FCPS Covid policy? daughter just tested postive

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Anonymous wrote:Here’s one of the many reasons I’m quitting teaching.

Human decency is long gone.

Long gone.

Yes. Masking toddlers for 2 years after data was clear this was not a child illness shredded any human decency left in this area.

Good.

Do you realize the damage done to these toddlers in speech and social growth. Kindergarten is getting dozens of incoming IEPS for various reasons and you can probably trail most back to the masking and isolation mandates of Covid.

And children spending insane amounts of time in front of screens?

+1, mask weren't the reason children weren’t developing socially.

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You don't say anything treat it like the cold. Because it is the cold.

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Anonymous wrote:How many FCPS students employees or people in their household died from or are permanently affected by COVID?

Probably none

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Anonymous wrote:How many FCPS students employees or people in their household died from or are permanently affected by COVID?

Probably none

Is that the new criteria to determine if we should have a child who is COVID-positive stay home for the day (or go to school masked). No, it’s not.

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Anonymous wrote:Can’t wait for the “the teacher has been out so much, my child isn’t learning!” posts, after the teacher gets Covid from a kid who came to school with it, then their own kids get it, and the next thing you know, the teacher is out for 2 weeks straight. Yay.

2 weeks? Try again. Most teachers will come back after 5 days if symptoms are improving; maybe even less if they can’t find subs.

LOL ok all knowing one

Maybe it is different now, but when I was teaching it was quite rare for teachers to be out very long. The only time I was out a week was when my dad had a terrible automobile accident and I lived far away. This was true for most of my collegues. Nothing like coming back to school and finding the sub had messed up all your plans and materials. Real incentive to go to work.

I’ve been teaching high school for 20 years. The longest I’ve been out is 6 days in a row, and it was for a really bad case of Covid. I couldn’t have taught if I wanted to. I’ve had the flu and really bad colds, but nothing has taken me out of work like Covid.

A member of my department missed 2 entire weeks last year because of a bad case of Covid. Others were like me, able to come back in a week once the strength to stand up for 6 hours in a row came back.

I’m not looking forward to being that sick again, but I’m assuming it’s coming my way.

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If someone is that sick, sure, they will stay home. But very few are staying home for 5 days just for the sake of staying home when they feel ok.

The other PP was saying the teacher will be sick and then could have a family member out sick. Remember teachers have families too.

PP here. I am a teacher. Very few teachers are staying home for 5 days just for the sake of staying home when they feel ok. That's what I'm saying. It's basically like it was pre-pandemic. Of course a teacher might stay home if a child is sick.

It's not and you are not all teachers. A teacher can be out for their covid infection and then have a child out for another 3-4 day and they have every right to take care of their family.

PP here. Of course. Nobody is saying they don't or shouldn't.

If I end up taking draining my sick leave because of Covid infections (me, followed by my children), there will be a thread right here on DCUM complaining about my excessive absences.

Ok, perhaps, but you (or some other pp) is bringing up missing days due to a family member being sick when that’s not what the posts were saying. People have said they’ve been out for various lengths and various reasons. Nobody in this thread has said you shouldn’t take off because your kids get sick too. An individual teacher isn’t missing 5 days just for the sake of quarantining when they feel ok. Here’s a scenario:
Ms. Smith has a 100.3 fever on Thursday morning. Maybe it’s Covid maybe not. She takes the day off. Overnight her fever breaks and she stays home again on Friday. She continues to feel better over the weekend and on Sunday decides she will go in on Monday, maybe wearing a mask. She’s been fever free for over 72 hours. That’s what most people are doing. If she stayed home for 5 days she wouldn’t go back to work until Wednesday or Thursday.

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Anonymous wrote:You don't say anything treat it like the cold. Because it is the cold.

We have a winner. Endemic just like the cold. Treat it as such and move on.

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If our society just masked when you're sick, we'd all be better off. I don't want your grimy cold or corona viruses on me or in my air. Thanks

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Anonymous wrote:If our society just masked when you're sick, we'd all be better off. I don't want your grimy cold or corona viruses on me or in my air. Thanks

You are free to mask ALL the time.

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Anonymous wrote:Can’t wait for the “the teacher has been out so much, my child isn’t learning!” posts, after the teacher gets Covid from a kid who came to school with it, then their own kids get it, and the next thing you know, the teacher is out for 2 weeks straight. Yay.

