MCPS Coming Back, Better Than Ever

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Anonymous wrote:I am so tired of the constant bashing of MCPS on this forum. Nothing they do will satisfy a lot of you!!

This 5-minute video provided answers to a long list of questions that parents/students/staff have about the operations of school in the fall, including a lot of questions that I see people asking here on DCUM. A lot of people would not take the time to read written information, so i think a video was a wonderful idea.

If we look back at where things were with infections and the Delta variant just three weeks ago, our country was in a much different place. One cannot reasonably expect that plans MCPS won't have to adjust their plans should the county experience more infections between now and the beginning of the school year. Some of the protocol mentioned in that video may have to change, and one should expect that, but at least the school system is making a reasonable effort to return to normal operations!

There is absolutely no way to please many of the parents on this board. You want schools open? They will be open. Now you're complaining incessantly about the wearing of masks! You go from one complaint to the next; it never ends...

A simple email outlining the plan would have been better. I didn't feel like watching the entire thing. They should have done it a month ago so those of us who were on the fence could have chosen virtual. Now we have to scramble to try to get into virtual or find another plan.

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Anonymous wrote:No distancing, no quarantine with exposure, no nothing... school as normal. Humm... what could go wrong especially with kids under 12. That video makes me want to remove my kids.

You were expecting distancing at full capacity? Are the classrooms at your school very large?

I actually thought parents like you would be happy with 100% masking even if vaccinated.

There will be 3 feet of distance as recommended by cdc. PP clearly didn’t watch the video. There will also be masks for all which should make you happy but apparently universal masking isn’t enough for these crazies they also need 6 feet of distance which is unecessary and never did anything anyway because the virus is airborne and moves around the room.

And should add. Testing was always optional so you never were going to get mandatory testing. You would do better being a room parent and advocating for all parents to voluntarily test their kids for free at pm pediatrics or wherever. Many would say yes due to peer pressure. Probably more than under MCPs optional pooled testing.

I have spent many years as a room parent but that's not a room parents job to push families into testing. I would never dictate to another family to test. I'd just avoid them. No tests are a good way to reopen as they will not know the spread and they can claim no spread when there is. Testing is only free if you have no insurance. Our insurance dictates where we can test and we need a doctor's authorization to do it so we cannot just go do weekly tests.

[Anonymous]

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A simple email outlining the plan would have been better. I didn't feel like watching the entire thing. They should have done it a month ago so those of us who were on the fence could have chosen virtual. Now we have to scramble to try to get into virtual or find another plan.

You don't like their e-mail, you don't want to watch their video, and you didn't want to make a decision in time for their deadline - but somehow it's all MCPS's fault...

[Anonymous]

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I have spent many years as a room parent but that's not a room parents job to push families into testing. I would never dictate to another family to test. I'd just avoid them. No tests are a good way to reopen as they will not know the spread and they can claim no spread when there is. Testing is only free if you have no insurance. Our insurance dictates where we can test and we need a doctor's authorization to do it so we cannot just go do weekly tests.

How many times are you going to repeat the same misinformation? As multiple people have told you multiple times on DCUM, testing is free at county clinics, and you can go whenever you want, as many times as you want.

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Anonymous wrote:No distancing, no quarantine with exposure, no nothing... school as normal. Humm... what could go wrong especially with kids under 12. That video makes me want to remove my kids.

You were expecting distancing at full capacity? Are the classrooms at your school very large?

I actually thought parents like you would be happy with 100% masking even if vaccinated.

I expected some type of hybrid. No, our classrooms are small. Old building that needs to be replaced. 30-35 kids per class and kids rotate classes. 1/2 the kids cannot be vaccinated in MS. Masks help, help a lot but we also need social distancing and vaccines.

MCPs was crystal clear on no hybrid for weeks if not months now. Your expectations were unreasonable and you are stroking your own covid anxiety by trying to make the rest of us cow tail to your stupid whims. Homeschool your kids forever. What’s your homeschool? I hope I don’t know you. It’s unsettling that my peers and fellow moms are this insane.

Why should we homeschool when MCPS is supposed to be providing our kids with an education. You can deny covid and pretend it is no big deal but some of us have better judgement. I feel sorry for your kids you'd rather push them out into an unsafe situation and wouldn't think twice as your needs come first. Your behavior is why Covid is spreading. Covid numbers are going up. They are double right now for kids who cannot be vaccinated. Many kids cannot be vaccinated, mine cannot be yet. The experts keep changing their stance as the new stance is we need to mask again (when we should have been all along). I'd rather keep mine out one more semester and virtual learn and let Covid cycle through all your kids and let it be safer for mine to return. I don't want to be part of the great covid social experiment.

[Anonymous]

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I have spent many years as a room parent but that's not a room parents job to push families into testing. I would never dictate to another family to test. I'd just avoid them. No tests are a good way to reopen as they will not know the spread and they can claim no spread when there is. Testing is only free if you have no insurance. Our insurance dictates where we can test and we need a doctor's authorization to do it so we cannot just go do weekly tests.

How many times are you going to repeat the same misinformation? As multiple people have told you multiple times on DCUM, testing is free at county clinics, and you can go whenever you want, as many times as you want.

