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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Apparently the new “guidance” confirms what we’ve been hearing. If a child has “symptoms” associated with COVID (could be a runny nose) their close contacts (this has been interpreted as the entire class in many schools) are quarantined for ten days.

This is completely ludicrous and not based in science or CDC guidelines.[/quote]

hey can't know with 100% certainty which kids within an overcrowded classroom came into contact over the course of several hours so quarantining the entire class is the best effort to follow CDC guidelines. I'm sorry you feel that isn't convenient but they are concerned with child safety. [/quote]

It's absolutely not a best effort to follow CDC guidelines. In fact, it's the definition of a half-assed effort. They could enforce and monitor seating charts like other school districts so that quarantining can be targeted and effective. Having a classroom held hostage by a single kid exhibiting a single symptom evaluated by a school nurse is the height of poor management. What is going to change in the next few years? The virus is going nowhere. So this just how MCPS is going to conduct business now? The blowback is going to be fierce given how out of step they are regionally.[/quote]

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