If your school tested everyone, and shared the percent positive, what is it and what are they doing?

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Anonymous wrote:I’m curious why we are testing at all? Evenness is vax”d at these schools. Most are boosted. Teachers. Kids. Administrators. We know the data from various countries as well as our own that kids aren’t at any real risk. Yet…we fall back to old policy/procedure. I think parents and administrators are letting our children down w the inability to,lead, think critically and comprehend all the data that is now available.

Because we care about the safety of the community, and the most vulnerable among us, and they're threatened right now. This is a concrete thing that we can do to help.

We moved to a private school primarily because of their covid protocols, because we have a high risk household member. We're grateful that the school community thinks he's worth protecting.

All of this, so much. 100%. To previous commenters: You know when you say that only immune-compromised people will die with this surge, we immune-compromised people can hear you. Our kids also go to school with your kids. I’m sorry that you think testing your kids and asking them to wear decent makes is too much of an inconvenience and it’s not worth those minor inconveniences to literally save our lives.

Honest question here - isn’t omicron the equivalent of the flu for immune-compromised, in terms of its health risk? So people who are a immune-compromised are no more at risk from omicron as they are every other year from getting the flu? And we don’t normally shut down schools or take other drastic measures to prevent the flu spread. Why is this different?

They are not all omnicron cases about 30-40 percent are delta. We just got sick and had pneumonia - was vaxxed and boosted.

Apparently you can get both at the same time, and then there's Flurona. The joy!

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Anonymous wrote:High school of approx 400 kids had 54 positives. I don’t know how many staff there are Included in that. Positivity has to be approaching 10%.
They are still in person. Lunch outside, no assemblies, disposable masks. They already had good precautions in place. I’m not sure anything else could be added. I am comfortable with sending my child.

I don't see how our school can have lunch outside in the next few weeks...they never put in tents and it's super cold out. Jealous of the schools with outside tents/heaters. Good investment.

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Anonymous wrote:High school of approx 400 kids had 54 positives. I don’t know how many staff there are Included in that. Positivity has to be approaching 10%.
They are still in person. Lunch outside, no assemblies, disposable masks. They already had good precautions in place. I’m not sure anything else could be added. I am comfortable with sending my child.

I don't see how our school can have lunch outside in the next few weeks...they never put in tents and it's super cold out. Jealous of the schools with outside tents/heaters. Good investment.

My middle schooler ate lunch outside yesterday. They lived.

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Anonymous wrote:I’m curious why we are testing at all? Evenness is vax”d at these schools. Most are boosted. Teachers. Kids. Administrators. We know the data from various countries as well as our own that kids aren’t at any real risk. Yet…we fall back to old policy/procedure. I think parents and administrators are letting our children down w the inability to,lead, think critically and comprehend all the data that is now available.

Because we care about the safety of the community, and the most vulnerable among us, and they're threatened right now. This is a concrete thing that we can do to help.

We moved to a private school primarily because of their covid protocols, because we have a high risk household member. We're grateful that the school community thinks he's worth protecting.

You don’t care about the safety of the community, you said it yourself - you have a high risk household member. That’s who you care about. Don’t lecture everyone else about looking out for their families when that’s exactly what you’re doing.

Teen suicide - up
Violence against children - up
Learning loss - drastic and permanent
Behavioral issues among children - up
What about those community members? Where’s your concern for them?

Agree. It isn’t just the virus, gang. Long term harm comes in many forms. Our school leaders continue to let us down. Testing perfectly healthy kids with no symptoms who are vax’d makes zero sense. Much greater harm than greater good.

You can't be for real.

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Anonymous wrote:I’m curious why we are testing at all? Evenness is vax”d at these schools. Most are boosted. Teachers. Kids. Administrators. We know the data from various countries as well as our own that kids aren’t at any real risk. Yet…we fall back to old policy/procedure. I think parents and administrators are letting our children down w the inability to,lead, think critically and comprehend all the data that is now available.

Because we care about the safety of the community, and the most vulnerable among us, and they're threatened right now. This is a concrete thing that we can do to help.

We moved to a private school primarily because of their covid protocols, because we have a high risk household member. We're grateful that the school community thinks he's worth protecting.

