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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]There is a FB group called PAGES Coalition that has been urging parents and teachers to submit fake positive results to MCPS to force MCPS to "re-evaluate their contribution to this public health crisis and to re-evaluate their choice for Interim Superintendent." Now we don't know what is real and what is fake.

https://twitter.com/OpenMCPS/status/1479057225586982917[/quote]

I would like PAGES to address this in the group.  [/quote]

I'm in that group, and that was up for a very short period of time.  All the comments were pretty unanimously saying "no, don't do that" and the OP agreed and quickly edited the post to remove that part of the post.  And then the whole post seems to have been deleted.

If anyone did it at all (I doubt it's more than a handful, if that), it's surely balanced out by the underreporting from 1) anti-virtual parents saying "don't report positive cases" (I have seen that going around on Twitter and on here;) 2) families who haven't reported because they don't know about the form or haven't bothered to use it; and 3) people who are positive but don't know they're positive because they haven't tested.   [/quote]

I'm not in that PAGES group, but did see that same post, word-for-word, posted in my FB neighborhood group.

So, I believe you that it was taken down quickly.  But it was definitely up long enough for some people to copy and paste it around the internet.

But, FWIW, I agree with you.  I don't think many people will do that.  But its indicative of the larger problem:  we can't trust those numbers.  At all.

Heck, I've heard some parents complain that the denominators for some schools are even wrong.  That the amount of people in the building is actually might higher, by the hundreds.

It's hard to accept any decisions when you KNOW the data used to make the decision is inaccurate[/quote]

It's getting very close the election-fraud-type discussions here.....

Anyway, did you notice that "green" schools are elementary schools? That's the group that got most recently vaccinated and may have some omicron protection against infection still. Also, some are from economically disadvantaged neighborhoods where it is less likely that somebody has access to a testing center that can deliver a result without having to wait in line for a long time[/quote]

The "green" and many "yellow" schools on the list are high FARMS schools.  I'm going out on a limb here and speculate that the families may not have access to these expensive and hard to find at home rapid tests.  There are barriers and we can see it here in red/yellow/green.  [/quote]

One of the green schools is Bradley Hills.  Pretty much the furthest MCPS school from a FARMS school that I could imagine.  Perhaps these parents are just rigorously testing and actually keeping their kids home.  Chances are it’s a lot of SAH and WFH parents who can easily keep their positive case kids home with them without disruption.[/quote]

I should have said many, not all.  [/quote]

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