You have to provide your insurance at those sites. Our insurance will NOT pay. Nothing is free. Insurances pay for the testing and vaccines for anyone who has insurance. Our insurance requires an authorization to do anything.

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You can just check off the box that says “no insurance” on the MoCO testing forms. That’s what we’ve done all along just to save time in line (at the guidance of the people working the testing sites).

[Anonymous]

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I have spent many years as a room parent but that's not a room parents job to push families into testing. I would never dictate to another family to test. I'd just avoid them. No tests are a good way to reopen as they will not know the spread and they can claim no spread when there is. Testing is only free if you have no insurance. Our insurance dictates where we can test and we need a doctor's authorization to do it so we cannot just go do weekly tests.

How many times are you going to repeat the same misinformation? As multiple people have told you multiple times on DCUM, testing is free at county clinics, and you can go whenever you want, as many times as you want.

You have to provide your insurance at those sites. Our insurance will NOT pay. Nothing is free. Insurances pay for the testing and vaccines for anyone who has insurance. Our insurance requires an authorization to do anything.

No, you don't. As multiple people have told you multiple times.

[Anonymous]

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Why should we homeschool when MCPS is supposed to be providing our kids with an education. You can deny covid and pretend it is no big deal but some of us have better judgement. I feel sorry for your kids you'd rather push them out into an unsafe situation and wouldn't think twice as your needs come first. Your behavior is why Covid is spreading. Covid numbers are going up. They are double right now for kids who cannot be vaccinated. Many kids cannot be vaccinated, mine cannot be yet. The experts keep changing their stance as the new stance is we need to mask again (when we should have been all along). I'd rather keep mine out one more semester and virtual learn and let Covid cycle through all your kids and let it be safer for mine to return. I don't want to be part of the great covid social experiment.

Because you don't like the circumstances under which MCPS will provide your kids with an education. That's why. MCPS is offering you two choices: school, and virtual school. If you don't like either of those choices, then you need to homeschool.

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As someone who's been paying enough attention to know that it was going to be in person, I still had questions about specific policies which the video answered. Our daughter is starting kindergarten and I feel confident that I know what that'll look like, at least at first, which is really helping me feel better about the Fall. Good job on the video MCPS.

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It's now better than ever!

[Anonymous]

Wow. To all the parents commenting how MCPS is getting too lax with covid and doesn’t care about keeping kids safe: wow. I did not see you coming. Congrats on the element of surprise. I mean, MCPS was pretty much last place in getting kids back to school this year under the banner of “safety.” The thing is, what you are complaining about—normal school with masks— was basically what most of the country did in 2020, before vaccines. Not crazy red states, but totally normal places like affluent educated suburbs of Chicago for example. This isn’t radical. It’s mainstream and MCPS was behind the eight ball. Way behind. But again if you don’t like it homeschool and private online are always available just like those of us horrified by MCPS’s 2020 plan had to make other arrangements now you need to make other arrangements. God speed.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Wow. To all the parents commenting how MCPS is getting too lax with covid and doesn’t care about keeping kids safe: wow. I did not see you coming. Congrats on the element of surprise. I mean, MCPS was pretty much last place in getting kids back to school this year under the banner of “safety.” The thing is, what you are complaining about—normal school with masks— was basically what most of the country did in 2020, before vaccines. Not crazy red states, but totally normal places like affluent educated suburbs of Chicago for example. This isn’t radical. It’s mainstream and MCPS was behind the eight ball. Way behind. But again if you don’t like it homeschool and private online are always available just like those of us horrified by MCPS’s 2020 plan had to make other arrangements now you need to make other arrangements. God speed.

Agreed. I mean what's the surprise? Everybody should have been able to project what five days in-person meant. The era of zero risk, hyperventilating over every case is over in this country.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:No distancing, no quarantine with exposure, no nothing... school as normal. Humm... what could go wrong especially with kids under 12. That video makes me want to remove my kids.

You were expecting distancing at full capacity? Are the classrooms at your school very large?

I actually thought parents like you would be happy with 100% masking even if vaccinated.

I expected some type of hybrid. No, our classrooms are small. Old building that needs to be replaced. 30-35 kids per class and kids rotate classes. 1/2 the kids cannot be vaccinated in MS. Masks help, help a lot but we also need social distancing and vaccines.

MCPs was crystal clear on no hybrid for weeks if not months now. Your expectations were unreasonable and you are stroking your own covid anxiety by trying to make the rest of us cow tail to your stupid whims. Homeschool your kids forever. What’s your homeschool? I hope I don’t know you. It’s unsettling that my peers and fellow moms are this insane.

Thanks for the laugh, cow tail.

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MCPs was crystal clear on no hybrid for weeks if not months now. Your expectations were unreasonable and you are stroking your own covid anxiety by trying to make the rest of us cow tail to your stupid whims. Homeschool your kids forever. What’s your homeschool? I hope I don’t know you. It’s unsettling that my peers and fellow moms are this insane.

Thanks for the laugh, cow tail.

DP. I liked the hell's cape on the other thread (or was it this thread?) too. Maybe you would wear your hell's cape while you cow tail.