Quarantining entire classrooms at ES level

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:It's better to move the full class online if there if a confirmed positive. There's no way to figure out which kids were direct contact. Just no way.

And if you send a subset (it would be at least 10 in the class based on how desks are set up) you have a) 10 without getting much education at all for the quarantine period, and b) a high likelihood that you didn't catch everyone so two weeks later you have a different 10 stemming from one of the unidentified direct contacts.

There could possibly be an alternative to, say, split a class in half, put plexiglass between the groups, and not allow intermingling at lunch/recess/specials. That would mean only 50% of the class would be sent home with each case.

Studies have just shown plexiglass doesn’t help and in fact hurts because it disrupts airflow. Get a better idea.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Seriously? You want to complain about reasonable precautions?

At okra Singer they quarantined 8 classes for 3 positive cases. That’s not reasonable. That’s trying to keep as many kids home as possible.

I thought I heard the principal say it was two classes quarantined for three positive cases, plus some close contacts from KAH. The third case had not been at school while symptomatic or around test date so they did not quarantine that class. Now that they are rapid testing, I am all in favor of whole class. Seems less disruptive than making teacher teach in hybrid model. And wouldn’t teacher be a close contact? So you’d have to have substitutes. The principal at Singer is awesome and it’s a hard year.

Teacher is vaccinated so doesn’t have to worry/quarantine despite exposure.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:The kids intermix so it makes sense.

Yes, and getting a quick test to be readmitted almost immediately is small burden for the safety of others.

You can’t test out of quarantine. Even with a PCR taken seven days after exposure. I think you are talking about someone showing symptoms, but that’s different.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:It's really hard for working parents. I think it is a good policy, but I wonder what can be done to help working parents with childcare?

My daughter's college has a COVID dorm for exposed students where they have to stay in their rooms and are regularly monitored. Could MCPS have a COVID-exposed classroom that allowed for distancing and isolation from other students, testing and monitoring the students for symptoms, and provided staff with N95s and appropriate PPE? Only for students potentially exposed with no positive test or symptoms of course, whose parents are unable or choose not to keep them at home.

It's not good policy. But MCPS hasn't handled this well from the beginning so no surprises there. Hopefully the FDA bails them out, but they'll probably find a new way to flounder.

What would be bad policy is recklessly exposing others to covid. You really need to get a clue.

They could do test to stay like Massachusettts and Los Angeles now I believe. Surely you could get behind test to stay which the CDC likes and has been shown to be just as safe at a fraction of the disruption.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:It's really hard for working parents. I think it is a good policy, but I wonder what can be done to help working parents with childcare?

My daughter's college has a COVID dorm for exposed students where they have to stay in their rooms and are regularly monitored. Could MCPS have a COVID-exposed classroom that allowed for distancing and isolation from other students, testing and monitoring the students for symptoms, and provided staff with N95s and appropriate PPE? Only for students potentially exposed with no positive test or symptoms of course, whose parents are unable or choose not to keep them at home.

It's not good policy. But MCPS hasn't handled this well from the beginning so no surprises there. Hopefully the FDA bails them out, but they'll probably find a new way to flounder.

+1. MCPS will just find a new way to fail students.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:The kids intermix so it makes sense.

Yes, and getting a quick test to be readmitted almost immediately is small burden for the safety of others.

You cannot test out of quarantine in MCPS. If you are quarantined, it's for 10 days.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Seriously? You want to complain about reasonable precautions?

At okra Singer they quarantined 8 classes for 3 positive cases. That’s not reasonable. That’s trying to keep as many kids home as possible.

I thought I heard the principal say it was two classes quarantined for three positive cases, plus some close contacts from KAH. The third case had not been at school while symptomatic or around test date so they did not quarantine that class. Now that they are rapid testing, I am all in favor of whole class. Seems less disruptive than making teacher teach in hybrid model. And wouldn’t teacher be a close contact? So you’d have to have substitutes. The principal at Singer is awesome and it’s a hard year.

There were 8 classes quarantined.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Seriously? You want to complain about reasonable precautions?

At okra Singer they quarantined 8 classes for 3 positive cases. That’s not reasonable. That’s trying to keep as many kids home as possible.