2 weeks? Try again. Most teachers will come back after 5 days if symptoms are improving; maybe even less if they can’t find subs.

LOL ok all knowing one

Maybe it is different now, but when I was teaching it was quite rare for teachers to be out very long. The only time I was out a week was when my dad had a terrible automobile accident and I lived far away. This was true for most of my collegues. Nothing like coming back to school and finding the sub had messed up all your plans and materials. Real incentive to go to work.

I’ve been teaching high school for 20 years. The longest I’ve been out is 6 days in a row, and it was for a really bad case of Covid. I couldn’t have taught if I wanted to. I’ve had the flu and really bad colds, but nothing has taken me out of work like Covid.

A member of my department missed 2 entire weeks last year because of a bad case of Covid. Others were like me, able to come back in a week once the strength to stand up for 6 hours in a row came back.

I’m not looking forward to being that sick again, but I’m assuming it’s coming my way.

DP
If someone is that sick, sure, they will stay home. But very few are staying home for 5 days just for the sake of staying home when they feel ok.

The other PP was saying the teacher will be sick and then could have a family member out sick. Remember teachers have families too.

PP here. I am a teacher. Very few teachers are staying home for 5 days just for the sake of staying home when they feel ok. That's what I'm saying. It's basically like it was pre-pandemic. Of course a teacher might stay home if a child is sick.

It's not and you are not all teachers. A teacher can be out for their covid infection and then have a child out for another 3-4 day and they have every right to take care of their family.

PP here. Of course. Nobody is saying they don't or shouldn't.

If I end up taking draining my sick leave because of Covid infections (me, followed by my children), there will be a thread right here on DCUM complaining about my excessive absences.

Ok, perhaps, but you (or some other pp) is bringing up missing days due to a family member being sick when that’s not what the posts were saying. People have said they’ve been out for various lengths and various reasons. Nobody in this thread has said you shouldn’t take off because your kids get sick too. An individual teacher isn’t missing 5 days just for the sake of quarantining when they feel ok. Here’s a scenario:
Ms. Smith has a 100.3 fever on Thursday morning. Maybe it’s Covid maybe not. She takes the day off. Overnight her fever breaks and she stays home again on Friday. She continues to feel better over the weekend and on Sunday decides she will go in on Monday, maybe wearing a mask. She’s been fever free for over 72 hours. That’s what most people are doing. If she stayed home for 5 days she wouldn’t go back to work until Wednesday or Thursday.

If she stayed home for 5 days she would go back Tuesday. Thurs-Monday is 5 days.

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Anonymous wrote:If our society just masked when you're sick, we'd all be better off. I don't want your grimy cold or corona viruses on me or in my air. Thanks

Agree. This is common practice in Asian cultures. If you are sick and need to be out and about mask until better. I wish this was more of a norm here.

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Anonymous wrote:If our society just masked when you're sick, we'd all be better off. I don't want your grimy cold or corona viruses on me or in my air. Thanks

Agree. This is common practice in Asian cultures. If you are sick and need to be out and about mask until better. I wish this was more of a norm here.

+1

Along with not sending obviously sick kids to school.

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Anonymous wrote:How many FCPS students employees or people in their household died from or are permanently affected by COVID?

Probably none

Is that the new criteria to determine if we should have a child who is COVID-positive stay home for the day (or go to school masked). No, it’s not.

No one cares anymore. Yell about the dead until your clue in the face. What’s done is done.

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Anonymous wrote:If our society just masked when you're sick, we'd all be better off. I don't want your grimy cold or corona viruses on me or in my air. Thanks

This is not a rational or scientific response.

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Uh, you guys want your kids to catch these mild colds like covid and basic childhood infections like strep or viruses.

This is how their bodies build a robust immune system.

Putting them in a masked isolated bubble so they don't catch a cold, which covid now is, does a huge disservice to your kids long term health and well being.

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Anonymous wrote:You don't say anything treat it like the cold. Because it is the cold.

We have a winner. Endemic just like the cold. Treat it as such and move on.

+1.

Don't upend the other students in her class by making them "exposures", or in the case in one MCPS school, forcing them to mask.