Should we prepare for virtual schooling starting in January?

[Anonymous]

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You guys are exhausting.

Positivity rate > 5% for 14 days = virtual for 2 weeks.

And we WILL reach it.

Does it go by school or by county?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:We have been safe and covid free for this entire pandemic until now. My 3 kids went back in person last Spring when MCPS opened back up and now one of my kids who are all fully vaccinated just tested positive for Covid today and all three went to school yesterday. I have 2 others in MCPS so it is possible they will also test positive possibly by the time schools return in Jan. This new strain is no joke and seems to be affecting even the fully vaccinated and boostered.

Congrats! You will soon have super immunity and lose your fear and anxiety. Those kids will be bouncing off the walls in 3 days max if they ever even develop symptoms. This is why we don’t test unless sick. I don’t need to know if any one of us has a teeny bit of virus that our bodies are obviously doing an awesome job fighting. This will be over soon. Let it burn. Check back in 3 weeks.

It will be 3 months and in 3 months we will have another more contagious variant. Less deadly? More deadly? Who knows.but we do know that no one has super immunity. You get immunized. You get boosted. You get covid. You get covid again.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:


You guys are exhausting.

Positivity rate > 5% for 14 days = virtual for 2 weeks.

And we WILL reach it.

Where did you get that metric? I haven’t heard or seen that from MCPS comms

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

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K teacher for mcps here. Even though most of my kids are vaccinated, I spend half of my day reminding students to keep their masks over their noses and mouths. Some of them are completely oblivious to their mask placement, have little spacial sense (will get right in eachothers faces) and teachers/siblings are dropping like flies at our school with covid.

We need to go virtual for two weeks to stop the spread and resume in person instruction. While in person is best, if teachers are on edge and kids are sick, no one is going to be available for actual meaningful learning.

No. Last time you shut down "for two weeks to stop the spread" you remained closed for a year and a half and harmed my kid and thousands of others. Keep the schools open.

I’m sorry—wasn’t the argument that “schools should be the last thing to close”? That we should close things like restaurants and bars before schools? So are you advocating for closing other things?

Yeah, I didn’t think so.

Don't know but closing schools would be a smart move since reducing the spread among asymptomatic children has been shown to be one of the biggest factors in containing the virus.

You have any evidence on that? Aside, no half ass measure like closing schools while keeping everything else open is going to make any difference containing the virus is time. It needs to burn thru.

Closing other things is a separate issue from closing schools. The issue right now are the positives in school. Lots of things would be smart moves but the county will not support them and has an open except if the state shuts us down policy. Its sad that as a community people cannot choose to behave responsibly so schools have to resort to going virtual. Not unexpected.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:


You guys are exhausting.

Positivity rate > 5% for 14 days = virtual for 2 weeks.

And we WILL reach it.

Then you haven’t been paying attention. They just did a whole presser on it this week.


Where did you get that metric? I haven’t heard or seen that from MCPS comms

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:K teacher for mcps here. Even though most of my kids are vaccinated, I spend half of my day reminding students to keep their masks over their noses and mouths. Some of them are completely oblivious to their mask placement, have little spacial sense (will get right in eachothers faces) and teachers/siblings are dropping like flies at our school with covid.

We need to go virtual for two weeks to stop the spread and resume in person instruction. While in person is best, if teachers are on edge and kids are sick, no one is going to be available for actual meaningful learning.

Are you seriously STILL trying to make the argument that virtual is better, ever? No. Virtual is terrible. I'm sorry it's hard to get 5 yo to keep masks on, maybe you should ask the child care teachers you are so much better than, how they manage. It also won't stop the spread because the kids are not going to go an isolate at home, they will be mixing with other kids because SCHOOL IS CHILD CARE for many families and when it shuts down, families scramble to find other arrangements which might be different each day. I get schools might HAVE to close but the union better not f$ing dare try to argue they know more about public health than public health officials. If bars and restaurants are allowed to open, schools must be open.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:K teacher for mcps here. Even though most of my kids are vaccinated, I spend half of my day reminding students to keep their masks over their noses and mouths. Some of them are completely oblivious to their mask placement, have little spacial sense (will get right in eachothers faces) and teachers/siblings are dropping like flies at our school with covid.

We need to go virtual for two weeks to stop the spread and resume in person instruction. While in person is best, if teachers are on edge and kids are sick, no one is going to be available for actual meaningful learning.

