn't going away. They are in fact the problem.