PG County covid metrics for in person/hybrid or virtual school

[Anonymous]

Link to document regarding metrics which will move PG County to hybrid or virtual this year for covid19 cases. This document was recently updated and posted:

https://www.pgcps.org/globalassets/featured-pages/coronavirus/docs---coronavirus/key-metrics/prince-georges-county-key-metrics---08-16-21.pdf

[Anonymous]

They are in the "hybrid" category as of 8/16/21. We all may be virtual by September anyway.

[Anonymous]

Interesting. The FAQs state that hybrid will not be offered due to a State requirement.

https://www.pgcps.org/reconnect-pgcps/frequently-asked-questions

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Interesting. The FAQs state that hybrid will not be offered due to a State requirement.

https://www.pgcps.org/reconnect-pgcps/frequently-asked-questions

So confusing

[Anonymous]

OP, Please share the link to the page where this document is posted. I can't find it and while it was recently updated I don't think it applies to this school year.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:OP, Please share the link to the page where this document is posted. I can't find it and while it was recently updated I don't think it applies to this school year.

https://www.pgcps.org/coronavirus/resources/considerations-for-in-person-learning

It was just posted and updated on 8/16/21

[Anonymous]

PGCPS will consider implementation of small group instruction by identified grade levels and/or designated populations of students (i.e special education, English Language learners) when several factors are met such as:

Percent of Positive Cases falls between 5% - 7.9%
Average daily case rate (per 100,000 population) falls between 10 - 49
These are not the sole determining factors but allow us to safely begin consideration for in-person learning.

This is clearly old narrative because it says consideration for in-person learning. They just need to take this whole thing down and put up the most recent recommendations by the CDC and the AAP.
Science evolves and the scientists have said that they did a risk analysis and the benefits of in person learning significantly outweighs the risk from Covid-19.

I appreciate that everyone has to do their own research but unless you have a PhD or MD in one of the appropriate fields, your opinion doesn't really amount to much.
Trust the medical professionals and epidemiologists this is what they are trained for and paid to do. Don't rely on research from social media.
There was just an article in Nature about this.....If I can find it I will post it.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:PGCPS will consider implementation of small group instruction by identified grade levels and/or designated populations of students (i.e special education, English Language learners) when several factors are met such as:

Percent of Positive Cases falls between 5% - 7.9%
Average daily case rate (per 100,000 population) falls between 10 - 49
These are not the sole determining factors but allow us to safely begin consideration for in-person learning.

This is clearly old narrative because it says consideration for in-person learning. They just need to take this whole thing down and put up the most recent recommendations by the CDC and the AAP.
Science evolves and the scientists have said that they did a risk analysis and the benefits of in person learning significantly outweighs the risk from Covid-19.

I appreciate that everyone has to do their own research but unless you have a PhD or MD in one of the appropriate fields, your opinion doesn't really amount to much.
Trust the medical professionals and epidemiologists this is what they are trained for and paid to do. Don't rely on research from social media.
There was just an article in Nature about this.....If I can find it I will post it.

Not OP, but this isn't someone doing their own research. It's posting a link of a PDF that PG posted this week. How is this old or research?

[Anonymous]

This document clearly suggests that they're still following a community metrics-based approach to school. That's out of touch with every other district, really. Also, wouldn't this suggest that schools are only opening in limited capacity on Monday?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:This document clearly suggests that they're still following a community metrics-based approach to school. That's out of touch with every other district, really. Also, wouldn't this suggest that schools are only opening in limited capacity on Monday?

It’s minus 12,000 students that are virtual, right?

[Anonymous]

They posted that document last year but never followed the recommendations.

It also doesn’t follow cdc guidelines and didn’t even back then, it uses daily rate numbers but compared them to the CDCs weekly rate. In reality our county isn’t in the yellow zone as per the CDC we are in the red zone.

[Anonymous]

So now I’ve heard some pgcps teachers will be teaching hybrid again.

[Anonymous]

Thanks OP - really useful!

[Anonymous]

With a daily case rate of 17.4, Prince George's County has a weekly case rate of 17.4 x 7 = 121.8. So we are actually in the "High transmission/Red" indicator, according to the CDC chart on which PGCPS's chart was based.




Source: https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/community/schools-childcare/operation-strategy.html#anchor_1616080121423

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:So now I’ve heard some pgcps teachers will be teaching hybrid again.

I haven't heard any teachers that are doing hybrid. They will either be teaching in person or virtual. I don't think any classroom teacher is doing both at the same time.
I know that some ESOL teachers meet with some students in person and some online but I am pretty sure that those a separate times not concurrent.