Caitlyn Peetz on Twitter: 8am MCPS press conference for a “COVID-19 update”

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Anonymous wrote:List is:

Rock Terrace
Cannon Road
North Chevy Chase elementary
Hallie Wells
Monocacy
Roberto Clemente
Forest Knolls
Waters Landing
Rosemont
Seneca Valley
Sherwood elementary

Thanks! Also hoping to see the schools currently "yellow"

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Anonymous wrote:Is it YouTube glitching or the current speaker?

Good that was painful until the last two seconds. Don’t know why they didn’t cut Ms Rueben off. They could have just pre recorded most of this anyways.

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How did you find this?

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Anonymous wrote:How did you find this?

https://mobile.twitter.com/MCPS/status/1478350780956659714

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Anonymous wrote:Maybe they should close the schools this week and add a week to the end of the school year. But I know dcumers won’t be happy with that either.. camps, vacations , etc are always a priority. Do you see how no matter what mcps does is not going to be enough for you?

Seeing as the county is having trouble getting the parking lots and bus route plowed, this may happen by default.

Privatize education. Amazon just delivered an overnight order by a man in a beat up sedan. Whatever it takes to get the job done.

Yeah, something needs to be done.

School vouchers? Parents and kids need a choice,

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Maybe they should close the schools this week and add a week to the end of the school year. But I know dcumers won’t be happy with that either.. camps, vacations , etc are always a priority. Do you see how no matter what mcps does is not going to be enough for you?

Seeing as the county is having trouble getting the parking lots and bus route plowed, this may happen by default.

Privatize education. Amazon just delivered an overnight order by a man in a beat up sedan. Whatever it takes to get the job done.

We at Amazon do our best, but absolutely no privatizing education. You’ll end up with a bunch of contractor workforce from Lockheed Martin’s Education team

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Maybe they should close the schools this week and add a week to the end of the school year. But I know dcumers won’t be happy with that either.. camps, vacations , etc are always a priority. Do you see how no matter what mcps does is not going to be enough for you?

Seeing as the county is having trouble getting the parking lots and bus route plowed, this may happen by default.

Privatize education. Amazon just delivered an overnight order by a man in a beat up sedan. Whatever it takes to get the job done.

Yeah, something needs to be done.

School vouchers? Parents and kids need a choice,

They should start by breaking up the county. The fact they can treat schools differently for covid (red, yellow, green) shows that at thr end of the day, what applies to some doesn't apply to all. If we had closed all schools for these 11 it would be a problem. Yet we all other issues to effect all schools. It's bringing the level down instead of raising anyone up.
Joke's over. We need to end this.

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The questions are all the same. I wish someone would have actually asked real questions.

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Anonymous wrote:You guys I can’t take it anymore. I just want the kids to go to school, to do my job as well as I used to, have some occasional play dates and birthday parties to break up the month. Anyone else hate this feeling of being consumed by thoughts of what MCPS is going to do next to screw your life over again. This feeling takes me back to summer 2020 (remember when they ditched hybrid?) and august 2021 when people were freaking out about delta buy thank god MCPs stuck to its plan. Sigh. I’m so tired. When will it end.

What did you think having kids was going to be? An endless round of birthday parties? Raising kids takes some effort.

If you want to do those things you need to be part of the solution.

And given that nearly 2 years of restrictions, and 1 year of availability of vaccines that remain highly effective at preventing serious illness, hasn't allowed us to get back to normal, the only plausible option left is letting Omicron burn through the community as fast as possible.

If we let covid run rampant (not that we seem to have a choice at this point) it will be over in 3 weeks. I say let it burn.

Agreed. We saw this in South Africa. Give Omicron the 3 weeks to run through.

Also, it is clear that we are not shutting down other aspects of society - hair salons, bars, restaurants, hookah bars, strip clubs, Caps games - all continue as normal. If we’re not going to go around shutting everything down (which I agree that we should not), we need to just accept that this needs to work it’s way through.

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I posted before the WP reporter spoke. She actually had a real question.

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This place is so screwed up. Educators should not be running a multibillion collar business.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Maybe they should close the schools this week and add a week to the end of the school year. But I know dcumers won’t be happy with that either.. camps, vacations , etc are always a priority. Do you see how no matter what mcps does is not going to be enough for you?

Seeing as the county is having trouble getting the parking lots and bus route plowed, this may happen by default.

Privatize education. Amazon just delivered an overnight order by a man in a beat up sedan. Whatever it takes to get the job done.

Yeah, something needs to be done.

School vouchers? Parents and kids need a choice,

They should start by breaking up the county. The fact they can treat schools differently for covid (red, yellow, green) shows that at thr end of the day, what applies to some doesn't apply to all. If we had closed all schools for these 11 it would be a problem. Yet we all other issues to effect all schools. It's bringing the level down instead of raising anyone up.
Joke's over. We need to end this.

Absolutely need to break up the county. This county is too damn big and it’s clearly impossible to run this school system effectively. Covid just highlighted issues that have been a problem for years.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:You guys I can’t take it anymore. I just want the kids to go to school, to do my job as well as I used to, have some occasional play dates and birthday parties to break up the month. Anyone else hate this feeling of being consumed by thoughts of what MCPS is going to do next to screw your life over again. This feeling takes me back to summer 2020 (remember when they ditched hybrid?) and august 2021 when people were freaking out about delta buy thank god MCPs stuck to its plan. Sigh. I’m so tired. When will it end.

What did you think having kids was going to be? An endless round of birthday parties? Raising kids takes some effort.

If you want to do those things you need to be part of the solution.

And given that nearly 2 years of restrictions, and 1 year of availability of vaccines that remain highly effective at preventing serious illness, hasn't allowed us to get back to normal, the only plausible option left is letting Omicron burn through the community as fast as possible.

If we let covid run rampant (not that we seem to have a choice at this point) it will be over in 3 weeks. I say let it burn.

Agreed. We saw this in South Africa. Give Omicron the 3 weeks to run through.

Also, it is clear that we are not shutting down other aspects of society - hair salons, bars, restaurants, hookah bars, strip clubs, Caps games - all continue as normal. If we’re not going to go around shutting everything down (which I agree that we should not), we need to just accept that this needs to work it’s way through.

+1. Plus MCPS is delusional if they think kids will be staying home. A lot of these schools are ES- I assume aftercare programs will run distance learning programs again? Plus you can expect families to pod up or take their kids to family/friends houses instead- so many more parents are back at their workplaces compared to even a year ago. Maybe they just assume parents won’t report new Covid cases over the two week period so that the numbers will look better in two weeks time, i.e., don’t ask don’t tell.

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Anonymous wrote:I posted before the WP reporter spoke. She actually had a real question.

The woman named Donna who asked the last question had a really important inquiry - what percentage of staff are out. Of course she didn’t get a real answer.

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Will they release the yellow list to parents can prepare?