Should we prepare for virtual schooling starting in January?

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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.

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

You know what's also terrible for most children? Losing their parents. I realize going virtual may not be convenient for you but more people are still with us because we did the right thing.

What's worse, one kid losing her parents or 10,000 kids with depression and perhaps 10 attempting suicide.

Because that's the actual trade-off.

No, that's the trade-off you made up arbitrarily. I'm sure in Minsk it makes sense? Perhaps a translation issue, or the fact that you weren't taught to value human life because your parents were just as sociopathic and bereft of human decency as you are.

So to be clear, the PP values the life of a child, while you value the life of an unvaccinated, adult moron more. And somehow the PP is the sociopath? You should really consider adjusting your moral compass.

[Anonymous]

The best option is to go virtual just the first two days after break- make every kid pcr test to come back. That way, kids in school, but slows spread in the school. Privates require testing, public should too.

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Anonymous wrote:The best option is to go virtual just the first two days after break- make every kid pcr test to come back. That way, kids in school, but slows spread in the school. Privates require testing, public should too.

Totally agree with this. Schools as testing sites and require staff to test as well. Most reasonable approach I’ve heard.
—mcps teacher

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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.

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

You know what's also terrible for most children? Losing their parents. I realize going virtual may not be convenient for you but more people are still with us because we did the right thing.

What's worse, one kid losing her parents or 10,000 kids with depression and perhaps 10 attempting suicide.

Because that's the actual trade-off.

No, that's the trade-off you made up arbitrarily. I'm sure in Minsk it makes sense? Perhaps a translation issue, or the fact that you weren't taught to value human life because your parents were just as sociopathic and bereft of human decency as you are.

So to be clear, the PP values the life of a child, while you value the life of an unvaccinated, adult moron more. And somehow the PP is the sociopath? You should really consider adjusting your moral compass.

PP is clumsily trying the Russian troll schtick since they ran out of actual substance a while back.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:The best option is to go virtual just the first two days after break- make every kid pcr test to come back. That way, kids in school, but slows spread in the school. Privates require testing, public should too.

Totally agree with this. Schools as testing sites and require staff to test as well. Most reasonable approach I’ve heard.
—mcps teacher

So when you say reasonable approach, you have a lab lined up that's going to perform and process 150,000 PCR tests within a couple days?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The best option is to go virtual just the first two days after break- make every kid pcr test to come back. That way, kids in school, but slows spread in the school. Privates require testing, public should too.

Totally agree with this. Schools as testing sites and require staff to test as well. Most reasonable approach I’ve heard.
—mcps teacher

So when you say reasonable approach, you have a lab lined up that's going to perform and process 150,000 PCR tests within a couple days?

Or even 150,000 tests?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The best option is to go virtual just the first two days after break- make every kid pcr test to come back. That way, kids in school, but slows spread in the school. Privates require testing, public should too.

Totally agree with this. Schools as testing sites and require staff to test as well. Most reasonable approach I’ve heard.
—mcps teacher

So when you say reasonable approach, you have a lab lined up that's going to perform and process 150,000 PCR tests within a couple days?

Or even 150,000 tests?

Posters never consider logistics when they come up with their batsh*t insane ideas.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The best option is to go virtual just the first two days after break- make every kid pcr test to come back. That way, kids in school, but slows spread in the school. Privates require testing, public should too.

Totally agree with this. Schools as testing sites and require staff to test as well. Most reasonable approach I’ve heard.
—mcps teacher

There are 160,000 students in MCPS, not even counting staff. Do you know how laboratory covid tests the entire county does a day? 10,000. The entire state? About 50,000 tests a day.

No, we're not testing students before they return.

Are these people trolls? Or are they just spreading wildly impractical ideas in hopes of trying to argue that mcps needs to close because they can't do the equivalent of building a perpetual motion machine?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:The best option is to go virtual just the first two days after break- make every kid pcr test to come back. That way, kids in school, but slows spread in the school. Privates require testing, public should too.

Totally agree with this. Schools as testing sites and require staff to test as well. Most reasonable approach I’ve heard.
—mcps teacher

Hi Mcps teacher,

how do you propose we process all these tests? It will take at least a week to get through all them and create a backlog for those who actually need to be tested ie people with symptoms

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:The best option is to go virtual just the first two days after break- make every kid pcr test to come back. That way, kids in school, but slows spread in the school. Privates require testing, public should too.

