If your school is red, are you sending your child tomorrow?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I’m sending my kids. I don’t think keeping them home from school will prevent our family from getting omicron. It is everywhere in the community. Unless we literally go nowhere for months, at some point we’ll get it. We got vaxxed and boosted so we didn’t have to worry about the severe disease from covid. My kids need in person school; it is essential for learning and their mental health.

Your kids mental health will be just fine for two weeks. They are home two months in the summer.

It’s funny you think it will be only two weeks. But a two week actual break would be fine with me- I’d rather my DC go play at the aftercare program that will still be open than sit on kinder-zoom all day.

[Anonymous]

Why are people fretting about this? Our county has one of the highest vaccination rates in the country. Vaccinate your kids and send them to school. Omicron is supposed to be mild. Stop this madness. Your child might just get a cold or nothing. We will be in virtual week anyway due to crazies like you all. Today is probably the last day of in person school for our kids until March.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I’m sending my kids. I don’t think keeping them home from school will prevent our family from getting omicron. It is everywhere in the community. Unless we literally go nowhere for months, at some point we’ll get it. We got vaxxed and boosted so we didn’t have to worry about the severe disease from covid. My kids need in person school; it is essential for learning and their mental health.

+1000

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I’m sending my kids. I don’t think keeping them home from school will prevent our family from getting omicron. It is everywhere in the community. Unless we literally go nowhere for months, at some point we’ll get it. We got vaxxed and boosted so we didn’t have to worry about the severe disease from covid. My kids need in person school; it is essential for learning and their mental health.

Your kids mental health will be just fine for two weeks. They are home two months in the summer.

Oh my you actually think it will be inly 2 weeks? And then magically they will bring everyone back? We will be virtual till atleast spring.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:None of those positive cases are at school they’re all at home. I’m sending my kid to school. He’s vaxxed and we are boostered.

Unless your kid isn't eating lunch, they will get it at school. It's practically guaranteed.

So, what is your point? Are you keeping your kid under lock and key? No playdates, no get togethers with friends, no socializing of any kind with other people? They can get it school or they can get it outside of school. It's unavoidable at this point unless you're literally hiding in your basement (which maybe you are at this point).

A lot of us take this seriously enough that school was the only thing we were doing. Working and sending out kids to school. Anything else seemed irresponsible to our community.

This. Our family was the same. Our kids were only playing outside with other kids.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:None of those positive cases are at school they’re all at home. I’m sending my kid to school. He’s vaxxed and we are boostered.

Sorry, but you're really dumb. I don't know if you're the one parroting this on every MCPS thread, or if there are a small number of really stupid dummies.

Schools are accelerators of Omicron spread, especially during lunch. The kids are sitting close together, hundreds in one crowded cafeteria, without masks, opening their mouths to eat and yell. Every day. What do you think's going to happen? It's way, way worse than any mass super-spreader event you could participate in outside of school, unless you took your household to an indoor concert venue and you all took off your masks. So people with Omicron are going to school, and spreading it rapidly to others students and staff.

And don't say it didn't happen before. It happened with Delta in September, but to a lesser extent because OMICRON IS 10 TIMES MORE TRANSMISSIBLE THAN DELTA.

Not the PP, but there is not a single scientific shred of evidence that schools are super spreaders. Lunch time is not a super spreader event. The reason why cases have skyrocketed recently is because people were NOT in school, socializing, attending parties, going to the mall, going to restaurants, etc. and THAT'S how the virus is spread around. Not by attending school.

This is just completely and utterly untrue. There is evidence that schools serve as locations of Covid transmission, especially during unmasked lunch time. Here is one study in Chicago which shows 40% of cases originating at schools.
https://dph.illinois.gov/covid19/data/contact-tracing/potential-exposure-location.html?regionID=0

Maybe they could just go to half days with no eating?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:None of those positive cases are at school they’re all at home. I’m sending my kid to school. He’s vaxxed and we are boostered.

Unless your kid isn't eating lunch, they will get it at school. It's practically guaranteed.

So, what is your point? Are you keeping your kid under lock and key? No playdates, no get togethers with friends, no socializing of any kind with other people? They can get it school or they can get it outside of school. It's unavoidable at this point unless you're literally hiding in your basement (which maybe you are at this point).

A lot of us take this seriously enough that school was the only thing we were doing. Working and sending out kids to school. Anything else seemed irresponsible to our community.

This. Our family was the same. Our kids were only playing outside with other kids.

Same. I feel like we are being punished for it now. Although in our case it’s only a matter of time before DH brings it home from work.

[Anonymous]

I am wondering about the big change after 1 day...too soon for increased testing by MCPS on the first day back. Did people just decide to report positives that they had not bothered to before. It is a huge change in 1 day.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:None of those positive cases are at school they’re all at home. I’m sending my kid to school. He’s vaxxed and we are boostered.

Unless your kid isn't eating lunch, they will get it at school. It's practically guaranteed.

So, what is your point? Are you keeping your kid under lock and key? No playdates, no get togethers with friends, no socializing of any kind with other people? They can get it school or they can get it outside of school. It's unavoidable at this point unless you're literally hiding in your basement (which maybe you are at this point).

A lot of us take this seriously enough that school was the only thing we were doing. Working and sending out kids to school. Anything else seemed irresponsible to our community.

This. Our family was the same. Our kids were only playing outside with other kids.

Maybe we just need to separate into two societies—one that has accepted Covid is here to stay and life goes on and others who are still living in fear from it. We have the tools to minimize the severe risks from the virus now and avoiding it entirely is no longer an option. You’re living like March 2020 and it’s time to move on.

[Anonymous]

Sending my kids to red schools today with the expectation that this is their last day of in-person school for a while. So very frustrated that we are right back where we were in March 2020.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Sending my kids to red schools today with the expectation that this is their last day of in-person school for a while. So very frustrated that we are right back where we were in March 2020.

Also frustrated, and it doesn’t need to be this way. It would be one thing if the county was using these metrics to close other things, but it’s not. Community spread will continue despite kids on zoom. And this is with vaccines available to all school aged kids. This might be the last straw for us regarding staying in MCPS.

[Anonymous]

I teach at a high school that just moved to red. I teach over 150 students and had wonderful attendance yesterday. I think some of the people listed in these 14 day numbers are now out of quarantine and back in school, so I'm not sure how accurate they are. Honestly, things are moving along quite nicely here, and I'd like the kids to remain in school.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I teach at a high school that just moved to red. I teach over 150 students and had wonderful attendance yesterday. I think some of the people listed in these 14 day numbers are now out of quarantine and back in school, so I'm not sure how accurate they are. Honestly, things are moving along quite nicely here, and I'd like the kids to remain in school.

At least you game these kids one normal day yesterday and hopefully one today as well. That's great!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I teach at a high school that just moved to red. I teach over 150 students and had wonderful attendance yesterday. I think some of the people listed in these 14 day numbers are now out of quarantine and back in school, so I'm not sure how accurate they are. Honestly, things are moving along quite nicely here, and I'd like the kids to remain in school.

At least you game these kids one normal day yesterday and hopefully one today as well. That's great!

*gave

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I am wondering about the big change after 1 day...too soon for increased testing by MCPS on the first day back. Did people just decide to report positives that they had not bothered to before. It is a huge change in 1 day.

Yes, since first day back many families reported “old” cases for first time.