Will MCPS go virtual the first part of January?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:NP here.

Wow - less than three hours to produce 6 pages of uninformed nonsense. Y’all need to stop handwringing and put on your thinking caps.

MCPS rules about 5% of student and staff population is to address transmission happening IN THE SCHOOL, not in the home or community acquired. We will have just had an 11 day shutdown. Any student or staff cases that happen on January 3 will not be school related. The counting for the 5% of school population starts then.

What would be more likely to close a school in early January is if there are too many staff out to operate safely (supervise students). They won’t have any idea until later in the week or on the weekend about staff out sick, especially with the difficulty getting tested and long turnaround for PCR results. I’m a teacher and had a Covid exposure last Friday (person was sick on Sunday and positive on a home test.) Technically, my quarantine ends in time for school Monday. However, I could start having symptoms in a couple of days, then get tested and get results Sunday night that I have Covid and can’t teach Monday. This is the reality everywhere in the county and state right now. MCPS will not know whether or not any given school can operate 1/3 until the day before. Demanding to know sooner is foolish. Demanding that MCPS close due to uncertainty is also foolish. This is something people are just going to have to wait out, just like those in quarantine.

That’s not what the policy says. I encourage you to read it again with the understanding that it was carefully drafted to give MCPS the wiggle room to do what they want, when they want.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:NP here.

Wow - less than three hours to produce 6 pages of uninformed nonsense. Y’all need to stop handwringing and put on your thinking caps.

MCPS rules about 5% of student and staff population is to address transmission happening IN THE SCHOOL, not in the home or community acquired. We will have just had an 11 day shutdown. Any student or staff cases that happen on January 3 will not be school related. The counting for the 5% of school population starts then.

What would be more likely to close a school in early January is if there are too many staff out to operate safely (supervise students). They won’t have any idea until later in the week or on the weekend about staff out sick, especially with the difficulty getting tested and long turnaround for PCR results. I’m a teacher and had a Covid exposure last Friday (person was sick on Sunday and positive on a home test.) Technically, my quarantine ends in time for school Monday. However, I could start having symptoms in a couple of days, then get tested and get results Sunday night that I have Covid and can’t teach Monday. This is the reality everywhere in the county and state right now. MCPS will not know whether or not any given school can operate 1/3 until the day before. Demanding to know sooner is foolish. Demanding that MCPS close due to uncertainty is also foolish. This is something people are just going to have to wait out, just like those in quarantine.

That’s not what the policy says. I encourage you to read it again with the understanding that it was carefully drafted to give MCPS the wiggle room to do what they want, when they want.

MCPS has been clear they will do what ever it takes so they'll just change the rules. Plan on your kids bring home covid.

[Anonymous]

Parents who want schools open no matter what should sign up to be sub's and back up bus drivers. That will solve the sub problem.

[Anonymous]

Case ##s just dumped after long holiday. What is the ## tomorrow!?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Parents who want schools open no matter what should sign up to be sub's and back up bus drivers. That will solve the sub problem.

Done! I’ll do whatever it takes!!

[Anonymous]

We will all find out after 6PM on Friday.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Case ##s just dumped after long holiday. What is the ## tomorrow!?

This is insanity. The MCPS board or superintendent or whatever they are called, are not competent to make public health decisions like this. The schools should be remote for at least two weeks , probably all January.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:How is the department of health not forcing them to go virtual? Why is Prince George’s sensible and MoCo ridiculous? They are going to kill people by forcing them back. It will be an epic tidal wave.

Oh dear God. People aren’t going to die from the sniffles. Get out of your house and go live your life. You’re being ridiculous.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Case ##s just dumped after long holiday. What is the ## tomorrow!?

This is insanity. The MCPS board or superintendent or whatever they are called, are not competent to make public health decisions like this. The schools should be remote for at least two weeks , probably all January.

Thank you! You sound so competent to make that determination! Please steer the ship for the BOE.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Parents who want schools open no matter what should sign up to be sub's and back up bus drivers. That will solve the sub problem.

Done! I’ll do whatever it takes!!

So, did you fill out the application yet?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:How is the department of health not forcing them to go virtual? Why is Prince George’s sensible and MoCo ridiculous? They are going to kill people by forcing them back. It will be an epic tidal wave.

Oh dear God. People aren’t going to die from the sniffles. Get out of your house and go live your life. You’re being ridiculous.

Oh honey, but people are dying of your sniffles.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:How is the department of health not forcing them to go virtual? Why is Prince George’s sensible and MoCo ridiculous? They are going to kill people by forcing them back. It will be an epic tidal wave.

Oh dear God. People aren’t going to die from the sniffles. Get out of your house and go live your life. You’re being ridiculous.

Oh honey, but people are dying of your sniffles.

We had a 105% increase in cases and a 5% decrease in deaths https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2021/us/covid-cases.html

[Anonymous]

Yeah at this point positive cases are not an indicator for hospitalizqtoon or death. The hospitals are overwhelmed largely due to low staffing not due to lack of space in beds

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Yeah at this point positive cases are not an indicator for hospitalizqtoon or death. The hospitals are overwhelmed largely due to low staffing not due to lack of space in beds

This. My spouse works at one hospital in a high-case-rate area of the DMV where 20% of the beds are empty.

Closing schools will just make this worse. Most of the nurses and techs with school-age kids already quit due to what happened last year- the remaining ones will certainly quit if schools close.

[Anonymous]

Yep, I went to Floriduh and did not wear any masks and probably have tons of covid all over and in me.oh well. My kids are going back Jan. 3rd and will stay in school. Nobody will get that sick from it. I am not really sure why Maryland shuts down as Florida's never shut down, live with covid or die from it, and are the happiest people ever. We should be like them.