Reply to When will quarantine / mandatory absence from school stop for Covid?

Forum Index » Montgomery County Public Schools (MCPS)

Reply to "When will quarantine / mandatory absence from school stop for Covid? "

Subject:

Emoticons





More smilies

Text Color: Font: Close Marks

[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Depends on what you mean. The isolation policies will probably technically remain for quite a while, but people will stop testing. If you don’t know it’s Covid, then you can follow the regular rules for illnesses.[/quote]
Pretty sure a lot of people have stopped testing for minor illness.[/quote]

OP here - I agree with you and it’s part of what prompted my question. My son is part of the testing pool at school but we also test our son and ourselves when we have cold-like symptoms. I don’t want to spread Covid. But when I shared this with a couple of parents from my son’s school they said not only are they not part of the testing pool but that they long since stopped testing at home for what one parent called “sniffles”. When I asked if they were concerned about Covid they both said that unless the symptoms were severe, in which case they’d keep their kids home, their kids went to school. On one hand that’s frustrating because that’s how Covid spreads but at the same time, my son had what was essentially “the sniffles” and missed a whole week of school. [/quote]

NP - that’s the rub, OP.  The policies around isolation are, IMO, too restrictive based on the severity of illness we see in the overwhelming majority of kids.  And now that vaccines and therapeutics are available for adults, it’s hard to argue for restrictions this substantial.  We pulled our kids from the PCR testing pool at school for just this reason: I don’t want my asymptomatic kids out of school for a week.  I’m done.  We’ve gone along for two years with MCPS’ endless restrictions.  Our kids have had COVID before (caught with a home test) and we’re all vaccinated, we believe in masks, etc.

And, at the same time, MCPS frankly needs to change its priorities.  I don’t think mandatory absence/enforced isolation will change until enough parents start to opt out of random testing.  At this point, they’re encouraging parents not to test for “the sniffles.”[/quote]

I agree with you and while one week with a kid who was bouncing off the walls at home because he basically felt totally fine was doable, it’s not something I want for him or us. I don’t work from home anymore and neither does DH. I absolutely take time off if my child is seriously ill and so does DH. But staying home from work for this was frustrating and it wouldn’t be sustainable for us if this is a regular thing. [/quote]

Its not about you, its about public health and your child is sick.[/quote][/quote]

Options

	Disable HTML in this message
	Disable BB Code in this message
	Disable smilies in this message

Review message

Search Recent Topics Hottest Topics