Well we moved OUT of private schools because of their COVID protocols (or lack thereof). They also weren’t willing to accommodate high risk kids that needed to stay home when their mitigation measures were non-existent. We realized what a crapshoot private schools in Md are because of the lack of oversight by the state BOE and health departments and chose to homeschool this year instead. And yes, during flu season we have also been extra cautious. Our kid has heart issues and even with all of us vaxxed they got both strains of the flu in 2019/20 winter about 2 months apart. So we knew all through this pandemic that breakthrough infections can happen and what flu like symptoms actually does to our child’s little body.

What private school were you at?

Our private is in DAILY communication with the health department. They absolutely do supervise private schools.
FWIW I have kids in public and private. The private school child was quarantined far more because the private does surveillance testing and got non-symptomatic positives. The public schools rely on self reported tests.

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Anonymous wrote:High school of approx 400 kids had 54 positives. I don’t know how many staff there are Included in that. Positivity has to be approaching 10%.
They are still in person. Lunch outside, no assemblies, disposable masks. They already had good precautions in place. I’m not sure anything else could be added. I am comfortable with sending my child.

That's well over 10%.

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Anonymous wrote:High school of approx 400 kids had 54 positives. I don’t know how many staff there are Included in that. Positivity has to be approaching 10%.
They are still in person. Lunch outside, no assemblies, disposable masks. They already had good precautions in place. I’m not sure anything else could be added. I am comfortable with sending my child.

That's well over 10%.

As I mentioned, I don’t know how many staff or additional people were tested. Do you?
Can’t figure out a percentage without that. I only know the size of the student body.

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Anonymous wrote:I’m curious why we are testing at all? Evenness is vax”d at these schools. Most are boosted. Teachers. Kids. Administrators. We know the data from various countries as well as our own that kids aren’t at any real risk. Yet…we fall back to old policy/procedure. I think parents and administrators are letting our children down w the inability to,lead, think critically and comprehend all the data that is now available.

+1.

So many lies so little time. Keep lying!

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I’m curious why we are testing at all? Evenness is vax”d at these schools. Most are boosted. Teachers. Kids. Administrators. We know the data from various countries as well as our own that kids aren’t at any real risk. Yet…we fall back to old policy/procedure. I think parents and administrators are letting our children down w the inability to,lead, think critically and comprehend all the data that is now available.

Because we care about the safety of the community, and the most vulnerable among us, and they're threatened right now. This is a concrete thing that we can do to help.

We moved to a private school primarily because of their covid protocols, because we have a high risk household member. We're grateful that the school community thinks he's worth protecting.

All of this, so much. 100%. To previous commenters: You know when you say that only immune-compromised people will die with this surge, we immune-compromised people can hear you. Our kids also go to school with your kids. I’m sorry that you think testing your kids and asking them to wear decent makes is too much of an inconvenience and it’s not worth those minor inconveniences to literally save our lives.

Honest question here - isn’t omicron the equivalent of the flu for immune-compromised, in terms of its health risk? So people who are a immune-compromised are no more at risk from omicron as they are every other year from getting the flu? And we don’t normally shut down schools or take other drastic measures to prevent the flu spread. Why is this different?

Nope. I got covid from my vaxxed kid this month and developed pneumonia so did my kid. We are all vaxxed and I am boosted and never get the flu. Omnicron May be more mild but our symptoms were closer to delta and many cases in this area are delta or other variant.

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For those questioning why their school sent out notifications of all positive cases in the fall, but hasn't sent out anything about their positives coming in off winter break - I think it has to do with the fact that these recent positives haven't been at school during the past 2+ weeks. Not that the school has suddenly stopped being transparent.

A school has a responsibility to tell you if there has been an infected person at school and your kid has potentially been exposed. But if someone who hasn't been on campus for 2 weeks tests positive and is staying home, I don't know that the school has a responsibility to share that information.

