List of what each school is doing

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Anonymous wrote:Sorry, I'm just going to say it. Schools need to stay closed this week DMV is a Covid hotspot, snow tomorrow, families coming back from travels and reunions, teachers who may have it, kids indoors. They say this will peak Jan 9. Just keep the schools closed and the hospitals out of meltdown.

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Local Case numbers are way below safe levels for unvaxxed and unboosted students under 15. We are not sending our DC to school in person. Fortunately school already said students can attend virtual classes if families prefer.

All kids 5+ can be vaccinated and now 12-15 can be boosted.

My vaccinated kids got covid (as did vaccinated and boosted adults) and it was very mild. Continued reasonable testing makes sense.

Policy cannot continue to be driven by protecting the unvaccinated. People need to make responsible choices for their own health.

If you are terrified of getting covid, then enroll in virtual school. Otherwise, it seems like the majority of independent schools are doing responsible testing and decisions based on the results.

It's not about being terrified of getting Covid. It's that the next two weeks are going to be a * show of teachers and kids in and out. The educational experience will be fully compromised anyway. Why are we racing this wave? Just stay home while the peak happens and then do another round of testing a resume. Schools should have made this call a week ago, like area colleges.

Bingo.

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Our small NoVa private school required test results be submitted today in anticipation of reopening (now delayed due to snow) and they already indicated there will be staffing issues due to newly identified positive COVID cases. Buckle up, everyone!

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Maret - tested Friday. Have received individual results but no word on school-wide results yet. As of now, school set to return Tuesday as planned.

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Anonymous wrote:Lowell Also = pray. 3 days of school without requiring a negative test. Shocking.

Yes. Very surprised. It seems they have just thrown the towel in.

Has there been pushback at all? This seems crazy, given the high levels of cases right now.

This sounds like they aren’t crazy chicken little sky is falling.

Really? They appear to be one of the few schools in DC (which is a global hot spot) not asking for a negative test to return. Minimizing future cases and spread will help keep schools open in person over the next few weeks. I can't for the life of me understand Lowell's thinking here. It's bizarre.

Welp, they have now announced that they will be virtual this week. Too many staff out.

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Anonymous wrote:Lowell Also = pray. 3 days of school without requiring a negative test. Shocking.

Yes. Very surprised. It seems they have just thrown the towel in.

Has there been pushback at all? This seems crazy, given the high levels of cases right now.

This sounds like they aren’t crazy chicken little sky is falling.

Really? They appear to be one of the few schools in DC (which is a global hot spot) not asking for a negative test to return. Minimizing future cases and spread will help keep schools open in person over the next few weeks. I can't for the life of me understand Lowell's thinking here. It's bizarre.

Welp, they have now announced that they will be virtual this week. Too many staff out.

Closed/no classes Monday and Tuesday and then virtual the rest of the week. ☹️

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Fool me once shame on you fools

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Anonymous wrote:Sorry, I'm just going to say it. Schools need to stay closed this week DMV is a Covid hotspot, snow tomorrow, families coming back from travels and reunions, teachers who may have it, kids indoors. They say this will peak Jan 9. Just keep the schools closed and the hospitals out of meltdown.

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Local Case numbers are way below safe levels for unvaxxed and unboosted students under 15. We are not sending our DC to school in person. Fortunately school already said students can attend virtual classes if families prefer.

All kids 5+ can be vaccinated and now 12-15 can be boosted.

My vaccinated kids got covid (as did vaccinated and boosted adults) and it was very mild. Continued reasonable testing makes sense.

Policy cannot continue to be driven by protecting the unvaccinated. People need to make responsible choices for their own health.

If you are terrified of getting covid, then enroll in virtual school. Otherwise, it seems like the majority of independent schools are doing responsible testing and decisions based on the results.

12-15 is not approved to be boosted. Approval may come this week.

Constant misinformation and inaccurate info on this board.

Also, we’re not just taking protective measures for the unvaxxed, it’s also for the immunocompromised, as well as health care workers at hospital staff who are stressed, traumatized, stretched thin, and burned out.

I’m not terrified. I simply care about my neighbors and community.

DMV hospitals are not even close to overburdened. Staff may be short but that’s on hospital management. It’s not a function of the number of Covid hospitalizations somehow being high, because they aren’t. And they won’t be.

We could not get any medical appointments for non COVID matter after Christmas close to new year at any local urgent care places and our regular medical office was closed.

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12-15 is not approved to be boosted. Approval may come this week.

Constant misinformation and inaccurate info on this board.

Also, we’re not just taking protective measures for the unvaxxed, it’s also for the immunocompromised, as well as health care workers at hospital staff who are stressed, traumatized, stretched thin, and burned out.

I’m not terrified. I simply care about my neighbors and community.

DMV hospitals are not even close to overburdened. Staff may be short but that’s on hospital management. It’s not a function of the number of Covid hospitalizations somehow being high, because they aren’t. And they won’t be.


We could not get any medical appointments for non COVID matter after Christmas close to new year at any local urgent care places and our regular medical office was closed.

https://www.wusa9.com/article/news/health/coronavirus/covid-surge-places-locals-battling-other-illnesses-in-worrisome-positions/65-2ebef9c1-6893-4e36-aeda-c126abc9786f

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Anonymous wrote:Sorry, I'm just going to say it. Schools need to stay closed this week DMV is a Covid hotspot, snow tomorrow, families coming back from travels and reunions, teachers who may have it, kids indoors. They say this will peak Jan 9. Just keep the schools closed and the hospitals out of meltdown.

