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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Are they still advising isolating at home for 5 days with Covid?  Because at our BTS night the presentation was really driving home the new program to combat absences and how kids will get flagged missing 9 or more days, how even missing a couple days per month is associated with reading struggles, etc.  But one bout with Covid could potentially keep a kid out for over half that alone.  Just seems to be a bit of a disconnect.[/quote]

No. [b]Just keep them home when they have a fever.[/b][/quote]

This.  I'll keep my kid home with a fever or a sore throat/bad cough.

[b]I'm not testing[/b] and I'm not keeping my kid home for a simple cough/runny nose.  [/quote]

You can still get tests for free at the library.[/quote]

DP. I am in favor of testing if you have symptoms, but I think more people would test if tests were free and easy to access. People like the PP act as if there are unlimited tests available 24 hours a day at public libraries. Here is today's updated list, and you will see that tests are not available at many locations:

[url]https://www.montgomerycountymd.gov/library/covid-test-kits.html[/url]

Aspen Hill - NO KITS - 9/14/2023
Brigadier General Charles E. McGee - NO KITS - 9/14/2023
Chevy Chase - NO KITS - 9/14/2023
Connie Morella - ENDED - 9/14/2023
Damascus
Davis - NO KITS - NO MASKS - 9/14/2023 - NO KITS - NO MASKS - 9/14/2023
Gaithersburg - NO KITS - 9/14/2023
Germantown - NO KITS - 9/14/2023
Kensington Park - NO KITS - 9/14/2023
Little Falls - NO KITS - 9/14/2023
Long Branch
Maggie Nightingale
Marilyn J. Praisner
Olney
Potomac
Quince Orchard - NO KITS - 9/14/2023
Rockville Memorial - NO KITS - 9/14/2023
Twinbrook
Wheaton - NO KITS - NO MASKS - 9/14/2023
White Oak - NO KITS - 9/14/2023
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It amazes me rich people will not pay for test kits or masks.  Leave the free ones for people who cannot afford it.  Some schools still have them.  [/quote]

Don’t worry the rich people aren’t taking these. Because they’re not testing anymore. Feee or otherwise. [/quote]

Truly pathetic.  It’s going around our school.  Fortunately the kids are decent enough to text each other to test and be careful.  [/quote]

Illnesses “go around” everywhere. And they always will.[/quote]

Because people like you are spreading it.  [/quote]

How long do you "quarantine" for the common cold, which for many kids and adults is much more debilitating than COVID-19, and without a vaccine.  And what of those lingering coughs associated with post nasal than can last a couple weeks? That's what I thought.

No fever + normal energy = child goes to school [/quote]

Covid is  not a cold but you keep them home for both.   You don’t always have a fever with Covid.  The vaccine does not stop Transmission.  [/quote]

you keep them home with a common cold until no symptoms? please

post vaccination + natural immunity, for the vast majority of people and certainly those under 75, it is now a cold and many times not as bad as a common cold [/quote]

Yes, I do.    It’s spreading like wildfire in our school.   Mine stay home for cold, flu and covid.  They have missed a week of school so far because of people like you.  [/quote]

The average child gets the common cold 6-12 times a year.  The average length of symptoms is 10 days (assuming some at 7 and some with a lingering cough for 2 weeks +).  So you keep the kids at home with the common cold 10 * 8 = 80 days a year waiting for all symptoms to be gone?  Seems like it's people like YOU who are the reason your kids are missing so much school.  Common cold, like COVID, are here to stay and are inevitable.  You're doing a massive disservice to your children just with your psychotic stance on the common cold, let alone all the other diseases out there.  Seek help [/quote]

You need to seek help to learn to be a responsible parent.  I am not sending a sick miserable kid to school.  They aren’t learning anything and I don’t need free babysitting.   I also want to teach my kids to be respectful people and not spread illness that could do a lot of harm to others.  No wonder kids are struggling given their parents cannot be bothered.  [/quote]

Kids aren't learning anything when they are kept home 80 days a year for the common cold. They struggle behind they're out of school for 25% of the year like yours apparently, when they should be there if they feel good and just have minor symptoms[/quote]

Why do you assume mine are behind or struggling?   Now, if you kept yours home sick so my family would not get sick, mine could be in school.  [/quote]

Because apparently they’re home all the time sick. How did you function in 2019?  I feel bad for your kids. [/quote]

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