Are you seriously STILL trying to make the argument that virtual is better, ever? No. Virtual is terrible. I'm sorry it's hard to get 5 yo to keep masks on, maybe you should ask the child care teachers you are so much better than, how they manage. It also won't stop the spread because the kids are not going to go an isolate at home, they will be mixing with other kids because SCHOOL IS CHILD CARE for many families and when it shuts down, families scramble to find other arrangements which might be different each day. I get schools might HAVE to close but the union better not f$ing dare try to argue they know more about public health than public health officials. If bars and restaurants are allowed to open, schools must be open.

Virtual was terrible for your kids because of your attitude and unwillingness to help. Closing down businesses will not fully help and cause other issues. If school is your child care, think about things you can do to keep it open. This is going to surge after the holidays. You realize we don't have several months of school in the summer and yet families manage.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:K teacher for mcps here. Even though most of my kids are vaccinated, I spend half of my day reminding students to keep their masks over their noses and mouths. Some of them are completely oblivious to their mask placement, have little spacial sense (will get right in eachothers faces) and teachers/siblings are dropping like flies at our school with covid.

We need to go virtual for two weeks to stop the spread and resume in person instruction. While in person is best, if teachers are on edge and kids are sick, no one is going to be available for actual meaningful learning.

Are you seriously STILL trying to make the argument that virtual is better, ever? No. Virtual is terrible. I'm sorry it's hard to get 5 yo to keep masks on, maybe you should ask the child care teachers you are so much better than, how they manage. It also won't stop the spread because the kids are not going to go an isolate at home, they will be mixing with other kids because SCHOOL IS CHILD CARE for many families and when it shuts down, families scramble to find other arrangements which might be different each day. I get schools might HAVE to close but the union better not f$ing dare try to argue they know more about public health than public health officials. If bars and restaurants are allowed to open, schools must be open.

Maybe you should get some mental health treatment for your anxiety over having your kids home during school hours.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:


You guys are exhausting.

Positivity rate > 5% for 14 days = virtual for 2 weeks.

And we WILL reach it.

Does it go by school or by county?

She forgot to add 5% of unrelated students in a school with a minimum 10 students over a 2 week period. The 5% positivity rate is from last year and does not apply.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:K teacher for mcps here. Even though most of my kids are vaccinated, I spend half of my day reminding students to keep their masks over their noses and mouths. Some of them are completely oblivious to their mask placement, have little spacial sense (will get right in eachothers faces) and teachers/siblings are dropping like flies at our school with covid.

We need to go virtual for two weeks to stop the spread and resume in person instruction. While in person is best, if teachers are on edge and kids are sick, no one is going to be available for actual meaningful learning.

Are you seriously STILL trying to make the argument that virtual is better, ever? No. Virtual is terrible. I'm sorry it's hard to get 5 yo to keep masks on, maybe you should ask the child care teachers you are so much better than, how they manage. It also won't stop the spread because the kids are not going to go an isolate at home, they will be mixing with other kids because SCHOOL IS CHILD CARE for many families and when it shuts down, families scramble to find other arrangements which might be different each day. I get schools might HAVE to close but the union better not f$ing dare try to argue they know more about public health than public health officials. If bars and restaurants are allowed to open, schools must be open.

You’re clearly the idiot and continue to repeat the same garbage in each of your posts. PP had valid concerns and your uneducated tirade was unhelpful and showed your lack of understanding of basic school functions.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:


You guys are exhausting.

Positivity rate > 5% for 14 days = virtual for 2 weeks.

And we WILL reach it.

Does it go by school or by county?

She forgot to add 5% of unrelated students in a school with a minimum 10 students over a 2 week period. The 5% positivity rate is from last year and does not apply.

Also--and we'll see how this plays out--it doesn't automatically trigger a shutdown. It triggers a conversation between the health department and the district. And if it wasn't clear, this is school-by-school...not at the district level.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:K teacher for mcps here. Even though most of my kids are vaccinated, I spend half of my day reminding students to keep their masks over their noses and mouths. Some of them are completely oblivious to their mask placement, have little spacial sense (will get right in eachothers faces) and teachers/siblings are dropping like flies at our school with covid.

We need to go virtual for two weeks to stop the spread and resume in person instruction. While in person is best, if teachers are on edge and kids are sick, no one is going to be available for actual meaningful learning.

Are you seriously STILL trying to make the argument that virtual is better, ever? No. Virtual is terrible. I'm sorry it's hard to get 5 yo to keep masks on, maybe you should ask the child care teachers you are so much better than, how they manage. It also won't stop the spread because the kids are not going to go an isolate at home, they will be mixing with other kids because SCHOOL IS CHILD CARE for many families and when it shuts down, families scramble to find other arrangements which might be different each day. I get schools might HAVE to close but the union better not f$ing dare try to argue they know more about public health than public health officials. If bars and restaurants are allowed to open, schools must be open.

