Maryland is in last place in the entire country for opening schools

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Anonymous wrote:Maryland may have been late to reopen, but it was open from March onward. Our very low number was because of parents voluntarily keeping their kids online. Yes, for the safety of the family. But also because online worked just fine for some kids.

In my family, one of my three went back in March. The other two stayed home and I don't think were worse for the experience.

the low rate of spread is due to the vaccine. period.

The vaccine that still allows for infection by various other strains?

Ok.

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Maryland has one of the lowest rates of spread of any state right now.

Maine 12 new cases per 100,000 per day
Connecticut 16 new cases per 100,000 per day
Maryland 17 new cases per 100,000 per day

Third lowest state.

Virginia is up at 30 and is middle of the pack.

With everyone heading back to in person school, I am glad here in MD we are starting from a much lower rate of spread.

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Anonymous wrote:We sure do live in our own little bubble, don't we. Imagine all the kids throughout the country getting a proper education while we fall further behind. Wonder if it will show up in college admissions this coming year.

I think you're reading the list backward. The places that did the best at protecting their communities appear from the bottom up.

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Anonymous wrote:Maryland has one of the lowest rates of spread of any state right now.

Maine 12 new cases per 100,000 per day
Connecticut 16 new cases per 100,000 per day
Maryland 17 new cases per 100,000 per day

Third lowest state.

Virginia is up at 30 and is middle of the pack.

With everyone heading back to in person school, I am glad here in MD we are starting from a much lower rate of spread.

Unfortunately it will be 5 to 10X that in a matter of weeks but at least we'll have in-person school.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Maryland has one of the lowest rates of spread of any state right now.

Maine 12 new cases per 100,000 per day
Connecticut 16 new cases per 100,000 per day
Maryland 17 new cases per 100,000 per day

Third lowest state.

Virginia is up at 30 and is middle of the pack.

With everyone heading back to in person school, I am glad here in MD we are starting from a much lower rate of spread.

Unfortunately it will be 5 to 10X that in a matter of weeks but at least we'll have in-person school.

Agreed, it's wonderful to have in-person school again. The Delta wave will peak, then ebb. No reason to keep kids out of school any more.

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Anonymous wrote:We sure do live in our own little bubble, don't we. Imagine all the kids throughout the country getting a proper education while we fall further behind. Wonder if it will show up in college admissions this coming year.

I think you're reading the list backward. The places that did the best at protecting their communities appear from the bottom up.

What an odd way to measure effectiveness of protecting communities. I'd think COVID deaths per 100k would be a more meaningful metric for that.

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Anonymous wrote:Need to do a side by side with a map of dead/sick teachers for this to be instructive/convincing

Links?

No one is keeping track, but here are a few links:

https://www.11alive.com/article/news/health/coronavirus/cobb-county-school-board-under-fire-after-3-teacher-deaths/85-8a585a86-90e1-4228-985e-ae0834866c5d
January:
Protests, backlash from teachers after deaths of 3 Cobb County educators in a month
In the last 30 days, COVID-19 has claimed the lives of three educators. Teachers say the situation has become cause for concern for their health and safety.

Teacher in an open academy in dc:
https://www.wusa9.com/mobile/article/news/education/ballou-stay-opportunity-academy-teacher-death-covid-19-washington-teacher-union-policy-changes/65-c697e78a-d7c7-4593-a586-3c731b20e1ab

As of October, 8 teachers in North Carolina had already died of Covid: https://www.newsweek.com/coronavirus-north-carolina-school-teacher-dies-covid-stanly-county-norwood-elementary-1536438

If you Google teacher death name of state you will see them. Like, teacher death Georgia, teacher death Florida, etc..

The country is approaching 500,000 deaths, so of course some of those people will be teachers. But the number is small and even smaller when you consider cases where there is some reason to believe the transmission resulted from school.

Teachers are dying not because of their profession but because they have a condition that mixed with Covid is death. That is the truth.

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Anonymous wrote:We sure do live in our own little bubble, don't we. Imagine all the kids throughout the country getting a proper education while we fall further behind. Wonder if it will show up in college admissions this coming year.

but in first place for protecting their children

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Anonymous wrote:We sure do live in our own little bubble, don't we. Imagine all the kids throughout the country getting a proper education while we fall further behind. Wonder if it will show up in college admissions this coming year.

but in first place for protecting their children

To the contrary, keeping kids - particularly young ES kids - indoors, attached to Zoom / screens for 7 hours a day, away from the fun of friends, recess, and teachers is NOT in any way protecting ones children. And the AAP, WHO, CDC, and NIH agree. It's a damn shame that we are sacrificing young children so adults like teachers and administrators can continue to work from home.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:We sure do live in our own little bubble, don't we. Imagine all the kids throughout the country getting a proper education while we fall further behind. Wonder if it will show up in college admissions this coming year.

but in first place for protecting their children

To the contrary, keeping kids - particularly young ES kids - indoors, attached to Zoom / screens for 7 hours a day, away from the fun of friends, recess, and teachers is NOT in any way protecting ones children. And the AAP, WHO, CDC, and NIH agree. It's a damn shame that we are sacrificing young children so adults like teachers and administrators can continue to work from home.

It works for my kids. We chose the Virtual Academy. You have a strange understanding of learning and relationships if you believe that schools=in-person.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:We sure do live in our own little bubble, don't we. Imagine all the kids throughout the country getting a proper education while we fall further behind. Wonder if it will show up in college admissions this coming year.

but in first place for protecting their children

To the contrary, keeping kids - particularly young ES kids - indoors, attached to Zoom / screens for 7 hours a day, away from the fun of friends, recess, and teachers is NOT in any way protecting ones children. And the AAP, WHO, CDC, and NIH agree. It's a damn shame that we are sacrificing young children so adults like teachers and administrators can continue to work from home.

It works for my kids. We chose the Virtual Academy. You have a strange understanding of learning and relationships if you believe that schools=in-person.

You must be kidding. Every study shows that remote learning is awful for most kids. Your single anecdote is not reflective of anything

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Maryland may have been late to reopen, but it was open from March onward. Our very low number was because of parents voluntarily keeping their kids online. Yes, for the safety of the family. But also because online worked just fine for some kids.

In my family, one of my three went back in March. The other two stayed home and I don't think were worse for the experience.

the low rate of spread is due to the vaccine. period.

The vaccine that still allows for infection by various other strains?

Ok.

Okay drama queen. The current rate of breakthrough infection amongst vaccinated people is .001%. Please educate yourself and stop with the hysteria.

[Anonymous]

Yup the dumbest county second to pg county