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Anonymous wrote:Threads like this in late July are so predictable. People calling for school closures and doom are an extremist minority who are detached from reality. It’s like a cult at this point.

Unfortunately there are ALOT of parents and public health official as like this in Montgomery County. Too many. And they have very loud voices. Our kids suffered for two years because of these ‘doom and gloom’ parents/public health officials.

I would hope that we know to ignore them by now, but I am not certain and could see schools having issues with closures due to quarantines, etc.

There’s no regional company on this any more. None of the other school region message boards even have a Covid thread on their first page. Fortunately, we now have a Superintendent that couldn’t care less what the hypochondriacs and shutins think.

It’s like you’re not even listening to what the actual problem is. The problem isn’t COVID itself… it’s that with sickness comes a staffing crisis. You cannot have open school buildings without anyone to run the schools. Or you do and you herd 100s of kids into auditoriums in the name of “education” bc many morons here think an open building automatically equals education. It doesn’t. If you actually cared about the education aspect, you’d realize this. Otherwise what you’re really saying is you’re just concerned with free babysitting and using “education” as the guise.

Like last winter? The handful of schools that lost the color coding lottery for a couple weeks? Or a couple anecdotes about auditoriums for a couple days? Covid is even a bigger non-story now. Nothing is shutting down.

It's amazing. It's like you still aren't listening. Not shocking. Who said anything about shutting down? No where in that post did it mention that. All it said was parents wrongly equate open buildings with education. Do you actually think kids were learning in January when they were stuffed into auditoriums with teachers who didn't teach their content? If you do, you're not very smart. Schools will continue like this in the fall due to staffing shortages and parents wont care because their kids are in school. That is fine but stop pretending it's about education because it obviously is not. It's about babysitting.

Ok wait - so are you the same poster that is simply advocating for a virtual option indefinitely? Kids being in auditoriums etc may not be learning content out of a book or from a teacher but at least in that moment they are being social with their peers. That has to be worth something right?!

There hasnt been a single post here advocating for virtual indefinitely. READING COMPREHENSION MATTERS. I posted that virtual has existed for longer than the pandemic and parents in MoCo are out of touch because they equate bad parenting with virtual school. How is that advocating for "indefinite virtual." It's pointing out that having kids in school virtually doesnt make other people bad parents.

Interesting....my point is simply that virtual is equivalent to home school which should be done on your dime not mine.

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Anonymous wrote:Threads like this in late July are so predictable. People calling for school closures and doom are an extremist minority who are detached from reality. It’s like a cult at this point.

Unfortunately there are ALOT of parents and public health official as like this in Montgomery County. Too many. And they have very loud voices. Our kids suffered for two years because of these ‘doom and gloom’ parents/public health officials.

I would hope that we know to ignore them by now, but I am not certain and could see schools having issues with closures due to quarantines, etc.

There’s no regional company on this any more. None of the other school region message boards even have a Covid thread on their first page. Fortunately, we now have a Superintendent that couldn’t care less what the hypochondriacs and shutins think.

It’s like you’re not even listening to what the actual problem is. The problem isn’t COVID itself… it’s that with sickness comes a staffing crisis. You cannot have open school buildings without anyone to run the schools. Or you do and you herd 100s of kids into auditoriums in the name of “education” bc many morons here think an open building automatically equals education. It doesn’t. If you actually cared about the education aspect, you’d realize this. Otherwise what you’re really saying is you’re just concerned with free babysitting and using “education” as the guise.

But how much is the staffing problem caused by required and extended isolation periods and how much is actual sickness?

This. Plenty of teachers could have come in to work at various times during the last school year, but were forced to stay at home due to unreasonable isolation requirements and inappropriate quarantine regulations.

In my department I know of two teachers who had to stay home several times due to exposure in the fall/winter as they were IMO selfish anti-vaxers. I know of one teacher who tested positive but had no symptoms. (Which means he would have spread it around since he didnt usually wear a mask if he did come in.)

