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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]How many of you know what a normal number or rate of absences is for your school?[/quote]
Exactly. High presumptuous of someone to obnoxiously post “Source? Proof?” about someone else and then in the same post make an unsubstantiated claim based on zero evidence about what the “typical” number of absences are during flu season.

Get this, people like to stroke their own egos. Shocking, I know. [/quote]

The reference to a "typical" number of absences during cold/flu season was based on a teacher here who provided that as evidence that [i]these numbers are no big deal[/i]. The entire point I was making was that even [b][i][u]IF[/u][/i][/b] that were so, that would not be good.

And "Source? Proof?" was an obnoxious request for proof that teachers who could be back in school today (assuming no snow) were included in the case counts. That's a completely different issue.

When it comes to absence rates, those are guesses, or even if informed, are estimates and averages. We know that we don't know them all to the decimal point. When it comes to what the MCPS policy is on how to count the pre-Jan 3 cases, one should be able to point to a specific policy or communication from MCPS, or even just offer that they are a teacher and that's what they heard from their principal.

It's a bold statement of fact and policy that I don't think anyone has seen anywhere, so yeah, I'd like some form of source. Something, anything. How obnoxious of me.

Maybe we shouldn't be making any vague assumptions about anything at all in gaming this out. But there's a difference between saying something like

"MCPS policy is X"

"If X teachers are usually out, and now we have X teachers out with COVID, then it would stand to reason that..."

But, yanno... DCUM[/quote]

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