Reason why it's nerve-racking to go back to school in person

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Here’s an honest question:
Does anyone know what the plan is when a kid reports symptoms consistent with COViD? Or when a kid just doesn’t show up for school?
The CDC guidance for workplaces states that anyone who was within 6 feet for more than 15 minutes should be notified and asked to quanrantine. They’re vague on when you need to do that if you had prolonged exposure (eg 6 hours) in an enclosed room, but a lot of employers are making the choice to notify and send home any employees who worked in the same area.
What is MCPS’s plan? Will they have workers calling home for any kid that doesnt show up to ask about symptoms? Which families will they notify? Will they close down classrooms, bus routes, whole schools?
I don’t know the riight answer but this is all pretty relevant to my deciiskon about whether I’d be comfortable sending my kids.

This really is not that hard. Nurse contacts family. Kids aren’t allowed back without explanation/note/temp and assessment from nurse.

Where has MCPS promised to have a nurse in every school during all school hours this year? That certainly hasn't been the case in the past, and I've seen nothing about ensuring there's a qualified health professional on site whenever kids are in school.

It doesn't have to be an RN who contacts the family, for pete's sake.

So who is responsible for medically evaluating which kid needs to be sent home? The issue isn't the calling, it's the deciding.

Who did it last year? There's a protocol. People can follow it.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Here’s an honest question:
Does anyone know what the plan is when a kid reports symptoms consistent with COViD? Or when a kid just doesn’t show up for school?
The CDC guidance for workplaces states that anyone who was within 6 feet for more than 15 minutes should be notified and asked to quanrantine. They’re vague on when you need to do that if you had prolonged exposure (eg 6 hours) in an enclosed room, but a lot of employers are making the choice to notify and send home any employees who worked in the same area.
What is MCPS’s plan? Will they have workers calling home for any kid that doesnt show up to ask about symptoms? Which families will they notify? Will they close down classrooms, bus routes, whole schools?
I don’t know the riight answer but this is all pretty relevant to my deciiskon about whether I’d be comfortable sending my kids.

This really is not that hard. Nurse contacts family. Kids aren’t allowed back without explanation/note/temp and assessment from nurse.

Where has MCPS promised to have a nurse in every school during all school hours this year? That certainly hasn't been the case in the past, and I've seen nothing about ensuring there's a qualified health professional on site whenever kids are in school.

These are all issues the Teachers Union should have taken up years ago.

Nothing new that there are not school nurses at every school. That has been an issue for a while now.

If the Teachers Union actually cared about kids, they would have fought to keep school nurses in schools way earlier than now.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Here’s an honest question:
Does anyone know what the plan is when a kid reports symptoms consistent with COViD? Or when a kid just doesn’t show up for school?
The CDC guidance for workplaces states that anyone who was within 6 feet for more than 15 minutes should be notified and asked to quanrantine. They’re vague on when you need to do that if you had prolonged exposure (eg 6 hours) in an enclosed room, but a lot of employers are making the choice to notify and send home any employees who worked in the same area.
What is MCPS’s plan? Will they have workers calling home for any kid that doesnt show up to ask about symptoms? Which families will they notify? Will they close down classrooms, bus routes, whole schools?
I don’t know the riight answer but this is all pretty relevant to my deciiskon about whether I’d be comfortable sending my kids.

This really is not that hard. Nurse contacts family. Kids aren’t allowed back without explanation/note/temp and assessment from nurse.

And if a student tests positive, will the teacher have to quarantine also? With less then 10 days of sick leave, the leave could potentially be gone for the year with ONE quarantine. What’s the likelihood of this happening? I would say pretty high odds. Then what happens when another student tests positive and the teacher has no leave?

I work in child care and was recently quarantined due to contact with a positive case. I was exposed on a Monday, person was symptomless at that point. Found out the person got a positive result on Wednesday after they stayed home ill on Tuesday. Quarantined on Thursday and Friday, tested Friday afternoon. Negative result on Saturday morning, cleared to return to work on Monday. It really wasn't that big of a deal.

