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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]In the end I just feel so defeated and betrayed by all of this. I so stupidly trusted them all summer when they promised us over and over again it would be five days a week. I am not a regular complainer at school. We have been nothing but happy with MCPS except for this. It has exposed so much about how they operate on all levels. It just kind of takes my breath away to think of them dropping this on us just before a holiday weekend, with happy kids finishing their first full week of school, to try and bury it. I support strong covid protections but this is so beyond CDC or anyone else. Why not rapid testing?

It’s also just another symptom of how everyone in our country has to be extreme something. In the South it’s raging and kids don’t have to wear masks. Here the rates are still extremely low, even with the spike, and our kids are quarantining because of exposure to one person with one symptom while they were wearing masks.

I really, really thought BOE had wised up. Struck a practical and safe balance for school openings. I was just thinking well, this might be enough to not angrily vote against every BOE member I can find in the next election or three. This week all of my mom friends and I are texting each other about how we cannot wait to vote against every single one of them. Whether they made this decision or not, they still can control it. [/quote]

+1 This!

Also, it sounds like there were maybe 30 or so actual positive cases so far this week. This is not actually a shocking number given the cases in the community. What on earth prompted mcps and dhhs to revise their policy from just a few weeks ago when community transmission was essentially similar? Did they expect zero cases in schools? Do they think their goal is to prevent transmission 100 percent at the expense of educating children full time? [/quote]

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