Essential Water Use alert for MoCo, so...

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My HS is telling kids in PE and sports to pair up 2 to a shower.

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Anonymous wrote:My HS is telling kids in PE and sports to pair up 2 to a shower.

Your kids shower for PE??

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Anonymous wrote:I’d assume business as usual, unless situation worsens. It’s a voluntary reduction. Kids washing their hands isn’t going to tip the scale. And with Noro virus spreading, not where I’d skimp. I can hold off on my laundry and a bubble bath and use paper plates.

No. It makes a difference when 160k students + 20k or so staff need to use bathroom, cafeteria workers for obvious hygiene and sanitation reasons. ALL those that care - call and leave messages or email if MCPS is not planning to address the situation.

Those kids will need to use the bathroom whether they are at home or at school.

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Anonymous wrote:They’re still going to use the bathroom at home. What’s the difference?

Stop trying to get another day off

NP. Schools don’t even guaranteed hand sanitizer any more. Enjoy the norovirus your kid brings home from your free daycare.

Hand sanitizer doesn't work against noro. Good old hand washing does. Which kids should do at home or at school, as others have pointed out, so there is nothing that MCPS is going to do to limit access.

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Anonymous wrote:They’re still going to use the bathroom at home. What’s the difference?

Stop trying to get another day off

NP. Schools don’t even guaranteed hand sanitizer any more. Enjoy the norovirus your kid brings home from your free daycare.

In what universe is MCPS "free"? It costs taxpayers billions.

Free at point of use, genius.

In other words everyone is paying and they have no choice about it. It is not free and any MCPS staff member that thinks that is an entitled POS

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Anonymous wrote:It's Code Green at 6am so,...

Yea, hopefully the middle school aged OP is on their way to school now… and hopefully they did their homework

"Homework." Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha.

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Anonymous wrote:Maybe they could switch to all disposable in the cafeterias for now? To cut down on dishwashing.

Could is the key word. They could. But will they? Do they have THAT many disposables ready to go?

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Anonymous wrote:It's Code Green at 6am so,...

Yea, hopefully the middle school aged OP is on their way to school now… and hopefully they did their homework

And here is that poster that never wants to be around their kid.

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Anonymous wrote:They’re still going to use the bathroom at home. What’s the difference?

Stop trying to get another day off

NP. Schools don’t even guaranteed hand sanitizer any more. Enjoy the norovirus your kid brings home from your free daycare.

Yep, no hand sanitizer in bathrooms either is what ES students said. Sad.

Hand sanitizer is ineffective against Norovirus. Unless there is no water, it shouldn’t be used in a bathroom. You need to wash your hands with soap.

WSSC just encouraged people to eg only run full loads of laundry, etc. or postpone at this stage. Kids are going to use the toilet no matter where they are. This is a silly thread until the situation worsens, which it might. Like if we have no water.

Soap? They have those in school bathrooms. And when it runs out...? You need to talk to your kid or their friends more often.

Hilarious that anyone thinks there’s soap in the bathrooms.

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Anonymous wrote:I’d assume business as usual, unless situation worsens. It’s a voluntary reduction. Kids washing their hands isn’t going to tip the scale. And with Noro virus spreading, not where I’d skimp. I can hold off on my laundry and a bubble bath and use paper plates.

Why would this even be a problem? All the bathrooms are locked.

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Anonymous wrote:My HS is telling kids in PE and sports to pair up 2 to a shower.

Your kids shower for PE??

I believe MCPS is required to have shower facilities, but PE teachers don’t provide time for kids to shower.

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Anonymous wrote:They’re still going to use the bathroom at home. What’s the difference?

Stop trying to get another day off

NP. Schools don’t even guaranteed hand sanitizer any more. Enjoy the norovirus your kid brings home from your free daycare.

Yep, no hand sanitizer in bathrooms either is what ES students said. Sad.

Hand sanitizer is ineffective against Norovirus. Unless there is no water, it shouldn’t be used in a bathroom. You need to wash your hands with soap.

WSSC just encouraged people to eg only run full loads of laundry, etc. or postpone at this stage. Kids are going to use the toilet no matter where they are. This is a silly thread until the situation worsens, which it might. Like if we have no water.

Soap? They have those in school bathrooms. And when it runs out...? You need to talk to your kid or their friends more often.

Hilarious that anyone thinks there’s soap in the bathrooms.

My kid moved to a different MCPS school this year. Both this one and the last one had soap in the bathrooms.

