I’m getting nervous about school because of delta

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I still think FCPS should require neg test for all staff and students 72 hours prior to the first day. To me this is a no brainer.

They should test Thursday and give up their last day of prep and their final weekend of summer?

Teacher here. It does not take long to get tested. Not really sure what you mean by give up prep and final weekend.

In these cases, people would test and quarantine while they waiting for results. No point in getting a test if a teacher goes to a party Saturday and catches covid.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:This is why I’m keeping my 11 year old child home until she is fully vaccinated. We didn’t go through everything since March of 2020 to only have her get COVID (and possible long term effects) only months before a vaccine.

Ya’ll can send your kids if you really want. Go for it. MY kid’s long term health is not worth the risk and we have enough money to make it work. She’ll walk into school when she is two weeks post her 2nd shot.

https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2021-07-31/what-the-delta-variant-development-means-for-unvaccinated-kids

Swann recently published a report that found that in a worst-case scenario, without masking in schools, an additional 70% of children could be infected with the coronavirus within three months. Her research also shows that even if masking is required in all schools, if there are no other mitigation strategies, she still expects 40% of elementary school students to be infected within three months.

What if they don’t approve a vaccine for under 12?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I still think FCPS should require neg test for all staff and students 72 hours prior to the first day. To me this is a no brainer.

It’s pandemic theater. Is everyone in every FCPS family going to shelter at home except for attending school? If not, testing like this is pointless.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I wonder if the school board members are sending their ES kids?

Which of them even have ES kids? Just the last who set up a private pod with a teacher?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I still think FCPS should require neg test for all staff and students 72 hours prior to the first day. To me this is a no brainer.

They should test Thursday and give up their last day of prep and their final weekend of summer?

I'm a teacher and I believe the county would have an enormous amount of difficulty getting teachers to get tested outside of contract time.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I still think FCPS should require neg test for all staff and students 72 hours prior to the first day. To me this is a no brainer.

So I (and everyone else) should get a negative test on Friday, do all of my normal interactions thereafter, and then start school on Monday? What good would that do? I mean, we’d be negative Friday and then all bets are off.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:This is why I’m keeping my 11 year old child home until she is fully vaccinated. We didn’t go through everything since March of 2020 to only have her get COVID (and possible long term effects) only months before a vaccine.

Ya’ll can send your kids if you really want. Go for it. MY kid’s long term health is not worth the risk and we have enough money to make it work. She’ll walk into school when she is two weeks post her 2nd shot.

https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2021-07-31/what-the-delta-variant-development-means-for-unvaccinated-kids

Swann recently published a report that found that in a worst-case scenario, without masking in schools, an additional 70% of children could be infected with the coronavirus within three months. Her research also shows that even if masking is required in all schools, if there are no other mitigation strategies, she still expects 40% of elementary school students to be infected within three months.

What if they don’t approve a vaccine for under 12?

It’s always a possibility. I’ll reevaluate if it looks like they will not approve. Right now looks like they need more data to make a decision.

But not going to let my child walk into a situation where she (potentially) has a 4 out of 10 chance of being infected in the next three months. Nope, not for my kid. We stayed home, socially distanced and got vaccinated as soon as it was out turn. The rest of society might see children as “worth the risk”, but I’m not taking that chance with mine. If FCPS reopens the online ES option, I’ll look into that. Otherwise, happy to keep her home and she’ll learn plenty with me.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I still think FCPS should require neg test for all staff and students 72 hours prior to the first day. To me this is a no brainer.

So I (and everyone else) should get a negative test on Friday, do all of my normal interactions thereafter, and then start school on Monday? What good would that do? I mean, we’d be negative Friday and then all bets are off.

Exactly!!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:This is why I’m keeping my 11 year old child home until she is fully vaccinated. We didn’t go through everything since March of 2020 to only have her get COVID (and possible long term effects) only months before a vaccine.

Ya’ll can send your kids if you really want. Go for it. MY kid’s long term health is not worth the risk and we have enough money to make it work. She’ll walk into school when she is two weeks post her 2nd shot.

https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2021-07-31/what-the-delta-variant-development-means-for-unvaccinated-kids

Swann recently published a report that found that in a worst-case scenario, without masking in schools, an additional 70% of children could be infected with the coronavirus within three months. Her research also shows that even if masking is required in all schools, if there are no other mitigation strategies, she still expects 40% of elementary school students to be infected within three months.

What if they don’t approve a vaccine for under 12?

It’s always a possibility. I’ll reevaluate if it looks like they will not approve. Right now looks like they need more data to make a decision.

But not going to let my child walk into a situation where she (potentially) has a 4 out of 10 chance of being infected in the next three months. Nope, not for my kid. We stayed home, socially distanced and got vaccinated as soon as it was out turn. The rest of society might see children as “worth the risk”, but I’m not taking that chance with mine. If FCPS reopens the online ES option, I’ll look into that. Otherwise, happy to keep her home and she’ll learn plenty with me.

She has a 6 out of 10 chance of not. I like those odds.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I still think FCPS should require neg test for all staff and students 72 hours prior to the first day. To me this is a no brainer.

