MCPS will now send kids home for ten days based on symptoms only

[Anonymous]

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Yes, they should stop griping about MCPS following established CDC guidance.

This particular policy is not CDC guidance.

Stop spreading misinformation. They are following best practices as outlined by the CDC.

Nope. Here is the CDC quarantine guidance for schools.

Close contact: In the K–12 indoor classroom setting, the close contact definition excludes students who were within 3 to 6 feet of an infected student (laboratory-confirmed or a clinically compatible illness) if both the infected student and the exposed student(s) correctly and consistently wore well-fitting masks the entire time.

Except in certain circumstances, people who have been in close contact with someone who has COVID-19 should quarantine. However, the following people with recent exposure may NOT need to quarantine:

People who have been fully vaccinated
People who were previously diagnosed with COVID-19 within the last three months


https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/php/contact-tracing/contact-tracing-plan/appendix.html#contact

That's not what they're doing.

It seems more than plausible that most students would've been within close contact of an infected classmate so sounds like they're following the guidance as well as can be exepected.

[Anonymous]

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In elementary? Yes, they are all over each other. I had three boys in a dog pile while waiting for busses last week. They have zero sense of personal space. This is what 5 days a week for everyone looks like. Without mandatory testing, this is the best we can hope for in terms of catching cases before we have full blown outbreaks.
—k teacher in a school with multiple classes quarantined

A FIFTEEN-MINUTE dog pile?

Common sense that kids are exposed sitting in a classroom for a 7-8 hour day. Come on use the big brain

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:
Yes, they should stop griping about MCPS following established CDC guidance.

This particular policy is not CDC guidance.

Stop spreading misinformation. They are following best practices as outlined by the CDC.

Nope. Here is the CDC quarantine guidance for schools.

Close contact: In the K–12 indoor classroom setting, the close contact definition excludes students who were within 3 to 6 feet of an infected student (laboratory-confirmed or a clinically compatible illness) if both the infected student and the exposed student(s) correctly and consistently wore well-fitting masks the entire time.

Except in certain circumstances, people who have been in close contact with someone who has COVID-19 should quarantine. However, the following people with recent exposure may NOT need to quarantine:

People who have been fully vaccinated
People who were previously diagnosed with COVID-19 within the last three months


https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/php/contact-tracing/contact-tracing-plan/appendix.html#contact

That's not what they're doing.

It seems more than plausible that most students would've been within close contact of an infected classmate so sounds like they're following the guidance as well as can be exepected.

Exactly.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

In elementary? Yes, they are all over each other. I had three boys in a dog pile while waiting for busses last week. They have zero sense of personal space. This is what 5 days a week for everyone looks like. Without mandatory testing, this is the best we can hope for in terms of catching cases before we have full blown outbreaks.
—k teacher in a school with multiple classes quarantined

A FIFTEEN-MINUTE dog pile?

Common sense that kids are exposed sitting in a classroom for a 7-8 hour day. Come on use the big brain

They get exposed, and we have an 86% vaccination rate. That’s how we will get to herd immunity.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

In elementary? Yes, they are all over each other. I had three boys in a dog pile while waiting for busses last week. They have zero sense of personal space. This is what 5 days a week for everyone looks like. Without mandatory testing, this is the best we can hope for in terms of catching cases before we have full blown outbreaks.
—k teacher in a school with multiple classes quarantined

A FIFTEEN-MINUTE dog pile?

Common sense that kids are exposed sitting in a classroom for a 7-8 hour day. Come on use the big brain

Have you read the CDC guidance? Because it does not say what you're saying.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:
Yes, they should stop griping about MCPS following established CDC guidance.

This particular policy is not CDC guidance.

Stop spreading misinformation. They are following best practices as outlined by the CDC.

Nope. Here is the CDC quarantine guidance for schools.