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Anonymous wrote:They’re still going to use the bathroom at home. What’s the difference?

Stop trying to get another day off

NP. Schools don’t even guaranteed hand sanitizer any more. Enjoy the norovirus your kid brings home from your free daycare.

Yep, no hand sanitizer in bathrooms either is what ES students said. Sad.

Hand sanitizer is ineffective against Norovirus. Unless there is no water, it shouldn’t be used in a bathroom. You need to wash your hands with soap.

WSSC just encouraged people to eg only run full loads of laundry, etc. or postpone at this stage. Kids are going to use the toilet no matter where they are. This is a silly thread until the situation worsens, which it might. Like if we have no water.

Soap? They have those in school bathrooms. And when it runs out...? You need to talk to your kid or their friends more often.

Hilarious that anyone thinks there’s soap in the bathrooms.

Because these adults have never bothered to be inside their kids' schools to know. They simply drop off or put them on a bus. If you spent just 30minutes, one hour, half a day or one day, just one day out of the 180+ days of the school year, they would know there is hardly ever soap, bathrooms are locked, or bathrooms aren't being used for a host of reasons - from something of a "minor" reason as not wanting to be a part of someone's TikTok video that they are making in the bathroom, to the larger issues that numerous posters have stated on this forum, such as unable to flush toilet, uses of substances by those at school they don't know about or don't care to know about. Wake up, parents and volunteer!

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Anonymous wrote:They’re still going to use the bathroom at home. What’s the difference?

Stop trying to get another day off

NP. Schools don’t even guaranteed hand sanitizer any more. Enjoy the norovirus your kid brings home from your free daycare.

Yep, no hand sanitizer in bathrooms either is what ES students said. Sad.

Hand sanitizer is ineffective against Norovirus. Unless there is no water, it shouldn’t be used in a bathroom. You need to wash your hands with soap.

WSSC just encouraged people to eg only run full loads of laundry, etc. or postpone at this stage. Kids are going to use the toilet no matter where they are. This is a silly thread until the situation worsens, which it might. Like if we have no water.

Soap? They have those in school bathrooms. And when it runs out...? You need to talk to your kid or their friends more often.

Hilarious that anyone thinks there’s soap in the bathrooms.

Because these adults have never bothered to be inside their kids' schools to know. They simply drop off or put them on a bus. If you spent just 30minutes, one hour, half a day or one day, just one day out of the 180+ days of the school year, they would know there is hardly ever soap, bathrooms are locked, or bathrooms aren't being used for a host of reasons - from something of a "minor" reason as not wanting to be a part of someone's TikTok video that they are making in the bathroom, to the larger issues that numerous posters have stated on this forum, such as unable to flush toilet, uses of substances by those at school they don't know about or don't care to know about. Wake up, parents and volunteer!

I go into the bathroom at my kid's ES once every few weeks. There is always soap in the bathroom.

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Anonymous wrote:They’re still going to use the bathroom at home. What’s the difference?

Stop trying to get another day off

NP. Schools don’t even guaranteed hand sanitizer any more. Enjoy the norovirus your kid brings home from your free daycare.

Yep, no hand sanitizer in bathrooms either is what ES students said. Sad.

Hand sanitizer is ineffective against Norovirus. Unless there is no water, it shouldn’t be used in a bathroom. You need to wash your hands with soap.

WSSC just encouraged people to eg only run full loads of laundry, etc. or postpone at this stage. Kids are going to use the toilet no matter where they are. This is a silly thread until the situation worsens, which it might. Like if we have no water.

Soap? They have those in school bathrooms. And when it runs out...? You need to talk to your kid or their friends more often.

Hilarious that anyone thinks there’s soap in the bathrooms.

Because these adults have never bothered to be inside their kids' schools to know. They simply drop off or put them on a bus. If you spent just 30minutes, one hour, half a day or one day, just one day out of the 180+ days of the school year, they would know there is hardly ever soap, bathrooms are locked, or bathrooms aren't being used for a host of reasons - from something of a "minor" reason as not wanting to be a part of someone's TikTok video that they are making in the bathroom, to the larger issues that numerous posters have stated on this forum, such as unable to flush toilet, uses of substances by those at school they don't know about or don't care to know about. Wake up, parents and volunteer!

I go into the bathroom at my kid's ES once every few weeks. There is always soap in the bathroom.

Good for you and your privileged community.