What happens with positive tests? Let’s predict the fall for elementary schools.

[Anonymous]

I hate to say it, but I'm grateful for my boring but flexible mommy track job right now. Working parents are going to be totally left holding the bag and it's going to be really tough for families without one parent working a flexible job. Especially since we'll have to presumably supervise distance learning and won't be able to throw them outside or in front of the TV whenever it's time for a Zoom call.

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Anonymous wrote:Ok, actual prediction here.

I think that like school reopening in the spring, there are going to be massive disparities between schools in terms of cases, quarantines, and this indoor instruction.

Schools in NW, on the Hill, and sought-after charters will largely weather this ok. There will be cases and quarantined. However, if you have friends and family in places that opened schools last year but followed mitigation measures (do talking Colorado, not Florida or Texas here), you know it was a pain but also okay. Yes, sometimes kids have to stay home. But they are in school more than not. No kids got seriously ill. You guys will be fine.

Those of us in schools where most families must work in person, where kids are much more likely to live in multi-family housing, and where families don’t have the same access to quality healthcare? I expect rolling quarantined and limited in person instruction.

Just like last year, and always, rich white families will be fine while complaining the loudest. The rest of us will struggle but what we want/need will get drowned out by the rich white patents arguing with each other.

This makes sense to me except all signs are pointing to no quarantines in DCPS this year. And unlike schools in the south our teachers will be vaxed so they won’t be out sick as much. So the problem won’t be kids out of school due to quarantines. The problem will be rampant covid spread in elementary schools at least. Even when most parents are vaccinated this doesn’t help once a case enters a school where the vast majority if its occupants is too young to be vaccinated. I agree it will hit the lower income schools first. But I don’t think that the NW schools will be too far behind.

I agree with this prediction. No quarantines/closures, thus significant spread among unvaxed under 12, and even middle/high school bc many of them are unvaxxed. Just my prediction. We will see.

I think you will see quarantines in spite of the DCPS policy. Anytime there is a COVID test the result is reported to DOH. Kids will be at home. Once parents realize 4-5 kids are out of their kids classes more will pull out.

I think it’s going to be a disaster because central office is so incompetent. I don’t think upper nw will be spared at all.

Good point. I assume schools have to notify parents when there is a positive in the class, right?

We have no idea.

I agree we have no idea but I think you'll only be notified if your kid is a 'close contact'.

They said today that parents in the class will be told there is a positive and the school community will also be told there has been a case within the school

Who is "they" and where?

https://twitter.com/perrystein/status/1428026865252438022?s=21

There was a news conference today. You can watch the whole thing or just read through Perry Stein’s tweets

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Anonymous wrote:I hate to say it, but I'm grateful for my boring but flexible mommy track job right now. Working parents are going to be totally left holding the bag and it's going to be really tough for families without one parent working a flexible job. Especially since we'll have to presumably supervise distance learning and won't be able to throw them outside or in front of the TV whenever it's time for a Zoom call.

I'll probably be saying no to timed distance learning classes if they even have them. We'll do something, just not on the school's schedule. I'm pretty done with that from last year.

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Anonymous wrote:Ok, actual prediction here.

I think that like school reopening in the spring, there are going to be massive disparities between schools in terms of cases, quarantines, and this indoor instruction.

Schools in NW, on the Hill, and sought-after charters will largely weather this ok. There will be cases and quarantined. However, if you have friends and family in places that opened schools last year but followed mitigation measures (do talking Colorado, not Florida or Texas here), you know it was a pain but also okay. Yes, sometimes kids have to stay home. But they are in school more than not. No kids got seriously ill. You guys will be fine.

Those of us in schools where most families must work in person, where kids are much more likely to live in multi-family housing, and where families don’t have the same access to quality healthcare? I expect rolling quarantined and limited in person instruction.

Just like last year, and always, rich white families will be fine while complaining the loudest. The rest of us will struggle but what we want/need will get drowned out by the rich white patents arguing with each other.

This makes sense to me except all signs are pointing to no quarantines in DCPS this year. And unlike schools in the south our teachers will be vaxed so they won’t be out sick as much. So the problem won’t be kids out of school due to quarantines. The problem will be rampant covid spread in elementary schools at least. Even when most parents are vaccinated this doesn’t help once a case enters a school where the vast majority if its occupants is too young to be vaccinated. I agree it will hit the lower income schools first. But I don’t think that the NW schools will be too far behind.

I agree with this prediction. No quarantines/closures, thus significant spread among unvaxed under 12, and even middle/high school bc many of them are unvaxxed. Just my prediction. We will see.