Weird that people think they are smarter than the CDC on this forum.

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Anonymous wrote:Threads like this in late July are so predictable. People calling for school closures and doom are an extremist minority who are detached from reality. It’s like a cult at this point.

Unfortunately there are ALOT of parents and public health official as like this in Montgomery County. Too many. And they have very loud voices. Our kids suffered for two years because of these ‘doom and gloom’ parents/public health officials.

I would hope that we know to ignore them by now, but I am not certain and could see schools having issues with closures due to quarantines, etc.

There’s no regional company on this any more. None of the other school region message boards even have a Covid thread on their first page. Fortunately, we now have a Superintendent that couldn’t care less what the hypochondriacs and shutins think.

It’s like you’re not even listening to what the actual problem is. The problem isn’t COVID itself… it’s that with sickness comes a staffing crisis. You cannot have open school buildings without anyone to run the schools. Or you do and you herd 100s of kids into auditoriums in the name of “education” bc many morons here think an open building automatically equals education. It doesn’t. If you actually cared about the education aspect, you’d realize this. Otherwise what you’re really saying is you’re just concerned with free babysitting and using “education” as the guise.

But how much is the staffing problem caused by required and extended isolation periods and how much is actual sickness?

Exactly! Remove the testing and extended isolation requirements.

+1 million

Remove the overly restrictive testing and extended isolation requirements. For everyone. Teacher, staff and students.

This. Anyone who thinks masking is the key to keeping schools open is delusional (literally, at this point in the pandemic).

There are efforts brewing to advocate for mandatory masking this Fall. If you disagree, please let Dr. McKnight and the BOE know ASAP. The prioritization of COVID to the exclusion of all else in MCPS needs to end.

If the CDC recommends it you know that MCPS will follow it.

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Anonymous wrote:Threads like this in late July are so predictable. People calling for school closures and doom are an extremist minority who are detached from reality. It’s like a cult at this point.

Unfortunately there are ALOT of parents and public health official as like this in Montgomery County. Too many. And they have very loud voices. Our kids suffered for two years because of these ‘doom and gloom’ parents/public health officials.

I would hope that we know to ignore them by now, but I am not certain and could see schools having issues with closures due to quarantines, etc.

There’s no regional company on this any more. None of the other school region message boards even have a Covid thread on their first page. Fortunately, we now have a Superintendent that couldn’t care less what the hypochondriacs and shutins think.

It’s like you’re not even listening to what the actual problem is. The problem isn’t COVID itself… it’s that with sickness comes a staffing crisis. You cannot have open school buildings without anyone to run the schools. Or you do and you herd 100s of kids into auditoriums in the name of “education” bc many morons here think an open building automatically equals education. It doesn’t. If you actually cared about the education aspect, you’d realize this. Otherwise what you’re really saying is you’re just concerned with free babysitting and using “education” as the guise.

But how much is the staffing problem caused by required and extended isolation periods and how much is actual sickness?

Exactly! Remove the testing and extended isolation requirements.

+1 million

Remove the overly restrictive testing and extended isolation requirements. For everyone. Teacher, staff and students.

This. Anyone who thinks masking is the key to keeping schools open is delusional (literally, at this point in the pandemic).

There are efforts brewing to advocate for mandatory masking this Fall. If you disagree, please let Dr. McKnight and the BOE know ASAP. The prioritization of COVID to the exclusion of all else in MCPS needs to end.

If the CDC recommends it you know that MCPS will follow it.

True, although I'm not sure the CDC will recommend universal mask mandates in schools at this point.

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Anonymous wrote:Threads like this in late July are so predictable. People calling for school closures and doom are an extremist minority who are detached from reality. It’s like a cult at this point.

Unfortunately there are ALOT of parents and public health official as like this in Montgomery County. Too many. And they have very loud voices. Our kids suffered for two years because of these ‘doom and gloom’ parents/public health officials.

