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

[Anonymous]

The question is why is MCPS releasing this changed policy on the Friday of the first week of school just before a holiday weekend? Why wasn’t this the guidance last week? Do they just want to reinforce that they are a clown show and are indecisive about these arbitrary COVID policies? We pulled from private with more sensible policies. Had I known this is have reconsidered. It’s designed to ensure school is disrupted when a masked kid gets a fever on the playground.

[Anonymous]

What a bunch of sociopaths.

"If my kid has a cold, I'll just lie and say they had a two-day dentist's appointment."

Brilliant. Much easier than testing them during that two days and confirming it's *actually a cold* and not COVID.

And don't tell me all the people who are planning on lying on this thread are people for whom getting a test at CVS would be an extreme hardship. In addition to the fact that actual working class or poor people are a tiny percentage of the demographic at DCUM, these ridiculous commenters are *already* saying they'd be keeping their kids home, so it's not really more time lost.

Just denial and showing their a$$ just to show it. With Bonus! Potentially endangering others!

"I've already been inconvenienced enough by this global pandemic! WHY WON'T SOMEONE THINK OF ME HAVING TO SPEND ABOUT 2 HOURS OUT OF MY DAY WHEN MY KID IS ALREADY HOME TO ACTUALLY HELP REDUCE IT'S SPREAD??"

And then what do you think will happen, if you lie? If it's COVID or even just a cold and you send the kid, the child will likely get others in their class sick, and since most parents actually give a sh!t-- or at least the kids will be witnessed by teachers!-- your kid's whole class will be quarantined anyway.

Y'all are objecting and twisting yourselves into knots to come up with ridiculous workarounds when the simplest solution is also the safest-- get your kid tested.

(Or get a doctor's note if they truly have a chronic condition).

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The question is why is MCPS releasing this changed policy on the Friday of the first week of school just before a holiday weekend? Why wasn’t this the guidance last week? Do they just want to reinforce that they are a clown show and are indecisive about these arbitrary COVID policies? We pulled from private with more sensible policies. Had I known this is have reconsidered. It’s designed to ensure school is disrupted when a masked kid gets a fever on the playground.

There must be a ton of cases we don't know about for this radical shift after 1 week.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The question is why is MCPS releasing this changed policy on the Friday of the first week of school just before a holiday weekend? Why wasn’t this the guidance last week? Do they just want to reinforce that they are a clown show and are indecisive about these arbitrary COVID policies? We pulled from private with more sensible policies. Had I known this is have reconsidered. It’s designed to ensure school is disrupted when a masked kid gets a fever on the playground.

Per BethesdaBeat the new policy was recommended by Dr. Gayles. He is moving to a new job in SF on September 12. This is his last gift to the county.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:What a bunch of sociopaths.

"If my kid has a cold, I'll just lie and say they had a two-day dentist's appointment."

Brilliant. Much easier than testing them during that two days and confirming it's *actually a cold* and not COVID.

And don't tell me all the people who are planning on lying on this thread are people for whom getting a test at CVS would be an extreme hardship. In addition to the fact that actual working class or poor people are a tiny percentage of the demographic at DCUM, these ridiculous commenters are *already* saying they'd be keeping their kids home, so it's not really more time lost.

Just denial and showing their a$$ just to show it. With Bonus! Potentially endangering others!

"I've already been inconvenienced enough by this global pandemic! WHY WON'T SOMEONE THINK OF ME HAVING TO SPEND ABOUT 2 HOURS OUT OF MY DAY WHEN MY KID IS ALREADY HOME TO ACTUALLY HELP REDUCE IT'S SPREAD??"

And then what do you think will happen, if you lie? If it's COVID or even just a cold and you send the kid, the child will likely get others in their class sick, and since most parents actually give a sh!t-- or at least the kids will be witnessed by teachers!-- your kid's whole class will be quarantined anyway.

Y'all are objecting and twisting yourselves into knots to come up with ridiculous workarounds when the simplest solution is also the safest-- get your kid tested.

(Or get a doctor's note if they truly have a chronic condition).

We're just exposing the flaw Becky.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:What a bunch of sociopaths.

"If my kid has a cold, I'll just lie and say they had a two-day dentist's appointment."

Brilliant. Much easier than testing them during that two days and confirming it's *actually a cold* and not COVID.

And don't tell me all the people who are planning on lying on this thread are people for whom getting a test at CVS would be an extreme hardship. In addition to the fact that actual working class or poor people are a tiny percentage of the demographic at DCUM, these ridiculous commenters are *already* saying they'd be keeping their kids home, so it's not really more time lost.

Just denial and showing their a$$ just to show it. With Bonus! Potentially endangering others!

"I've already been inconvenienced enough by this global pandemic! WHY WON'T SOMEONE THINK OF ME HAVING TO SPEND ABOUT 2 HOURS OUT OF MY DAY WHEN MY KID IS ALREADY HOME TO ACTUALLY HELP REDUCE IT'S SPREAD??"

And then what do you think will happen, if you lie? If it's COVID or even just a cold and you send the kid, the child will likely get others in their class sick, and since most parents actually give a sh!t-- or at least the kids will be witnessed by teachers!-- your kid's whole class will be quarantined anyway.

