Surreal... Zoom capacity email in Regional Quarantine Program

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:You all are aware that central office has a lot out sick with covid, too, right? And that it is staffed with humans and not evil robots?
Major mistakes have been made, but looking for a villain in your public service employees is pretty dumb. It’s a terrible pandemic and things are going to go awry. Save your ire for major issues and consider letting the little (and this really is little - missing a couple hours of instruction for two days) stuff go.

Some things to consider:
Communication and transparency would be good
Decent wages and benefits so that support staff, subs and drivers are available would be good
Actual planning to have regular and frequent testing in place would be good
Reputable and reliable masks in abundance would be good
A community working together to solve problems rather than name calling and hysterics would be good

Central Office staff can't work from home when they are quarantining?

I would imagine some are actually feeling ill. Quite a few fully vaccinated people do feel ill, like they have the flu, and probably need to rest a bit. Just have some small amount of basic human empathy for other sick humans and pick your battles. So much quivering rage and fury.

"I would imagine some". The beginning of every great argument. Just stop.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:If this is not an equity-related reason to switch to virtual, I don't know what its.

MY BRAIN IS EXPLODING.

Um. What?

Yes, let's switch to virtual, so half of the kids in virtual "school" don't even log on because, wait for it, they have little support at home. Your post makes zero sense.

Those kids who won't log on are the kids not going to school now at all. We can't make perfect the enemy of the good.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:You all are aware that central office has a lot out sick with covid, too, right? And that it is staffed with humans and not evil robots?
Major mistakes have been made, but looking for a villain in your public service employees is pretty dumb. It’s a terrible pandemic and things are going to go awry. Save your ire for major issues and consider letting the little (and this really is little - missing a couple hours of instruction for two days) stuff go.

Some things to consider:
Communication and transparency would be good
Decent wages and benefits so that support staff, subs and drivers are available would be good
Actual planning to have regular and frequent testing in place would be good
Reputable and reliable masks in abundance would be good
A community working together to solve problems rather than name calling and hysterics would be good

Central Office staff can't work from home when they are quarantining?

I would imagine some are actually feeling ill. Quite a few fully vaccinated people do feel ill, like they have the flu, and probably need to rest a bit. Just have some small amount of basic human empathy for other sick humans and pick your battles. So much quivering rage and fury.

"I would imagine some". The beginning of every great argument. Just stop.

Ok. I don’t know. Extrapolating from the rest of the planet. But go ahead and enjoy your righteous fury.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:You all are aware that central office has a lot out sick with covid, too, right? And that it is staffed with humans and not evil robots?
Major mistakes have been made, but looking for a villain in your public service employees is pretty dumb. It’s a terrible pandemic and things are going to go awry. Save your ire for major issues and consider letting the little (and this really is little - missing a couple hours of instruction for two days) stuff go.

Some things to consider:
Communication and transparency would be good
Decent wages and benefits so that support staff, subs and drivers are available would be good
Actual planning to have regular and frequent testing in place would be good
Reputable and reliable masks in abundance would be good
A community working together to solve problems rather than name calling and hysterics would be good

Central Office staff can't work from home when they are quarantining?

I would imagine some are actually feeling ill. Quite a few fully vaccinated people do feel ill, like they have the flu, and probably need to rest a bit. Just have some small amount of basic human empathy for other sick humans and pick your battles. So much quivering rage and fury.

"I would imagine some". The beginning of every great argument. Just stop.

Ok. I don’t know. Extrapolating from the rest of the planet. But go ahead and enjoy your righteous fury.

Do you know what extrapolating even means? An uninformed guess that the people responsible for checking on Zoom licenses in MCPS are COVID positive and feeling too ill to do their job is not extrapolating from the rest of the planet. It's making stuff up. Excuses, excuses.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:If this is not an equity-related reason to switch to virtual, I don't know what its.

MY BRAIN IS EXPLODING.

You do realize that virtual comes with its on equity related concerns?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:You all are aware that central office has a lot out sick with covid, too, right? And that it is staffed with humans and not evil robots?
Major mistakes have been made, but looking for a villain in your public service employees is pretty dumb. It’s a terrible pandemic and things are going to go awry. Save your ire for major issues and consider letting the little (and this really is little - missing a couple hours of instruction for two days) stuff go.

Some things to consider:
Communication and transparency would be good
Decent wages and benefits so that support staff, subs and drivers are available would be good
Actual planning to have regular and frequent testing in place would be good
Reputable and reliable masks in abundance would be good
A community working together to solve problems rather than name calling and hysterics would be good

Central Office staff can't work from home when they are quarantining?

I would imagine some are actually feeling ill. Quite a few fully vaccinated people do feel ill, like they have the flu, and probably need to rest a bit. Just have some small amount of basic human empathy for other sick humans and pick your battles. So much quivering rage and fury.

"I would imagine some". The beginning of every great argument. Just stop.

Ok. I don’t know. Extrapolating from the rest of the planet. But go ahead and enjoy your righteous fury.

Do you know what extrapolating even means? An uninformed guess that the people responsible for checking on Zoom licenses in MCPS are COVID positive and feeling too ill to do their job is not extrapolating from the rest of the planet. It's making stuff up. Excuses, excuses.

Which brings up the question: how much learning are a bunch of quarantined nine-year-olds, also feeling ill, going to get from a zoom presentation given to 300 of them (or 3000) at once?

I mean, I'd think they'd learn more online if they'd never gotten sick in the first place. But hey. This is the world you wanted.

[Anonymous]

When virtual didn't work because of broken links, platform outages, etc...well, that was fine.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:You all are aware that central office has a lot out sick with covid, too, right? And that it is staffed with humans and not evil robots?
Major mistakes have been made, but looking for a villain in your public service employees is pretty dumb. It’s a terrible pandemic and things are going to go awry. Save your ire for major issues and consider letting the little (and this really is little - missing a couple hours of instruction for two days) stuff go.