So I (and everyone else) should get a negative test on Friday, do all of my normal interactions thereafter, and then start school on Monday? What good would that do? I mean, we’d be negative Friday and then all bets are off.

It is the same thing taking an international flight. You could be negative 72 hours and then be positive, but it is to have a baseline to see if anyone is starting covid positive and removing them to avoid further spread.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I still think FCPS should require neg test for all staff and students 72 hours prior to the first day. To me this is a no brainer.

So I (and everyone else) should get a negative test on Friday, do all of my normal interactions thereafter, and then start school on Monday? What good would that do? I mean, we’d be negative Friday and then all bets are off.

It is the same thing taking an international flight. You could be negative 72 hours and then be positive, but it is to have a baseline to see if anyone is starting covid positive and removing them to avoid further spread.

They need to be doing rapid testing on a regular basis. I am not an epidemiologist so I don’t know best approach, but random sampling, pooled testing, etc...it is driving me crazy that public schools haven’t incorporated testing into their plans. These can be self administered tests, it doesn’t require using personal time and so on. I feel like this testing could be used to identify an emerging outbreak in a particular school.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I still think FCPS should require neg test for all staff and students 72 hours prior to the first day. To me this is a no brainer.

So I (and everyone else) should get a negative test on Friday, do all of my normal interactions thereafter, and then start school on Monday? What good would that do? I mean, we’d be negative Friday and then all bets are off.

It is the same thing taking an international flight. You could be negative 72 hours and then be positive, but it is to have a baseline to see if anyone is starting covid positive and removing them to avoid further spread.

They need to be doing rapid testing on a regular basis. I am not an epidemiologist so I don’t know best approach, but random sampling, pooled testing, etc...it is driving me crazy that public schools haven’t incorporated testing into their plans. These can be self administered tests, it doesn’t require using personal time and so on. I feel like this testing could be used to identify an emerging outbreak in a particular school.

Would that be expensive?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I still think FCPS should require neg test for all staff and students 72 hours prior to the first day. To me this is a no brainer.

So I (and everyone else) should get a negative test on Friday, do all of my normal interactions thereafter, and then start school on Monday? What good would that do? I mean, we’d be negative Friday and then all bets are off.

It is the same thing taking an international flight. You could be negative 72 hours and then be positive, but it is to have a baseline to see if anyone is starting covid positive and removing them to avoid further spread.

They need to be doing rapid testing on a regular basis. I am not an epidemiologist so I don’t know best approach, but random sampling, pooled testing, etc...it is driving me crazy that public schools haven’t incorporated testing into their plans. These can be self administered tests, it doesn’t require using personal time and so on. I feel like this testing could be used to identify an emerging outbreak in a particular school.

I agree. They did testing in Europe like every few days. I don’t think that is necessary. But once a week I think would be beneficial. I am very concerned that kids are going to go back and within a week we will have kids quarantining. I really wish they capped class sizes at like 20 but staffing is challenging.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I still think FCPS should require neg test for all staff and students 72 hours prior to the first day. To me this is a no brainer.

So I (and everyone else) should get a negative test on Friday, do all of my normal interactions thereafter, and then start school on Monday? What good would that do? I mean, we’d be negative Friday and then all bets are off.

It is the same thing taking an international flight. You could be negative 72 hours and then be positive, but it is to have a baseline to see if anyone is starting covid positive and removing them to avoid further spread.

They need to be doing rapid testing on a regular basis. I am not an epidemiologist so I don’t know best approach, but random sampling, pooled testing, etc...it is driving me crazy that public schools haven’t incorporated testing into their plans. These can be self administered tests, it doesn’t require using personal time and so on. I feel like this testing could be used to identify an emerging outbreak in a particular school.

I agree. They did testing in Europe like every few days. I don’t think that is necessary. But once a week I think would be beneficial. I am very concerned that kids are going to go back and within a week we will have kids quarantining. I really wish they capped class sizes at like 20 but staffing is challenging.

They could in a lot of grades because they are de staffing now. But FCPS doesn’t want to pay for one more teacher than necessary.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I still think FCPS should require neg test for all staff and students 72 hours prior to the first day. To me this is a no brainer.

So I (and everyone else) should get a negative test on Friday, do all of my normal interactions thereafter, and then start school on Monday? What good would that do? I mean, we’d be negative Friday and then all bets are off.

It is the same thing taking an international flight. You could be negative 72 hours and then be positive, but it is to have a baseline to see if anyone is starting covid positive and removing them to avoid further spread.

They need to be doing rapid testing on a regular basis. I am not an epidemiologist so I don’t know best approach, but random sampling, pooled testing, etc...it is driving me crazy that public schools haven’t incorporated testing into their plans. These can be self administered tests, it doesn’t require using personal time and so on. I feel like this testing could be used to identify an emerging outbreak in a particular school.

I am slated to have 24 kids. Social distancing can’t happen in my room due to class size unless I removed everything but desks.

I agree. They did testing in Europe like every few days. I don’t think that is necessary. But once a week I think would be beneficial. I am very concerned that kids are going to go back and within a week we will have kids quarantining. I really wish they capped class sizes at like 20 but staffing is challenging.

They could in a lot of grades because they are de staffing now. But FCPS doesn’t want to pay for one more teacher than necessary.