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Anonymous wrote:Today Marc Elrich said he is receiving many emails regarding virtual vs in person school and those emails have been about 50/50. Starts at about 5:35.

Do us proud Marc! Make MCPS go virtual!

Stay strong Elrich. Keep the schools open. Shutdown the bars, gyms and restaurants first. Schools should be the last to close.

someone is desperate for virtual. Give it a rest already. The majority of schools in the country and around the world are in person. MoCo has a high vax rate. We are staying open.

** There is no evidence of spread covid in schools

https://www.montgomeryschoolsmd.org/coronavirus/dashboard/

[NOTE: https://coronavirus.maryland.gov/pages/school-resources and https://www.montgomeryschoolsmd.org/coronavirus/dashboard/ provide different numbers.]

** If every child catches covid, then covid will be over

"In mid-December, a study conducted in the United Kingdom found the risk of reinfection with the omicron variant was more than five times higher than delta, Reuters reported."
"Since new variants are extra-contagious and vaccine immunity diminishes with time, more reinfections have been reported in recent months, according to Cleveland Clinic doctors, noting relaxed COVID-19 precautions also played a role."
https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/local/can-you-catch-omicron-twice-heres-what-doctors-say/2725213/

** Rapid tests will detect covid.

"A negative result from a rapid antigen test might not be reliable, especially in the first days after exposure"
"It found that rapid tests took a median of three days to detect an infection after a PCR test identified a positive case."
https://www.wsj.com/articles/how-reliable-are-covid-19-rapid-tests-for-detecting-omicron-11641747601
"transmission of COVID-19 often occurs one to two days before the onset of symptoms and during the two to three days afterward. "
https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/coronavirus/when-are-you-most-contagious-if-you-get-covidheres-the-latest-from-the-cdc/2718063/

** Covid is not a health issue for children

"Based on what we've gathered today, Omicron is not causing more severe infections, but is infecting many more children. And hence we are seeing more children hospitalized with Covid,"
https://www.ndtv.com/world-news/omicron-covid-variant-omicron-coronavirus-variant-new-omicron-covid-variant-more-hospitalisations-less-severe-what-is-omicrons-effect-on-children-2680870

"The U.S. has hit a new record for COVID hospitalizations and a new record for the number of children hospitalized too."
"So right now in Texas, there are just under 400 kids hospitalized for COVID. CDC data shows that's a 600% increase here since mid-December among kids 18 and under."
"pediatric COVID hospitalizations have been doubling every week over the past month or so"
https://www.npr.org/2022/01/11/1072183494/the-u-s-has-hit-a-new-record-for-the-number-of-children-hospitalized-with-covid-

"COVID-19 in Children: Studies Indicate Increased Risk of Respiratory Infection and Diabetes"
https://weather.com/en-IN/india/coronavirus/news/2022-01-09-covid-19-in-children-studies-indicate-increased-risk-of

** In-person vs. Virtual vs. Close Schools

Please validate if In-Person schooling discussions swaps out the the words "Virtual Learning" with "Close Schools".

** Parents want only in-person learning.

Jan 7 2022 Virtual Learning poll is at 16,653 https://www.change.org/p/mcps-board-of-education-we-need-virtual-learning-right-now
Jan 10 2022 In-Person poll is at 1,004 https://www.change.org/p/in-person-learning-is-the-only-solution-keep-mcps-schools-open-for-in-person-learning

OLD DATA:
Jul 8 2020 20-21 School Yr In-Person Poll 42% / Virtual 22% / Undec 35% /  Child's Physical Health and Safety prio 91.7% https://www.montgomeryschoolsmd.org/reopening/parent-survey.aspx
Sep 14 2020 In-person poll 1,052 https://www.change.org/p/parents-mcps-return-to-in-person-for-all-grades
Oct 15 2020 In-person poll 2,185 https://www.change.org/p/return-mcps-students-to-in-person-learning
Jan 16 2021 In-person poll 387 https://www.change.org/p/mcps-board-of-education-we-need-virtual-learning-right-now

** The long morning car lines at schools show just how much parents want in-person learning

"Assistant Chief Administrative Officer Earl Stoddard wrote in a text message Wednesday that county officials requested 200 drivers from the Maryland National Guard on Jan. 6."
https://bethesdamagazine.com/bethesda-beat/schools/county-hopes-national-guard-retirees-military-can-fill-mcps-bus-driver-shortage-but-no-luck-so-far/

