SSMA covid-related closure

[Anonymous]

I don't know if it's better or worse they are now still staying closed for one day but not for more than that. What a true f&$&% mess. Such disrespect for actual protocol and parents and students.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I don't know if it's better or worse they are now still staying closed for one day but not for more than that. What a true f&$&% mess. Such disrespect for actual protocol and parents and students.

What is their actual protocol? I'm assume they, like other DCPS and Charter did a parent ed or paper handout out on "If A- then B" etc. I know all charters (and I'm assuming DCPS need to not just have a COVID health mitigation plan, but then a learning when in isolation plan.

[Anonymous]

SS parent, OP of the other thread (sorry about that, I'm a noob). Their handbook says what the OSSE flowchart and Q&A basically say, which only "count" a positive case IN the school (Teacher/Staff/Student) in the matrix of deciding isolation vs dismissal. I also found this from the LEA/OSSE form all schools needed to complete: “For an isolated case where an unvaccinated student is exposed to COVID -19 outside of school,
families will notify the school of the exposure through the school’s Point of Contact. If the student has not yet tested positive, SSMA will follow OSSE guidelines and monitor the situation closely. If the student has tested positive, SSMA will notify the school community of the positive case along with our response to the case depending on guidance received from DC Health. “

Sounds like what so many of you have said--they are either lazy/overly concerned and mad at the mayor for requiring in-person and looking for any reason to close or someone had a complete freak-out overreaction and they are trying to walk it back. They have a Zoom scheduled for Friday to "clarify." *eyeroll*

They are still closed today but doing a deep cleaning. Why, I have no idea, because no one with a confirmed positive case or even symptoms was even IN the building, AND we now know this is less likely to spread via surfaces, AND couldn't they have done the deep cleaning YESTERDAY when they were ALSO CLOSED?

[Anonymous]

I would be surprised if any deep cleaning is actually occurring.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Never forget that charters do not have to operate under the same rules as public schools

Oooooooh. Starting your post with "never forget" was a really impactful move! How very ominous.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Kids are going to get COVID. And you know what? They're going to be totally fine. I'd be surprised if my kids didnt already have it, and we never knew it.

45 kids died of Covid in the past 2 weeks.

Is that what you read on your moron friend's blog? Weird how every doctor says kids belong in school.

I always love when idiots overreact to something they believe to be an overreaction without even the smallest sense of irony. You could have argued that the risk-reward was well worth it. You could have argued that the deaths were in schools without mask requirements. Instead you just assumed away the data you didn't like...like a child.

Seriously, do you get the irony that you accused someone of citing a Facebook hoax and bad info without having any actual data to disprove what was stated? And did you notice the citation later provided?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:A few years ago I was part of a cohort of parents that worked really hard to affect positive change at SSMA. We met with “Dr” R, had meetings with the board, circulated petition letters among parents, worked with OSSE and the charter school board. It was all for nothing. The SSMA BOD rubber stamps any decision made by Regina. She makes decisions randomly and vindictively and has absolutely no one to hold her accountable. She’s driven away many excellent teachers and staff. I say this all to demonstrate that the ridiculousness of this situation wrt secondary exposure is just the latest example of how things are done at SSMA. It won’t get better. I’m very sorry.

Serious question: Does she really not have a Doctorate? As someone without a horse in this race I'd say that the sarcastic/derisive quotations undermine your credibility.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Kids are going to get COVID. And you know what? They're going to be totally fine. I'd be surprised if my kids didnt already have it, and we never knew it.

45 kids died of Covid in the past 2 weeks.

Is that what you read on your moron friend's blog? Weird how every doctor says kids belong in school.

I always love when idiots overreact to something they believe to be an overreaction without even the smallest sense of irony. You could have argued that the risk-reward was well worth it. You could have argued that the deaths were in schools without mask requirements. Instead you just assumed away the data you didn't like...like a child.

Seriously, do you get the irony that you accused someone of citing a Facebook hoax and bad info without having any actual data to disprove what was stated? And did you notice the citation later provided?

