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People.

Relax.

Kids don't naturally come up to teachers and say they've had a little bit of diarrhea. As long as symptoms are mild and they can manage on their own, teachers will not be informed, and nothing is going to happen. For better or for worse, depending on your point of view :-)

It's only if your child is seriously ill that the school will realize something is up and will trigger this whole Covid protocol. No teacher in their right mind will break the glass for a random cough. Understand that beyond the words of the policy, we're dealing with people and their non-robot judgement!

So lots of Covid cases, colds, food poisoning, asthma, allergies, will NOT get identified. The serious cases will be, and for chronic sufferers of asthma and allergies, like my son, I'm sure they'll be understanding, with or without a doctor's letter.
Delta will merely be dampened, because all asymptomatic and low-symptom cases will continue to circulate and spew.

Everything you wrote has already proved to be inaccurate this week.

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Ha. You're funny. The new policy hasn't been applied yet. The cases of quarantine and isolation we've had were triggered by positive tests reported to the school. Not symptom-based identification.

And the reason we've had the numbers of cases we've had, is because we're in a Delta surge. What did you expect?

MCPS is desperately trying to not close schools entirely.

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WRONG! This policy has been in effect all week. Multiple classes have already been quarantined based on a single symptom, including at my kids school.[/quote]

Calm down. There were a couple of cases based on symptoms, but most were Covid positives.

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You calm down. No there were not at “couple” cases. I know of at least six. Conversely I haven’t heard of a single case that was based on a positive test. Not one. Obviously this is anecdotal, but so is your statement.[/quote]

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