Just spoke to an MCPS teacher who said she was 99% sure MCPS will be DL in the fall

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I'm sure they're scrambling now that they realize their lack of planning means they're way behind the eight ball and yet somehow will have to get kids back in school at least part of the week. They're going to look pretty darn incompetent if every other district in the area makes it happen and they don't because they dragged their feet too long. I mean, there probably isn't a limitless supply of hand sanitizer machines -- Fairfac and other districts now have a jump on that.

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Anonymous wrote:I'm sure they're scrambling now that they realize their lack of planning means they're way behind the eight ball and yet somehow will have to get kids back in school at least part of the week. They're going to look pretty darn incompetent if every other district in the area makes it happen and they don't because they dragged their feet too long. I mean, there probably isn't a limitless supply of hand sanitizer machines -- Fairfac and other districts now have a jump on that.

Yes, it was so incompetent of MCPS to not make plans months ahead of time for circumstances that nobody could predict.

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Anonymous wrote:God I hope it's the 2 day in-person option....

I'm almost as certain as the teacher friend that it will be the hybrid. All of the districts who have announced already mentioned working with neighboring jurisdictions. If MCPS went against what everyone else is doing I'd be shocked.

The shoe is on the other foot: it's the other districts who will be forced to reconsider their plans. The cautious districts will decide at the last minute, and the way cases/hospitalizations are trending, they will decide for DL.

They're trending down in Montgomery County and Maryland.

You really believe MD can become an impregnable fortress while the rest of the country goes to the dogs?

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Anonymous wrote:I'm sure they're scrambling now that they realize their lack of planning means they're way behind the eight ball and yet somehow will have to get kids back in school at least part of the week. They're going to look pretty darn incompetent if every other district in the area makes it happen and they don't because they dragged their feet too long. I mean, there probably isn't a limitless supply of hand sanitizer machines -- Fairfac and other districts now have a jump on that.

Yes, it was so incompetent of MCPS to not make plans months ahead of time for circumstances that nobody could predict.

Sorry, all large organizations have to plan for different scenarios. Why should MCPS be off the hook?

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I reported on another thread that both an elementary school Principal and a high school counselor told us the same thing, re DL. The Principal was talking my daughter's class on the last day of school, and, I suppose, "let it slip". I was sitting right there next to DD and heard her say it. The counselor told me during a conversation about my son's SN accommodations going forward.

You can't let a decision slip when it hasn't been decided yet.

PP you replied to. I think the people I heard just went with what they understood to be the likeliest option? But it really has to be extra-likely if a counselor actually told me, a parent, and if a Principal was confident enough to add a little casual sentence about it in a speech to 4th graders...

I mean, maybe they think it's likely because it's the easiest option? Sorry everybody, we just won't have school until there's a vaccine/cure, who knows when that will be...

That doesn't mean it's what's going to happen, though.

To say that they have 8 weeks to plan is completely disingenuous. They've had months and months to do so, and they have 8 more weeks.

According to that rule, parents have had months and months to make backup plans and eight more weeks to do so.

Or is it that BOTH parties are responding in real time to public health conditions that are constantly changing among a wave of false information, some of which is spread by our national executive?

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I suspect it will be DL for a while as there is no real safe way to bring kids back and keep them safe. If one kid or adults brings in it, its going to spread quickly and those kids will bring it back to their families. If we stayed under quarantine and people were not vacationing and socializing and we got it under control it in person could work. But, people are too selfish.

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Anonymous wrote:I'm sure they're scrambling now that they realize their lack of planning means they're way behind the eight ball and yet somehow will have to get kids back in school at least part of the week. They're going to look pretty darn incompetent if every other district in the area makes it happen and they don't because they dragged their feet too long. I mean, there probably isn't a limitless supply of hand sanitizer machines -- Fairfac and other districts now have a jump on that.

Hand sanitizer is unhealthy to constantly use. They should put in hand washing machines like the disney cruises have. There is no safe way to get them back given people aren't being responsible now and numbers are going up.

