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

[Anonymous]

My children are in school today. They are in newly red schools and all three said attendance of students and teachers was great yesterday. No subs needed and they noticed maybe 1-2 absent students they know of which is normal after the holidays in any year.

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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?

I could live with this idea.

[Anonymous]

Yes, my kids are going to school. The schools are still teaching new material and my kids don't want to fall behind.

[Anonymous]

My high schoolers went in. May be the last day for a while. Had to drive one of them since there are no buses running from our neighborhood.

[Anonymous]

We're in a yellow school, but I don't think the half a dozen cases needed to push us to red would change my mind one way or the other. My kid is at school and I'm at work getting ready so that I don't need to go into the office for a while just in case. Fingers crossed tomorrow and next week are normal, but preparing just in case.

[Anonymous]

The red and yellow is fake. The real number is zero.

Why all those kids reported during long break when not in contact with school and are not in school this week.

All schools should have started at zero yesterdarv

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The red and yellow is fake. The real number is zero.

Why all those kids reported during long break when not in contact with school and are not in school this week.

All schools should have started at zero yesterdarv

+1 This is just a backhanded way to close the schools. There was no school spread because there was no school. It doesn't make any sense to count cases from over the winter break. Agree the count should start at 0 this week.

[Anonymous]

My HS kid is vaccinated and boosted. Wearing a kn95 mask and thrilled to have in person school. You can’t hide under a rock forever. Take all the precautions you can and live life. You take a risk every day driving in your car. In fact, most are more likely to suffer serious injury or death in a car accident than if fully vaccinated and boosted. There is a huge cost to keeping teenagers at home, as we saw last year with the increase in mental health issues among kids and the massive learning loss.
For what it’s worth, all of DC’s teachers were there yesterday and DC said very few kids seemed to be out. More were out right before break, which the numbers still reflect even though those individuals are now recovered and back in school.

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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.

That is not what that study shows. At all.
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

[Anonymous]

I don’t know if schools are superspreaders or not, but I know for sure my kid got it school right before the break.

[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.

That is not what that study shows. At all.
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

It doesn't show that at all. Read the methodology: "Location information is gathered by asking cases to recall locations visited in the 14 days preceding symptom onset or specimen collection if symptoms are not present"

All that means is that 40% of cases were in a school some time in the 14 days before they got COVID. No one knows where they got it

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I don’t know if schools are superspreaders or not, but I know for sure my kid got it school right before the break.

+1 My 6th grader who has worn KN95 masks to school since September got covid at school a week before break, probably from unmasked lunch. Their school was reporting something like 5-15 cases a day, and according to my calculations hit about 8% total positives in the 14 days before break. Kid brought it home and spread it to the rest of the family. The school is in the yellow now, and I’m curious to see whether rates stay low because of the previous surge or whether they rise again.

[Anonymous]

I mean, our school is green but I don’t trust it for a hot second.

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Anonymous wrote:I don’t know if schools are superspreaders or not, but I know for sure my kid got it school right before the break.

+1 My 6th grader who has worn KN95 masks to school since September got covid at school a week before break, probably from unmasked lunch. Their school was reporting something like 5-15 cases a day, and according to my calculations hit about 8% total positives in the 14 days before break. Kid brought it home and spread it to the rest of the family. The school is in the yellow now, and I’m curious to see whether rates stay low because of the previous surge or whether they rise again.

Maybe it was lunch, but are you confident their mask was properly sealed at all times during the day?

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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.

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.

NP.

Do you think you have any influence over this? I mean, you could make a stink and have influence if they do extend virtual past 2-4 weeks, but your argument is what, exactly?

If if MCPS goes to "short-term" virtual now, they will extend virtual for months, but if they don't go short-term virtual, because parents don't support that, schools will continue in person?

MCPS (or the vast majority of schools) will go virtual regardless, because case rates are too high and only multiplying exponentially right now.

If 2 weeks or 2 months is bad for the mental health of kids, okay. That's a reasonable argument to make. But virtual will happen regardless-- at least those first 2 weeks. There's no way to prevent those first 2 weeks, based on the numbers we are seeing and the metrics laid out, and just the reality of staffing.