Lucky you, to get results from your test in less than 24 hours. That isn't happening for most people in most places. It took us seven days to get results for my teen's recent test in Maryland (MoCo). Your example is not useful.

Do your homework first. Just got my test results back in less than 2 days

Have you read the thread on the health forum about waiting for test results from CVS? People are sharing 10, 14, 15 days later and they still don’t have their results.

DP

Because CVS sucks. Nothing new there.

That doesn’t mean that other places aren’t getting tests back quicker.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Here’s an honest question:
Does anyone know what the plan is when a kid reports symptoms consistent with COViD? Or when a kid just doesn’t show up for school?
The CDC guidance for workplaces states that anyone who was within 6 feet for more than 15 minutes should be notified and asked to quanrantine. They’re vague on when you need to do that if you had prolonged exposure (eg 6 hours) in an enclosed room, but a lot of employers are making the choice to notify and send home any employees who worked in the same area.
What is MCPS’s plan? Will they have workers calling home for any kid that doesnt show up to ask about symptoms? Which families will they notify? Will they close down classrooms, bus routes, whole schools?
I don’t know the riight answer but this is all pretty relevant to my deciiskon about whether I’d be comfortable sending my kids.

This really is not that hard. Nurse contacts family. Kids aren’t allowed back without explanation/note/temp and assessment from nurse.

Where has MCPS promised to have a nurse in every school during all school hours this year? That certainly hasn't been the case in the past, and I've seen nothing about ensuring there's a qualified health professional on site whenever kids are in school.

It doesn't have to be an RN who contacts the family, for pete's sake.

So who is responsible for medically evaluating which kid needs to be sent home? The issue isn't the calling, it's the deciding.

My kids’ camp this week is taking all the kids temps as they come in. Anyone with a higher temp than the guidelines say gets sent home.

If teachers only have 10 kids in the class at a time (likely less because most parents will still choose DL), they can easily take a few temps and send anyone home that is too high.

[Anonymous]

There’s no consequence for refusing to comply with contract tracing. My neighbor refused to participate when she was contacted. She was told that the MoCo Health dept would follow up. No one from MoCo has called her.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Here’s an honest question:
Does anyone know what the plan is when a kid reports symptoms consistent with COViD? Or when a kid just doesn’t show up for school?
The CDC guidance for workplaces states that anyone who was within 6 feet for more than 15 minutes should be notified and asked to quanrantine. They’re vague on when you need to do that if you had prolonged exposure (eg 6 hours) in an enclosed room, but a lot of employers are making the choice to notify and send home any employees who worked in the same area.
What is MCPS’s plan? Will they have workers calling home for any kid that doesnt show up to ask about symptoms? Which families will they notify? Will they close down classrooms, bus routes, whole schools?
I don’t know the riight answer but this is all pretty relevant to my deciiskon about whether I’d be comfortable sending my kids.

This really is not that hard. Nurse contacts family. Kids aren’t allowed back without explanation/note/temp and assessment from nurse.

Where has MCPS promised to have a nurse in every school during all school hours this year? That certainly hasn't been the case in the past, and I've seen nothing about ensuring there's a qualified health professional on site whenever kids are in school.

It doesn't have to be an RN who contacts the family, for pete's sake.

So who is responsible for medically evaluating which kid needs to be sent home? The issue isn't the calling, it's the deciding.

My kids’ camp this week is taking all the kids temps as they come in. Anyone with a higher temp than the guidelines say gets sent home.

If teachers only have 10 kids in the class at a time (likely less because most parents will still choose DL), they can easily take a few temps and send anyone home that is too high.

