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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Threads like this in late July are so predictable. People calling for school closures and doom are an extremist minority who are detached from reality. It’s like a cult at this point.[/quote]

Unfortunately there are ALOT of parents and public health official as like this in Montgomery County.  Too many.  And they have very loud voices.  Our kids suffered for two years because of these ‘doom and gloom’ parents/public health officials.

I would hope that we know to ignore them by now, but I am not certain and could see schools having issues with closures due to quarantines, etc.  [/quote]

I remember this time last year starting to feel absolute panic/dread that the "DELTA!!!" folks were going to get schools shut down again. Thankfully it turned out my fears were wrong: schools fully reopened and the impact of covid was fairly minimal.  There was a regular trickle of cases at our elementary school, popping up in December, then back down again.   My kid had only one quarantine due to close contact pre-vaccine, and that luckily coincided with Thanksgiving break, so he didn't miss much school.  That missed day actually was very disruptive to him, so I was sure to get him vaxxed so he wouldn't have to quarantine.  Masks came off in March and my kiddo went mask-free for most of the rest of the year.  He was one of the early adopters but by the end of the year masked kids were a small minority.  Teachers and support staff got covid but generally were just gone for a week and then back.  As far as I know, no classrooms had to be closed.

Don't get me wrong - it was a HARD year, but [b]the difficulty was due to recovering from schools being closed, not the impact of covid.  Covid policies did make things harder though[/b] -- the unvaxxed kids were sent to quarantine (ALL black kids, BTW - so racist) so sometimes the teachers tried to simulcast.  My kid had a super hard time readjusting socially/behaviorally, and I do think part of that was masks.

Anyway upshot to me is:  schools are not going to close again, period.  [/quote]

This is SO true.

The issues last year arose from schools being previously closed for longer than they should have.  The issues came from really bad quarantine policies (like vaccinated kids having shorter quarantines, etc).

I hope our county leaders and the BOE have learned from last year and will make better decisions going forward.  [/quote]

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