COVID teacher questions

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Were you masking OP?

Remember - no one cares about public health. They only care about themselves.

Somehow being too ill to work, take care of kids, or play for a week is considered no biggie. Nor are the rippling adverse impacts to family and work. Compounding weeks and weeks of illness to many people because weak willed people can’t take it anymore.

Right- it is a biggie, particularly since most people don’t get too ill to do those things.

We all got COVID over the winter (for the second time) and we were too sick to do anything for a week.

I said most people, not everyone. Some people take care of themselves and aren't as likely to get significantly ill. Even for those that don't, roughly half of covid cases are thought to be asymptomatic.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:You work for MCPS? Did you get the email from the superintendent that they are trying to reinstate COVID leave?

Makes sense. Why would the union agree to having to work to get paid when the district has set such a longstanding tradition otherwise?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I’m the OP and here is an update. My kid’s PCR test was “processing” until I got a text from the state of Maryland that she is positive for COVID. My PCR yesterday was negative and rapid tests are still negative. I don’t have a fever anymore but a small cough, fatigue, body aches, runny nose and very sore lymph nodes on my neck. My kid’s pediatrician said she could return to school on Friday (counting from the first day of her symptoms, not her PCR test). My school nurse said I can’t come back the rest of the week because I am symptomatic!!! Are we that strict with students? I am so confused about what the protocols actually are and I’m irritated I will miss BTSN the first year I’m at a new school.

I called my kid’s school to let them know and I filled out the Google Notification Form. Within an hour the principal sent a message to the entire class. I have yet to receive any notification from my school about the exposures I had. It shouldn’t be this different from school to school!

So, it certainly sounds like the teacher didn't get it from her class after all. Instead she got it from her kid. So it certainly doesn't seem like something she should get special covid leave for (not that anyone gets special covid leave anymore).

How do we know I got it from my kid? I could have just as easily given it to her. I see over 100 kids a day in a room without air conditioning. Most are unmasked. No vax requirement. No surveillance testing. No enforcing masking upon return from COVID.

Your PCR was negative.

It my school isn’t allowing me to return to work until next week because I am symptomatic. Where’s the union now?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I’m the OP and here is an update. My kid’s PCR test was “processing” until I got a text from the state of Maryland that she is positive for COVID. My PCR yesterday was negative and rapid tests are still negative. I don’t have a fever anymore but a small cough, fatigue, body aches, runny nose and very sore lymph nodes on my neck. My kid’s pediatrician said she could return to school on Friday (counting from the first day of her symptoms, not her PCR test). My school nurse said I can’t come back the rest of the week because I am symptomatic!!! Are we that strict with students? I am so confused about what the protocols actually are and I’m irritated I will miss BTSN the first year I’m at a new school.

I called my kid’s school to let them know and I filled out the Google Notification Form. Within an hour the principal sent a message to the entire class. I have yet to receive any notification from my school about the exposures I had. It shouldn’t be this different from school to school!

So, it certainly sounds like the teacher didn't get it from her class after all. Instead she got it from her kid. So it certainly doesn't seem like something she should get special covid leave for (not that anyone gets special covid leave anymore).

How do we know I got it from my kid? I could have just as easily given it to her. I see over 100 kids a day in a room without air conditioning. Most are unmasked. No vax requirement. No surveillance testing. No enforcing masking upon return from COVID.

Your PCR was negative.

It my school isn’t allowing me to return to work until next week because I am symptomatic. Where’s the union now?

Pretty sure the school nurse isn’t in your chain of command. They’re not even MCPS employees.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I’m the OP and here is an update. My kid’s PCR test was “processing” until I got a text from the state of Maryland that she is positive for COVID. My PCR yesterday was negative and rapid tests are still negative. I don’t have a fever anymore but a small cough, fatigue, body aches, runny nose and very sore lymph nodes on my neck. My kid’s pediatrician said she could return to school on Friday (counting from the first day of her symptoms, not her PCR test). My school nurse said I can’t come back the rest of the week because I am symptomatic!!! Are we that strict with students? I am so confused about what the protocols actually are and I’m irritated I will miss BTSN the first year I’m at a new school.

I called my kid’s school to let them know and I filled out the Google Notification Form. Within an hour the principal sent a message to the entire class. I have yet to receive any notification from my school about the exposures I had. It shouldn’t be this different from school to school!

