OMICRON to send us back to distance learning

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Anonymous wrote:Some of us still are in Virtual learning. No, the counties will keep going with no distancing, fake testing and everything else and only when a few people die (those who others deem worthy) then they may at least put some precautions in place.

Cool, one less kid in my kids classroom. Go for it!

We are thrilled to be back in school. DS is enjoying learning in person. The kids who fell behind last year are starting to catch up. Hopefully we will see positive gains throughout the County as the kids readjust to school and in classwork. Last year was ok for some kids, great for a very few kids, bad for most kids, and disastrous for others. Virtual does not work well for most people. Ignoring that it is not a great way to teach kids, especially younger kids, it was awful for just about everyone socially.

I doubt that we will see a lot of COVID deaths that are traced back to attending school but there might be some. I am not certain that the increased number of suicides, attempted and successful, or the learning loss or the increased mental health issues on kids is worth the loss of a few lives. And that is what we are balancing here, death from COVID or death from the impacts of COVID restrictions.

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Anonymous wrote:Schools stayed open during the delta wave; unless omicron is significantly worse, I seriously doubt schools will close. Kids are being vaccinated, adults are getting boosters. I don't see it happening, and I doubt the political will exists, either.

I’m just happy I can still work without having to give up my immune system for a worldwide medical experiment.

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If omicron is bad, I could see a move to requiring vaccination for in person students plus requiring K and 95 masks as opposed to cloth ones, more money to improve the ventilation, and more frequent testing required.

We know more now about the rules schools play in spreading illness and how to slow spread down.

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Not a chance outside of the DC area. Who knows in DC with the amount of lunatics dying to shut it all down again.

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Anonymous wrote:I don’t see public schools going back to virtual. Some in MCPS might want to, but they’d need a waiver from the state Board of Education to drop in-person classes. A lot of new things would have to come together to make that even a remote possibility. The new variant would need to evade vaccines to a large degree. it would need to be much more infectious in schools than Delta. Ans there would have to be some reason to think it would end at some point.

That last one is the big one. School districts found out how hard it is to reopen after closing. They’re not going to close again unless they’re able to confidently pick a return date from the start.

Schools and students did far more than their fair share to protect old and sick people from covid (with school closures ending up being fairly worthless, anyway). It will be up to those people to protect themselves in Omicron isn’t overblown.

This.

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Anonymous wrote:Not a chance outside of the DC area. Who knows in DC with the amount of lunatics dying to shut it all down again.

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I hate that you are correct.

Welp, it's not like anyone in DC seems to give much of a sh*t about public education, anyway.

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Maryland will not have a widespread shutdown again. The government couldn't figure out how to order the schools back open which was a political lesson learned.

Maybe spotty closures, but it seems this variant is milder than the last two. If they close, it's because they are trying to kill public education outright.

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Anonymous wrote:Some of us still are in Virtual learning. No, the counties will keep going with no distancing, fake testing and everything else and only when a few people die (those who others deem worthy) then they may at least put some precautions in place.

I'm sorry to hear that having your kids home every day for almost two years has melted your brain. It's understandable. And preventable, by sending your kids to school, which is where they belong.

I love having them at home and will miss them when they go back. When people like you can behave more responsible or the schools handle covid better, we'll consider returning. I'm sorry you don't love your kids enough to have them home. Maybe you shouldn't have had kids if you cannot handle having them around.

Schools are safe. For kids and for their family. If you want testing, they're doing that too. Your absurd post shows the deleterious effects of being locked down for extended periods of time.

No, schools are not safe. Most aren't following the CDC guidelines including testing and social distancing. Most have 35+ students to a classroom and in MS and HS those kids rotate classes. Many are only doing opt in testing and its random so out of 1000 students maybe 50 are tested and its the same kids all the time as any parent who is engaging in risky behavior isn't going to opt in.

