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

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Anonymous wrote:Gayles is such a hypocrite. Thinks he’s above the CDC guidance for his personal international travel yet talks MCPS into a policy stricter than what the CDC recommends for students. Jerk.

Gayles is gone. Keep up. Time to blame someone else. Maybe Obama?

gayles is gone on September 12. Per Bethesda Beat this was his guidance.

I figured he left since the policy was more about politics than public health.

He’s been more about politics than public health since the beginning.

Forcing schools closed is bad politics. Not surprising, though. Bad doctor, bad leader...bad politician.

It shouldn't be about politics, it should be about kids safety, their families safety and our communities safety.

How odd that never mentioned education there. Are one of those people that thinks school is just child care?

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Anonymous wrote:Gayles is such a hypocrite. Thinks he’s above the CDC guidance for his personal international travel yet talks MCPS into a policy stricter than what the CDC recommends for students. Jerk.

Gayles is gone. Keep up. Time to blame someone else. Maybe Obama?

gayles is gone on September 12. Per Bethesda Beat this was his guidance.

I figured he left since the policy was more about politics than public health.

He’s been more about politics than public health since the beginning.

Forcing schools closed is bad politics. Not surprising, though. Bad doctor, bad leader...bad politician.

It shouldn't be about politics, it should be about kids safety, their families safety and our communities safety.

How odd that never mentioned education there. Are one of those people that thinks school is just child care?

Duh. I’m not the person you are replying to, but it’s very clear that she is talking about quarantine policy.

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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.

A 13 year old is in 7th, 8th or 9th. If they are in middle school, many of the classes, especially math and electives are 6, 7, 8th and many 6th and some fall birthday 7th graders will not be vaccinated. However, you can still get and spread covid vaccinated so it makes sense to quarantine everyone.

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Anonymous wrote:Gayles is such a hypocrite. Thinks he’s above the CDC guidance for his personal international travel yet talks MCPS into a policy stricter than what the CDC recommends for students. Jerk.

Gayles is gone. Keep up. Time to blame someone else. Maybe Obama?

gayles is gone on September 12. Per Bethesda Beat this was his guidance.

I figured he left since the policy was more about politics than public health.

He’s been more about politics than public health since the beginning.

Forcing schools closed is bad politics. Not surprising, though. Bad doctor, bad leader...bad politician.

It shouldn't be about politics, it should be about kids safety, their families safety and our communities safety.

How odd that never mentioned education there. Are one of those people that thinks school is just child care?

If I thought school was just child care, why are my kids in virtual academy. No, it should be about safety. Its not, so we choose not to send our kids back as we care about their health, our health and the overall situation. MCPS is not following any best practices beyond masking. No distancing, no testing and they aren't being transparent with notifying of covid positives. If anything he failed us by being so lax on allowing schools to open in full with very large numbers of students.

[Anonymous]

I have a 3rd grade kid in a class that was sent home. A classmate complained of a headache and got sent home. The whole class was instructed to isolate. The kid with a headache got a negative covid test so the class is allowed to return on Wednesday (Tuesday is a no school day). I think it’s too much. Kids shouldn’t be forced to isolate for symptoms only.

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Anonymous wrote:I have a 3rd grade kid in a class that was sent home. A classmate complained of a headache and got sent home. The whole class was instructed to isolate. The kid with a headache got a negative covid test so the class is allowed to return on Wednesday (Tuesday is a no school day). I think it’s too much. Kids shouldn’t be forced to isolate for symptoms only.

I’m sorry this happened to you, but glad they were able to get a test quickly. How much school did they miss? Headaches are so often due to heat, tiredness, dehydration. It’s beyond irresponsible to quarantine a class based on one kid having a headache, but that’s what we are left with.

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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.

A 13 year old is in 7th, 8th or 9th. If they are in middle school, many of the classes, especially math and electives are 6, 7, 8th and many 6th and some fall birthday 7th graders will not be vaccinated. However, you can still get and spread covid vaccinated so it makes sense to quarantine everyone.

So even with child vaccines for 12 and younger we will continue to quarantine everyone? This is a poisonous view. More false hopes and changing goalposts. Where does it end?

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Anonymous wrote:Gayles is such a hypocrite. Thinks he’s above the CDC guidance for his personal international travel yet talks MCPS into a policy stricter than what the CDC recommends for students. Jerk.

Gayles is gone. Keep up. Time to blame someone else. Maybe Obama?

gayles is gone on September 12. Per Bethesda Beat this was his guidance.

I figured he left since the policy was more about politics than public health.

He’s been more about politics than public health since the beginning.

Forcing schools closed is bad politics. Not surprising, though. Bad doctor, bad leader...bad politician.

It shouldn't be about politics, it should be about kids safety, their families safety and our communities safety.

How odd that never mentioned education there. Are one of those people that thinks school is just child care?

If I thought school was just child care, why are my kids in virtual academy. No, it should be about safety. Its not, so we choose not to send our kids back as we care about their health, our health and the overall situation. MCPS is not following any best practices beyond masking. No distancing, no testing and they aren't being transparent with notifying of covid positives. If anything he failed us by being so lax on allowing schools to open in full with very large numbers of students.

Just shutup. Every district in the country opened up. Go back to your VA, click some links, and be happy you even have that.

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How many kids are getting sick at school each day? Can't be that many. It's not like they are screening like before. I think people are overreacting.

