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

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Is there anything we can do to stop the unnecessary disruption due to random quarantines every time some kid coughs or has a headache? This is madness! MCPS has failed our students yet again. How is it that we can’t do anything about it???

Don’t send a sick child to school. I am not saying you personally would do it, but many do. Only in this thread, we have one poster boasting that they sent their child to school with diarrhea.

If somebody vomited in my DC’s class, I’d want this rule to be enforced. Nobody said that one cough or a mild (or chronic) headache would trigger this. The devil is in the details — talk to your principal. Ours has called a parent meeting about this and probably others should too.

[Anonymous]

What you have to demand from MCPS, tonight, by emailing the BOE and interim super, is to test every symptomatic student onsite immediately, unless they have a doctor's note with an alternate diagnosis, such as allergies or asthma. That way, close contacts won't have to quarantine as often, since some of these symptoms won't be due to Covid.

I have mixed feelings about the new guidelines but I absolutely agree that MCPS should offer more testing - not just for grades K-6 but all the way through. My vaccinated HS kid was exposed right before school started through sports. The school wasn't cautious enough in that case - didn't require kids to get tested, didn't cancel practice for even a day - but just notified us and quarantined kids confirmed to be within 3 feet of the infected person for 15 mins or more.
To those who say, "just test your kid," do you know how hard it is to get a test these days? CVS, Walgreens and a county testing site were all booked for days. I'm pretty savvy about knowing where/how to get tested and able to take time to do it, but it was tough. MCPS should 1) test symptomatic kids and any exposed kids and 2) do more widespread routine weekly testing by making it an opt-out system, not opt-in, and by testing older grades, too.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Is there anything we can do to stop the unnecessary disruption due to random quarantines every time some kid coughs or has a headache? This is madness! MCPS has failed our students yet again. How is it that we can’t do anything about it???

Don’t send a sick child to school. I am not saying you personally would do it, but many do. Only in this thread, we have one poster boasting that they sent their child to school with diarrhea.

If somebody vomited in my DC’s class, I’d want this rule to be enforced. Nobody said that one cough or a mild (or chronic) headache would trigger this. The devil is in the details — talk to your principal. Ours has called a parent meeting about this and probably others should too.

Can you control what other families do? What about the kid who is perfectly fine in the morning but gets sick during school? Are you going to judge their family too? Entire classes have already been sent home because one kid had a headache from being dehydrated in the heat. This has already happened. School nurses are not known for interpreting guidelines in any other way than they are written - kid has cough, send home, kid has sore throat, send home, kid has headache send home. And all of those cases will result in the entire class going home. There is no logic at all.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Is there anything we can do to stop the unnecessary disruption due to random quarantines every time some kid coughs or has a headache? This is madness! MCPS has failed our students yet again. How is it that we can’t do anything about it???

Don’t send a sick child to school. I am not saying you personally would do it, but many do. Only in this thread, we have one poster boasting that they sent their child to school with diarrhea.

If somebody vomited in my DC’s class, I’d want this rule to be enforced. Nobody said that one cough or a mild (or chronic) headache would trigger this. The devil is in the details — talk to your principal. Ours has called a parent meeting about this and probably others should too.

My kid has diarrhea fairly regularly. Probably once a week or more. No I’m not keeping him home. No one would ever know.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Is there anything we can do to stop the unnecessary disruption due to random quarantines every time some kid coughs or has a headache? This is madness! MCPS has failed our students yet again. How is it that we can’t do anything about it???

Don’t send a sick child to school. I am not saying you personally would do it, but many do. Only in this thread, we have one poster boasting that they sent their child to school with diarrhea.

If somebody vomited in my DC’s class, I’d want this rule to be enforced. Nobody said that one cough or a mild (or chronic) headache would trigger this. The devil is in the details — talk to your principal. Ours has called a parent meeting about this and probably others should too.

Can you control what other families do? What about the kid who is perfectly fine in the morning but gets sick during school? Are you going to judge their family too? Entire classes have already been sent home because one kid had a headache from being dehydrated in the heat. This has already happened. School nurses are not known for interpreting guidelines in any other way than they are written - kid has cough, send home, kid has sore throat, send home, kid has headache send home. And all of those cases will result in the entire class going home. There is no logic at all.