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Numbers are going up, not down. You can't have it both ways and insist on everything reopening so numbers spike and school reopen soon. Thanks to all the selfish people who have to vacation and see friends and cannot realize how bad this is.

https://www.mymcmedia.org/montgomery-county-covid-19-update-shows-slight-increases-in-cases-emergency-room-visits/

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Anonymous wrote:Numbers are going up, not down. You can't have it both ways and insist on everything reopening so numbers spike and school reopen soon. Thanks to all the selfish people who have to vacation and see friends and cannot realize how bad this is.

https://www.mymcmedia.org/montgomery-county-covid-19-update-shows-slight-increases-in-cases-emergency-room-visits/

The data posted Thursday afternoon were:

Number of new confirmed positive cases each day: 75 (three-day average); 12 declining days of the last 14.
Number of new COVID-19 related deaths each day: two (three-day average); 14 declining days of the last 14.
COVID-19 related hospitalizations: 125 (three-day average); 14 declining days.
Number of COVID-19 related emergency room patients: four(three-day average); 9 declining days.
COVID-19 related intensive-care unit hospitalizations: 42 (three-day average); 14 declining days.
Acute care bed utilization rate: 67% (three-day average); the county benchmark of 70% or less has been met 14 of the last 14 days.
Intensive Care Unit bed utilization rate: 58% (three-day average); the county benchmark of 80% or less has been met 14 out of the last 14 days.
Percentage of ventilators in use: 30% (three-day average); the county benchmark of 70% or less has been met 14 out of the last 14 days.
Test positivity rate: 5% (three-day average); 14 declining days.

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Anonymous wrote:I suspect it will be DL for a while as there is no real safe way to bring kids back and keep them safe. If one kid or adults brings in it, its going to spread quickly and those kids will bring it back to their families. If we stayed under quarantine and people were not vacationing and socializing and we got it under control it in person could work. But, people are too selfish.

Covid is not the only public-health outcome. Kids being in school has risks. Kids not being in school also has risks.

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Anonymous wrote:God I hope it's the 2 day in-person option....

I'm almost as certain as the teacher friend that it will be the hybrid. All of the districts who have announced already mentioned working with neighboring jurisdictions. If MCPS went against what everyone else is doing I'd be shocked.

The shoe is on the other foot: it's the other districts who will be forced to reconsider their plans. The cautious districts will decide at the last minute, and the way cases/hospitalizations are trending, they will decide for DL.

They're trending down in Montgomery County and Maryland.

You really believe MD can become an impregnable fortress while the rest of the country goes to the dogs?

Is Texas going to infect Maryland?

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Anonymous wrote:God I hope it's the 2 day in-person option....

I'm almost as certain as the teacher friend that it will be the hybrid. All of the districts who have announced already mentioned working with neighboring jurisdictions. If MCPS went against what everyone else is doing I'd be shocked.

The shoe is on the other foot: it's the other districts who will be forced to reconsider their plans. The cautious districts will decide at the last minute, and the way cases/hospitalizations are trending, they will decide for DL.

They're trending down in Montgomery County and Maryland.

You really believe MD can become an impregnable fortress while the rest of the country goes to the dogs?

Is Texas going to infect Maryland?

If people travel, the virus will too.

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Florida and NC will infect Maryland. So will SoCal. And Texas.

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Anonymous wrote:God I hope it's the 2 day in-person option....

I'm almost as certain as the teacher friend that it will be the hybrid. All of the districts who have announced already mentioned working with neighboring jurisdictions. If MCPS went against what everyone else is doing I'd be shocked.

The shoe is on the other foot: it's the other districts who will be forced to reconsider their plans. The cautious districts will decide at the last minute, and the way cases/hospitalizations are trending, they will decide for DL.

They're trending down in Montgomery County and Maryland.

You really believe MD can become an impregnable fortress while the rest of the country goes to the dogs?

Is Texas going to infect Maryland?

If people travel, the virus will too.

The questions, however, are how much the virus will travel, and what people do in the places infected people travel to. It doesn't matter if infected people travel to Maryland, if they don't infect others because enough people are wearing masks and/or because there is testing/contract tracing/quarantine.

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I reported on another thread that both an elementary school Principal and a high school counselor told us the same thing, re DL. The Principal was talking my daughter's class on the last day of school, and, I suppose, "let it slip". I was sitting right there next to DD and heard her say it. The counselor told me during a conversation about my son's SN accommodations going forward.

Nope. They may have been reporting their best bet, but no decision has been made.