Totally agree with this. Schools as testing sites and require staff to test as well. Most reasonable approach I’ve heard.
—mcps teacher

There are 160,000 students in MCPS, not even counting staff. Do you know how laboratory covid tests the entire county does a day? 10,000. The entire state? About 50,000 tests a day.

No, we're not testing students before they return.

Are these people trolls? Or are they just spreading wildly impractical ideas in hopes of trying to argue that mcps needs to close because they can't do the equivalent of building a perpetual motion machine?

Thank you. Also, it’s not happening. It’s December 25 and remember the BOE gave pretty much the entire central office staff next week off. So. Yeah. Even if they could somehow increase moco testing capacity twenty fold in seven days there is no one working to plan the logistics and also parents need notice of this shizzle. It would take a MCPs comms person at least 3 days to put together the email, come up with a slogan, and maybe make a video or pamphlet and guess what? That person is on paid vacay next week. So yeah. Put down the peyote. Stop trying to make test to return happen, Gretchen. It’s not going to happen.

[Anonymous]

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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.

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

You know what's also terrible for most children? Losing their parents. I realize going virtual may not be convenient for you but more people are still with us because we did the right thing.

What's worse, one kid losing her parents or 10,000 kids with depression and perhaps 10 attempting suicide.

Because that's the actual trade-off.

No, that's the trade-off you made up arbitrarily. I'm sure in Minsk it makes sense? Perhaps a translation issue, or the fact that you weren't taught to value human life because your parents were just as sociopathic and bereft of human decency as you are.

So to be clear, the PP values the life of a child, while you value the life of an unvaccinated, adult moron more. And somehow the PP is the sociopath? You should really consider adjusting your moral compass.

PP is clumsily trying the Russian troll schtick since they ran out of actual substance a while back.

Minsk is not in Russia!!!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The best option is to go virtual just the first two days after break- make every kid pcr test to come back. That way, kids in school, but slows spread in the school. Privates require testing, public should too.

Totally agree with this. Schools as testing sites and require staff to test as well. Most reasonable approach I’ve heard.
—mcps teacher

There are 160,000 students in MCPS, not even counting staff. Do you know how laboratory covid tests the entire county does a day? 10,000. The entire state? About 50,000 tests a day.

No, we're not testing students before they return.

Are these people trolls? Or are they just spreading wildly impractical ideas in hopes of trying to argue that mcps needs to close because they can't do the equivalent of building a perpetual motion machine?

That PP must be a parent in a private school bubble. Private schools are so small that they can easily test all the students in a few days and get the results (that’s what our private is doing too). That would be absolutely impossible to do for a public school system.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The best option is to go virtual just the first two days after break- make every kid pcr test to come back. That way, kids in school, but slows spread in the school. Privates require testing, public should too.

Totally agree with this. Schools as testing sites and require staff to test as well. Most reasonable approach I’ve heard.
—mcps teacher

There are 160,000 students in MCPS, not even counting staff. Do you know how laboratory covid tests the entire county does a day? 10,000. The entire state? About 50,000 tests a day.

No, we're not testing students before they return.

Are these people trolls? Or are they just spreading wildly impractical ideas in hopes of trying to argue that mcps needs to close because they can't do the equivalent of building a perpetual motion machine?

That PP must be a parent in a private school bubble. Private schools are so small that they can easily test all the students in a few days and get the results (that’s what our private is doing too). That would be absolutely impossible to do for a public school system.

And yet Baltimore city public schools provided an extra day of winter break just so students could test.

[Anonymous]

I’m talking FCPS or MCPS. Baltimore city is a small school system so it’s doable.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

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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

You know what's also terrible for most children? Losing their parents. I realize going virtual may not be convenient for you but more people are still with us because we did the right thing.

What's worse, one kid losing her parents or 10,000 kids with depression and perhaps 10 attempting suicide.

Because that's the actual trade-off.

No, that's the trade-off you made up arbitrarily. I'm sure in Minsk it makes sense? Perhaps a translation issue, or the fact that you weren't taught to value human life because your parents were just as sociopathic and bereft of human decency as you are.

So to be clear, the PP values the life of a child, while you value the life of an unvaccinated, adult moron more. And somehow the PP is the sociopath? You should really consider adjusting your moral compass.

We are talking about MCPS. The majority of people in MoCo are vaccinated. So, ranting about unvaccinated in MoCo is silly. Its a very small number except if you include those under 5 who cannot get vaccinated.

Either way, many vaccinated and boosted are getting the new variant of covid. So, are they vaccinated m@rons? If you get covid, are you a vaccinated m@ron?