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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]In their Tuesday press conference, MCPS said they would update the red/yellow/green status for each school on a daily basis (see around the 11 minute mark): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j2OGy_pTZ0I&t=686s

In the[url=https://www.montgomeryschoolsmd.org/departments/publicinfo/community/school-year-2021-2022/Community-Update-20220102-final.html] community update email sent on January 2[/url], they said "To keep families updated, throughout January, all members of the MCPS community will receive community update emails on Thursday afternoons, with the most up-to-date information regarding COVID-19 and the steps we are taking to keep students, staff, families and community members safe."

It's really frustrating that they did neither of these things yesterday.[/quote]

I agree.

And I warned you all before Christmas that this is what we would face if the system didn't pivot to virtual for January. People scoffed, since Omicron is supposed to be milder than Delta, and as usual did not grasp the math that more transmission means a deluge of positive cases and therefore, people out at all levels. Logistics and operations are ALWAYS the Achilles' heel of such organizations. High numbers of Omicron cases was bound to be a mess, since any ordinary stress on the system already leads to a mess at the best of times.

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This.

People decrying this mess (and I agree it's a huge mess!) didn't seem to realize that a mess is what they were in favor of, if they were opposed to a proactive virtual pivot of a few weeks (YES A FEW WEEKS).

I keep banging this drum-- omicron was always gonna omicron. The choice was between a couple/few weeks of virtual proactively or reactively. No other choice. But of course, when you're reactive, you get this kind of mess on top of everything else.

And again:

Because omicron was always gonna omicron, it doesn't matter if you just knew, deep in your heart, that MCPS would take any opportunity for virtual and spin it into months of virtual, because we were always going to have to pivot eventually anyway.

I'm actually now thinking that whole "I didn't support proactive virtual because you can't trust MCPS to keep it to ~2 weeks" argument is actually a sort of (subconscious) misdirect or a proxy or a sort of euphemism for something else. Again, not consciously, but... Hm.

I do want to go on record here and say thank goodness for snow days!!! The one thing that might (?) delay or... maybe in some cases reduce the [i]actual[/i] need for virtual is that this week may have slowed the spread a bit on its own. And in any event, kept kids and staff mostly out of school during the week that case counts were still climbing so high.

I've been saying that a pivot to virtual was inevitable, and I still think it is, but every bit of time we can buy helps that to be less likely and less intensive. It's not quite as if we were closed this week, and certainly 2-4 weeks would be ideal to ride out the worst of omicron, but now in 1-3 weeks we should be in much better shape. I'm glad less exposure and less mishegas happened this week than would have without 3.5 snow days.[/quote]

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