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Local Case numbers are way below safe levels for unvaxxed and unboosted students under 15. We are not sending our DC to school in person. Fortunately school already said students can attend virtual classes if families prefer.

I agree case numbers are insane - the graphs are vertical in terms of new case numbers …also the local medical systems are definitely squeezed.

However, if schools are able to safely keep schools in person for boosted students and teachers, that is great.
As long as they keep virtual options for unvaxxed and non boosted students as well.

We really appreciate the hard work and dedication of so many teachers and admin leaders at our private school. It is stressful and complicated for them to navigate.

Fingers crossed things will settle down after the omicron variant peaks since nearly everyone will either have been vaccinated or had COVID by then.

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Here’s my qualm though. Everything I’m reading is that especially if kids are vaccinated, Omicron is beyond mild for kids. It’s a cold. Yes, case counts are up as are kids in hospitals with Covid but as Faucci said I think on MSNBC the majority of those are kids who happen to test positive not that they’re in the hospital with Covid. Are we really going to freak out because of a cold?

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Anonymous wrote:Here’s my qualm though. Everything I’m reading is that especially if kids are vaccinated, Omicron is beyond mild for kids. It’s a cold. Yes, case counts are up as are kids in hospitals with Covid but as Faucci said I think on MSNBC the majority of those are kids who happen to test positive not that they’re in the hospital with Covid. Are we really going to freak out because of a cold?

It's not beyond mild. People who have it and are symptomatic (not everyone, but some) need to sleep for a couple of days and recover. That's never happened to me with a "mild cold". Sure it's not as bad sounding as previous variants, but please don't claim that it's a mild cold for the symptomatic. I's rather schools closed for a week or moved to virtual...even if you feel sick for "2 days", if you are a teacher or a student and it passes around your whole family that is a lot of wear and tear. Who will be manning the ship?

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Anonymous wrote:Here’s my qualm though. Everything I’m reading is that especially if kids are vaccinated, Omicron is beyond mild for kids. It’s a cold. Yes, case counts are up as are kids in hospitals with Covid but as Faucci said I think on MSNBC the majority of those are kids who happen to test positive not that they’re in the hospital with Covid. Are we really going to freak out because of a cold?

Having a combination of in person and virtual options is not freaking out. It is being sensible.

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Anonymous wrote:Here’s my qualm though. Everything I’m reading is that especially if kids are vaccinated, Omicron is beyond mild for kids. It’s a cold. Yes, case counts are up as are kids in hospitals with Covid but as Faucci said I think on MSNBC the majority of those are kids who happen to test positive not that they’re in the hospital with Covid. Are we really going to freak out because of a cold?

It's not beyond mild. People who have it and are symptomatic (not everyone, but some) need to sleep for a couple of days and recover. That's never happened to me with a "mild cold". Sure it's not as bad sounding as previous variants, but please don't claim that it's a mild cold for the symptomatic. I's rather schools closed for a week or moved to virtual...even if you feel sick for "2 days", if you are a teacher or a student and it passes around your whole family that is a lot of wear and tear. Who will be manning the ship?

Plus scientists are not yet sure about whether omicron will result in much long term COVID - many people with Delta variant reported mild initial symptoms and then had serious long term symptoms later (chronic fatigue and cognitive fog).

It is really hopeful that omicron appears more mild but thank god our school leaders are being cautious since we don’t know the long term patterns yet.

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Anonymous wrote:Here’s my qualm though. Everything I’m reading is that especially if kids are vaccinated, Omicron is beyond mild for kids. It’s a cold. Yes, case counts are up as are kids in hospitals with Covid but as Faucci said I think on MSNBC the majority of those are kids who happen to test positive not that they’re in the hospital with Covid. Are we really going to freak out because of a cold?

It's not beyond mild. People who have it and are symptomatic (not everyone, but some) need to sleep for a couple of days and recover. That's never happened to me with a "mild cold". Sure it's not as bad sounding as previous variants, but please don't claim that it's a mild cold for the symptomatic. I's rather schools closed for a week or moved to virtual...even if you feel sick for "2 days", if you are a teacher or a student and it passes around your whole family that is a lot of wear and tear. Who will be manning the ship?

Plus scientists are not yet sure about whether omicron will result in much long term COVID - many people with Delta variant reported mild initial symptoms and then had serious long term symptoms later (chronic fatigue and cognitive fog).

It is really hopeful that omicron appears more mild but thank god our school leaders are being cautious since we don’t know the long term patterns yet.

it is also sounds way more contagious than a common cold--one person in a classroom can equal a lot of people knocked off their feet for a couple days. We KNOW persons with Omnicron and/or Delta will be in classrooms if school starts this week. it's just a fact. Many will slip through the net of "pre-testing" because it wasn't quite full-blown yet and then Omnicron will tear through school settings resulting in lots of folks spending the start to the spring school year symptomatic or asyptomatic, AND in quarantine. I don't see how that's better than waiting it out a week or two.

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Snow day. No school Tuesday either