You’re clearly the idiot and continue to repeat the same garbage in each of your posts. PP had valid concerns and your uneducated tirade was unhelpful and showed your lack of understanding of basic school functions.

I have not posted in this thread before. Name-calling and insults are not a rebuttal. Try again.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

K teacher for mcps here. Even though most of my kids are vaccinated, I spend half of my day reminding students to keep their masks over their noses and mouths. Some of them are completely oblivious to their mask placement, have little spacial sense (will get right in eachothers faces) and teachers/siblings are dropping like flies at our school with covid.

We need to go virtual for two weeks to stop the spread and resume in person instruction. While in person is best, if teachers are on edge and kids are sick, no one is going to be available for actual meaningful learning.

No. Last time you shut down "for two weeks to stop the spread" you remained closed for a year and a half and harmed my kid and thousands of others. Keep the schools open.

I’m sorry—wasn’t the argument that “schools should be the last thing to close”? That we should close things like restaurants and bars before schools? So are you advocating for closing other things?

Yeah, I didn’t think so.

Don't know but closing schools would be a smart move since reducing the spread among asymptomatic children has been shown to be one of the biggest factors in containing the virus.

You have any evidence on that? Aside, no half ass measure like closing schools while keeping everything else open is going to make any difference containing the virus is time. It needs to burn thru.

Closing other things is a separate issue from closing schools. The issue right now are the positives in school. Lots of things would be smart moves but the county will not support them and has an open except if the state shuts us down policy. Its sad that as a community people cannot choose to behave responsibly so schools have to resort to going virtual. Not unexpected.

No, it isn't. And they should absolutely be tied to each other when it comes to systemwide or mandated closures. Why? Because once you give the union a temporary closure, they can't be trusted not to demand indefinite closure unless they get hazard pay.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:K teacher for mcps here. Even though most of my kids are vaccinated, I spend half of my day reminding students to keep their masks over their noses and mouths. Some of them are completely oblivious to their mask placement, have little spacial sense (will get right in eachothers faces) and teachers/siblings are dropping like flies at our school with covid.

We need to go virtual for two weeks to stop the spread and resume in person instruction. While in person is best, if teachers are on edge and kids are sick, no one is going to be available for actual meaningful learning.

Are you seriously STILL trying to make the argument that virtual is better, ever? No. Virtual is terrible. I'm sorry it's hard to get 5 yo to keep masks on, maybe you should ask the child care teachers you are so much better than, how they manage. It also won't stop the spread because the kids are not going to go an isolate at home, they will be mixing with other kids because SCHOOL IS CHILD CARE for many families and when it shuts down, families scramble to find other arrangements which might be different each day. I get schools might HAVE to close but the union better not f$ing dare try to argue they know more about public health than public health officials. If bars and restaurants are allowed to open, schools must be open.

Virtual was terrible for your kids because of your attitude and unwillingness to help. Closing down businesses will not fully help and cause other issues. If school is your child care, think about things you can do to keep it open. This is going to surge after the holidays. You realize we don't have several months of school in the summer and yet families manage.

Virtual was terrible for MOST children because MOST children do not do their best learning staring at a computer screen for 5 hours a day. And if they did better on virtual it's probably because they are lazy little couch potatoes not because you have some special parenting secret sauce you need to brag about on an anonymous forum

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:We have been safe and covid free for this entire pandemic until now. My 3 kids went back in person last Spring when MCPS opened back up and now one of my kids who are all fully vaccinated just tested positive for Covid today and all three went to school yesterday. I have 2 others in MCPS so it is possible they will also test positive possibly by the time schools return in Jan. This new strain is no joke and seems to be affecting even the fully vaccinated and boostered.

Congrats! You will soon have super immunity and lose your fear and anxiety. Those kids will be bouncing off the walls in 3 days max if they ever even develop symptoms. This is why we don’t test unless sick. I don’t need to know if any one of us has a teeny bit of virus that our bodies are obviously doing an awesome job fighting. This will be over soon. Let it burn. Check back in 3 weeks.

It will be 3 months and in 3 months we will have another more contagious variant. Less deadly? More deadly? Who knows.but we do know that no one has super immunity. You get immunized. You get boosted. You get covid. You get covid again.

Going virtual will at least slow it down and hopefully, fewer people will get it in the near term. Going forward I'd expect more effective treatments to become available so lives will be saved.