MCPS is showing an inability to interpret close contacts. It’s no wonder why their math, geometry, etc. programs are such failures.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

What you have to demand from MCPS, tonight, by emailing the BOE and interim super, is to test every symptomatic student onsite immediately, unless they have a doctor's note with an alternate diagnosis, such as allergies or asthma. That way, close contacts won't have to quarantine as often, since some of these symptoms won't be due to Covid.

I have mixed feelings about the new guidelines but I absolutely agree that MCPS should offer more testing - not just for grades K-6 but all the way through. My vaccinated HS kid was exposed right before school started through sports. The school wasn't cautious enough in that case - didn't require kids to get tested, didn't cancel practice for even a day - but just notified us and quarantined kids confirmed to be within 3 feet of the infected person for 15 mins or more.
To those who say, "just test your kid," do you know how hard it is to get a test these days? CVS, Walgreens and a county testing site were all booked for days. I'm pretty savvy about knowing where/how to get tested and able to take time to do it, but it was tough. MCPS should 1) test symptomatic kids and any exposed kids and 2) do more widespread routine weekly testing by making it an opt-out system, not opt-in, and by testing older grades, too.

It was a given that testing centers would be overwhelmed by schools fully opening.
A lot of people didn't pause to think what a sh1tshow opening schools would be in practice.

Public schools need to work with providers and open their own testing sites, just like private schools do.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Is there anything we can do to stop the unnecessary disruption due to random quarantines every time some kid coughs or has a headache? This is madness! MCPS has failed our students yet again. How is it that we can’t do anything about it???

Don’t send a sick child to school. I am not saying you personally would do it, but many do. Only in this thread, we have one poster boasting that they sent their child to school with diarrhea.

If somebody vomited in my DC’s class, I’d want this rule to be enforced. Nobody said that one cough or a mild (or chronic) headache would trigger this. The devil is in the details — talk to your principal. Ours has called a parent meeting about this and probably others should too.

My kid has diarrhea fairly regularly. Probably once a week or more. No I’m not keeping him home. No one would ever know.

Then that's not a NEW symptom and you're not concerned. Why are you posting?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Is there anything we can do to stop the unnecessary disruption due to random quarantines every time some kid coughs or has a headache? This is madness! MCPS has failed our students yet again. How is it that we can’t do anything about it???

Don’t send a sick child to school. I am not saying you personally would do it, but many do. Only in this thread, we have one poster boasting that they sent their child to school with diarrhea.

If somebody vomited in my DC’s class, I’d want this rule to be enforced. Nobody said that one cough or a mild (or chronic) headache would trigger this. The devil is in the details — talk to your principal. Ours has called a parent meeting about this and probably others should too.

My kid has diarrhea fairly regularly. Probably once a week or more. No I’m not keeping him home. No one would ever know.

Then that's not a NEW symptom and you're not concerned. Why are you posting?

The guidance doesn’t say new symptom.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Is there anything we can do to stop the unnecessary disruption due to random quarantines every time some kid coughs or has a headache? This is madness! MCPS has failed our students yet again. How is it that we can’t do anything about it???

Don’t send a sick child to school. I am not saying you personally would do it, but many do. Only in this thread, we have one poster boasting that they sent their child to school with diarrhea.

If somebody vomited in my DC’s class, I’d want this rule to be enforced. Nobody said that one cough or a mild (or chronic) headache would trigger this. The devil is in the details — talk to your principal. Ours has called a parent meeting about this and probably others should too.

My kid has diarrhea fairly regularly. Probably once a week or more. No I’m not keeping him home. No one would ever know.

Then that's not a NEW symptom and you're not concerned. Why are you posting?

The guidance doesn’t say new symptom.

It will be amended. It cannot stand as is.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Is there anything we can do to stop the unnecessary disruption due to random quarantines every time some kid coughs or has a headache? This is madness! MCPS has failed our students yet again. How is it that we can’t do anything about it???

Don’t send a sick child to school. I am not saying you personally would do it, but many do. Only in this thread, we have one poster boasting that they sent their child to school with diarrhea.

If somebody vomited in my DC’s class, I’d want this rule to be enforced. Nobody said that one cough or a mild (or chronic) headache would trigger this. The devil is in the details — talk to your principal. Ours has called a parent meeting about this and probably others should too.

Can you control what other families do? What about the kid who is perfectly fine in the morning but gets sick during school? Are you going to judge their family too? Entire classes have already been sent home because one kid had a headache from being dehydrated in the heat. This has already happened. School nurses are not known for interpreting guidelines in any other way than they are written - kid has cough, send home, kid has sore throat, send home, kid has headache send home. And all of those cases will result in the entire class going home. There is no logic at all.

