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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]School is only open right now on a limited basis with summer school and there is no MCPS testing and we are still having positives in MCPS.  This doesn't include summer camps or anywhere else where young kids go.

https://www.montgomeryschoolsmd.org/coronavirus/dashboard/

So, where is this 11 and under bubble that protects them?[/quote]

By not testing they can ignore the majority of cases that are asymptomatic in children and pretend everything is just fine.

Even for vaccinated people there are longterm complications from COVID that are very serious.[/quote]

Pretending everything is fine is my plan because the long term complications you speak of are rare (minuscule perhaps) for vaccinated healthy kids and their families and teachers. The long term complications of year 3 of disrupted school not so much. But, mcps knew you would exist and created virtual academy for you so please go do that. You will never convince me to worry and I will never convince you not to worry so we can each go to our respective camps with the solutions mcps has provided for 2021/2022. [/quote]

Same here.[/quote]

Anyone with concerns should lobby for more spots in Virtual Academy.

The rest of us are happy to send our kids back in person, delta/lambda/omega/theta/whatever variant be damned.  [/quote]

The real problem isn't whether you're happy to send your kids back but the impact this has on the community. I think that's the key thing that so many people miss. What we each do affects everyone![/quote]

Community impacts don’t just include covid. They also include education, mental health, functionality of family unit, ability of a parent to work if they want to etc. it’s a soup of costs and benefits. Not just one thing. Kids in school may raise community covid rates a little bit more than if school was closed but a lot of other adverse community impacts will be avoided. I can’t believe we are still debating that sending six year olds to school. The truth is we aren’t. It’s over. You lost. Every district in the country including LA, San Fran, DC has an iron clad resolve to send kids back. Thank god. Some aren’t offering virtual even. MCPS is so you are lucky. [/quote]

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