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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Just so we're all clear here:

The CURRENT criteria for reopening school is community spread metrics not vaccination rates among teachers.

Schools will still be subject to following CDC guidelines of wearing a mask and social distancing. The guidelines are not going to change in the immediate future.

Kids are not going to be vaccinated in the immediate future either.

If you or your children cannot follow the CDC guidelines then maybe you should homeschool.

Mcps has not made any kind of public statement about how they're going to handle contagious children at school but they're going to have to have some kind of plan in place. unfortunately parents will either knowingly or unknowingly send contagious children to school and then either refuse to pick them up or not be able to pick them up immediately

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MCPS will not be doing regular COVID testing or testing at all.  [b]They will not be doing temperature checks or any type of risk mitigation.  [/b]They are not enforcing masks.  They don't have enough sinks in every school to promote hand washing.

Going back is not based off teachers getting vaccinated but community spread.  Without kids being vaccinated, there is a huge risk of spreading it to both students and families.  Teachers can also be carriers even if vaccinated.

The issue is those pushing reopening are generally ones who don't care about the community spread and will send their kids to school sick.

Instead of telling those of us concerned to homeschool, grow up, use birth control as you cannot handle the kids you have and hire help.[/quote]

Where did you get this information? I am very concerned that there won’t be temperature checks or health screenings like there are at day care or  a doctor office. [/quote]

Mcps has said that they would not be doing temp checks or testing. From a logistical standpoint it creates too much of a bottleneck if you hundreds of kids waiting in line to get their temperature checked and recorded especially if temperature is not a great metric for proving someone's contagious,usually if you get sick you are contagious prior to running a temperature. (If a child is feverish then they obviously should be isolated from their class and picked up from school immediately) but the cons of trying to temperature check every child everyday is not worth it.

I would like to see some kind of random sample testing or something to keep an eye out for asymptomatic spread but again it's a big logistical challenge and you would have to get all parents to consent to having their child tested. [/quote]

There's going to have to be some kind of random testing. I've had multiple kids tell me that a relative is sick with covid and then you see said relative wandering around no mask or isolating from their family. If school was open with the parent know to not send their child to school if they are contagious but asymptomatic? [/quote]

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