Severe headache recent onset often with fever
Not just any headache

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Is there anything we can do to stop the unnecessary disruption due to random quarantines every time some kid coughs or has a headache? This is madness! MCPS has failed our students yet again. How is it that we can’t do anything about it???

Don’t send a sick child to school. I am not saying you personally would do it, but many do. Only in this thread, we have one poster boasting that they sent their child to school with diarrhea.

If somebody vomited in my DC’s class, I’d want this rule to be enforced. Nobody said that one cough or a mild (or chronic) headache would trigger this. The devil is in the details — talk to your principal. Ours has called a parent meeting about this and probably others should too.

My kid has diarrhea fairly regularly. Probably once a week or more. No I’m not keeping him home. No one would ever know.

Your kid may have a loose stool once a week. That’s not diarrhea. If they had diarrhea weekly, they’d need to see a doctor anyway.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Is there anything we can do to stop the unnecessary disruption due to random quarantines every time some kid coughs or has a headache? This is madness! MCPS has failed our students yet again. How is it that we can’t do anything about it???

Don’t send a sick child to school. I am not saying you personally would do it, but many do. Only in this thread, we have one poster boasting that they sent their child to school with diarrhea.

If somebody vomited in my DC’s class, I’d want this rule to be enforced. Nobody said that one cough or a mild (or chronic) headache would trigger this. The devil is in the details — talk to your principal. Ours has called a parent meeting about this and probably others should too.

My kid has diarrhea fairly regularly. Probably once a week or more. No I’m not keeping him home. No one would ever know.

Your kid may have a loose stool once a week. That’s not diarrhea. If they had diarrhea weekly, they’d need to see a doctor anyway.

The definition of diarrhea IS loose stool.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Is there anything we can do to stop the unnecessary disruption due to random quarantines every time some kid coughs or has a headache? This is madness! MCPS has failed our students yet again. How is it that we can’t do anything about it???

Don’t send a sick child to school. I am not saying you personally would do it, but many do. Only in this thread, we have one poster boasting that they sent their child to school with diarrhea.

If somebody vomited in my DC’s class, I’d want this rule to be enforced. Nobody said that one cough or a mild (or chronic) headache would trigger this. The devil is in the details — talk to your principal. Ours has called a parent meeting about this and probably others should too.

My kid has diarrhea fairly regularly. Probably once a week or more. No I’m not keeping him home. No one would ever know.

Your kid may have a loose stool once a week. That’s not diarrhea. If they had diarrhea weekly, they’d need to see a doctor anyway.

The definition of diarrhea IS loose stool.

It’s not just one loose stool, it’s at least 2-3 over a 24 hour period.

[Anonymous]

People.

Relax.

Kids don't naturally come up to teachers and say they've had a little bit of diarrhea. As long as symptoms are mild and they can manage on their own, teachers will not be informed, and nothing is going to happen. For better or for worse, depending on your point of view

It's only if your child is seriously ill that the school will realize something is up and will trigger this whole Covid protocol. No teacher in their right mind will break the glass for a random cough. Understand that beyond the words of the policy, we're dealing with people and their non-robot judgement!

So lots of Covid cases, colds, food poisoning, asthma, allergies, will NOT get identified. The serious cases will be, and for chronic sufferers of asthma and allergies, like my son, I'm sure they'll be understanding, with or without a doctor's letter.
Delta will merely be dampened, because all asymptomatic and low-symptom cases will continue to circulate and spew.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:



People.

Relax.

Kids don't naturally come up to teachers and say they've had a little bit of diarrhea. As long as symptoms are mild and they can manage on their own, teachers will not be informed, and nothing is going to happen. For better or for worse, depending on your point of view

It's only if your child is seriously ill that the school will realize something is up and will trigger this whole Covid protocol. No teacher in their right mind will break the glass for a random cough. Understand that beyond the words of the policy, we're dealing with people and their non-robot judgement!

So lots of Covid cases, colds, food poisoning, asthma, allergies, will NOT get identified. The serious cases will be, and for chronic sufferers of asthma and allergies, like my son, I'm sure they'll be understanding, with or without a doctor's letter.
Delta will merely be dampened, because all asymptomatic and low-symptom cases will continue to circulate and spew.

Everything you wrote has already proved to be inaccurate this week.