I thought I heard the principal say it was two classes quarantined for three positive cases, plus some close contacts from KAH. The third case had not been at school while symptomatic or around test date so they did not quarantine that class. Now that they are rapid testing, I am all in favor of whole class. Seems less disruptive than making teacher teach in hybrid model. And wouldn’t teacher be a close contact? So you’d have to have substitutes. The principal at Singer is awesome and it’s a hard year.

The rapid testing doesn't make a difference for quarantine. If they say you are a close contact of someone who tests positive, you cannot test out of quarantine. You are in for 10 days. Our school quarantined 2 classes for one positive test, and no one was allowed to test out because that's the MCPS policy.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Seriously? You want to complain about reasonable precautions?

At okra Singer they quarantined 8 classes for 3 positive cases. That’s not reasonable. That’s trying to keep as many kids home as possible.

I thought I heard the principal say it was two classes quarantined for three positive cases, plus some close contacts from KAH. The third case had not been at school while symptomatic or around test date so they did not quarantine that class. Now that they are rapid testing, I am all in favor of whole class. Seems less disruptive than making teacher teach in hybrid model. And wouldn’t teacher be a close contact? So you’d have to have substitutes. The principal at Singer is awesome and it’s a hard year.

Teacher is vaccinated so doesn’t have to worry/quarantine despite exposure.

My child’s class is currently quarantined because the vaccinated teacher has covid. Pretty sure most teachers who got vaccinated will be facing the same worry since their vaccines are less effective this far out.

[Anonymous]

Teachers just don't want to work. Why work when you can fake you are worried about the health of the kids who are barely affected by covid, while you are vaccinated?
If we only cared about the KIDS!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Teachers just don't want to work. Why work when you can fake you are worried about the health of the kids who are barely affected by covid, while you are vaccinated?
If we only cared about the KIDS!

This trope again?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Teachers just don't want to work. Why work when you can fake you are worried about the health of the kids who are barely affected by covid, while you are vaccinated?
If we only cared about the KIDS!

This trope again?

Go away, you must be a teacher.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Seriously? You want to complain about reasonable precautions?

At okra Singer they quarantined 8 classes for 3 positive cases. That’s not reasonable. That’s trying to keep as many kids home as possible.

I thought I heard the principal say it was two classes quarantined for three positive cases, plus some close contacts from KAH. The third case had not been at school while symptomatic or around test date so they did not quarantine that class. Now that they are rapid testing, I am all in favor of whole class. Seems less disruptive than making teacher teach in hybrid model. And wouldn’t teacher be a close contact? So you’d have to have substitutes. The principal at Singer is awesome and it’s a hard year.

Teacher is vaccinated so doesn’t have to worry/quarantine despite exposure.

Even vaccinated are getting and spreading covid. It s not was simple as just being vaccinated.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Teachers just don't want to work. Why work when you can fake you are worried about the health of the kids who are barely affected by covid, while you are vaccinated?
If we only cared about the KIDS!

If you only cared about your kid, you'd know you are so right and you should be homeschooling as you are so much better and smarter than those teachers. Really, if those teachers are so terrible, why did you send your kid to school in person and why aren't you homeschooling? Why don't you get a job was a teacher? Its so easy and safe, right? Oh, and pays great for having to work during a pandemic with entitled parents like you who cannot be bothered parenting and send their kids to school sick.

Must be nice to be able to deny covid with a straight face and pretend everything is ok.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Teachers just don't want to work. Why work when you can fake you are worried about the health of the kids who are barely affected by covid, while you are vaccinated?
If we only cared about the KIDS!

If you only cared about your kid, you'd know you are so right and you should be homeschooling as you are so much better and smarter than those teachers. Really, if those teachers are so terrible, why did you send your kid to school in person and why aren't you homeschooling? Why don't you get a job was a teacher? Its so easy and safe, right? Oh, and pays great for having to work during a pandemic with entitled parents like you who cannot be bothered parenting and send their kids to school sick.

Must be nice to be able to deny covid with a straight face and pretend everything is ok.

Yes, it's definitely safe. Thanks for pointing that out. We need more people to get on board with this so we can reduce the effect of these ridiculous quarantines.