I would hope that we know to ignore them by now, but I am not certain and could see schools having issues with closures due to quarantines, etc.

There’s no regional company on this any more. None of the other school region message boards even have a Covid thread on their first page. Fortunately, we now have a Superintendent that couldn’t care less what the hypochondriacs and shutins think.

It’s like you’re not even listening to what the actual problem is. The problem isn’t COVID itself… it’s that with sickness comes a staffing crisis. You cannot have open school buildings without anyone to run the schools. Or you do and you herd 100s of kids into auditoriums in the name of “education” bc many morons here think an open building automatically equals education. It doesn’t. If you actually cared about the education aspect, you’d realize this. Otherwise what you’re really saying is you’re just concerned with free babysitting and using “education” as the guise.

But how much is the staffing problem caused by required and extended isolation periods and how much is actual sickness?

Exactly! Remove the testing and extended isolation requirements.

+1 million

Remove the overly restrictive testing and extended isolation requirements. For everyone. Teacher, staff and students.

This. Anyone who thinks masking is the key to keeping schools open is delusional (literally, at this point in the pandemic).

There are efforts brewing to advocate for mandatory masking this Fall. If you disagree, please let Dr. McKnight and the BOE know ASAP. The prioritization of COVID to the exclusion of all else in MCPS needs to end.

If the CDC recommends it you know that MCPS will follow it.

True, although I'm not sure the CDC will recommend universal mask mandates in schools at this point.

Fauci was just on the news this week talking about masks.

I would hope the CDC doesn’t recommend mask mandates (especially for kids!), but I guess we’ll see.

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Anonymous wrote:Threads like this in late July are so predictable. People calling for school closures and doom are an extremist minority who are detached from reality. It’s like a cult at this point.

Unfortunately there are ALOT of parents and public health official as like this in Montgomery County. Too many. And they have very loud voices. Our kids suffered for two years because of these ‘doom and gloom’ parents/public health officials.

I would hope that we know to ignore them by now, but I am not certain and could see schools having issues with closures due to quarantines, etc.

There’s no regional company on this any more. None of the other school region message boards even have a Covid thread on their first page. Fortunately, we now have a Superintendent that couldn’t care less what the hypochondriacs and shutins think.

It’s like you’re not even listening to what the actual problem is. The problem isn’t COVID itself… it’s that with sickness comes a staffing crisis. You cannot have open school buildings without anyone to run the schools. Or you do and you herd 100s of kids into auditoriums in the name of “education” bc many morons here think an open building automatically equals education. It doesn’t. If you actually cared about the education aspect, you’d realize this. Otherwise what you’re really saying is you’re just concerned with free babysitting and using “education” as the guise.

But how much is the staffing problem caused by required and extended isolation periods and how much is actual sickness?

This. Plenty of teachers could have come in to work at various times during the last school year, but were forced to stay at home due to unreasonable isolation requirements and inappropriate quarantine regulations.

In my department I know of two teachers who had to stay home several times due to exposure in the fall/winter as they were IMO selfish anti-vaxers. I know of one teacher who tested positive but had no symptoms. (Which means he would have spread it around since he didnt usually wear a mask if he did come in.)

Weird that people think they are smarter than the CDC on this forum.

That comment is so 2020. Get with the times, PP.

Choosing not to be vaccinated is NOT selfish. We know that vaccinated individuals can still transmit Covid.

It is selfish to expect other people to make the same medical decisions as you, without knowing anything about their situation.

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Anonymous wrote:Threads like this in late July are so predictable. People calling for school closures and doom are an extremist minority who are detached from reality. It’s like a cult at this point.

Unfortunately there are ALOT of parents and public health official as like this in Montgomery County. Too many. And they have very loud voices. Our kids suffered for two years because of these ‘doom and gloom’ parents/public health officials.

I would hope that we know to ignore them by now, but I am not certain and could see schools having issues with closures due to quarantines, etc.

