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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I wonder if the school nurse there (a health department employee) has been consulted on any of these measures. Doubtful. [/quote]

FCPS has pretty clearly said attendance policies for illness are back to pre-pandemic. The fact that some people on DCUM cannot get used to that idea doesn't change it.[/quote]

Precovid kids still aren’t supposed to come to school when sick, and some children are going to miss due to chronic illness or other issues. Here are all the current reasons your child should stay home: severe coughing, pink eye, diarrhea, vomiting, fever, rash/fever, strep.

[b]Agree this is misplaced.[/b] My children have had low level gunk since the beginning of September and we haven’t missed a day, but we would if we had any of the above symptoms. [/quote]

Disagree.  Yes, kids get sick and should stay home and yes, kids are getting sick more and for longer after covid.

But the big problem is parents who have decided that school is optional and have passed that idea on to their kids.  It's not a low SES idea either, it's across all SES.  It's all over this forum, everywhere.  And [b]it harms kids to miss school.[/b]  [/quote]

So how will kids who missed an entire year and a half of school going to be compensated for the harm they suffered?   Any kid who was school age during the pandemic years has ZERO obligation to adhere to the policies of a system that DENIED them education (and according to you, caused them harm!)[/quote]

You act like every single kid at every single school in every single state in the entire country (and world) wasn't faced with the same pandemic that caused learning loss. [/quote]

Students in southern states attended in person classes during the pandemic and did not have the learning losses associated with remote school.[/quote]

Students in Southern States were already behind students in FCPS and remain behind students in FCPS. They also dealt with a fair amount of disruption as schools closed for 2-3 weeks due to COVID out breaks and switching from in-person to online to in-person. And the death toll was hire in the Southern States so kids might have been in school put they are ar more likely to know people who died from COVID. Some of them ended up with new Teachers because their Teachers died from COVID.

ie Southern Schools were disrupted. They might have caught up a little because FCPS was shut down but they are still behind.

And the private schools in our area were not smooth sailing. Many of the schools offered a hybrid option, which made the classroom weird because kids were online watching the class and participating. The recesses and other activities were very different because of social distancing rules, it was not a normal year. Better then online school but not great.

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