I think you will see quarantines in spite of the DCPS policy. Anytime there is a COVID test the result is reported to DOH. Kids will be at home. Once parents realize 4-5 kids are out of their kids classes more will pull out.

I think it’s going to be a disaster because central office is so incompetent. I don’t think upper nw will be spared at all.

Good point. I assume schools have to notify parents when there is a positive in the class, right?

We have no idea.

I agree we have no idea but I think you'll only be notified if your kid is a 'close contact'.

They said today that parents in the class will be told there is a positive and the school community will also be told there has been a case within the school

Who is "they" and where?

https://twitter.com/perrystein/status/1428026865252438022?s=21

There was a news conference today. You can watch the whole thing or just read through Perry Stein’s tweets

Thank you! Very useful.

[Anonymous]

Quarantine sounds like it won't be the whole class, just "close contacts".

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Also there are now 98 kids in the virtual academy.

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Anonymous wrote:Honestly I don't think they will quarantine whole classes this year like they did last year. The new CDC guidance allows the possibility that if one kid tests positive it's possible that no kids will have to quarantine (depending on how lunch is interpreted).

OSSE has stated that the close contact rules do not apply to lunch. If your child is sitting within 6 feet of a student who later tests positive your child will have to quarantine (unless vaccinated). Ferebee stated today all lunchrooms will have assigned seating.

But "close contact" is still someone within 6 feet for longer than 15 minutes without a mask. It's not that the "close contact" rules don't apply at all (which would mean that, say, the entire cafeteria must quarantine from one kid testing positive), it's just that they are different whether you are masked or not (in school).

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Anonymous wrote:Honestly I don't think they will quarantine whole classes this year like they did last year. The new CDC guidance allows the possibility that if one kid tests positive it's possible that no kids will have to quarantine (depending on how lunch is interpreted).

OSSE has stated that the close contact rules do not apply to lunch. If your child is sitting within 6 feet of a student who later tests positive your child will have to quarantine (unless vaccinated). Ferebee stated today all lunchrooms will have assigned seating.

But "close contact" is still someone within 6 feet for longer than 15 minutes without a mask. It's not that the "close contact" rules don't apply at all (which would mean that, say, the entire cafeteria must quarantine from one kid testing positive), it's just that they are different whether you are masked or not (in school).

Agree but I have little faith that only 1 or 2 kids are going to be positive. I think the first month there are going to be lots of kids out (no matter if it is class quarantine or not). Lunch only exacerbates the problem.

[Anonymous]

I might be in the minority here but I predict that there will be relatively few cases, and even fewer quaratines, thanks in part to maskings and the relatively high level of vaccination in this area.

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Anonymous wrote:I might be in the minority here but I predict that there will be relatively few cases, and even fewer quaratines, thanks in part to maskings and the relatively high level of vaccination in this area.

Tha vaccination rate is abysmal.

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Anonymous wrote:I might be in the minority here but I predict that there will be relatively few cases, and even fewer quaratines, thanks in part to maskings and the relatively high level of vaccination in this area.

Tha vaccination rate is abysmal.

Depends on the ward.

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Anonymous wrote:I hate to say it, but I'm grateful for my boring but flexible mommy track job right now. Working parents are going to be totally left holding the bag and it's going to be really tough for families without one parent working a flexible job. Especially since we'll have to presumably supervise distance learning and won't be able to throw them outside or in front of the TV whenever it's time for a Zoom call.

I'll probably be saying no to timed distance learning classes if they even have them. We'll do something, just not on the school's schedule. I'm pretty done with that from last year.

Do you mean live zooms and such? We homeschools last year. I'd like my child back but really want to avoid rote learning on command... Would prefer doing our own thing anytime that came up.

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Anonymous wrote:I might be in the minority here but I predict that there will be relatively few cases, and even fewer quaratines, thanks in part to maskings and the relatively high level of vaccination in this area.

Tha vaccination rate is abysmal.

Depends on the ward.

Yes. Super awesome vaccine numbers. I can see why you think we have relatively high levels of vaccination


https://coronavirus.dc.gov/data/vaccination


We aren’t even close to MoCo and it’s embarrassing

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Anonymous wrote:I might be in the minority here but I predict that there will be relatively few cases, and even fewer quaratines, thanks in part to maskings and the relatively high level of vaccination in this area.

I agree with you about 12+.

But kids under 12 are not vaccinated and delta is going to be passed around at school.

Also community spread in DC is back up, 2/3 of the way to the Jan 2021 peak.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Also there are now 98 kids in the virtual academy.

0.2% of DCPS students.