There’s no regional company on this any more. None of the other school region message boards even have a Covid thread on their first page. Fortunately, we now have a Superintendent that couldn’t care less what the hypochondriacs and shutins think.

It’s like you’re not even listening to what the actual problem is. The problem isn’t COVID itself… it’s that with sickness comes a staffing crisis. You cannot have open school buildings without anyone to run the schools. Or you do and you herd 100s of kids into auditoriums in the name of “education” bc many morons here think an open building automatically equals education. It doesn’t. If you actually cared about the education aspect, you’d realize this. Otherwise what you’re really saying is you’re just concerned with free babysitting and using “education” as the guise.

But how much is the staffing problem caused by required and extended isolation periods and how much is actual sickness?

This. Plenty of teachers could have come in to work at various times during the last school year, but were forced to stay at home due to unreasonable isolation requirements and inappropriate quarantine regulations.

In my department I know of two teachers who had to stay home several times due to exposure in the fall/winter as they were IMO selfish anti-vaxers. I know of one teacher who tested positive but had no symptoms. (Which means he would have spread it around since he didnt usually wear a mask if he did come in.)

Weird that people think they are smarter than the CDC on this forum.

That comment is so 2020. Get with the times, PP.

Choosing not to be vaccinated is NOT selfish. We know that vaccinated individuals can still transmit Covid.

It is selfish to expect other people to make the same medical decisions as you, without knowing anything about their situation.

Actually, it was selfish in the fall based on the available data. That changed with Omicron. What is selfish and ill-advised is pretending like COVID is just like any other cold or the flu, because it's not.

I wish we had data on symptomatic infections, so we knew what percentage of COVID-positive cases are symptomatic and how severe or for how long the symptoms lasted. While winter Omicron may have been the sniffles for many people, so many people now are describing the worst flu of their lives and taking 5 or more days to recover.

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Anonymous wrote:Threads like this in late July are so predictable. People calling for school closures and doom are an extremist minority who are detached from reality. It’s like a cult at this point.

Unfortunately there are ALOT of parents and public health official as like this in Montgomery County. Too many. And they have very loud voices. Our kids suffered for two years because of these ‘doom and gloom’ parents/public health officials.

I would hope that we know to ignore them by now, but I am not certain and could see schools having issues with closures due to quarantines, etc.

There’s no regional company on this any more. None of the other school region message boards even have a Covid thread on their first page. Fortunately, we now have a Superintendent that couldn’t care less what the hypochondriacs and shutins think.

It’s like you’re not even listening to what the actual problem is. The problem isn’t COVID itself… it’s that with sickness comes a staffing crisis. You cannot have open school buildings without anyone to run the schools. Or you do and you herd 100s of kids into auditoriums in the name of “education” bc many morons here think an open building automatically equals education. It doesn’t. If you actually cared about the education aspect, you’d realize this. Otherwise what you’re really saying is you’re just concerned with free babysitting and using “education” as the guise.

But how much is the staffing problem caused by required and extended isolation periods and how much is actual sickness?

Exactly! Remove the testing and extended isolation requirements.

+1 million

Remove the overly restrictive testing and extended isolation requirements. For everyone. Teacher, staff and students.

This. Anyone who thinks masking is the key to keeping schools open is delusional (literally, at this point in the pandemic).

There are efforts brewing to advocate for mandatory masking this Fall. If you disagree, please let Dr. McKnight and the BOE know ASAP. The prioritization of COVID to the exclusion of all else in MCPS needs to end.

If the CDC recommends it you know that MCPS will follow it.

True, although I'm not sure the CDC will recommend universal mask mandates in schools at this point.

Fauci was just on the news this week talking about masks.

I would hope the CDC doesn’t recommend mask mandates (especially for kids!), but I guess we’ll see.

