We are NEVER going back until covid is 100% gone - MCPS has no leadership

[Anonymous]

https://arstechnica.com/science/2020/10/grim-new-analyses-show-us-covid-death-rates-remain-shamefully-high/

A grim series of articles published today in the Journal of the American Medical Association makes clear just how hard the United States has failed at controlling the ongoing novel coronavirus pandemic—from the country’s horrifying death toll to its inability to drag down its shamefully high death rates.

There's nothing easy about this at the local level...

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:russian troll alert! Biden's not proposing a lockdown.

Ok someone please explain the Russian troll thing to me? Do we really think a Russian troll is interested in an anonymous forum for the DC area?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:russian troll alert! Biden's not proposing a lockdown.

Ok someone please explain the Russian troll thing to me? Do we really think a Russian troll is interested in an anonymous forum for the DC area?

There is one Boomer who came up through MCPS during the Cold War and he/she is constantly throwing out Russian trolls in every thread.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:russian troll alert! Biden's not proposing a lockdown.

Ok someone please explain the Russian troll thing to me? Do we really think a Russian troll is interested in an anonymous forum for the DC area?

Sure, why not? Do you think they're occupied full-time targeting people through the YouTube and Facebook algorithms? Or paying high school kids in Arizona?

-not the person who keeps bringing up the Russian troll thing

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Summary of last BOE meeting:
https://mococonnect2019.wixsite.com/2020/single-post/board-of-education-meeting-recap-october-6-2020

From that:

MCPS is required by the CDC to improve heating, ventilation and filters in our school buildings and although they are seeking additional funding from the County Council to make it happen, the changes are non-optional and the funding will have to come from other places in the budget if they can’t convince the Council to give them more money.

Based on that, it makes me think MCPS hasn't actually started the process of updating schools -- they are still scrambling to find funding. Why didn't they start this months ago?

Leadership failure.

Have all the other school districts in MD that are opening/planning to open made these updates? And other districts around the country? But I agree that yes if they’re still stuck at square one after 7 months of this, this school year is lost. And it makes me fearful for next year too.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:You can jump up and down. Scream and shout. Post away.
Nothing is going to change with our schools they will be virtual until Trump is gone.

While Trump doesn't make those decisions his complete lack of being human creates a chaos like no other.

Trump wins in November no more schools as we know it. If you think this is not going to get worse all over the country you are not paying attention.

That doesn’t even make any sense.

No chance Trump wins in November anyway, but Trump WANTS to see schools re-open.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:You can jump up and down. Scream and shout. Post away.
Nothing is going to change with our schools they will be virtual until Trump is gone.

While Trump doesn't make those decisions his complete lack of being human creates a chaos like no other.

Trump wins in November no more schools as we know it. If you think this is not going to get worse all over the country you are not paying attention.

That doesn’t even make any sense.

No chance Trump wins in November anyway, but Trump WANTS to see schools re-open.

Actually there's a pretty good chance that he'll win. Unfortunately.

But if you were trying to discourage people from going out to vote against Trump, that's something you might say.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Excuses, excuses. Click on page 11 of this thread and read the 10/09/2020 19:45 post.

Washington County, MD is already partially open. They've managed to figure out how to safely transport kids on buses, fit the kids in classrooms, etc.

They're not Germany. They're an hour away from MCPS, in the same state. Similar infection rate, same governor, same president. The only difference: county leadership.

We are one of the largest school districts in the country and the largest in the state. You cannot compare what a smaller county is doing. Almost all our schools are over capacity and some haven't been fixed in 40 years. Small classrooms, small hallways, 25-35 kids per class. Some classrooms doing have working heat/ac. Some classrooms don't have windows. Many teachers don't even have their own classrooms.

And just like the PP said, the blame for this falls squarely on the shoulders of Montgomery County leadership.

Montgomery County voters and Montgomery County leaders have allowed this county to get to this position. Overcrowded schools and overcrowded classrooms. Promoting irresponsible overdevelopment (without calling for appropriate infrastructure) is partly to blame, as well as so many other factors.

But you can’t blame the Governor and you can’t blame the President for a completely dysfunctional county school system and an inept county leadership.

I can blame the president for a completely dysfunctional federal response to the pandemic. And I do. This is not an MCPS issue, because all of the big school districts are having the same problems. The issue is that the federal response was a failure.

