MCPS will now send kids home for ten days based on symptoms only
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Anonymous
This makes no sense. The practical result of this is almost exactly what actually following the CDC exposure and quarantine guidance. Are you suggesting they're sociopathic COVID-deniers? |
Anonymous
PSA if your employer offers Kaiser they typically return test results within 12 hours, at no extra cost. Open enrollment is coming up. |
Anonymous
Why wouldn't you tell the school if your child is positive for Covid? Do you understand you are putting lives at risk here? Vaccinated grandparents and other adults whose immunity is waning can DIE because you neglected to trigger a quarantine. Do you even understand why quarantined are put in place??? When deaths inevitably rise in MoCo, I AM PUTTING THE BLAME ON YOU. |
Anonymous
Not anymore they won't. Kaiser is notoriously slow - they won't keep up with demand and results won't be given in such a short amount of time anymore. |
Anonymous
People are just tired of COVID, the shifting goal posts, and false hopes. People are tired of the zero risk mentality that kept children out of school for 18 months. I’m not sure what it will take to end the insanity. Even vaccinating children will not be enough. Another false hope. |
Anonymous
Except MCPS isn't acting in good faith. They said they were going to follow CDC guidance on exposures and quarantines, when it is quite clear that was never their intention. And there are a variety of alternatives they could take that would substantially reduce the negative effects on kids, such as test-to-stay. That they didn't do those alternatives strongly suggests they simply want to shut classrooms down. |
Anonymous
Deaths are not going to rise in MoCo because VACCINES WORK. And children are at LOW RISK. Stop the hysterics. |
Anonymous
If you're sick or old, you should be more careful. I don't understand why you want to take your anger and fear out on my kids and their fellow classmates. |
Anonymous
If you have an alternative plan you think is better, CONTACT THE BOE AND INTERIM SUPERINTENDANT and tell them! That's what I did with outdoor lunches in mid-August, and by late August, they had a directive sent to Principals to facilitate outdoor lunches. If you write convincingly, they will listen. |
Anonymous
That's really funny that you think you're single handedly responsible for outdoor lunch. 🤣 |
Anonymous
Your second sentence makes no sense. It's a fragment. And I'm not suggesting they are deniers, per se-- I'm suggesting most such people who huff and puff on DCUM haven't lost multiple family members to COVID, have been well-protected and mostly just very inconvenienced by COVID and "ready for it to be over." Which we all are, of course. But they are using at least a sprinkling of denial to act like it's closer to over than it is-- because the vast majority of them haven't had to deal with most of the most devastating effects. The person who said they wouldn't tell their school of a positive COVID test so that the poor exposed kids, some of whom will probably have contracted it from their child, won't have to do a 10-day quarantine? What do you even say to that? 1) Without knowing they were exposed, as soon as possible, those kids will be more likely to spread it to more people in their community, including immunocompromised and other unvaccinated people, some of whom may die. (I'm not even assuming the kids themselves will be very sick or even get long COVID.) 2) If she keeps it a secret, again, PROBABLY SOME OF THE KIDS WILL GET SICK (from likely having been exposed to the PP's kid before they tested positive) AND THE CLASS WILL HAVE TO QUARANTINE ANYWAY. Just a day or two later, when more people will have been infected. This is how viruses work, FFS. PP thinks if other people don't see it, it doesn't exist. |
Anonymous
Wait! You think the vaccination rate of Latinos is higher than Asians? That's gunny |
Anonymous
Stop playing the victim. There are multigenerational families living together. There are parents undergoing chemo. A lot of parents in this area are on the older side. The sick and the old aren't some magical population that you don't know about. Your neighbor, your friend, are likely some of those people. The vulnerable parent here might even be YOU. Your job is to test after onset of any concerning symptoms and to disclose any positives to the school. That's all we ask. Don't worry your head about whether there's a quarantine and who institutes it. Your duty is to do the first two things. If you sabotage the system, you will elongate the Delta surge and keep everyone under the threat of quarantines for MUCH LONGER. Essentially, you're sabotaging yourself! |
Anonymous
Well I find it predictably unfair to read it this way. I work at a school and I love the children and families I work with but it’s absolutely true that parents who are brand new to this country take a whole lot longer to fill out forms and follow bureaucratic directions than people who grew up in the American system. Yes, the district will try hard to make all this understandable. But it’s totally to be expected that this could cause delays in communication and testing. |
Anonymous
It's not the posters fault. It's MCPS for not using the money they have for tests. Pure and simple. |