Close contact: In the K–12 indoor classroom setting, the close contact definition excludes students who were within 3 to 6 feet of an infected student (laboratory-confirmed or a clinically compatible illness) if both the infected student and the exposed student(s) correctly and consistently wore well-fitting masks the entire time.

Except in certain circumstances, people who have been in close contact with someone who has COVID-19 should quarantine. However, the following people with recent exposure may NOT need to quarantine:

People who have been fully vaccinated
People who were previously diagnosed with COVID-19 within the last three months


https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/php/contact-tracing/contact-tracing-plan/appendix.html#contact

That's not what they're doing.

3-6 feet? We aren’t social distancing so everyone is within 3-6 ft. Also if someone vomits or is positive then whole class is exposed. Looks like following cdc

Everyone in the whole classroom is within 6 feet of each other? Everyone? Do tell.

Every elementary classroom.

Poorly run ones. Oh, this is MCPS. Yes then, most certainly poorly run ones.

The recommendations don’t say desks have to be socially distanced and so in many cases they aren’t. How is it possible people don’t know this? This was even in the mcps return to school video.

I said 'poorly run'. If the administration said to run the classrooms poorly, I guess the buck can be passed. You don't need to socially distance to have seating charts (classroom and lunch) and have a credible semblance of who does/doesn't need to be quarantined vs. the "whole classroom" broad stroke. Right now, if you're an alumnus of the district...watch out, you could get sucked up into a quarantine.

[Anonymous]

Stop complaining already. You wanted schools open in full as normal, you got it.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Stop complaining already. You wanted schools open in full as normal, you got it.

Yup! This is what you wanted TogetherAgainMCPS, deal with it.

[Anonymous]

And people wonder why staff, teachers, etc. are quitting or jobs are not filled? All the back and forth yelling and shouting wears one down.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

In elementary? Yes, they are all over each other. I had three boys in a dog pile while waiting for busses last week. They have zero sense of personal space. This is what 5 days a week for everyone looks like. Without mandatory testing, this is the best we can hope for in terms of catching cases before we have full blown outbreaks.
—k teacher in a school with multiple classes quarantined

A FIFTEEN-MINUTE dog pile?

Common sense that kids are exposed sitting in a classroom for a 7-8 hour day. Come on use the big brain

They get exposed, and we have an 86% vaccination rate. That’s how we will get to herd immunity.

There is a 0% vaccination rate in Elementary school for students. You may be ok with exposure and covid as you'll just send your sick kid to school but others are not.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I can’t believe you all are still crying about this.
Opt-in testing is a joke (see all of the comments about sending symptomatic kids to school and all those about not opting in) so thank god the health department is trying to mitigate transmission! Jfc, people!! Deal!

If only they had implemented a proper testing program to begin with! Don’t you agree?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:And people wonder why staff, teachers, etc. are quitting or jobs are not filled? All the back and forth yelling and shouting wears one down.

Parents are do a we say, not as we do. They aren't willing to take those jobs for good reason. MCPS should do a hazard pay.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Boo frickety hoo. Get tested.

Nah. Get ready to have your kid sitting home for 10 days!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I can’t believe you all are still crying about this.
Opt-in testing is a joke (see all of the comments about sending symptomatic kids to school and all those about not opting in) so thank god the health department is trying to mitigate transmission! Jfc, people!! Deal!

If only they had implemented a proper testing program to begin with! Don’t you agree?

Testing, social distancing, and other safety precautions But, we got none of that as parents wanted so stop complaining.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

In elementary? Yes, they are all over each other. I had three boys in a dog pile while waiting for busses last week. They have zero sense of personal space. This is what 5 days a week for everyone looks like. Without mandatory testing, this is the best we can hope for in terms of catching cases before we have full blown outbreaks.
—k teacher in a school with multiple classes quarantined

A FIFTEEN-MINUTE dog pile?

Common sense that kids are exposed sitting in a classroom for a 7-8 hour day. Come on use the big brain

But but I bought high quality masks!!