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Anonymous wrote:The OP asked about rules. No, despite what some pp's might want, there is no rule requiring you to keep kids home after their symptoms have improved, nor is there a rule regarding masks.

Send your kid back when they feel better, op.

This isn't true.

Per MCPS guidelines:

At MCPS, masks continue to be voluntary except as required by CDC COVID-19 guidelines for isolation, for individuals who become sick at school or are returning after the minimum 5-day isolation period.

The CDC guidelines for isolation are: If you test positive for COVID-19, stay home for at least 5 days and isolate from others in your home.

After you have ended isolation, when you are feeling better (no fever without the use of fever-reducing medications and symptoms improving),

Wear your mask through day 10.
OR

If you have access to antigen tests, you should consider using them. With two sequential negative tests 48 hours apart, you may remove your mask sooner than day 10.

What isn't true? Guidelines are just recommendations, not rules. There have long been specific exclusion policies based on symptoms-- recently having covid is not among them. You are not required to keep students home once their symptoms improve.

This is the rule we followed. Kept elementary schooler home for 5 days, sent back masked, removed mask on day 9 after 2 negative tests.

It’s easy to do that with an elementary schooler. Keeping a high school or middle school kid out of school for an entire week will mess up grades and be difficult to catch up from. Particularly pointless if they are not sick.

Mine is going to hardest classes via zoom. I would consider sending back only if symptom free only and masked until testing neg. She had a cold and tested neg, then picked up covid, and we're not sure when one turned into the other. So many kids coughing and not masking. Had kids been testing/masking when symptomatic and masking for symptom-free pos, we might have avoided it. I am higher risk and now covid+, despite masking anywhere crowded. Now struggling and a little scared.

The idea that you would equate symptom-free to "not sick" is not accurate. If you send back your kid early, unmasked, for their own benefit, it puts others at risk and is not ok. Same with not testing when kid has symptoms. If we all were more common sense about testing and masking when pos and/or symptomatic and asking for remote learning when sick, we'd have a lot less covid.

Anonymous wrote:5 days out, 5 days with a mask. Page 8-9 https://www2.montgomeryschoolsmd.org/siteassets/district/reopening2023/msdeguide-072423.pdf

This is the correct answer.

Anonymous wrote:What are the current Covid rules? Do I send kid back when better or do we have to wait for 5 or 10 days regardless of symptoms?

You really need to improve your search skills.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The OP asked about rules. No, despite what some pp's might want, there is no rule requiring you to keep kids home after their symptoms have improved, nor is there a rule regarding masks.

Send your kid back when they feel better, op.

This isn't true.

Per MCPS guidelines:

At MCPS, masks continue to be voluntary except as required by CDC COVID-19 guidelines for isolation, for individuals who become sick at school or are returning after the minimum 5-day isolation period.

The CDC guidelines for isolation are: If you test positive for COVID-19, stay home for at least 5 days and isolate from others in your home.

After you have ended isolation, when you are feeling better (no fever without the use of fever-reducing medications and symptoms improving),

Wear your mask through day 10.
OR

If you have access to antigen tests, you should consider using them. With two sequential negative tests 48 hours apart, you may remove your mask sooner than day 10.

What isn't true? Guidelines are just recommendations, not rules. There have long been specific exclusion policies based on symptoms-- recently having covid is not among them. You are not required to keep students home once their symptoms improve.

This is the rule we followed. Kept elementary schooler home for 5 days, sent back masked, removed mask on day 9 after 2 negative tests.

It’s easy to do that with an elementary schooler. Keeping a high school or middle school kid out of school for an entire week will mess up grades and be difficult to catch up from. Particularly pointless if they are not sick.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The OP asked about rules. No, despite what some pp's might want, there is no rule requiring you to keep kids home after their symptoms have improved, nor is there a rule regarding masks.

Send your kid back when they feel better, op.

This isn't true.

Per MCPS guidelines:

At MCPS, masks continue to be voluntary except as required by CDC COVID-19 guidelines for isolation, for individuals who become sick at school or are returning after the minimum 5-day isolation period.

The CDC guidelines for isolation are: If you test positive for COVID-19, stay home for at least 5 days and isolate from others in your home.

After you have ended isolation, when you are feeling better (no fever without the use of fever-reducing medications and symptoms improving),

Wear your mask through day 10.
OR

If you have access to antigen tests, you should consider using them. With two sequential negative tests 48 hours apart, you may remove your mask sooner than day 10.

What isn't true? Guidelines are just recommendations, not rules. There have long been specific exclusion policies based on symptoms-- recently having covid is not among them. You are not required to keep students home once their symptoms improve.

This is the rule we followed. Kept elementary schooler home for 5 days, sent back masked, removed mask on day 9 after 2 negative tests.

Anonymous wrote:The OP asked about rules. No, despite what some pp's might want, there is no rule requiring you to keep kids home after their symptoms have improved, nor is there a rule regarding masks.

Send your kid back when they feel better, op.

Not true. The rule is you must stay home for 5 days. Mask for 5 more.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The OP asked about rules. No, despite what some pp's might want, there is no rule requiring you to keep kids home after their symptoms have improved, nor is there a rule regarding masks.

Send your kid back when they feel better, op.

This isn't true.

Per MCPS guidelines:

At MCPS, masks continue to be voluntary except as required by CDC COVID-19 guidelines for isolation, for individuals who become sick at school or are returning after the minimum 5-day isolation period.

The CDC guidelines for isolation are: If you test positive for COVID-19, stay home for at least 5 days and isolate from others in your home.

After you have ended isolation, when you are feeling better (no fever without the use of fever-reducing medications and symptoms improving),

Wear your mask through day 10.
OR

If you have access to antigen tests, you should consider using them. With two sequential negative tests 48 hours apart, you may remove your mask sooner than day 10.

What isn't true? Guidelines are just recommendations, not rules. There have long been specific exclusion policies based on symptoms-- recently having covid is not among them. You are not required to keep students home once their symptoms improve.

Anonymous wrote:The OP asked about rules. No, despite what some pp's might want, there is no rule requiring you to keep kids home after their symptoms have improved, nor is there a rule regarding masks.

Send your kid back when they feel better, op.

This isn't true.

Per MCPS guidelines:

At MCPS, masks continue to be voluntary except as required by CDC COVID-19 guidelines for isolation, for individuals who become sick at school or are returning after the minimum 5-day isolation period.

The CDC guidelines for isolation are: If you test positive for COVID-19, stay home for at least 5 days and isolate from others in your home.

After you have ended isolation, when you are feeling better (no fever without the use of fever-reducing medications and symptoms improving),

Wear your mask through day 10.
OR

If you have access to antigen tests, you should consider using them. With two sequential negative tests 48 hours apart, you may remove your mask sooner than day 10.

The OP asked about rules. No, despite what some pp's might want, there is no rule requiring you to keep kids home after their symptoms have improved, nor is there a rule regarding masks.

Send your kid back when they feel better, op.

Please keep your kid home for 5 days if they have Covid. Especially if they are symptomatic.

Anonymous wrote:Is anyone doing that?

I did. Didn't want to get any kids or other staff sick.

Teachers don’t have a choice. You can test out of the 5 days of masking per CDC guidelines

Is anyone doing that?

5 days out, 5 days with a mask. Page 8-9 https://www2.montgomeryschoolsmd.org/siteassets/district/reopening2023/msdeguide-072423.pdf

What are the current Covid rules? Do I send kid back when better or do we have to wait for 5 or 10 days regardless of symptoms?