If your school is red, are you sending your child tomorrow?
![[Post New]](/jforum/templates/default/images/icon_minipost_new.gif){kind=icon}
Anonymous
| Nope. Haven’t sent them since 12/16. |
Anonymous
great--then stay home! the fewer kids in school, the greater chance that my kid, who actually wants to be in school can remain in school. I'm perfectly happy for you to cower in fear in keep your kid home. |
Anonymous
| Nope. I have a 2 month old baby at home. There’s no way I’m sending our kid to our COVID-ridden school where she can catch it and bring it back home. There are studies out there say that over 25% of symptomatic infants 0-3 months old end up hospitalized. It drops to around 12% for 4-6 month olds, and gets much lower after 6 months. The risk of serious complications from COVID may be very low for our school age child, but we have to consider our baby. |
Anonymous
| None of those positive cases are at school they’re all at home. I’m sending my kid to school. He’s vaxxed and we are boostered. |
Anonymous
If the upward trend continues at this pace (and it will since Maryland in general is increasing so rapidly) 10% will seem low by next week. MCPS will likely keep schools open because they don't seem to have any plans for virtual, they don't care if teachers and staff get Covid and they don't give a crap about the kids. I feel for parents who need to work. MCPS should have an emergency plan for young kids. Middle and High school kids should not be in school. |
Anonymous
| My child is vaccinated so yes I am sending him. |
Anonymous
| Yes, my three kds are going to their "red" schools tomorrow. They are vaccinated and two of them have just had omicron, with symptoms that were milder than a cold and resolved in 48 hrs. |
Anonymous
| It all seems really arbitrary and I don’t get it. The first 11 schools to be red all go virtual, but the next huge number go red and don’t go virtual?? Or maybe they will with an early morning text. Who knows. |
Anonymous
So, are many of those positives in MCPS. |
Anonymous
| I wouldn’t send a kid to a school with this much norovirus, let alone COVID. |
Anonymous
If the upward trend continues at this pace (and it will since Maryland in general is increasing so rapidly) 10% will seem low by next week. MCPS will likely keep schools open because they don't seem to have any plans for virtual, they don't care if teachers and staff get Covid and they don't give a crap about the kids getting Covid. Most will survive and long term effects don't matter to MCPS - it's not their problem. I feel for parents who need to work. MCPS should have an emergency plan for young kids. Middle and High school kids should not be in school. |
Anonymous
Sorry, but you're really dumb. I don't know if you're the one parroting this on every MCPS thread, or if there are a small number of really stupid dummies. Schools are accelerators of Omicron spread, especially during lunch. The kids are sitting close together, hundreds in one crowded cafeteria, without masks, opening their mouths to eat and yell. Every day. What do you think's going to happen? It's way, way worse than any mass super-spreader event you could participate in outside of school, unless you took your household to an indoor concert venue and you all took off your masks. So people with Omicron are going to school, and spreading it rapidly to others students and staff. And don't say it didn't happen before. It happened with Delta in September, but to a lesser extent because OMICRON IS 10 TIMES MORE TRANSMISSIBLE THAN DELTA. |
Anonymous
Let's see if they have long term issues like most people with Covid. That said, if my vaccinated kid just had Omicron, I might send them |
Anonymous
Not the PP, but there is not a single scientific shred of evidence that schools are super spreaders. Lunch time is not a super spreader event. The reason why cases have skyrocketed recently is because people were NOT in school, socializing, attending parties, going to the mall, going to restaurants, etc. and THAT'S how the virus is spread around. Not by attending school. |
Anonymous
| My kids are going to the red schools. I think they both had Cove in the beginning of the Christmas break. I didn’t think to get them tested because their symptoms were mild. And then I got Covid and my symptoms were not so mild. We are all vaccinated plus boosters. We have all been symptom-free since December 27. Oh, because my symptoms are not mild I actually did get tested and I tested positive. and since it’s so difficult to get a PCR test we didn’t test the kids |