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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Honestly, the workaround they came up with on short notice seems pretty good to me.

I deal with Zoom capacity at my workplace though (everyone's licenses have capacity up to 1,000, but we have a special shared license up to 3,000 for the 6 - 10 meetings a year we need it for - and the licensing is quite complex so it isn't just "go click a button online and add more capacity"), so I'm sympathetic to this. [/quote]

This is not a "workaround they came up with on short notice". The regional quarantine instructional program has been in place since September. Once cases and quarantine numbers started to skyrocket, no one bothered to figure out whether the program's Zoom licenses would be sufficient to handle the uptick. How can you be sympathetic to elementary school kids who are in quarantine having access to only 30 minutes of reading instruction and 30 minutes of math per day? That's it. 1 hour of school. Sympathetic? It's inexcusable, embarrassing and sad. [/quote]

They wouldn’t have to quarantine if they were vaccinated. [/quote]

Not true - at our elementary school, our principal continued sending letters to the community instructing ALL kids to quarantine regardless of vaccine status if they were a close contact. It wasn't until parents called, complained, asked for the process to be updated for the new guidance did the practice change. Also, if you're vaccinated but have the sniffles, you need to quarantine. Also, if a vaccinated kid is deemed a close contact during an unmasked, high risk activity (i.e. lunch), s/he has to quarantine. Stop blaming parents and kids for the utter failure of MCPS to get even the most basic things right.[/quote]

I’m sorry, this is incorrect. Vaccinated students absolutely do not need to quarantine even after a high risk activity exposure (lunch). Consult the mcps flowchart. You also do not need to quarantine if you are vaccinated and have “the sniffles.” You stay home if you are sick. If you had strep in the before times you would stay home, no zoom, and you’d catch up on your work when you return. This quarantine zoom is literally for kids who are exposed and remain unvaxxed. [/quote]

LOL. Schools aren't following "the flow chart". It's a complete mess. Some are, some aren't. Wake up and check your privilege - have some empathy for those who are being screwed by MCPS incompetence. You have no idea how bad it is. Check the flow chart. Unreal. [/quote]

I was told by my twin's school that one twin who is fully vaccinated did not have to quarantine since they tested negative (At home test and PCR) and they could return to school even though the twin tested positive with the at-home test. They are in the same class and would have had the same exposure so I kept the twin who tested negative home on Tuesday so I could take them to the doctor and get PCR and the school won't excuse it because they did not test positive and only excused the one that tested positive since I choose to keep them home and they told instructed me that they can return to school since they were vaccinated.  They said there is a code in the attendance system for which absences are excused and which are not so it is not true that if you choose to keep a child home due to caution it will be excused.  [/quote]

Be a parent and tell them to how stupid that is. You have twins, they both have it. [/quote]

Actually the other twin had tested negative 3 times.  2 Rapid and 1 PCR.  So not they do not both have it.  No one else in our household has it.  [/quote]

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