Y'all are objecting and twisting yourselves into knots to come up with ridiculous workarounds when the simplest solution is also the safest-- get your kid tested.

(Or get a doctor's note if they truly have a chronic condition).

We're just exposing the flaw Becky.

Hopefully you understand that it's the responsibility of the board of education to put a system into place that will keep your children safe. Relying on other people to stick to the honor system isn't an acceptable, professional system.

[Anonymous]

So I’m hopeful parents at my school understand what to do here:

(1) kid gets sick not on school hours
(2) KEEP kid home and tell school anything except kid has a covid symptom
(3) get thee to PM pediatrics before 1 pm and procure same day test
(4) get test results (statistically speaking they are going to be negative)
(5) send kid back to school when not sick anymore.
(6) if kid will be out for a few days tell school kid sick but not covid and provide negative test
(7) rest of class is safe

Go forth.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:What a bunch of sociopaths.

"If my kid has a cold, I'll just lie and say they had a two-day dentist's appointment."

Brilliant. Much easier than testing them during that two days and confirming it's *actually a cold* and not COVID.

And don't tell me all the people who are planning on lying on this thread are people for whom getting a test at CVS would be an extreme hardship. In addition to the fact that actual working class or poor people are a tiny percentage of the demographic at DCUM, these ridiculous commenters are *already* saying they'd be keeping their kids home, so it's not really more time lost.

Just denial and showing their a$$ just to show it. With Bonus! Potentially endangering others!

"I've already been inconvenienced enough by this global pandemic! WHY WON'T SOMEONE THINK OF ME HAVING TO SPEND ABOUT 2 HOURS OUT OF MY DAY WHEN MY KID IS ALREADY HOME TO ACTUALLY HELP REDUCE IT'S SPREAD??"

And then what do you think will happen, if you lie? If it's COVID or even just a cold and you send the kid, the child will likely get others in their class sick, and since most parents actually give a sh!t-- or at least the kids will be witnessed by teachers!-- your kid's whole class will be quarantined anyway.

Y'all are objecting and twisting yourselves into knots to come up with ridiculous workarounds when the simplest solution is also the safest-- get your kid tested.

(Or get a doctor's note if they truly have a chronic condition).

I probably would get a test. I'm just not going to tell MCPS if it is positive, since I know how awful it would be for the other students to get sent home for 10+ days.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:What a bunch of sociopaths.

"If my kid has a cold, I'll just lie and say they had a two-day dentist's appointment."

Brilliant. Much easier than testing them during that two days and confirming it's *actually a cold* and not COVID.

And don't tell me all the people who are planning on lying on this thread are people for whom getting a test at CVS would be an extreme hardship. In addition to the fact that actual working class or poor people are a tiny percentage of the demographic at DCUM, these ridiculous commenters are *already* saying they'd be keeping their kids home, so it's not really more time lost.

Just denial and showing their a$$ just to show it. With Bonus! Potentially endangering others!

"I've already been inconvenienced enough by this global pandemic! WHY WON'T SOMEONE THINK OF ME HAVING TO SPEND ABOUT 2 HOURS OUT OF MY DAY WHEN MY KID IS ALREADY HOME TO ACTUALLY HELP REDUCE IT'S SPREAD??"

And then what do you think will happen, if you lie? If it's COVID or even just a cold and you send the kid, the child will likely get others in their class sick, and since most parents actually give a sh!t-- or at least the kids will be witnessed by teachers!-- your kid's whole class will be quarantined anyway.

Y'all are objecting and twisting yourselves into knots to come up with ridiculous workarounds when the simplest solution is also the safest-- get your kid tested.

(Or get a doctor's note if they truly have a chronic condition).

+1. How y’all plan to do this stuff and raise kids who don’t lie is…whooo. Not possible.

[Anonymous]

Also finding it really sort of predictably gross that people are assuming non-native English speakers won't be given directions they can understand and appropriate resources if and when this happens with their child.

I know MCPS can suck in terms of its communication, but at our school at least, there is a tremendous amount of energy put into walking folks through things like this. Not to mention that, for example, Latino vaccination rates are the highest of all groups in MoCo. Lots of immigrants are MORE concerned about public health and more compliant than the typical DCUM demographic.

But I often find rich white folks use inaccurate caricatures of poor people and/or people of color to hide their own personal objections behind.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:What a bunch of sociopaths.

"If my kid has a cold, I'll just lie and say they had a two-day dentist's appointment."

Brilliant. Much easier than testing them during that two days and confirming it's *actually a cold* and not COVID.

And don't tell me all the people who are planning on lying on this thread are people for whom getting a test at CVS would be an extreme hardship. In addition to the fact that actual working class or poor people are a tiny percentage of the demographic at DCUM, these ridiculous commenters are *already* saying they'd be keeping their kids home, so it's not really more time lost.

Just denial and showing their a$$ just to show it. With Bonus! Potentially endangering others!