Well, if none of the covid19 mitigations are being done according to the CDC and we are still at zero for pediatric covid19 deaths attributed to schools, then, well, I'm guessing we never need a shutdown again. If it doesn't cause death or severe illness even when we are overcrowded and not wearing masks correctly, I don't know why the schools were closed in the first place. Hmmm.....
Where do you get this number? I teach in FCPS (elementary) and 35+ exceeds what we can have in k-6. I've been teaching for a long time and our classes are usually in the mid-20s. Sure I've had lager and smaller classes, but I've never known an ES class to have 35.

As far as not being "safe", we will never be 100% safe. As far as Covid, we are a two teacher family and between the two schools we've had 15 reported student cases total between the two schools and no known spread. That's 15 out of 1,700 students over 3 months. Neither of us have ever felt "unsafe".

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Anonymous wrote:Some of us still are in Virtual learning. No, the counties will keep going with no distancing, fake testing and everything else and only when a few people die (those who others deem worthy) then they may at least put some precautions in place.

I'm sorry to hear that having your kids home every day for almost two years has melted your brain. It's understandable. And preventable, by sending your kids to school, which is where they belong.

I love having them at home and will miss them when they go back. When people like you can behave more responsible or the schools handle covid better, we'll consider returning. I'm sorry you don't love your kids enough to have them home. Maybe you shouldn't have had kids if you cannot handle having them around.

Schools are safe. For kids and for their family. If you want testing, they're doing that too. Your absurd post shows the deleterious effects of being locked down for extended periods of time.

No, schools are not safe. Most aren't following the CDC guidelines including testing and social distancing. Most have 35+ students to a classroom and in MS and HS those kids rotate classes. Many are only doing opt in testing and its random so out of 1000 students maybe 50 are tested and its the same kids all the time as any parent who is engaging in risky behavior isn't going to opt in.

Well, if none of the covid19 mitigations are being done according to the CDC and we are still at zero for pediatric covid19 deaths attributed to schools, then, well, I'm guessing we never need a shutdown again. If it doesn't cause death or severe illness even when we are overcrowded and not wearing masks correctly, I don't know why the schools were closed in the first place. Hmmm.....
Where do you get this number? I teach in FCPS (elementary) and 35+ exceeds what we can have in k-6. I've been teaching for a long time and our classes are usually in the mid-20s. Sure I've had lager and smaller classes, but I've never known an ES class to have 35.

As far as not being "safe", we will never be 100% safe. As far as Covid, we are a two teacher family and between the two schools we've had 15 reported student cases total between the two schools and no known spread. That's 15 out of 1,700 students over 3 months. Neither of us have ever felt "unsafe".

Well, if none of the covid19 mitigations are being done according to the CDC and we are still at zero for pediatric covid19 deaths attributed to schools, then, well, I'm guessing we never need a shutdown again. If it doesn't cause death or severe illness even when we are overcrowded and not wearing masks correctly, I don't know why the schools were closed in the first place. Hmmm.....

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Youngkin won't allow it.

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It's already here. Testing just isn't picking it up yet, because other countries are doing a much better job testing.

If you don't have a vaccine and aren't taking masking and social distancing precautions, you will probably have it within a month.

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No, kids are now getting their shots and the school systems wearing masks should be fine.

The schools not wearing masks may have to shut down when too many staff members get sick.

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Not gonna happen. They will not close schools again.

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I love my kid to pieces which is why I want her to continue in-person pre-K this year and go to in-person K next year. Hopefully unmasked next year, since she is almost 5 and will be vaccinated soon.

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Anonymous wrote:It's already here. Testing just isn't picking it up yet, because other countries are doing a much better job testing.

If you don't have a vaccine and aren't taking masking and social distancing precautions, you will probably have it within a month.

Weird. I don’t have what you call vaccine, I don’t mask and I believe in human interaction aka I haven’t stopped shaking hands or hugging folks. Haven’t picked up anything.

Guess I’ll donate myself to science when I die.