So, it certainly sounds like the teacher didn't get it from her class after all. Instead she got it from her kid. So it certainly doesn't seem like something she should get special covid leave for (not that anyone gets special covid leave anymore).

How do we know I got it from my kid? I could have just as easily given it to her. I see over 100 kids a day in a room without air conditioning. Most are unmasked. No vax requirement. No surveillance testing. No enforcing masking upon return from COVID.

Your PCR was negative.

It my school isn’t allowing me to return to work until next week because I am symptomatic. Where’s the union now?

Pretty sure the school nurse isn’t in your chain of command. They’re not even MCPS employees.

She advised the admin secretary who put in writing (and cc’d my supervising AP) that I couldn’t come back.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I’m the OP and here is an update. My kid’s PCR test was “processing” until I got a text from the state of Maryland that she is positive for COVID. My PCR yesterday was negative and rapid tests are still negative. I don’t have a fever anymore but a small cough, fatigue, body aches, runny nose and very sore lymph nodes on my neck. My kid’s pediatrician said she could return to school on Friday (counting from the first day of her symptoms, not her PCR test). My school nurse said I can’t come back the rest of the week because I am symptomatic!!! Are we that strict with students? I am so confused about what the protocols actually are and I’m irritated I will miss BTSN the first year I’m at a new school.

I called my kid’s school to let them know and I filled out the Google Notification Form. Within an hour the principal sent a message to the entire class. I have yet to receive any notification from my school about the exposures I had. It shouldn’t be this different from school to school!

So, it certainly sounds like the teacher didn't get it from her class after all. Instead she got it from her kid. So it certainly doesn't seem like something she should get special covid leave for (not that anyone gets special covid leave anymore).

How do we know I got it from my kid? I could have just as easily given it to her. I see over 100 kids a day in a room without air conditioning. Most are unmasked. No vax requirement. No surveillance testing. No enforcing masking upon return from COVID.

Your PCR was negative.

It my school isn’t allowing me to return to work until next week because I am symptomatic. Where’s the union now?

Pretty sure the school nurse isn’t in your chain of command. They’re not even MCPS employees.

She advised the admin secretary who put in writing (and cc’d my supervising AP) that I couldn’t come back.

What did your supervisor say when you said you wanted to work? I'm with you on this one. There's no outbreak, so the health department has no authority to quarantine you. And It doesn't sound like you're sick enough that you wouldn't be able to work.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:You have the option to protect yourself and wear a good mask.

Have you worn a mask in a room without air conditioning in August/September with 50+ kids?

Tell that to the forever-maskers that always say wearing a mask is no big deal.

Most of the forever maskers are not working in public facing jobs where they wear one for 8 to 12 hours a day

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Were you masking OP?

Remember - no one cares about public health. They only care about themselves.

Somehow being too ill to work, take care of kids, or play for a week is considered no biggie. Nor are the rippling adverse impacts to family and work. Compounding weeks and weeks of illness to many people because weak willed people can’t take it anymore.

Right- it is a biggie, particularly since most people don’t get too ill to do those things.

We all got COVID over the winter (for the second time) and we were too sick to do anything for a week.

I said most people, not everyone. Some people take care of themselves and aren't as likely to get significantly ill. Even for those that don't, roughly half of covid cases are thought to be asymptomatic.

This is such abelistic bullshit. I have a friend with long covid who was a runner and was running marathons pre covid. Must be terrifying to realize that bad things can happen to all kinds of people not just those you view as lesser than

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I’m the OP and here is an update. My kid’s PCR test was “processing” until I got a text from the state of Maryland that she is positive for COVID. My PCR yesterday was negative and rapid tests are still negative. I don’t have a fever anymore but a small cough, fatigue, body aches, runny nose and very sore lymph nodes on my neck. My kid’s pediatrician said she could return to school on Friday (counting from the first day of her symptoms, not her PCR test). My school nurse said I can’t come back the rest of the week because I am symptomatic!!! Are we that strict with students? I am so confused about what the protocols actually are and I’m irritated I will miss BTSN the first year I’m at a new school.

I called my kid’s school to let them know and I filled out the Google Notification Form. Within an hour the principal sent a message to the entire class. I have yet to receive any notification from my school about the exposures I had. It shouldn’t be this different from school to school!

