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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]It's sad when DCPS has a better plan than MCPS on returning to school. MCPS won't even have tests available for  a couple of weeks and does not accurately report cases  anyway. Why can DCPS require testing and vaccination, while MCPS is still asking nicely to test if you feel like it and vaccinate if you're willing? Que Sera, Sera.[/quote]

+1 DCPS is requiring proof of a negative test. The at home test kits are being distributed on Monday.  School resumes on Wednesday to give time for distribution and to record results.

MCPS needs another 2 weeks to get test kits from the Montgomery County Government.  Even then, it’s the honor code for students to report positive results. Students don’t have to show negative results to stay in school.

And forget about random testing of students. MCPS can’t even test students who had close contact with COVID classmates.

It’s a sh$t show in MCPS. I hope they all enjoyed their vacations.[/quote]

Yes. It’s lip service and it happens a lot with Covid. My office has had a vaccine mandate for ages, yet continues to appeal to staff to upload proof of vaccination. I uploaded my vaccination card to parentvue so that I could volunteer at my kids’ schools, but I sincerely doubt it was checked. I suspect that I could have volunteered either way. It’s an honor system.

You realize the DCPS model is an honor system model, too, don’t you? There’s nothing stopping parents from just opening the test kit, but neever actually swabbing a nose.[/quote]

DCPS students have to have results uploaded by Wednesday. If results are not uploaded, they cannot enter the building and will be tested on-site. [/quote]

I thought they said they weren’t going to do on-site testing. Did that change?[/quote]

I have not seen where the on-site testing is canceled.[/quote]

But where did you see that they were ever doing it? I just saw remarks that they intended turn students away if their parents didn’t at least fake the test.[/quote]

Press conference with mayor. DCPS person said they will get a test kit on Wednesday if they did not upload results. I guess that doesn't necessarily mean on-site testing. Either way, they can't enter the building without proof of a negative test result.[/quote]

Have you ever had a child in the DCPS system? We have been in both EOTP and WOTP schools, and there is no way that they have the capacity to actually follow through with this and figure out who has not uploaded a negative photo and then keep them from entering buildings. It is going to be a shitshow if they try, but more likely they won’t — they will just let everyone who shows up in. [/quote][/quote]

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