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

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Apparently the new “guidance” confirms what we’ve been hearing. If a child has “symptoms” associated with COVID (could be a runny nose) their close contacts (this has been interpreted as the entire class in many schools) are quarantined for ten days.

This is completely ludicrous and not based in science or CDC guidelines.

Glad to hear they're being responsible with the lives of our children.

The lives of children are not in jeopardy. Stop with the drama. There is no evidence that children are at a higher risk with Delta. None. We need to manage the virus by wearing masks, getting vaccinated if we’re eligible, and using common sense (eg hand washing). The lives and well being of children are more adversely affected by school closings.

If you feel that way, you should be advocating for more testing.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Sorry if this has already been discussed but what if the student experiencing the one symptom has been vaccinated? Will the close contacts have to quarantine then too? My vaccinated 13 yr old sometimes coughs from mild asthma and it can just happen mid day or whatever. For example, running at PE class.
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Your 13 year old is not in close contacts with unvaccinated children, and the "close contact" policy only applies to unvaccinated kids. Which is a problem in itself, because we know Delta spread among the vaccinated as well. Not as much, but probably enough to disrupt middle and high school, as we saw this week...

Are you aware that MCPS has not yet enacted a vaccination requirement for students? This poster's 13 year old may very well be in close contact with many unvaccinated children.

[Anonymous]

Unfortunately, complaining won’t solve a lot of the problems.
These are operational problems:
100 in drivers needed
Almost 400 teachers needed
Not enough subs
MCPS is not allowed to require mandatory testing
Parents (including those on this board) sending sick kids to school.
Overwhelmed teachers who often parents of school aged students as well.

[Anonymous]

So who has written to the board? To Hogan? Erlich? School principals? If we can get a petition going to get this fixed based on how disruptive this will be for in person continuity that would be very helpful

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:People: your anger and efforts to push for reform should be at the health department, not MCPS. Complain to your principal, MCPS, your school board member at large and the department of health. Also complain to Hogan. Maybe complain to local news media. These are all positive actions more impactful than complaining about how terrible one of the best school systems in the country is.

A going away present from Gayles?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:So who has written to the board? To Hogan? Erlich? School principals? If we can get a petition going to get this fixed based on how disruptive this will be for in person continuity that would be very helpful

Yes to all of them. I also wrote to Mcnight and all the Councilmembers. I’d sign a petition too and I never sign petitions.

[Anonymous]

What are you writing?


That you want MCPS to offer onsite Covid testing so that close contacts might have to quarantine?



That you want guidelines to clarify that allergic and athmatic students can have their coughing waived if a doctor's note is presented?



All good.

[Anonymous]

might *not* have to quarantine, sorry.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:There is an easy solution, get your kid tested. Our pediatrician's office does them in house and generally the PCR results are back within a few hours. Unfortunately, we have had to do this with our daughter several times. She is in daycare. It is important to me not to send her back into a daycare setting with Covid. I also work in an office and I've gotten tested several times when I've come down with a cold. I don't want to spread Covid unnecessarily.

It should be equally important to everyone not to send your kid to school with Covid. If additional testing needs to happen to be cautious, so be it.

Skirting the rules, avoiding testing and ignoring symptoms is why were are still in this pandemic. Not to mention the idiots who won't get vaccinated. It is maddening.

Hahaha. Yeah and me forgetting to turn the bathroom light off is why climate change is happening.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:There is an easy solution, get your kid tested. Our pediatrician's office does them in house and generally the PCR results are back within a few hours. Unfortunately, we have had to do this with our daughter several times. She is in daycare. It is important to me not to send her back into a daycare setting with Covid. I also work in an office and I've gotten tested several times when I've come down with a cold. I don't want to spread Covid unnecessarily.

It should be equally important to everyone not to send your kid to school with Covid. If additional testing needs to happen to be cautious, so be it.

Skirting the rules, avoiding testing and ignoring symptoms is why were are still in this pandemic. Not to mention the idiots who won't get vaccinated. It is maddening.

Hahaha. Yeah and me forgetting to turn the bathroom light off is why climate change is happening.

It's the little things that count, not in and of themselves, but through people's mindsets. If you care about these things, you will pay attention and think through your lifestyle to avoid polluting or consuming too much, or causing viral spread.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Unfortunately, complaining won’t solve a lot of the problems.
These are operational problems:
100 in drivers needed
Almost 400 teachers needed
Not enough subs
MCPS is not allowed to require mandatory testing
Parents (including those on this board) sending sick kids to school.
Overwhelmed teachers who often parents of school aged students as well.

Not enough health room RNs or techs

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Apparently the new “guidance” confirms what we’ve been hearing. If a child has “symptoms” associated with COVID (could be a runny nose) their close contacts (this has been interpreted as the entire class in many schools) are quarantined for ten days.

This is completely ludicrous and not based in science or CDC guidelines.

Glad to hear they're being responsible with the lives of our children.

The lives of children are not in jeopardy. Stop with the drama. There is no evidence that children are at a higher risk with Delta. None. We need to manage the virus by wearing masks, getting vaccinated if we’re eligible, and using common sense (eg hand washing). The lives and well being of children are more adversely affected by school closings.

A study really needs to be done comparing this policy with the CDC policy of quarantine only the kid with symptoms. They need to look at COVID cases as well as missed school days and do a cost benefit analysis. I suspect it would find it results in more disruption without preventing many cases. But the people who make these policies won’t read it anyway because the policies are being made for political reasons.

[Anonymous]

Our school had at least three classes sent home last week for quarantine—no actual cases. This is going to be ridiculous.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Our school had at least three classes sent home last week for quarantine—no actual cases. This is going to be ridiculous.

Name the school please, because there is concern about trolling.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:cough
difficulty breathing
new loss of taste or smell
fever ≥100.4°
sore throat
severe headache,
diarrhea
vomiting

Those seem perfectly reasonable.

These seem reasonable to me, too.

I have allergic asthmatic cough myself; I’ll need to be sure to keep it under control this fall with antihistamine and steroid inhaler but otherwise, if I had an uncontrollable cough I Should stay home.

No one should be in school with the other things... although as long as kids don’t complain of sore throat no one will know they have one.