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Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:You do know that unenrolling kids can affect the staffing allocations at your school, right? Then, if the school loses a teaching position, they will have to hire a teacher if a bunch of kids are re-enrolled, potentially meaning your kid will be in an overcrowded class until that position can be filled. At which point you’ll come here and post about the overcrowded classes at your children’s school, won’t you?!
Well how many parents are really going to send their kids in when things go out of control but MCPS still opens no matter what, business at usual? Many parents are going to back down before the state would order MCPS to close.
I am sending my kids every day I am allowed. Just like I did last year (we temp moved in with my sister in Illinois). Every single day. Parents here just need to break the seal on re-entry into the world. In most other places people have masked up and moved on. Covid is officially endemic now.
You are the one who sounds like you're living in a fantasy world. The rest of the world (and sane people in this country) absolutely realize COVID is not an endemic. While people are absolutely eager to get on with their lives, they also have the basic critical thinking skills to understand it isn't over. You sound delusional..while being smug...the worst kind of person. Go back to Chicago.
Except that most likely that is the end game for covid it mutates too much to be eradicated. Expect that we will be getting combo flu/covid shots every year in the near future
Agreed
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:You do know that unenrolling kids can affect the staffing allocations at your school, right? Then, if the school loses a teaching position, they will have to hire a teacher if a bunch of kids are re-enrolled, potentially meaning your kid will be in an overcrowded class until that position can be filled. At which point you’ll come here and post about the overcrowded classes at your children’s school, won’t you?!
Well how many parents are really going to send their kids in when things go out of control but MCPS still opens no matter what, business at usual? Many parents are going to back down before the state would order MCPS to close.
I am sending my kids every day I am allowed. Just like I did last year (we temp moved in with my sister in Illinois). Every single day. Parents here just need to break the seal on re-entry into the world. In most other places people have masked up and moved on. Covid is officially endemic now.
It sounds like you know this, but there is a process by which a disease becomes “officially endemic” and it hasn’t happened…anywhere.
Yet. But CDC is already talking about regular boosters, similar to annual flu shots.
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Talking to a few other parents and realized some of them are going to send their kids and watch what happens. Most have a backup plan that when certain number of cases happen in school, they’ll just pull their kids out. Just wonder how many of us are thinking about this and what metrics you’re comfortable with.
The case count is a LAGGING indicator of how many children in your school have covid. If you're okay with that go for it.
since the spread is exponential we could have a serious crisis on our hands before we know it
I wish that people would stop saying "exponential" when they mean "going up really fast." An exponential function is f(x) = ab^x. Desmos has a great free on-line graphing calculator that will allow you to plug in values of x: https://www.desmos.com/calculator and figure out for yourself why "exponential" doesn't mean that.
I don't understand your argument. A disease with an R0 value greater than one spreads exponentially.
See https://blogs.bmj.com/bmj/2021/07/13/kit-yates-the-dangers-of-allowing-exponential-growth/ ("R tells us the number of new infections each infectious individual might expect to seed in the population during the course of their infectious period. If R is below one then cases will fall, but if R is above one, then cases will rise—exponentially.")
Thank you for bringing up the R0 rate. it was estimated to be between 2-3 for the first round of covid. The new delta variants are at least at R0 5. so for every person that has it, 5 more will be infected...sounds exponential to me.
Also-i have NO CLUE why massive delta spreading is not directly addressed by MCPS. The county's blind insistence on full time in person is not only poor decision-making, it is also not data driven. Education??? Please let's use some critical thinking skills here.
Anonymous wrote:spudmqueen wrote:
+1 this is eroding my trust in MCPS. I hope they consider SOCIAL DISTANCING before declaring all full time school for all
They are not going to declare all full time school for all, because there is the Virtual Academy. For students not in the Virtual Academy, they already declared 100% capacity, 5 days a week, months ago.
Actually it closed in at the end of June. Just before delta got its teeth in the US. And they were underwhelmed by the number of applicants. They anticipated they'd be fuller. And, wow, i didn't know people could predict the future. Sorry I know I'm being snarky but I'm tired of the relentless anxiety of this pandemic (well my anxiety lol).
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Rumors we will know details on Friday from admin. Lots of rumors right now though. Most agree hybrid sucked the most and was ineffective.
That's the issue. Such poor communication by MCPS so it fuels the rumor mill. They should state their plans clearly, even if it's "We'll release our plan on XX date".
Nope nope nope. MCPS is not responsible for DCUM rumormongering. DCUM posters are responsible for DCUM rumormongering.
Its August 9th and school is starting in a few weeks. Its not unreasonable to ask MCPS to provide a plan on how they plan to keep our kids safe and healthy. A good education is great but its not particularly helpful if you have a dead child.
They have provided the plan. Your issue is that you think their plan is inadequate.
Seriously? the plan to pretend Delta isn't 5 times more transmittable? the plan to pretend that kids don't get sick from Covid? Or the "let's be the pilot school in this high risk situation"? Which plan is the one you think they are following?
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Rumors we will know details on Friday from admin. Lots of rumors right now though. Most agree hybrid sucked the most and was ineffective.
That's the issue. Such poor communication by MCPS so it fuels the rumor mill. They should state their plans clearly, even if it's "We'll release our plan on XX date".
Nope nope nope. MCPS is not responsible for DCUM rumormongering. DCUM posters are responsible for DCUM rumormongering.
Its August 9th and school is starting in a few weeks. Its not unreasonable to ask MCPS to provide a plan on how they plan to keep our kids safe and healthy. A good education is great but its not particularly helpful if you have a dead child.
+1 this is eroding my trust in MCPS. I hope they consider SOCIAL DISTANCING before declaring all full time school for all
Anonymous wrote:A year and a half in, has MCPS made any investments in building ventilation?
Yes they have
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Did I miss a meeting or announcement? What is the plan for testing? For lunch? For encouraging vaccinations? How will they handle travel and quarantine and informing people of positive cases? Shouldn't there be a comprehensive district wide plan for all these things?
They likely have several but since it's a moving target haven't committed.
I agree and really hope to get some updates this week--even if the update is that they are still working on plans.
Anonymous wrote:I agree OP, school starts in 3 weeks. They need to share the plan.
I agree. How is MCPS not even providing updates. At the least they could announce they are working on alternatives. Very disappointing.
RATES are increasing, PP. Delta is highly contagious even for the vaccinated. CDC just released some scary data.
I was just posting that. Especially since delta data is finally available.