I’m a teacher and parent. I don’t want a mask mandate. I hated teaching while wearing it.
However, I also don’t want major disruptions due to large numbers of kids or staff out. So, while I would not be thrilled by a mask mandate, I see it as the lesser inconvenience.

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Anonymous wrote:Threads like this in late July are so predictable. People calling for school closures and doom are an extremist minority who are detached from reality. It’s like a cult at this point.

Unfortunately there are ALOT of parents and public health official as like this in Montgomery County. Too many. And they have very loud voices. Our kids suffered for two years because of these ‘doom and gloom’ parents/public health officials.

I would hope that we know to ignore them by now, but I am not certain and could see schools having issues with closures due to quarantines, etc.

There’s no regional company on this any more. None of the other school region message boards even have a Covid thread on their first page. Fortunately, we now have a Superintendent that couldn’t care less what the hypochondriacs and shutins think.

It’s like you’re not even listening to what the actual problem is. The problem isn’t COVID itself… it’s that with sickness comes a staffing crisis. You cannot have open school buildings without anyone to run the schools. Or you do and you herd 100s of kids into auditoriums in the name of “education” bc many morons here think an open building automatically equals education. It doesn’t. If you actually cared about the education aspect, you’d realize this. Otherwise what you’re really saying is you’re just concerned with free babysitting and using “education” as the guise.

But how much is the staffing problem caused by required and extended isolation periods and how much is actual sickness?

This. Plenty of teachers could have come in to work at various times during the last school year, but were forced to stay at home due to unreasonable isolation requirements and inappropriate quarantine regulations.

In my department I know of two teachers who had to stay home several times due to exposure in the fall/winter as they were IMO selfish anti-vaxers. I know of one teacher who tested positive but had no symptoms. (Which means he would have spread it around since he didnt usually wear a mask if he did come in.)

Weird that people think they are smarter than the CDC on this forum.

That comment is so 2020. Get with the times, PP.

Choosing not to be vaccinated is NOT selfish. We know that vaccinated individuals can still transmit Covid.

It is selfish to expect other people to make the same medical decisions as you, without knowing anything about their situation.

anti-vaxers are horrible people

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Anonymous wrote:Threads like this in late July are so predictable. People calling for school closures and doom are an extremist minority who are detached from reality. It’s like a cult at this point.

Unfortunately there are ALOT of parents and public health official as like this in Montgomery County. Too many. And they have very loud voices. Our kids suffered for two years because of these ‘doom and gloom’ parents/public health officials.

I would hope that we know to ignore them by now, but I am not certain and could see schools having issues with closures due to quarantines, etc.

There’s no regional company on this any more. None of the other school region message boards even have a Covid thread on their first page. Fortunately, we now have a Superintendent that couldn’t care less what the hypochondriacs and shutins think.

It’s like you’re not even listening to what the actual problem is. The problem isn’t COVID itself… it’s that with sickness comes a staffing crisis. You cannot have open school buildings without anyone to run the schools. Or you do and you herd 100s of kids into auditoriums in the name of “education” bc many morons here think an open building automatically equals education. It doesn’t. If you actually cared about the education aspect, you’d realize this. Otherwise what you’re really saying is you’re just concerned with free babysitting and using “education” as the guise.

But how much is the staffing problem caused by required and extended isolation periods and how much is actual sickness?

Exactly! Remove the testing and extended isolation requirements.

+1 million

Remove the overly restrictive testing and extended isolation requirements. For everyone. Teacher, staff and students.

This. Anyone who thinks masking is the key to keeping schools open is delusional (literally, at this point in the pandemic).

There are efforts brewing to advocate for mandatory masking this Fall. If you disagree, please let Dr. McKnight and the BOE know ASAP. The prioritization of COVID to the exclusion of all else in MCPS needs to end.

If the CDC recommends it you know that MCPS will follow it.

True, although I'm not sure the CDC will recommend universal mask mandates in schools at this point.

Fauci was just on the news this week talking about masks.

