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Anonymous
Yes. The state board of education requires in-person. MCPS can't cut days, or move to virtual, without adding them back on. The state board now knows how hard it is to get teachers back in the classroom once you shut down schools. Private schools don't have unions. |
Anonymous
The state can decide anything they want. They can change it |
Anonymous
They can, but after the fiasco of last year, they’re not going to let MCPS close schools. |
Anonymous
Really? Why? Do they currently have high case numbers, or is it preemptive? Have they given a specific time frame? |
Anonymous
OK, duh, Google is my friend: https://www.washingtonpost.com/education/2021/12/10/georgetown-prep-outbreak-covid-virtual/ Sounds totally justified in this case (around 30 cases in a 500-person school), and also unrelated to anything in MCPS, since the cases were almost all in their residential program, with no evidence of classroom spread. |
Anonymous
The students were just jealous of MCPS having virtual last year and wanted to try it out. 
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Anonymous
| omicron does kill. UK now has a confirmed omicron death. |
Anonymous
RIP. What is the population of the world? And a single person had no died from omicron. This is insanity. |
Anonymous
Most of world has not been infected by omicron yet. A tiny fraction of a huge number can be very big. |
Anonymous
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7 Covid exposure notifications today at Walter Johnson high school, an all time high. Previous high was last week, 4 notifications in one day. Our middle school hasn't sent more than 2 in a day all year. Immunity wanes. High schoolers are the kids with the earliest vaccine doses and until last week, the 16 and 17 year old could not get boosters. My 16 year old was more than 7 months out (got his this weekend). We also need to increase sequencing capacity, because even though the majority of samples sequenced today in the US are Delta variants, we don't sequence enough to closely follow Omicron spread. It could be that a sudden explosion in cases might be linked to Omicron, since it spreads faster. Even though Omicron is significantly less virulent, even a slight increase in transmission rates could overwhelm our hospital system, since there will be more vulnerable patients needing care within a given period of time. Hospitals operate on very small margins of capacity for reasons of economy, so even a sudden rush on hospitals puts the population in danger, since normal operations (car accidents, strokes, heart attacks) cannot continue. |
Anonymous
DHHS needs to order school nurses to start testing students and staff who are in close contact with a COVID-19 infected person. Otherwise, asymptomatic students and staff continue spreading the virus. I do believe masks are effective in reducing spread, but many students and staff eat together at lunch or socialize with one another outside of school. Case in point, my child knows that there was a party with a few hundred students last weekend and at least one of the attendees is confirmed to have COVID. |
Anonymous
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Anonymous
| Poolesville had 11 cases reported today and one over the weekend. |
Anonymous
It looks like the cases in MCPS are increasing rapidly. This is scary. |
Anonymous
Yes Poolesville is at 34 since the 1st of Dec |