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Anonymous wrote:How many kids are getting sick at school each day? Can't be that many. It's not like they are screening like before. I think people are overreacting.

It’s MCPS that’s overreacting when a third grader with a headache causes an entire class to quarantine.

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Anonymous wrote:How many kids are getting sick at school each day? Can't be that many. It's not like they are screening like before. I think people are overreacting.

It’s MCPS that’s overreacting when a third grader with a headache causes an entire class to quarantine.

Well, it's supposed to be severe headache, so that's an implementation issue if the quarantine was for something less than severe. And bad headache is one of the signs of Delta. And frankly, I seriously doubt too many kids , especially young kids, get serious headaches at school that the didn't have at home bad enough to get them to the nurse. So all things considered, if a child presents with a serious headache, they should probably be checked out in this day and age. And quarantining others for a day or two helps prevent disruptions at a larger scale. And the quarantine should be just those kids exposed per guidelines.

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Anonymous wrote:I have a 3rd grade kid in a class that was sent home. A classmate complained of a headache and got sent home. The whole class was instructed to isolate. The kid with a headache got a negative covid test so the class is allowed to return on Wednesday (Tuesday is a no school day). I think it’s too much. Kids shouldn’t be forced to isolate for symptoms only.

Without regular testing, that's the only way to do it.

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Anonymous wrote:Gayles is such a hypocrite. Thinks he’s above the CDC guidance for his personal international travel yet talks MCPS into a policy stricter than what the CDC recommends for students. Jerk.

Gayles is gone. Keep up. Time to blame someone else. Maybe Obama?

gayles is gone on September 12. Per Bethesda Beat this was his guidance.

I figured he left since the policy was more about politics than public health.

He’s been more about politics than public health since the beginning.

Forcing schools closed is bad politics. Not surprising, though. Bad doctor, bad leader...bad politician.

It shouldn't be about politics, it should be about kids safety, their families safety and our communities safety.

How odd that never mentioned education there. Are one of those people that thinks school is just child care?

If I thought school was just child care, why are my kids in virtual academy. No, it should be about safety. Its not, so we choose not to send our kids back as we care about their health, our health and the overall situation. MCPS is not following any best practices beyond masking. No distancing, no testing and they aren't being transparent with notifying of covid positives. If anything he failed us by being so lax on allowing schools to open in full with very large numbers of students.

Just shutup. Every district in the country opened up. Go back to your VA, click some links, and be happy you even have that.

Its truly sad you don't care about anyone, not even your own kids.

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Anonymous wrote:Gayles is such a hypocrite. Thinks he’s above the CDC guidance for his personal international travel yet talks MCPS into a policy stricter than what the CDC recommends for students. Jerk.

Gayles is gone. Keep up. Time to blame someone else. Maybe Obama?

gayles is gone on September 12. Per Bethesda Beat this was his guidance.

I figured he left since the policy was more about politics than public health.

He’s been more about politics than public health since the beginning.

Forcing schools closed is bad politics. Not surprising, though. Bad doctor, bad leader...bad politician.

It shouldn't be about politics, it should be about kids safety, their families safety and our communities safety.

How odd that never mentioned education there. Are one of those people that thinks school is just child care?

If I thought school was just child care, why are my kids in virtual academy. No, it should be about safety. Its not, so we choose not to send our kids back as we care about their health, our health and the overall situation. MCPS is not following any best practices beyond masking. No distancing, no testing and they aren't being transparent with notifying of covid positives. If anything he failed us by being so lax on allowing schools to open in full with very large numbers of students.

Just shutup. Every district in the country opened up. Go back to your VA, click some links, and be happy you even have that.

Its truly sad you don't care about anyone, not even your own kids.

I love that people like this VA poster are in the minority this year! Doesn’t it feel great that every single school district in the nation even LA and San Fran and Oregon and NYC have opened for all kids 5 days! It makes me so happy. I feel so validated. The quarantine kinks will get worked out esp once Gayles is gone (nice parting gift bro!) and I think it’s going to be a great year. I really do. Don’t let your kid get too fat and depressed in the VA!

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Anonymous wrote:Gayles is such a hypocrite. Thinks he’s above the CDC guidance for his personal international travel yet talks MCPS into a policy stricter than what the CDC recommends for students. Jerk.

Gayles is gone. Keep up. Time to blame someone else. Maybe Obama?

gayles is gone on September 12. Per Bethesda Beat this was his guidance.

I figured he left since the policy was more about politics than public health.

He’s been more about politics than public health since the beginning.

Forcing schools closed is bad politics. Not surprising, though. Bad doctor, bad leader...bad politician.

It shouldn't be about politics, it should be about kids safety, their families safety and our communities safety.

How odd that never mentioned education there. Are one of those people that thinks school is just child care?

If I thought school was just child care, why are my kids in virtual academy. No, it should be about safety. Its not, so we choose not to send our kids back as we care about their health, our health and the overall situation. MCPS is not following any best practices beyond masking. No distancing, no testing and they aren't being transparent with notifying of covid positives. If anything he failed us by being so lax on allowing schools to open in full with very large numbers of students.

Just shutup. Every district in the country opened up. Go back to your VA, click some links, and be happy you even have that.

Its truly sad you don't care about anyone, not even your own kids.

I guess in your opinion, the majority of parents in the MoCo (and the US) don't care about their kids because they sent them back to in person school