I would hope the CDC doesn’t recommend mask mandates (especially for kids!), but I guess we’ll see.

I’m a teacher and parent. I don’t want a mask mandate. I hated teaching while wearing it.
However, I also don’t want major disruptions due to large numbers of kids or staff out. So, while I would not be thrilled by a mask mandate, I see it as the lesser inconvenience.

agree

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Anonymous wrote:Threads like this in late July are so predictable. People calling for school closures and doom are an extremist minority who are detached from reality. It’s like a cult at this point.

Unfortunately there are ALOT of parents and public health official as like this in Montgomery County. Too many. And they have very loud voices. Our kids suffered for two years because of these ‘doom and gloom’ parents/public health officials.

I would hope that we know to ignore them by now, but I am not certain and could see schools having issues with closures due to quarantines, etc.

There’s no regional company on this any more. None of the other school region message boards even have a Covid thread on their first page. Fortunately, we now have a Superintendent that couldn’t care less what the hypochondriacs and shutins think.

It’s like you’re not even listening to what the actual problem is. The problem isn’t COVID itself… it’s that with sickness comes a staffing crisis. You cannot have open school buildings without anyone to run the schools. Or you do and you herd 100s of kids into auditoriums in the name of “education” bc many morons here think an open building automatically equals education. It doesn’t. If you actually cared about the education aspect, you’d realize this. Otherwise what you’re really saying is you’re just concerned with free babysitting and using “education” as the guise.

But how much is the staffing problem caused by required and extended isolation periods and how much is actual sickness?

This. Plenty of teachers could have come in to work at various times during the last school year, but were forced to stay at home due to unreasonable isolation requirements and inappropriate quarantine regulations.

In my department I know of two teachers who had to stay home several times due to exposure in the fall/winter as they were IMO selfish anti-vaxers. I know of one teacher who tested positive but had no symptoms. (Which means he would have spread it around since he didnt usually wear a mask if he did come in.)

Weird that people think they are smarter than the CDC on this forum.

The cdc is not very smart lately in their guidance. Vaccines are not stopping transmission. Everyone including vaccinated are getting and spreading it. Stop hiding behind the vaccines as a cure when they are not.

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Anonymous wrote:Threads like this in late July are so predictable. People calling for school closures and doom are an extremist minority who are detached from reality. It’s like a cult at this point.

Unfortunately there are ALOT of parents and public health official as like this in Montgomery County. Too many. And they have very loud voices. Our kids suffered for two years because of these ‘doom and gloom’ parents/public health officials.

I would hope that we know to ignore them by now, but I am not certain and could see schools having issues with closures due to quarantines, etc.

There’s no regional company on this any more. None of the other school region message boards even have a Covid thread on their first page. Fortunately, we now have a Superintendent that couldn’t care less what the hypochondriacs and shutins think.

It’s like you’re not even listening to what the actual problem is. The problem isn’t COVID itself… it’s that with sickness comes a staffing crisis. You cannot have open school buildings without anyone to run the schools. Or you do and you herd 100s of kids into auditoriums in the name of “education” bc many morons here think an open building automatically equals education. It doesn’t. If you actually cared about the education aspect, you’d realize this. Otherwise what you’re really saying is you’re just concerned with free babysitting and using “education” as the guise.

But how much is the staffing problem caused by required and extended isolation periods and how much is actual sickness?

This. Plenty of teachers could have come in to work at various times during the last school year, but were forced to stay at home due to unreasonable isolation requirements and inappropriate quarantine regulations.

In my department I know of two teachers who had to stay home several times due to exposure in the fall/winter as they were IMO selfish anti-vaxers. I know of one teacher who tested positive but had no symptoms. (Which means he would have spread it around since he didnt usually wear a mask if he did come in.)

Weird that people think they are smarter than the CDC on this forum.

That comment is so 2020. Get with the times, PP.

Choosing not to be vaccinated is NOT selfish. We know that vaccinated individuals can still transmit Covid.

