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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Just watch, by Mid-August, every other county in Maryland will have announced that they will be open in the fall but MoCo will not have made an announcement.  Residents will be enraged, Elrich will be shamed, and schools will open.  Mark my words.  Our leadership is a joke.[/quote]

They have to announce by 8/14.[/quote]

What is special about that day?[/quote]

Clearly none of y’all screaming online bothered to actual read the state plan.

Page 5 says “LOCAL SCHOOL SYSTEMS MUST HAVE THEIR RECOVERY PLANS COMPLETED AND POSTED TO THEIR WEBSITES BY AUGUST 14, 2020. THE MSDE WILL REVIEW ALL LOCAL RECOVERY PLANS TO ENSURE THAT THE PLANS INCLUDE AND ADDRESS ALL REQUIREMENTS FOR OPENING SCHOOLS.“

Read the freaking plan before you start throwing around your opinion on what MCPS can do and should do. They have to follow state guidelines. Don’t like the state guidelines, move to Virginia, PA, DE, or WV.[/quote]

Read the plan and the CDC guidance and think about how you accomplish the CDC recommendations in the buildings and in transporting students. Then consider equity issues, and think about how to best promote mitigation measures, including sanitizing, social distancing, and limiting the size and scope of the physical interactions within a school day (or how to keep groups small), obtaining appropriate PPE. as well as contact tracing, and then offer your opinions. Then think about what how to fund it, including what should be cut in order to do what needs to be done.

No one thinks in person school isn't important. Think about ways to do it safely, not just for staff, teachers, and students, but for the entire community. in other words, move past your "hardly any kids die" thinking, and think of how we can open safely with measure in place to prevent the virus from spreading both within the school community and the community at large. Keeping people in smaller groups to  minimize exposure and allow isolation and contact tracing is good. Putting adults and students into small spaces without social distancing for extended periods of time is bad. Figure it out, offer ideas, or stop complaining. School administrators are not able to proceed based on the assumption that this is just like the flu. Let that go. It's not. Also, they aren't public health experts. If you have innovative ideas, offer them up.

I just completed the required parent survey for our county. It was hard to answer the questions in a meaningful way because so much is unknown. One of the questions was how you would handle transportation if schools reopened in person - bus, walking, or driving. Walking is out of the question, as our high school is 9 miles away. Bus or driving? Who knows? I can't tell you that because I don't know what my other kids' school will be doing, I don't know when or if I will have to return to the office, and I don't know when my husband's business will be able to expand its operations. You can't reopen based on the expectation that more than half the school population with drive kids to school when parents don't know what our professional lives will look like in the fall. The districts will have to have staff in place so they almost have to assume that everyone will come to school on buses as usual. The same is true for parents who expressed interest in doing all virtual learning. They might say that now but change their minds by August. Or their work situation might change to make it impossible to do virtual school. So many variables.

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