Technically we are that strict, but students under-report and even when the nurse knows, the info may not make it to classroom teachers in secondary schools. We’re in the third week and I count 11 cases in 6th grade alone.

[Anonymous]

OP again: last day of isolation for me and kid #1. Kid #2 tested positive this morning on a home test (woke up congested). So 5 more days off work for me to stay home with kids in isolation. Tell me again why they got rid of the extra COVID leave? And I mean for all workers, not just teachers. If you want kids to be in school in person, then support paid leave for their caregivers for 5 days every time one of them has to isolate.

An update about my status: my third PCR was also negative. My school, the state of Maryland, and all of my doctors are treating me like a presumed positive because I had symptoms. Even if I test positive in the future, I won’t have to isolate because isolation day count starts with symptoms, not a positive test. If kid #2 hadn’t tested positive I would have always wondered if kid #1 had a false positive with a really bad cold.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I’m the OP and here is an update. My kid’s PCR test was “processing” until I got a text from the state of Maryland that she is positive for COVID. My PCR yesterday was negative and rapid tests are still negative. I don’t have a fever anymore but a small cough, fatigue, body aches, runny nose and very sore lymph nodes on my neck. My kid’s pediatrician said she could return to school on Friday (counting from the first day of her symptoms, not her PCR test). My school nurse said I can’t come back the rest of the week because I am symptomatic!!! Are we that strict with students? I am so confused about what the protocols actually are and I’m irritated I will miss BTSN the first year I’m at a new school.

I called my kid’s school to let them know and I filled out the Google Notification Form. Within an hour the principal sent a message to the entire class. I have yet to receive any notification from my school about the exposures I had. It shouldn’t be this different from school to school!

So, it certainly sounds like the teacher didn't get it from her class after all. Instead she got it from her kid. So it certainly doesn't seem like something she should get special covid leave for (not that anyone gets special covid leave anymore).

How do we know I got it from my kid? I could have just as easily given it to her. I see over 100 kids a day in a room without air conditioning. Most are unmasked. No vax requirement. No surveillance testing. No enforcing masking upon return from COVID.

I thought you were negative, even with a PCR test? Covid isn’t the only thing going around. But if you’re very concerned about getting Covid from your unmasked students, wear a good mask yourself.

Look, the way sick leave is set up where you need to accrue it sucks. I started a fed position with two young kids in daycare and the first year was rough. It’ll get better though.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I’m the OP and here is an update. My kid’s PCR test was “processing” until I got a text from the state of Maryland that she is positive for COVID. My PCR yesterday was negative and rapid tests are still negative. I don’t have a fever anymore but a small cough, fatigue, body aches, runny nose and very sore lymph nodes on my neck. My kid’s pediatrician said she could return to school on Friday (counting from the first day of her symptoms, not her PCR test). My school nurse said I can’t come back the rest of the week because I am symptomatic!!! Are we that strict with students? I am so confused about what the protocols actually are and I’m irritated I will miss BTSN the first year I’m at a new school.

I called my kid’s school to let them know and I filled out the Google Notification Form. Within an hour the principal sent a message to the entire class. I have yet to receive any notification from my school about the exposures I had. It shouldn’t be this different from school to school!

So, it certainly sounds like the teacher didn't get it from her class after all. Instead she got it from her kid. So it certainly doesn't seem like something she should get special covid leave for (not that anyone gets special covid leave anymore).

How do we know I got it from my kid? I could have just as easily given it to her. I see over 100 kids a day in a room without air conditioning. Most are unmasked. No vax requirement. No surveillance testing. No enforcing masking upon return from COVID.

I thought you were negative, even with a PCR test? Covid isn’t the only thing going around. But if you’re very concerned about getting Covid from your unmasked students, wear a good mask yourself.

Look, the way sick leave is set up where you need to accrue it sucks. I started a fed position with two young kids in daycare and the first year was rough. It’ll get better though.

I have been testing negative but I had a fever, runny nose and cough the same time as kid #1 so the state of MD, my doctors and my school asked me to isolate and follow the guidelines for someone who tested positive. Even though I’m feeling better, because I am considered high risk, my doctor wanted me to take another PCR so that if it was positive she could prescribe Paxlovid. It was negative. And if it weren’t for kid #2 testing positive today I would wonder about a false negative for kid #1. My spouse has been negative with no symptoms.