MCPS is planning for 15 kids per class. There are also tips being passed around on FB for how to lower temps temporarily using ice packs, etc. Parents are not thinking about the risks, only the ability to get their child in the building.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Here’s an honest question:
Does anyone know what the plan is when a kid reports symptoms consistent with COViD? Or when a kid just doesn’t show up for school?
The CDC guidance for workplaces states that anyone who was within 6 feet for more than 15 minutes should be notified and asked to quanrantine. They’re vague on when you need to do that if you had prolonged exposure (eg 6 hours) in an enclosed room, but a lot of employers are making the choice to notify and send home any employees who worked in the same area.
What is MCPS’s plan? Will they have workers calling home for any kid that doesnt show up to ask about symptoms? Which families will they notify? Will they close down classrooms, bus routes, whole schools?
I don’t know the riight answer but this is all pretty relevant to my deciiskon about whether I’d be comfortable sending my kids.

This really is not that hard. Nurse contacts family. Kids aren’t allowed back without explanation/note/temp and assessment from nurse.

Where has MCPS promised to have a nurse in every school during all school hours this year? That certainly hasn't been the case in the past, and I've seen nothing about ensuring there's a qualified health professional on site whenever kids are in school.

It doesn't have to be an RN who contacts the family, for pete's sake.

So who is responsible for medically evaluating which kid needs to be sent home? The issue isn't the calling, it's the deciding.

Who did it last year? There's a protocol. People can follow it.

At my MS last year, kids sat in the office for upwards of 2 hours waiting to be picked up. Some never were picked up and rode the school bus home. When my DD was ill and I could not find colleagueS to cover my classes, she stayed in the nurse’s office until the nurse’s lunch. The nurse then sent her to class with an emesis pan for 40 min so that the nurse could have lunch.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Here’s an honest question:
Does anyone know what the plan is when a kid reports symptoms consistent with COViD? Or when a kid just doesn’t show up for school?
The CDC guidance for workplaces states that anyone who was within 6 feet for more than 15 minutes should be notified and asked to quanrantine. They’re vague on when you need to do that if you had prolonged exposure (eg 6 hours) in an enclosed room, but a lot of employers are making the choice to notify and send home any employees who worked in the same area.
What is MCPS’s plan? Will they have workers calling home for any kid that doesnt show up to ask about symptoms? Which families will they notify? Will they close down classrooms, bus routes, whole schools?
I don’t know the riight answer but this is all pretty relevant to my deciiskon about whether I’d be comfortable sending my kids.

This really is not that hard. Nurse contacts family. Kids aren’t allowed back without explanation/note/temp and assessment from nurse.

Where has MCPS promised to have a nurse in every school during all school hours this year? That certainly hasn't been the case in the past, and I've seen nothing about ensuring there's a qualified health professional on site whenever kids are in school.

It doesn't have to be an RN who contacts the family, for pete's sake.

So who is responsible for medically evaluating which kid needs to be sent home? The issue isn't the calling, it's the deciding.

Who did it last year? There's a protocol. People can follow it.

At my MS last year, kids sat in the office for upwards of 2 hours waiting to be picked up. Some never were picked up and rode the school bus home. When my DD was ill and I could not find colleagueS to cover my classes, she stayed in the nurse’s office until the nurse’s lunch. The nurse then sent her to class with an emesis pan for 40 min so that the nurse could have lunch.

That has nothing to do with whether or not it's an RN doing the deciding and making the call.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:There’s no consequence for refusing to comply with contract tracing. My neighbor refused to participate when she was contacted. She was told that the MoCo Health dept would follow up. No one from MoCo has called her.

What consequence do you think there should be?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:There’s no consequence for refusing to comply with contract tracing. My neighbor refused to participate when she was contacted. She was told that the MoCo Health dept would follow up. No one from MoCo has called her.

What consequence do you think there should be?

Picked up by dudes in camo in an unmarked van maybe?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:There’s no consequence for refusing to comply with contract tracing. My neighbor refused to participate when she was contacted. She was told that the MoCo Health dept would follow up. No one from MoCo has called her.

What consequence do you think there should be?

Picked up by dudes in camo in an unmarked van maybe?

House arrest until a negative test.