MCPS will now send kids home for ten days based on symptoms only

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:For everyone saying we are being alarmist and you're sure there must be exceptions for pre-existing, chronic, etc., I have kids in two separate schools, elementary and middle. Principal updates sent out over the past hour contain the same information, word for word. There is no mention at all about any of that. Just says "any" of the following symptoms. And the only thing qualified with "new" is loss of taste or smell.

What morons. This is an absolute disaster for kids and their peers with headache problems, IBS, allergies.

Again, before everyone says alarmist, there is absolutely nothing about new/chronic, etc. being communicated. Nada. This is the guidance going to families and to school staff. So my child's migraines mean their class has to quarantine. Brilliant.

So why don’t you keep your migraine kid home as a courtesy to the others and for the common good? You know the same way they told the cancer and immune deficient kids to do. Can’t have the weak holding everyone else back you know.

Haha I love you.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I sent my kid in on day 2 with diarrhea. Deal with it.

Yeah, you’re a lazy parent. We get it.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:My sense from reading the (typically flaming) comments here is that people don’t understand the policy or aren’t reading it closely. I can tell you first hand about it because my daughter’s entire class (plus a math section) was quarantined today because of one child with one symptom under this new guidance BEFORE they even told anyone about it. The student did test negative and they’ll go out back next week.

Most people agree that if a kid is sick with one of those symptoms they should stay home and take a test. No one is debating that. Let’s talk specifics - the specifics are that the entire class was quarantined for a day because of one kid with one symptom that my daughter didn’t even talk to or sit close to. And she was wearing a mask all day as was the child. They ate outside.

It is total insanity. I’m not one for conspiracy theories but it’s certainly suspicious that they dumped this on a holiday Friday evening (oldest trick in the book) at least 24 hours after they decided it - since our class was told to quarantine under this policy last night. Our kids will be out all the time.

I understand your frustration, but with Delta cases at very high levels in our area, I think schools are doing everything they can to prevent outright closures, especially elementary school closures.
Quarantines here and there are better than year-long virtual, no? At least to some people?

We are at 10.7 cases per 100,000 what do you mean by very high in our area?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I saw an ad for tester RNs pool testing contract for Moco? I hope they roll this in?

They are doing random sampling testing for kids who opt in in ES and 6th grade only.

And parents would be fools to opt-in given this new policy.

Parents are foolish and irresponsible to send their kids in person given the current policies and very little safety in place. So, since you don't feel covid is a big deal, deal with all the closings and instability.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:My sense from reading the (typically flaming) comments here is that people don’t understand the policy or aren’t reading it closely. I can tell you first hand about it because my daughter’s entire class (plus a math section) was quarantined today because of one child with one symptom under this new guidance BEFORE they even told anyone about it. The student did test negative and they’ll go out back next week.

Most people agree that if a kid is sick with one of those symptoms they should stay home and take a test. No one is debating that. Let’s talk specifics - the specifics are that the entire class was quarantined for a day because of one kid with one symptom that my daughter didn’t even talk to or sit close to. And she was wearing a mask all day as was the child. They ate outside.

It is total insanity. I’m not one for conspiracy theories but it’s certainly suspicious that they dumped this on a holiday Friday evening (oldest trick in the book) at least 24 hours after they decided it - since our class was told to quarantine under this policy last night. Our kids will be out all the time.

I understand your frustration, but with Delta cases at very high levels in our area, I think schools are doing everything they can to prevent outright closures, especially elementary school closures.
Quarantines here and there are better than year-long virtual, no? At least to some people?

We are at 10.7 cases per 100,000 what do you mean by very high in our area?

Are you suggesting that you don't go around breathing in 5,000 people's faces each day?

[Anonymous]

7 day average of daily new reported cases per 100,000 residents:

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:So I’m hopeful parents at my school understand what to do here:

(1) kid gets sick not on school hours
(2) KEEP kid home and tell school anything except kid has a covid symptom
(3) get thee to PM pediatrics before 1 pm and procure same day test
(4) get test results (statistically speaking they are going to be negative)
(5) send kid back to school when not sick anymore.
(6) if kid will be out for a few days tell school kid sick but not covid and provide negative test
(7) rest of class is safe

Go forth.

