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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Somebody is doing this independently! Check it ou

https://sites.google.com/view/mcpsactivecovidcases/home

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Somebody with an agenda to close schools. The figures are constructed in a way to lead to certain conclusions. The fact X percent of students or staff have Covid is neither evidence of school spread or an indication that an individual school is in “chaos.” I’m sure it will stop being updated once cases decrease.[/quote]

Strongly disagree here. I am for keeping the schools open but not showing accumulated 5-7 days of data is highly misleading. MCPS started with that and then dropped it. You can decide when to close or switch or not close or not switch ... all that, but be transparent about the data which can be seen by families.

Families can decide if they want to send their kids to school. My kids already have gotten covid so I am not worried, but it hardly means that we hide data and force families.[/quote]

But what is it exactly that anyone can conclude from the data that is at all useful for making decisions? If 10% of the students in a school tested positive, I have no idea whether they caught it at school or the mall, and they are isolating at home.[/quote]

For MCPS parents’ purposes, it doesn’t matter where they caught it. What matters is that statistically, 2-3 kids *in every class* have an active covid case. That makes it much more difficult to avoid catching covid than when 2-3 out of every hundred kids has an active case.[/quote]
Kids who test positive aren't in school. Or at least the ones whose parents aren't assholes.[/quote]

Every kid isn’t testing every day. Some kids tested negative on Monday and didn’t test again. Those kids were in school on Monday with kids who did test positive and were contagious. Did you think testing every kid once magically stopped transmission, even retroactively?[/quote]

This is what has me concerned. [/quote]

Anecdotally, I heard that in the UK they do test every single day. At least in some schools. We've been told this isn't possible, but I'm not sure how it's possible to contain tbe spread without doing this. [/quote]

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