MCPS Coming Back, Better Than Ever

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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.

Cool. Do virtual. Enjoy.

[Anonymous]

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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.

It could have meant multiple things including kids go 1/2 days so not all kids are in the building at once. How is there zero risk? Kids are getting covid. Kids are not able to be vaccinated.

[Anonymous]

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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.

My niece started school in Mississippi three days ago. Deep South. Science deniers. Last week it was no masks. This week? Masks are mandatory and parents should be prepared to pivot for virtual learning. It’s not over. (I want it to be let’s be clear on my stance)

[Anonymous]

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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.

It could have meant multiple things including kids go 1/2 days so not all kids are in the building at once. How is there zero risk? Kids are getting covid. Kids are not able to be vaccinated.

Maybe it could have, but it didn't.

[Anonymous]

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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.

Just reigning in the laughter here.

[Anonymous]

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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.

My niece started school in Mississippi three days ago. Deep South. Science deniers. Last week it was no masks. This week? Masks are mandatory and parents should be prepared to pivot for virtual learning. It’s not over. (I want it to be let’s be clear on my stance)

The Mississippi county with the highest percent of the total population receiving at least one dose is Jefferson County (population <8,000), at 51.4%. Every other county in Mississippi has lower vaccination rates. Contrast that with Montgomery County, Maryland, where it's 76.8%.

It's so weird that places with low vaccination rates are having covid outbreaks. I mean, who would have thought?

[Anonymous]

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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.

Just reigning in the laughter here.

Np.. that added some value of funny.. the other one laughing at typos?
Grow up.

[Anonymous]

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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.

It could have meant multiple things including kids go 1/2 days so not all kids are in the building at once. How is there zero risk? Kids are getting covid. Kids are not able to be vaccinated.

1/2 days? Did you truly believe this was a possibility? What a logistical disaster that’d be. If these are the things bouncing around your head, just do VA for a year and let everybody else clear the way.

[Anonymous]

Mcps back better than ever because it couldn't possibly get any worse.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

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.

Just reigning in the laughter here.

Np.. that added some value of funny.. the other one laughing at typos?
Grow up.

OP thinks that cow tail is an actual saying. No way that is a typo.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Mcps back better than ever because it couldn't possibly get any worse.

LOL! Truth.

Although, honestly, I can definitely see things in MCPS getting even worse.

[Anonymous]

Delta variant coming back stronger than ever. We hope MCPS has a realistic plan so students aren’t online for another school year.

[Anonymous]

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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.

My niece started school in Mississippi three days ago. Deep South. Science deniers. Last week it was no masks. This week? Masks are mandatory and parents should be prepared to pivot for virtual learning. It’s not over. (I want it to be let’s be clear on my stance)

The Mississippi county with the highest percent of the total population receiving at least one dose is Jefferson County (population <8,000), at 51.4%. Every other county in Mississippi has lower vaccination rates. Contrast that with Montgomery County, Maryland, where it's 76.8%.

It's so weird that places with low vaccination rates are having covid outbreaks. I mean, who would have thought?

Vaccination rates don't matter for the 0-12 crowd who cannot be vaccinated. Look at MCPS numbers. At least half the kids will not be vaccinated.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Delta variant coming back stronger than ever. We hope MCPS has a realistic plan so students aren’t online for another school year.

I think they are doing the hoping for the best plan or their back up plan, which is denial. Everyone keeps talking about those vaccinated but kids, which make up students cannot be vaccinated.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Mcps back better than ever because it couldn't possibly get any worse.

Agree but with covid it can get far worse. Hopefully not but if they have big outbreaks, they will not have planned and kids could be out of school again for weeks while they get their act together. I hope they have a back up plan.