Some things to consider:
Communication and transparency would be good
Decent wages and benefits so that support staff, subs and drivers are available would be good
Actual planning to have regular and frequent testing in place would be good
Reputable and reliable masks in abundance would be good
A community working together to solve problems rather than name calling and hysterics would be good

Central Office staff can't work from home when they are quarantining?

I would imagine some are actually feeling ill. Quite a few fully vaccinated people do feel ill, like they have the flu, and probably need to rest a bit. Just have some small amount of basic human empathy for other sick humans and pick your battles. So much quivering rage and fury.

"I would imagine some". The beginning of every great argument. Just stop.

Ok. I don’t know. Extrapolating from the rest of the planet. But go ahead and enjoy your righteous fury.

Do you know what extrapolating even means? An uninformed guess that the people responsible for checking on Zoom licenses in MCPS are COVID positive and feeling too ill to do their job is not extrapolating from the rest of the planet. It's making stuff up. Excuses, excuses.

Which brings up the question: how much learning are a bunch of quarantined nine-year-olds, also feeling ill, going to get from a zoom presentation given to 300 of them (or 3000) at once?

I mean, I'd think they'd learn more online if they'd never gotten sick in the first place. But hey. This is the world you wanted.

+1. Honestly, this band-aid quarantine zoom isn’t going to be the be-all end-all of your child’s education with an elementary schooler. I guess it’s better than nothing but try not to stress out about it. It’s only a few days. Truly.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:You all are aware that central office has a lot out sick with covid, too, right? And that it is staffed with humans and not evil robots?
Major mistakes have been made, but looking for a villain in your public service employees is pretty dumb. It’s a terrible pandemic and things are going to go awry. Save your ire for major issues and consider letting the little (and this really is little - missing a couple hours of instruction for two days) stuff go.

Some things to consider:
Communication and transparency would be good
Decent wages and benefits so that support staff, subs and drivers are available would be good
Actual planning to have regular and frequent testing in place would be good
Reputable and reliable masks in abundance would be good
A community working together to solve problems rather than name calling and hysterics would be good

Central Office staff can't work from home when they are quarantining?

I would imagine some are actually feeling ill. Quite a few fully vaccinated people do feel ill, like they have the flu, and probably need to rest a bit. Just have some small amount of basic human empathy for other sick humans and pick your battles. So much quivering rage and fury.

"I would imagine some". The beginning of every great argument. Just stop.

Ok. I don’t know. Extrapolating from the rest of the planet. But go ahead and enjoy your righteous fury.

Do you know what extrapolating even means? An uninformed guess that the people responsible for checking on Zoom licenses in MCPS are COVID positive and feeling too ill to do their job is not extrapolating from the rest of the planet. It's making stuff up. Excuses, excuses.

Which brings up the question: how much learning are a bunch of quarantined nine-year-olds, also feeling ill, going to get from a zoom presentation given to 300 of them (or 3000) at once?

I mean, I'd think they'd learn more online if they'd never gotten sick in the first place. But hey. This is the world you wanted.

+1. Honestly, this band-aid quarantine zoom isn’t going to be the be-all end-all of your child’s education with an elementary schooler. I guess it’s better than nothing but try not to stress out about it. It’s only a few days. Truly.

I agree with that, but I don't have a kid in the program. My concern after hearing about this though is that this seems like a really obvious thing to figure out and prepare for, and MCPS dropped the ball. If they can't get the easy things right, I'm losing hope that they will be able to get the hard things right.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:If this is not an equity-related reason to switch to virtual, I don't know what its.

MY BRAIN IS EXPLODING.

Um. What?

Yes, let's switch to virtual, so half of the kids in virtual "school" don't even log on because, wait for it, they have little support at home. Your post makes zero sense.

Those kids who won't log on are the kids not going to school now at all. We can't make perfect the enemy of the good.

Except that the only “good” thing about virtual is appeasing anxious parents. And that, I will absolutely be the enemy of.

[Anonymous]

Let’s review:

People on quarantine do NOT have Covid, they have exposure to Covid. If you actually have Covid, it’s called isolation, NOT quarantine.

Carry on

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Let’s review:

People on quarantine do NOT have Covid, they have exposure to Covid. If you actually have Covid, it’s called isolation, NOT quarantine.

Carry on

MCPS is using the terms quarantine for both quarantine and isolation because most people don't know the difference. We were told by our school that kids in isolation due to a positive test have a right to the quarantine program.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:If this is not an equity-related reason to switch to virtual, I don't know what its.

MY BRAIN IS EXPLODING.

Um. What?

Yes, let's switch to virtual, so half of the kids in virtual "school" don't even log on because, wait for it, they have little support at home. Your post makes zero sense.

Those kids who won't log on are the kids not going to school now at all. We can't make perfect the enemy of the good.

Except that the only “good” thing about virtual is appeasing anxious parents. And that, I will absolutely be the enemy of.

Please STOP gaslighting parents who are considering their family's health and safety of the schools and call them "anxious" - there are equally "anxious" parents who want to keep the schools open for the well-being of their own children for different reasons. They may not do as well virtually and that's understandable. We are all some degrees anxious for different reasons or we probably wouldn't be on this list.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I thought kids didn’t need to quarantine if they are fully vaccinated following an exposure. So all these kids are unvaxxed?

This. Vaccinate your kids and the quarantines end - you hold the key to your own cell.

[Anonymous]

I really have no idea why anyone would want to be part of the regional zoom quarantine program. Zoom school is a waste of time. Better to study directly from textbooks.