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?

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.

/yawn Neither do you if you're putting them into 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.

EVERY district opened! Nobody is buying your crap any more. It's truly sad how one dimensional you are.

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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.

EVERY district opened! Nobody is buying your crap any more. It's truly sad how one dimensional you are.

+1 poster has serious FOMO. Why is she posting on in-person threads!?! I don't post on VA threads.

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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.

How? How exactly does quarantining kids who have no symptoms and have not had known exposure to COVID “prevent disruptions”. It does not. It causes them.

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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.

FFS. No it is NOT. Send the sick kid home only. There is no reason to send hundreds of healthy kids home. None. Look at how every other school district in the world is handling this.

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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

/Because/ I very much care about my kids, I sent them back. It’s by far the right option, not isolated at home.

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Anonymous wrote:I’m sure I will be attacked. I’m glad MCPS is taking it seriously though they definitely need more specific criteria so they aren’t going overboard. My child’s principal certainly isn’t doing this. The criteria shared has basically nobody quarantining and allows for uncontrolled spread. Frankly it’s unacceptable to me.

What I’d like to see is mandatory weekly testing. And to clarify, I want schools open 5 days a week in person with minimal disruption. My kids want to be in school. They need to be in school. Sick kids going to school is the reason my kids probably will have multiple disruptions this year.

My only experience is with ES, but I hope many families opt into the pool testing. In the spring at my kid's ES, they had to send multiple messages out to get enough families to consent (of course, there were far fewer kids in the room).

We had been planning on opting into testing (which is individual, not pooled, this year), but we are not now. It is clear MCPS wants to take every chance to shut down classes and send kids home. We are not going to contribute to that.

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Anonymous wrote:I’m sure I will be attacked. I’m glad MCPS is taking it seriously though they definitely need more specific criteria so they aren’t going overboard. My child’s principal certainly isn’t doing this. The criteria shared has basically nobody quarantining and allows for uncontrolled spread. Frankly it’s unacceptable to me.

What I’d like to see is mandatory weekly testing. And to clarify, I want schools open 5 days a week in person with minimal disruption. My kids want to be in school. They need to be in school. Sick kids going to school is the reason my kids probably will have multiple disruptions this year.

My only experience is with ES, but I hope many families opt into the pool testing. In the spring at my kid's ES, they had to send multiple messages out to get enough families to consent (of course, there were far fewer kids in the room).

We had been planning on opting into testing (which is individual, not pooled, this year), but we are not now. It is clear MCPS wants to take every chance to shut down classes and send kids home. We are not going to contribute to that.

I feel the same way.

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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.

It’s not “symptoms,” it’s symptom! One symptom!

“ This is particularly important as if your child has any of the following single symptoms they will be sent home and not be able to return to school until they have a negative test, alternate diagnosis, or complete a full 10-day quarantine. During that period of time, all other students who have been in their close contact will have to be in a temporary quarantine while the other families wait on the outcome of that testing for your child. This could be potentially disruptive to your children and families moving in and out of quarantine and to avoid it takes all of us working together. It is a collective responsibility that we exercise extreme caution and be conservative in our approach.

The single symptoms that the health room staff screen for and will result in quarantine are cough, difficulty breathing, new loss of taste or smell, fever ≥100.4°, sore throat, severe Headache, diarrhea or vomiting. Please do not send your children to school with any of these symptoms. This is essential for us to continue to remain in school without quarantine.”

What choice do they have, though? I'm in favor of in-person and my kids went back in spring. But what else can they do?

It also doesn't say runny nose, at least, because then no one would be in school from Nov.-March.

Runny nose is going to keep them home anyway because of the masks. Runny noses and masks are not a good combo.

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Anonymous wrote:I’m sure I will be attacked. I’m glad MCPS is taking it seriously though they definitely need more specific criteria so they aren’t going overboard. My child’s principal certainly isn’t doing this. The criteria shared has basically nobody quarantining and allows for uncontrolled spread. Frankly it’s unacceptable to me.

What I’d like to see is mandatory weekly testing. And to clarify, I want schools open 5 days a week in person with minimal disruption. My kids want to be in school. They need to be in school. Sick kids going to school is the reason my kids probably will have multiple disruptions this year.

My only experience is with ES, but I hope many families opt into the pool testing. In the spring at my kid's ES, they had to send multiple messages out to get enough families to consent (of course, there were far fewer kids in the room).

We had been planning on opting into testing (which is individual, not pooled, this year), but we are not now. It is clear MCPS wants to take every chance to shut down classes and send kids home. We are not going to contribute to that.

Where did you find out the details about the random testing? The opt in sheet is not very informative.