I would have been able to mask at school if the air conditioning worked. It was 78 degrees in my classroom before it was packed with students. Wearing a mask in that heat would make my nose run and make me cough and not being able to speak to the class. Not all of us can just shove a chrome book in front of each student and hide in a corner with a mask in all day.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:OP again: last day of isolation for me and kid #1. Kid #2 tested positive this morning on a home test (woke up congested). So 5 more days off work for me to stay home with kids in isolation. Tell me again why they got rid of the extra COVID leave? And I mean for all workers, not just teachers. If you want kids to be in school in person, then support paid leave for their caregivers for 5 days every time one of them has to isolate.

An update about my status: my third PCR was also negative. My school, the state of Maryland, and all of my doctors are treating me like a presumed positive because I had symptoms. Even if I test positive in the future, I won’t have to isolate because isolation day count starts with symptoms, not a positive test. If kid #2 hadn’t tested positive I would have always wondered if kid #1 had a false positive with a really bad cold.

You tested negative to a PCR yet you want us taxpayers to give you a covid vacation for weeks on end for not-covid illness? You may not remember this, but those of us that were working parents all during the pandemic were told by teachers to just suck it up and deal.
No sympathy here.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:OP again: last day of isolation for me and kid #1. Kid #2 tested positive this morning on a home test (woke up congested). So 5 more days off work for me to stay home with kids in isolation. Tell me again why they got rid of the extra COVID leave? And I mean for all workers, not just teachers. If you want kids to be in school in person, then support paid leave for their caregivers for 5 days every time one of them has to isolate.

Does your spouse have covid leave or sick leave that can be used to care for sick children? Maybe it's time for them to stay home with kid #2.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I’m the OP and here is an update. My kid’s PCR test was “processing” until I got a text from the state of Maryland that she is positive for COVID. My PCR yesterday was negative and rapid tests are still negative. I don’t have a fever anymore but a small cough, fatigue, body aches, runny nose and very sore lymph nodes on my neck. My kid’s pediatrician said she could return to school on Friday (counting from the first day of her symptoms, not her PCR test). My school nurse said I can’t come back the rest of the week because I am symptomatic!!! Are we that strict with students? I am so confused about what the protocols actually are and I’m irritated I will miss BTSN the first year I’m at a new school.

I called my kid’s school to let them know and I filled out the Google Notification Form. Within an hour the principal sent a message to the entire class. I have yet to receive any notification from my school about the exposures I had. It shouldn’t be this different from school to school!

So, it certainly sounds like the teacher didn't get it from her class after all. Instead she got it from her kid. So it certainly doesn't seem like something she should get special covid leave for (not that anyone gets special covid leave anymore).

How do we know I got it from my kid? I could have just as easily given it to her. I see over 100 kids a day in a room without air conditioning. Most are unmasked. No vax requirement. No surveillance testing. No enforcing masking upon return from COVID.

I thought you were negative, even with a PCR test? Covid isn’t the only thing going around. But if you’re very concerned about getting Covid from your unmasked students, wear a good mask yourself.

Look, the way sick leave is set up where you need to accrue it sucks. I started a fed position with two young kids in daycare and the first year was rough. It’ll get better though.

I have been testing negative but I had a fever, runny nose and cough the same time as kid #1 so the state of MD, my doctors and my school asked me to isolate and follow the guidelines for someone who tested positive. Even though I’m feeling better, because I am considered high risk, my doctor wanted me to take another PCR so that if it was positive she could prescribe Paxlovid. It was negative. And if it weren’t for kid #2 testing positive today I would wonder about a false negative for kid #1. My spouse has been negative with no symptoms.

I would have been able to mask at school if the air conditioning worked. It was 78 degrees in my classroom before it was packed with students. Wearing a mask in that heat would make my nose run and make me cough and not being able to speak to the class. Not all of us can just shove a chrome book in front of each student and hide in a corner with a mask in all day.

So you do have a spouse. I didn’t want to presume. How come you are the only parent who has to take off of work when one of your children is sick? I understand that some workplaces are more flexible than others, but it isn’t the school system’s responsibility to give you extra leave because your spouse won’t stay home with any of the children.