It is selfish to expect other people to make the same medical decisions as you, without knowing anything about their situation.

anti-vaxers are horrible people

So are people vaccinated spreading it. B

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Anonymous wrote:Threads like this in late July are so predictable. People calling for school closures and doom are an extremist minority who are detached from reality. It’s like a cult at this point.

Unfortunately there are ALOT of parents and public health official as like this in Montgomery County. Too many. And they have very loud voices. Our kids suffered for two years because of these ‘doom and gloom’ parents/public health officials.

I would hope that we know to ignore them by now, but I am not certain and could see schools having issues with closures due to quarantines, etc.

There’s no regional company on this any more. None of the other school region message boards even have a Covid thread on their first page. Fortunately, we now have a Superintendent that couldn’t care less what the hypochondriacs and shutins think.

It’s like you’re not even listening to what the actual problem is. The problem isn’t COVID itself… it’s that with sickness comes a staffing crisis. You cannot have open school buildings without anyone to run the schools. Or you do and you herd 100s of kids into auditoriums in the name of “education” bc many morons here think an open building automatically equals education. It doesn’t. If you actually cared about the education aspect, you’d realize this. Otherwise what you’re really saying is you’re just concerned with free babysitting and using “education” as the guise.

But how much is the staffing problem caused by required and extended isolation periods and how much is actual sickness?

Exactly! Remove the testing and extended isolation requirements.

+1 million

Remove the overly restrictive testing and extended isolation requirements. For everyone. Teacher, staff and students.

This. Anyone who thinks masking is the key to keeping schools open is delusional (literally, at this point in the pandemic).

There are efforts brewing to advocate for mandatory masking this Fall. If you disagree, please let Dr. McKnight and the BOE know ASAP. The prioritization of COVID to the exclusion of all else in MCPS needs to end.

If the CDC recommends it you know that MCPS will follow it.

True, although I'm not sure the CDC will recommend universal mask mandates in schools at this point.

Fauci was just on the news this week talking about masks.

I would hope the CDC doesn’t recommend mask mandates (especially for kids!), but I guess we’ll see.

I’m a teacher and parent. I don’t want a mask mandate. I hated teaching while wearing it.
However, I also don’t want major disruptions due to large numbers of kids or staff out. So, while I would not be thrilled by a mask mandate, I see it as the lesser inconvenience.

agree

It's so hard to know the best way to proceed. Maybe start with masks on and see how it goes?

I'm very COVID cautious (maybe anxious), but I have come to understand that people who deal with the public daily, like teachers, cashiers, and airport and airline staff, ideally should have a choice about whether to mask. I will wear a mask when I'm in a store, airport, or school to avoid spread, but I'm not going to expect workers to mask for 8 plus hours per day at this point in the pandemic.

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Anonymous wrote:Threads like this in late July are so predictable. People calling for school closures and doom are an extremist minority who are detached from reality. It’s like a cult at this point.

Unfortunately there are ALOT of parents and public health official as like this in Montgomery County. Too many. And they have very loud voices. Our kids suffered for two years because of these ‘doom and gloom’ parents/public health officials.

I would hope that we know to ignore them by now, but I am not certain and could see schools having issues with closures due to quarantines, etc.

There’s no regional company on this any more. None of the other school region message boards even have a Covid thread on their first page. Fortunately, we now have a Superintendent that couldn’t care less what the hypochondriacs and shutins think.

It’s like you’re not even listening to what the actual problem is. The problem isn’t COVID itself… it’s that with sickness comes a staffing crisis. You cannot have open school buildings without anyone to run the schools. Or you do and you herd 100s of kids into auditoriums in the name of “education” bc many morons here think an open building automatically equals education. It doesn’t. If you actually cared about the education aspect, you’d realize this. Otherwise what you’re really saying is you’re just concerned with free babysitting and using “education” as the guise.