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Anonymous wrote:I’m sure I will be attacked. I’m glad MCPS is taking it seriously though they definitely need more specific criteria so they aren’t going overboard. My child’s principal certainly isn’t doing this. The criteria shared has basically nobody quarantining and allows for uncontrolled spread. Frankly it’s unacceptable to me.

What I’d like to see is mandatory weekly testing. And to clarify, I want schools open 5 days a week in person with minimal disruption. My kids want to be in school. They need to be in school. Sick kids going to school is the reason my kids probably will have multiple disruptions this year.

My only experience is with ES, but I hope many families opt into the pool testing. In the spring at my kid's ES, they had to send multiple messages out to get enough families to consent (of course, there were far fewer kids in the room).

We had been planning on opting into testing (which is individual, not pooled, this year), but we are not now. It is clear MCPS wants to take every chance to shut down classes and send kids home. We are not going to contribute to that.

Where did you find out the details about the random testing? The opt in sheet is not very informative.

I think they covered it in the last BoE meeting. Caitlynn Peetz put it in her q&a article maybe a week ago.

“ Unlike the spring semester, it will not be ‘pooled’ testing. That means each student who is tested will have their sample tested individually.”
https://bethesdamagazine.com/bethesda-beat/schools/answers-to-some-common-questions-about-mcps-fall-semester-plans/

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Anonymous wrote:I’m sure I will be attacked. I’m glad MCPS is taking it seriously though they definitely need more specific criteria so they aren’t going overboard. My child’s principal certainly isn’t doing this. The criteria shared has basically nobody quarantining and allows for uncontrolled spread. Frankly it’s unacceptable to me.

What I’d like to see is mandatory weekly testing. And to clarify, I want schools open 5 days a week in person with minimal disruption. My kids want to be in school. They need to be in school. Sick kids going to school is the reason my kids probably will have multiple disruptions this year.

My only experience is with ES, but I hope many families opt into the pool testing. In the spring at my kid's ES, they had to send multiple messages out to get enough families to consent (of course, there were far fewer kids in the room).

We had been planning on opting into testing (which is individual, not pooled, this year), but we are not now. It is clear MCPS wants to take every chance to shut down classes and send kids home. We are not going to contribute to that.

Where did you find out the details about the random testing? The opt in sheet is not very informative.

Thanks, PP!
I think they covered it in the last BoE meeting. Caitlynn Peetz put it in her q&a article maybe a week ago.

“ Unlike the spring semester, it will not be ‘pooled’ testing. That means each student who is tested will have their sample tested individually.”
https://bethesdamagazine.com/bethesda-beat/schools/answers-to-some-common-questions-about-mcps-fall-semester-plans/

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Anonymous wrote:I’m sure I will be attacked. I’m glad MCPS is taking it seriously though they definitely need more specific criteria so they aren’t going overboard. My child’s principal certainly isn’t doing this. The criteria shared has basically nobody quarantining and allows for uncontrolled spread. Frankly it’s unacceptable to me.

What I’d like to see is mandatory weekly testing. And to clarify, I want schools open 5 days a week in person with minimal disruption. My kids want to be in school. They need to be in school. Sick kids going to school is the reason my kids probably will have multiple disruptions this year.

My only experience is with ES, but I hope many families opt into the pool testing. In the spring at my kid's ES, they had to send multiple messages out to get enough families to consent (of course, there were far fewer kids in the room).

We had been planning on opting into testing (which is individual, not pooled, this year), but we are not now. It is clear MCPS wants to take every chance to shut down classes and send kids home. We are not going to contribute to that.

Where did you find out the details about the random testing? The opt in sheet is not very informative.

I think they covered it in the last BoE meeting. Caitlynn Peetz put it in her q&a article maybe a week ago.

“ Unlike the spring semester, it will not be ‘pooled’ testing. That means each student who is tested will have their sample tested individually.”
https://bethesdamagazine.com/bethesda-beat/schools/answers-to-some-common-questions-about-mcps-fall-semester-plans/

Thanks!

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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.

EVERY district opened! Nobody is buying your crap any more. It's truly sad how one dimensional you are.

+1 poster has serious FOMO. Why is she posting on in-person threads!?! I don't post on VA threads.

Your behavior impacts our kids and why we are choosing to keep them home. You send kids to school sick so stop complaining they get sent home.

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Sweetheart you chose virtual academy because you said it was such a superior educational option because you're a superior parent! So great for you! And then your kids can do distance learning for college and a get a virtual job and never leave the house. And it sounds like the makings of a horror film but whatever it sure it's making you really happy! Congratulations!

Let the normal people have our conversation about how this is going to work