In New Zealand, they're playing sports games in full stadiums. Meanwhile here you're trying to spread the idea that the closed schools are somehow Marc Elrich's and Jack Smith's fault. They're not. They're Trump's fault.

Also, no, the county school system is not completely dysfunctional, so that's some more disinformation you're spreading.

I blame individuals who have no common sense and zero feelings of personal responsibility.

It's odd that there are so many more people like this in the US than elsewhere in the world, though, don't you think? How do you think that came about?

I see you’re comfortable spreading your own disinformation.

Have you even left the US? Talked to actual people in other countries?

There are PLENTY of people, all over the world, in every country who lack common sense.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

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I blame individuals who have no common sense and zero feelings of personal responsibility.

It's odd that there are so many more people like this in the US than elsewhere in the world, though, don't you think? How do you think that came about?

I see you’re comfortable spreading your own disinformation.

Have you even left the US? Talked to actual people in other countries?

There are PLENTY of people, all over the world, in every country who lack common sense.

Exactly. There are lots of people everywhere in the world who lack common sense. Which strongly suggests that lack of common sense among Americans, specifically, is NOT the reason for the US's uniquely bad covid situation.

[Anonymous]

Why are you all surprised that we’re not going back this year as you let your kids have sleepovers, do carpools, party with your friends, etc? We have been extremely cautious since this started. So many of the complainers are parents who just can’t say no because their kids are bored and need social interaction. Join the club! This is a sacrifice, but it’s the right thing to do. You don’t get to have your hair done and then complain that school isn’t open.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Why are you all surprised that we’re not going back this year as you let your kids have sleepovers, do carpools, party with your friends, etc? We have been extremely cautious since this started. So many of the complainers are parents who just can’t say no because their kids are bored and need social interaction. Join the club! This is a sacrifice, but it’s the right thing to do. You don’t get to have your hair done and then complain that school isn’t open.

MoCo leadership. They chose to allow live music, waxing places, tattoo parlors, and now escape rooms to open. All while saying it's unsafe for schools to open.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:You can jump up and down. Scream and shout. Post away.
Nothing is going to change with our schools they will be virtual until Trump is gone.

While Trump doesn't make those decisions his complete lack of being human creates a chaos like no other.

Trump wins in November no more schools as we know it. If you think this is not going to get worse all over the country you are not paying attention.

That doesn’t even make any sense.

No chance Trump wins in November anyway, but Trump WANTS to see schools re-open.

I very much hope that Trump loses, for all the obvious reasons, but one added reason now is that I believe that the fact that he declared he wanted schools to open is a major reason they are still closed. Liberals dug in their heels as a result and have to insist even more stridently that it's too dangerous to open up.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Why are you all surprised that we’re not going back this year as you let your kids have sleepovers, do carpools, party with your friends, etc? We have been extremely cautious since this started. So many of the complainers are parents who just can’t say no because their kids are bored and need social interaction. Join the club! This is a sacrifice, but it’s the right thing to do. You don’t get to have your hair done and then complain that school isn’t open.

MoCo leadership. They chose to allow live music, waxing places, tattoo parlors, and now escape rooms to open. All while saying it's unsafe for schools to open.

The Frederick County, Maryland, school board recently voted for FCPS to stay in distance learning through the end of the first semester. Is that Montgomery County leadership's fault too?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:You can jump up and down. Scream and shout. Post away.
Nothing is going to change with our schools they will be virtual until Trump is gone.

While Trump doesn't make those decisions his complete lack of being human creates a chaos like no other.

Trump wins in November no more schools as we know it. If you think this is not going to get worse all over the country you are not paying attention.

That doesn’t even make any sense.

No chance Trump wins in November anyway, but Trump WANTS to see schools re-open.

I think what this teacher is saying that she and her colleagues will refuse to go back to work until Trump is no longer in the office. You know it's not about the virus, it's about power.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:You can jump up and down. Scream and shout. Post away.
Nothing is going to change with our schools they will be virtual until Trump is gone.

While Trump doesn't make those decisions his complete lack of being human creates a chaos like no other.

Trump wins in November no more schools as we know it. If you think this is not going to get worse all over the country you are not paying attention.

That doesn’t even make any sense.

No chance Trump wins in November anyway, but Trump WANTS to see schools re-open.

I think what this teacher is saying that she and her colleagues will refuse to go back to work until Trump is no longer in the office. You know it's not about the virus, it's about power.

No.

Also, it's about the virus.