But how much is the staffing problem caused by required and extended isolation periods and how much is actual sickness?

This. Plenty of teachers could have come in to work at various times during the last school year, but were forced to stay at home due to unreasonable isolation requirements and inappropriate quarantine regulations.

In my department I know of two teachers who had to stay home several times due to exposure in the fall/winter as they were IMO selfish anti-vaxers. I know of one teacher who tested positive but had no symptoms. (Which means he would have spread it around since he didnt usually wear a mask if he did come in.)

Weird that people think they are smarter than the CDC on this forum.

That comment is so 2020. Get with the times, PP.

Choosing not to be vaccinated is NOT selfish. We know that vaccinated individuals can still transmit Covid.

It is selfish to expect other people to make the same medical decisions as you, without knowing anything about their situation.

anti-vaxers are horrible people

Please explain how my decision not to get my 7 year old vaccinated makes me selfish and a ‘horrible person’. How does it affect you in any way?

(Hint: It does not affect you in the slightest.)

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Anonymous wrote:Threads like this in late July are so predictable. People calling for school closures and doom are an extremist minority who are detached from reality. It’s like a cult at this point.

Unfortunately there are ALOT of parents and public health official as like this in Montgomery County. Too many. And they have very loud voices. Our kids suffered for two years because of these ‘doom and gloom’ parents/public health officials.

I would hope that we know to ignore them by now, but I am not certain and could see schools having issues with closures due to quarantines, etc.

There’s no regional company on this any more. None of the other school region message boards even have a Covid thread on their first page. Fortunately, we now have a Superintendent that couldn’t care less what the hypochondriacs and shutins think.

It’s like you’re not even listening to what the actual problem is. The problem isn’t COVID itself… it’s that with sickness comes a staffing crisis. You cannot have open school buildings without anyone to run the schools. Or you do and you herd 100s of kids into auditoriums in the name of “education” bc many morons here think an open building automatically equals education. It doesn’t. If you actually cared about the education aspect, you’d realize this. Otherwise what you’re really saying is you’re just concerned with free babysitting and using “education” as the guise.

But how much is the staffing problem caused by required and extended isolation periods and how much is actual sickness?

Exactly! Remove the testing and extended isolation requirements.

+1 million

Remove the overly restrictive testing and extended isolation requirements. For everyone. Teacher, staff and students.

This. Anyone who thinks masking is the key to keeping schools open is delusional (literally, at this point in the pandemic).

There are efforts brewing to advocate for mandatory masking this Fall. If you disagree, please let Dr. McKnight and the BOE know ASAP. The prioritization of COVID to the exclusion of all else in MCPS needs to end.

If the CDC recommends it you know that MCPS will follow it.

True, although I'm not sure the CDC will recommend universal mask mandates in schools at this point.

Fauci was just on the news this week talking about masks.

I would hope the CDC doesn’t recommend mask mandates (especially for kids!), but I guess we’ll see.

I’m a teacher and parent. I don’t want a mask mandate. I hated teaching while wearing it.
However, I also don’t want major disruptions due to large numbers of kids or staff out. So, while I would not be thrilled by a mask mandate, I see it as the lesser inconvenience.

agree

It's so hard to know the best way to proceed. Maybe start with masks on and see how it goes?

I'm very COVID cautious (maybe anxious), but I have come to understand that people who deal with the public daily, like teachers, cashiers, and airport and airline staff, ideally should have a choice about whether to mask. I will wear a mask when I'm in a store, airport, or school to avoid spread, but I'm not going to expect workers to mask for 8 plus hours per day at this point in the pandemic.

I will respectfully point out that by your own logic, masks should be OPTIONAL.

You and your family are welcome to wear masks, if it makes you more comfortable! Nobody is telling you not to. And just like you deserve the choice, the rest of us also deserve the choice to let our kids go without masks.

So, no, we should not start with masks being required. We should start the school year with masks optional, just as we ended the school year last year.