It’s officially 7… new color coded chart??

[Anonymous]

Excuse my ignorance- is this just the new cases that have been reported in the last 24 hours or total who are recovering?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Excuse my ignorance- is this just the new cases that have been reported in the last 24 hours or total who are recovering?

Just new cases

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I am getting confused by the threads and charts.

Has anyone been following the trend at Central Office (look under Other on the chart).

https://www.montgomeryschoolsmd.org/uploadedFiles/Coronavirus/dashboaird/14-Day%20COVID-19%20Case%20Reports%20December%2023%20-%20January%205.pdf

208 cases of Covid. They have more cases than most high schools.

What’s the magic percentage of cases? Who knows because MCPS doesn’t know (or is not reporting) the number of people in Central Office.

Is Central Office green, yellow, or red? Ha - they list themselves as N/A.

These are the great minds leading our county school system through this crisis of COVID spread. So how do you think 208 people got COVID in the last 14 days when they were off December 23rd - January 4th? Too much maskless fun on their vacation trips so now they need quarantine days on top of their extra vacation days?

Yup. The captain is going down with the ship.

I think that number includes out of school staff like bus drivers.

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Anonymous wrote:it is sketchy to me that the high schools have so many more pozitive cases than the ES and MS!! like the teens are facing it!

Why, when they are so much larger than ES??? Not to mention teenagers interactions are less managed that young kids who don’t do anything without parental permission.

I would guess the schools with the large spikes received rapid tests in class...

This is all so frustrating! Why bother with the color coded system if they are not gonna release the information on what… day 3? They should have just said that they would determine virtual learning in a case by case basis. And if it really is because whoever published the document couldn’t do an excel sheet… that even more concerning!

I know this is frustrating, but simmer down. The document a PP linked is not the final version, and not the version that is normally color coded. That has not yet come out.

DH and I just looked at the MCPS messaging, and the color coded chart is updated weekly on Wednesdays. Only the day’s tally is released at 7p daily.

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Anonymous wrote:it is sketchy to me that the high schools have so many more pozitive cases than the ES and MS!! like the teens are facing it!

Why, when they are so much larger than ES??? Not to mention teenagers interactions are less managed that young kids who don’t do anything without parental permission.

I would guess the schools with the large spikes received rapid tests in class...

This is all so frustrating! Why bother with the color coded system if they are not gonna release the information on what… day 3? They should have just said that they would determine virtual learning in a case by case basis. And if it really is because whoever published the document couldn’t do an excel sheet… that even more concerning!

I know this is frustrating, but simmer down. The document a PP linked is not the final version, and not the version that is normally color coded. That has not yet come out.

DH and I just looked at the MCPS messaging, and the color coded chart is updated weekly on Wednesdays. Only the day’s tally is released at 7p daily.

Only on Wednesdays? You could be three days asymptomatic spreading it around before the school is shut down. WTF???

Vicarious Negligence? Nah. They're directly responsible.
Comparative Negligence? Maybe, although parents are accepting the school's statements that schools are safe?
Contributory Negligence? MCPS wasn't responsible for covid, but they do have a Statutory Duty of Care to the children?

"Grossly careless or negligent; reckless; malicious. The term wanton implies a reckless disregard for the consequences of one's behavior. Such an act is more than NEGLIGENCE or gross negligence; it is equivalent in its results to an act of willful misconduct."

Hmm.

[Anonymous]

I think the point is that (a) the schools are RED, (b) MCPS did NOT shut them down so that they are violating their own policies? Did I miss something?

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Anonymous wrote:I think the point is that (a) the schools are RED, (b) MCPS did NOT shut them down so that they are violating their own policies? Did I miss something?

You did miss something. Their messaging from the start was that going red would trigger a conversation with DHHS on how to proceed. They never said it was automatic. They are not violating their policy.

(I’m super irritated with MCPS, so I hate to defend them. But technically they didn’t violate anything.)

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Anonymous wrote:I think the point is that (a) the schools are RED, (b) MCPS did NOT shut them down so that they are violating their own policies? Did I miss something?

You did miss something. Their messaging from the start was that going red would trigger a conversation with DHHS on how to proceed. They never said it was automatic. They are not violating their policy.

(I’m super irritated with MCPS, so I hate to defend them. But technically they didn’t violate anything.)

Maybe they can talk their way down to Vicarious Negligence then? Slick.

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Anonymous wrote:I think the point is that (a) the schools are RED, (b) MCPS did NOT shut them down so that they are violating their own policies? Did I miss something?

You did miss something. Their messaging from the start was that going red would trigger a conversation with DHHS on how to proceed. They never said it was automatic. They are not violating their policy.

(I’m super irritated with MCPS, so I hate to defend them. But technically they didn’t violate anything.)

Except they automatically shut the first 11 down and there was ZERO in-school transmission. No conversation happened there. Are they opening them back up now?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I think the point is that (a) the schools are RED, (b) MCPS did NOT shut them down so that they are violating their own policies? Did I miss something?

You did miss something. Their messaging from the start was that going red would trigger a conversation with DHHS on how to proceed. They never said it was automatic. They are not violating their policy.

(I’m super irritated with MCPS, so I hate to defend them. But technically they didn’t violate anything.)

Except they automatically shut the first 11 down and there was ZERO in-school transmission. No conversation happened there. Are they opening them back up now?

Again, I’m annoyed too.

But we don’t know if there was a conversation with DHHS. There almost certainly was. No clue why it is taking so long this time. (Actually it is almost certainly because they didn’t think this through.)

But it is not accurate to say that going red ever triggered automatic closure.

[Anonymous]

I was under the impression that that dashboard was updated every Wednesday and the updates PERCENTAGE totals would be every day at 7. I can’t be the only one. Their communication is misleading at best.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I was under the impression that that dashboard was updated every Wednesday and the updates PERCENTAGE totals would be every day at 7. I can’t be the only one. Their communication is misleading at best.

No one knows what's going on or what to expect and it's made worse by communications that appear very clear but in fact were misleading.

Total disaster.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I was under the impression that that dashboard was updated every Wednesday and the updates PERCENTAGE totals would be every day at 7. I can’t be the only one. Their communication is misleading at best.

+1

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I was under the impression that that dashboard was updated every Wednesday and the updates PERCENTAGE totals would be every day at 7. I can’t be the only one. Their communication is misleading at best.

No one knows what's going on or what to expect and it's made worse by communications that appear very clear but in fact were misleading.

Total disaster.

They are literally causing so much anxiety and mental anguish at this point.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I think the point is that (a) the schools are RED, (b) MCPS did NOT shut them down so that they are violating their own policies? Did I miss something?

You did miss something. Their messaging from the start was that going red would trigger a conversation with DHHS on how to proceed. They never said it was automatic. They are not violating their policy.

(I’m super irritated with MCPS, so I hate to defend them. But technically they didn’t violate anything.)

Except they automatically shut the first 11 down and there was ZERO in-school transmission. No conversation happened there. Are they opening them back up now?

The W schools have more COVID than Seneca Valley. This is bs on who closes and who is open. Students are now educated based on zip codes and who has the power to fight back. We all live in the same county.

And meanwhile, bars, restaurants, and malls are fully open for business.