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.

Compromised people got a 3rd shot. He'll I have relatives in the covid wild west of Florida who got a 3rd shot weeks ago.

Not everyone can do a third shot. I cannot. I had a bad reaction to the second for months and still struggling.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:They should spend some of that federal money to purchase and distribute home tests for kids so they can test fast and get back to school the next day.

Home tests will never be, and should never be, accepted. If we’ve learned anything in the past 18 months, it’s that nothing related to a pandemic can ever be left to the “honor system.”

[Anonymous]

This is why MCPS should have let anyone stick with virtual this year. Maybe the nutty parents would have just kept their own kids home rather than trying to bring our kids down with them.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:They should spend some of that federal money to purchase and distribute home tests for kids so they can test fast and get back to school the next day.

Home tests will never be, and should never be, accepted. If we’ve learned anything in the past 18 months, it’s that nothing related to a pandemic can ever be left to the “honor system.”

Every school should have an outside test tent (federal fund).
The result gets reported to the health department and school.
If it's positive the child and close contacts must isolate.

This way, no lying Covid-denying saboteur parent can weasel their way out of their civic duty.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:7 day average of daily new reported cases per 100,000 residents:

This is for MD as a whole not for MoCo with 90% of eligible population already vaccinated. MoCo cases are at 10.7.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:My sense from reading the (typically flaming) comments here is that people don’t understand the policy or aren’t reading it closely. I can tell you first hand about it because my daughter’s entire class (plus a math section) was quarantined today because of one child with one symptom under this new guidance BEFORE they even told anyone about it. The student did test negative and they’ll go out back next week.

Most people agree that if a kid is sick with one of those symptoms they should stay home and take a test. No one is debating that. Let’s talk specifics - the specifics are that the entire class was quarantined for a day because of one kid with one symptom that my daughter didn’t even talk to or sit close to. And she was wearing a mask all day as was the child. They ate outside.

It is total insanity. I’m not one for conspiracy theories but it’s certainly suspicious that they dumped this on a holiday Friday evening (oldest trick in the book) at least 24 hours after they decided it - since our class was told to quarantine under this policy last night. Our kids will be out all the time.

I understand your frustration, but with Delta cases at very high levels in our area, I think schools are doing everything they can to prevent outright closures, especially elementary school closures.
Quarantines here and there are better than year-long virtual, no? At least to some people?

We are at 10.7 cases per 100,000 what do you mean by very high in our area?

Are you suggesting that you don't go around breathing in 5,000 people's faces each day?

I don’t even know what that means

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:This is why MCPS should have let anyone stick with virtual this year. Maybe the nutty parents would have just kept their own kids home rather than trying to bring our kids down with them.

They did, for the most part. What they're doing now, in spite of you, is trying to keep you, your kid and the community safe. Why are you fighting that? Do you WANT more people killed?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Also finding it really sort of predictably gross that people are assuming non-native English speakers won't be given directions they can understand and appropriate resources if and when this happens with their child.

I know MCPS can suck in terms of its communication, but at our school at least, there is a tremendous amount of energy put into walking folks through things like this. Not to mention that, for example, Latino vaccination rates are the highest of all groups in MoCo. Lots of immigrants are MORE concerned about public health and more compliant than the typical DCUM demographic.

But I often find rich white folks use inaccurate caricatures of poor people and/or people of color to hide their own personal objections behind.

I'm finding it predictably gross that you came here to bash RICH WHITE FOLKS again and again and again. We all know who didn't get the effing memo on covid but we don't sit on this board bashing them.

Yes, we do know. Trumpers.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:These rules are stricter than NYC, the largest school system in the US, which only requires a quarrantine for a positive case. Someone should ask MCPS whether they considered what other districts are doing and why they think what NYC is doing is not good enough.

Is that rhetorical? Because NYC still has the highest total Covid death numbers in the nation, due to their devastating spike in early 2020. They don't have any lessons to give to anybody.

No. It’s called prioritizing education and making decisions instead of being a bunch of knee jerk cowards.

The fact that you use the word “cowards ” in relation to a pandemic showcases your double digit IQ.