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As an educator, I have no idea how schools are operating with 5 percent or more of their staff absent. After all, that used to be the MCPS threshold for closing schools for religious observance. Aside from positives and quarantines, a lot of teachers in their 30s and 40s are caretakers for kids quarantining or home from closed schools and daycares. Even if you can get school staff to cover for the absent teachers, those folks lose planning time, bathroom breaks, meal breaks, and time for meetings. Working like that is exhausting, and it can then take a couple of weeks to fully catch up on internal meetings, parent communications, grading, and organization.

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Anonymous wrote:For those questioning why their school sent out notifications of all positive cases in the fall, but hasn't sent out anything about their positives coming in off winter break - I think it has to do with the fact that these recent positives haven't been at school during the past 2+ weeks. Not that the school has suddenly stopped being transparent.

A school has a responsibility to tell you if there has been an infected person at school and your kid has potentially been exposed. But if someone who hasn't been on campus for 2 weeks tests positive and is staying home, I don't know that the school has a responsibility to share that information.

PCR results are also taking forever to come in. Our school tested everyone on Sunday and all results are still not in.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I’m curious why we are testing at all? Evenness is vax”d at these schools. Most are boosted. Teachers. Kids. Administrators. We know the data from various countries as well as our own that kids aren’t at any real risk. Yet…we fall back to old policy/procedure. I think parents and administrators are letting our children down w the inability to,lead, think critically and comprehend all the data that is now available.

Because we care about the safety of the community, and the most vulnerable among us, and they're threatened right now. This is a concrete thing that we can do to help.

We moved to a private school primarily because of their covid protocols, because we have a high risk household member. We're grateful that the school community thinks he's worth protecting.

You don’t care about the safety of the community, you said it yourself - you have a high risk household member. That’s who you care about. Don’t lecture everyone else about looking out for their families when that’s exactly what you’re doing.

Teen suicide - up
Violence against children - up
Learning loss - drastic and permanent
Behavioral issues among children - up
What about those community members? Where’s your concern for them?

Agree. It isn’t just the virus, gang. Long term harm comes in many forms. Our school leaders continue to let us down. Testing perfectly healthy kids with no symptoms who are vax’d makes zero sense. Much greater harm than greater good.

You can't be for real.

While I am not the entire string, I am the last poster and I am very real and not alone. We are doing far more harm than good to kids that have been fully vax'd. I see zero reason for a school to test an asymptomatic, vax'd child that is essentially in a 100% vax'd cohort. Numbers say the worst vax'd kids will get are cold-like symptoms. No hospitalization. No deaths. Are their outliers re symptoms, of course. But school policy shouldn't be made on outlier cases.

It is pretty clear that we are all going to get some version of Omicron...get vax'd and move on for the vast, vast majority of people.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I’m curious why we are testing at all? Evenness is vax”d at these schools. Most are boosted. Teachers. Kids. Administrators. We know the data from various countries as well as our own that kids aren’t at any real risk. Yet…we fall back to old policy/procedure. I think parents and administrators are letting our children down w the inability to,lead, think critically and comprehend all the data that is now available.

Because we care about the safety of the community, and the most vulnerable among us, and they're threatened right now. This is a concrete thing that we can do to help.

We moved to a private school primarily because of their covid protocols, because we have a high risk household member. We're grateful that the school community thinks he's worth protecting.

All of this, so much. 100%. To previous commenters: You know when you say that only immune-compromised people will die with this surge, we immune-compromised people can hear you. Our kids also go to school with your kids. I’m sorry that you think testing your kids and asking them to wear decent makes is too much of an inconvenience and it’s not worth those minor inconveniences to literally save our lives.

Honest question here - isn’t omicron the equivalent of the flu for immune-compromised, in terms of its health risk? So people who are a immune-compromised are no more at risk from omicron as they are every other year from getting the flu? And we don’t normally shut down schools or take other drastic measures to prevent the flu spread. Why is this different?

They are not all omnicron cases about 30-40 percent are delta. We just got sick and had pneumonia - was vaxxed and boosted.

According to CDC, as of Jan 4th, 95.4% of new cases were Omicron.

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Anonymous wrote:K-8 and less than 5% of students tested positive but too many teachers were positive for in-person.

I think this poster meant PK-8. Curious how many PKer's (a bunch under age 5) tested positive.

Hmm not Langley since they are back in-person after in-home and PCR testing. Who else has PK-8?