DP, but the data are not correct. The original poster read the chart incorrectly.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Kids are going to get COVID. And you know what? They're going to be totally fine. I'd be surprised if my kids didnt already have it, and we never knew it.

45 kids died of Covid in the past 2 weeks.

Is that what you read on your moron friend's blog? Weird how every doctor says kids belong in school.

I always love when idiots overreact to something they believe to be an overreaction without even the smallest sense of irony. You could have argued that the risk-reward was well worth it. You could have argued that the deaths were in schools without mask requirements. Instead you just assumed away the data you didn't like...like a child.

Seriously, do you get the irony that you accused someone of citing a Facebook hoax and bad info without having any actual data to disprove what was stated? And did you notice the citation later provided?

It's because that didn't actually happen. The moron was the person who read the data wrong. And here you are defending them without actually having read anything either.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Kids are going to get COVID. And you know what? They're going to be totally fine. I'd be surprised if my kids didnt already have it, and we never knew it.

45 kids died of Covid in the past 2 weeks.

Is that what you read on your moron friend's blog? Weird how every doctor says kids belong in school.

I always love when idiots overreact to something they believe to be an overreaction without even the smallest sense of irony. You could have argued that the risk-reward was well worth it. You could have argued that the deaths were in schools without mask requirements. Instead you just assumed away the data you didn't like...like a child.

Seriously, do you get the irony that you accused someone of citing a Facebook hoax and bad info without having any actual data to disprove what was stated? And did you notice the citation later provided?

It's because that didn't actually happen. The moron was the person who read the data wrong. And here you are defending them without actually having read anything either.

Most schools in this country weren't even open during the period when those 45 kids died. Also, let's put a denominator on this: There are 73 million kids in this country.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Kids are going to get COVID. And you know what? They're going to be totally fine. I'd be surprised if my kids didnt already have it, and we never knew it.

45 kids died of Covid in the past 2 weeks.

Is that what you read on your moron friend's blog? Weird how every doctor says kids belong in school.

I always love when idiots overreact to something they believe to be an overreaction without even the smallest sense of irony. You could have argued that the risk-reward was well worth it. You could have argued that the deaths were in schools without mask requirements. Instead you just assumed away the data you didn't like...like a child.

Seriously, do you get the irony that you accused someone of citing a Facebook hoax and bad info without having any actual data to disprove what was stated? And did you notice the citation later provided?

It's because that didn't actually happen. The moron was the person who read the data wrong. And here you are defending them without actually having read anything either.

Most schools in this country weren't even open during the period when those 45 kids died. Also, let's put a denominator on this: There are 73 million kids in this country.

Most of those kids probably didn't die in the last two weeks. The reporting just included two extra states over the past two weeks. So the TOTAL numbers of covid deaths in those two states (cumulative, since the pandemic began) got added to the U.S. total, making it seem like it jumped by 45 over two weeks.

[Anonymous]

Someone mentioned upthread that there would be a zoom call to discuss the closure. Has that happened yet? I'm curious how the school leadership will explain what happened.

[Anonymous]

Did they really close the school for "deep cleaning" due to a secondary contact?? That's like so ... March 2020. Sheesh.

Did SSMA open at all last year? This really shows the advantages of having opened in T4 or even at all - people argued at the time that it was "just a few weeks so why bother?" But it's clear that a lot of learning went on in those weeks.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Did they really close the school for "deep cleaning" due to a secondary contact?? That's like so ... March 2020. Sheesh.

Did SSMA open at all last year? This really shows the advantages of having opened in T4 or even at all - people argued at the time that it was "just a few weeks so why bother?" But it's clear that a lot of learning went on in those weeks.

I do not think they did.

I agree some schools are acting really nuts about all this. Our summer camp also closed for the secondary exposure of one person who was not in the end positive.

[Anonymous]

How/why would school know about a secondary exposure?
Important lesson here- don't go telling the school about things that are irrelevant to the safety of the school