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Anonymous wrote:In our magnet school (Poolesville High School) the options at the beginning of the school year was either to do a non-magnet virtual program from MCPS or be in school.

I am now watching the appalling way COVID has spread in our school. Why was Hybrid not a solution from the get go? It would have allowed many students to remain at home and not miss out anything, and other students who were able to attend or needed to attend to remain healthy.

Because parents put up a huge fit about hybrid.

Teachers are the ones that refused to do concurrent. Instead they just wanted to do Zoom rooms.

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Anonymous wrote:They don’t.

Does MCPS have plans to address this? They're going to get a lot of students testing positive with their surveillance testing (symptomatic or not). How will all of these kids stay caught up in class?

Our high school is not doing surveillance testing. I couldn’t even get my child tested at school after he had a close contact (several classes of contact) with a friend who had COVID.

Anonymous wrote:In our magnet school (Poolesville High School) the options at the beginning of the school year was either to do a non-magnet virtual program from MCPS or be in school.

I am now watching the appalling way COVID has spread in our school. Why was Hybrid not a solution from the get go? It would have allowed many students to remain at home and not miss out anything, and other students who were able to attend or needed to attend to remain healthy.

That is a damn good question. My magnet kid has been quarantined twice. (both times negative but both times missed school.) They are vaccinated. They also have asthma. While it's safe for them to be at school that only applies when other people are behaving safely. Im appalled at the toothlessness of quarantine policies. In appalled at the human behavior. I'm appalled that our only recourse is to let them go virtual into classes that won't meet their needs

Anonymous wrote:In our magnet school (Poolesville High School) the options at the beginning of the school year was either to do a non-magnet virtual program from MCPS or be in school.

I am now watching the appalling way COVID has spread in our school. Why was Hybrid not a solution from the get go? It would have allowed many students to remain at home and not miss out anything, and other students who were able to attend or needed to attend to remain healthy.

Because parents put up a huge fit about hybrid.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:They don’t.

Does MCPS have plans to address this? They're going to get a lot of students testing positive with their surveillance testing (symptomatic or not). How will all of these kids stay caught up in class?

Are you asking about kids who are isolating or quarantining?

A kid who is quaranting is doing so because they refused to vaccinate. That's the natural consequence. The school system owes them nothing.

If a student is isolating, then they should get some kind of support, like clarity about assignments. It's no different than kids who were out for medical reasons prior to covid.

Vaccinated students also quarantine. It's either that or they infect more

In our magnet school (Poolesville High School) the options at the beginning of the school year was either to do a non-magnet virtual program from MCPS or be in school.

I am now watching the appalling way COVID has spread in our school. Why was Hybrid not a solution from the get go? It would have allowed many students to remain at home and not miss out anything, and other students who were able to attend or needed to attend to remain healthy.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:They don’t.

Does MCPS have plans to address this? They're going to get a lot of students testing positive with their surveillance testing (symptomatic or not). How will all of these kids stay caught up in class?

Are you asking about kids who are isolating or quarantining?

A kid who is quaranting is doing so because they refused to vaccinate. That's the natural consequence. The school system owes them nothing.

If a student is isolating, then they should get some kind of support, like clarity about assignments. It's no different than kids who were out for medical reasons prior to covid.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:They don’t.

Does MCPS have plans to address this? They're going to get a lot of students testing positive with their surveillance testing (symptomatic or not). How will all of these kids stay caught up in class?

PP is a troll and doesn’t actually know.

HS teacher had to identify one of their planning periods to be available on zoom for any quarantined students. Students in quarantine are sent an email with the zoom links and period to see each teacher. Teachers are on zoom for that period in case a student shows up. I’ve had about half of my ~students who’ve been in quarantine over the past two months actually show up a couple of times.

They don't, you homeschool.

There is nothing. I asked what happens if my vaccinated HS son is exposed at school and has to quarantine.
I was told if he has no symptoms he can be at school.

And that recklessness is how it has spread so quickly. We know vaccinated kids are spreading Covid.

I asked if he had to be home, what resources are available. I was told they are not expected to do work while out if school. Even if they feel well.

What a mess and it creates so much stress when they come back.

MCPS dropped the ball here big time.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:They don’t.

Does MCPS have plans to address this? They're going to get a lot of students testing positive with their surveillance testing (symptomatic or not). How will all of these kids stay caught up in class?

What makes you think they care? Some schools pool together their resources so that teachers can trade-off interacting with the quarantines students. in other schools simply don’t bother having teachers support students in quarantine. It is common for them not to hear from the teachers at all for 10 days.

Anonymous wrote:They don’t.

Our school did a great job ensuring DC kept up.

Anonymous wrote:They don’t.

Does MCPS have plans to address this? They're going to get a lot of students testing positive with their surveillance testing (symptomatic or not). How will all of these kids stay caught up in class?

They don’t.

If your HS kids have had to quarantine, how have they been able to access their classes and stay up to date with the curriculum?