"I've already been inconvenienced enough by this global pandemic! WHY WON'T SOMEONE THINK OF ME HAVING TO SPEND ABOUT 2 HOURS OUT OF MY DAY WHEN MY KID IS ALREADY HOME TO ACTUALLY HELP REDUCE IT'S SPREAD??"

And then what do you think will happen, if you lie? If it's COVID or even just a cold and you send the kid, the child will likely get others in their class sick, and since most parents actually give a sh!t-- or at least the kids will be witnessed by teachers!-- your kid's whole class will be quarantined anyway.

Y'all are objecting and twisting yourselves into knots to come up with ridiculous workarounds when the simplest solution is also the safest-- get your kid tested.

(Or get a doctor's note if they truly have a chronic condition).

We're just exposing the flaw Becky.

There's only a flaw if you're a sociopath who likes to make more work for yourself, Susan.

In other words, you are exposing a straw man because your panties are in a twist that COVID exists at all.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:So I’m hopeful parents at my school understand what to do here:

(1) kid gets sick not on school hours
(2) KEEP kid home and tell school anything except kid has a covid symptom
(3) get thee to PM pediatrics before 1 pm and procure same day test
(4) get test results (statistically speaking they are going to be negative)
(5) send kid back to school when not sick anymore.
(6) if kid will be out for a few days tell school kid sick but not covid and provide negative test
(7) rest of class is safe

Go forth.

Yep. Someone finally gets it.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:What a bunch of sociopaths.

"If my kid has a cold, I'll just lie and say they had a two-day dentist's appointment."

Brilliant. Much easier than testing them during that two days and confirming it's *actually a cold* and not COVID.

And don't tell me all the people who are planning on lying on this thread are people for whom getting a test at CVS would be an extreme hardship. In addition to the fact that actual working class or poor people are a tiny percentage of the demographic at DCUM, these ridiculous commenters are *already* saying they'd be keeping their kids home, so it's not really more time lost.

Just denial and showing their a$$ just to show it. With Bonus! Potentially endangering others!

"I've already been inconvenienced enough by this global pandemic! WHY WON'T SOMEONE THINK OF ME HAVING TO SPEND ABOUT 2 HOURS OUT OF MY DAY WHEN MY KID IS ALREADY HOME TO ACTUALLY HELP REDUCE IT'S SPREAD??"

And then what do you think will happen, if you lie? If it's COVID or even just a cold and you send the kid, the child will likely get others in their class sick, and since most parents actually give a sh!t-- or at least the kids will be witnessed by teachers!-- your kid's whole class will be quarantined anyway.

Y'all are objecting and twisting yourselves into knots to come up with ridiculous workarounds when the simplest solution is also the safest-- get your kid tested.

(Or get a doctor's note if they truly have a chronic condition).

I probably would get a test. I'm just not going to tell MCPS if it is positive, since I know how awful it would be for the other students to get sent home for 10+ days.

Even more sociopathic.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:What a bunch of sociopaths.

"If my kid has a cold, I'll just lie and say they had a two-day dentist's appointment."

Brilliant. Much easier than testing them during that two days and confirming it's *actually a cold* and not COVID.

And don't tell me all the people who are planning on lying on this thread are people for whom getting a test at CVS would be an extreme hardship. In addition to the fact that actual working class or poor people are a tiny percentage of the demographic at DCUM, these ridiculous commenters are *already* saying they'd be keeping their kids home, so it's not really more time lost.

Just denial and showing their a$$ just to show it. With Bonus! Potentially endangering others!

"I've already been inconvenienced enough by this global pandemic! WHY WON'T SOMEONE THINK OF ME HAVING TO SPEND ABOUT 2 HOURS OUT OF MY DAY WHEN MY KID IS ALREADY HOME TO ACTUALLY HELP REDUCE IT'S SPREAD??"

And then what do you think will happen, if you lie? If it's COVID or even just a cold and you send the kid, the child will likely get others in their class sick, and since most parents actually give a sh!t-- or at least the kids will be witnessed by teachers!-- your kid's whole class will be quarantined anyway.

Y'all are objecting and twisting yourselves into knots to come up with ridiculous workarounds when the simplest solution is also the safest-- get your kid tested.

(Or get a doctor's note if they truly have a chronic condition).

+1. How y’all plan to do this stuff and raise kids who don’t lie is…whooo. Not possible.

Oh, that was never their plan. They plan to raise kids to lie whenever it superficially benefits them or gives them a leg up over "those" people.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The question is why is MCPS releasing this changed policy on the Friday of the first week of school just before a holiday weekend? Why wasn’t this the guidance last week? Do they just want to reinforce that they are a clown show and are indecisive about these arbitrary COVID policies? We pulled from private with more sensible policies. Had I known this is have reconsidered. It’s designed to ensure school is disrupted when a masked kid gets a fever on the playground.

There must be a ton of cases we don't know about for this radical shift after 1 week.

Thanks to this board and conversations between parents from different schools, we know for a fact that no "Covid dashboard" of any local school jurisdiction is remotely accurate. There are multiple cases that are left out.

This means the systems are overwhelmed and so correctly, MCPS changes course to make the system a little safer. Now if it only had the help of parents...