** MCPS will be only in-person learning

"Montgomery County Public Schools announced Sunday that 11 schools with a spike in coronavirus cases will remain virtual this week"
https://www.washingtonpost.com/education/2022/01/09/montgomery-county-schools-virtual-covid/

** MCPS has an effective in-person covid protection strategy.  

"Just three days after announcing a new color-coded positivity model, MCPS is getting rid of it, along with the threshold to determine whether a school should transition from in-person to virtual learning."
"Earlier this week, the school system announced that if 5% or more of unrelated students and staff in a school test positive in a 14 day period, they would consider a transition to virtual learning. But on Friday MCPS wrote to the community that they are eliminating the threshold to align with other school systems, and after receiving more clarification from state officials."
https://www.localdvm.com/news/maryland/mcps-gets-rid-of-5-covid-19-threshold-after-clarification-from-state-officials/

Jan 11 2022 https://bethesdamagazine.com/bethesda-beat/schools/teachers-considering-no-confidence-resolution-on-mcps-covid-19-response/

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Anonymous wrote:Reopening parents have to have a say in every. Single. Thing. Shut up already. Schools are open, time for you to go find a life beyond tweeting all day long about mcps.

You may want to take your own advice.

Lol. You're exactly right. Go to any other forum and the Covidians are crazy.

Travel: "Any good hotel recs in North Carolina?" "HOTELS! You do know we're in a pandemic right? Are you trying to kill your children?"

Elementary School: "Do kids still like pin the tail on the donkey at parties?" "PARTIES! PARTIES!?!?!? If you invited me to a party right now, I would curse your name, delete your contact and never let little Larlo talk to your demon child ever again!"

Sports: "Is your swim league allowing spectators?" "I'm shocked you mouth breathing MAGA idiots know how to swim. Don't you know we're in the middle of a PANDEMIC!"

So yeah, take your own advice, and just shut up about Covid for half a second, please. We beg you.

Girl you sound unhinged.

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Anonymous wrote:Reopening parents have to have a say in every. Single. Thing. Shut up already. Schools are open, time for you to go find a life beyond tweeting all day long about mcps.

You may want to take your own advice.

Lol. You're exactly right. Go to any other forum and the Covidians are crazy.

Travel: "Any good hotel recs in North Carolina?" "HOTELS! You do know we're in a pandemic right? Are you trying to kill your children?"

Elementary School: "Do kids still like pin the tail on the donkey at parties?" "PARTIES! PARTIES!?!?!? If you invited me to a party right now, I would curse your name, delete your contact and never let little Larlo talk to your demon child ever again!"

Sports: "Is your swim league allowing spectators?" "I'm shocked you mouth breathing MAGA idiots know how to swim. Don't you know we're in the middle of a PANDEMIC!"

So yeah, take your own advice, and just shut up about Covid for half a second, please. We beg you.

Anonymous wrote:Reopening parents have to have a say in every. Single. Thing. Shut up already. Schools are open, time for you to go find a life beyond tweeting all day long about mcps.

You may want to take your own advice.

Reopening parents have to have a say in every. Single. Thing. Shut up already. Schools are open, time for you to go find a life beyond tweeting all day long about mcps.

It's not easy. We're a larger school system, with people coming from all sorts of living arrangements. For the kid, in person is a no brainer. For the greater community, though, there are tradeoffs.

Both sides have valid points to make.

Unfortunately, there's no "right" answer, either.

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Anonymous wrote:Today Marc Elrich said he is receiving many emails regarding virtual vs in person school and those emails have been about 50/50. Starts at about 5:35.

Do us proud Marc! Make MCPS go virtual!

Are you a russian bot?

Anonymous wrote:Today Marc Elrich said he is receiving many emails regarding virtual vs in person school and those emails have been about 50/50. Starts at about 5:35.

Do us proud Marc! Make MCPS go virtual!

Today Marc Elrich said he is receiving many emails regarding virtual vs in person school and those emails have been about 50/50. Starts at about 5:35.

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Anonymous wrote:If a secure poll was directly sent by mcps (NOT the pta) to (and only to) all parents/guardians, then the result would be more believable.

These random petitions are not representative of what mcps parents/guardians want.

True, but even when they did that last spring, and 50% of the respondents said they wanted to return to school, the 'virtual only' crowd had a ton of excuses about why that poll wasn't really accurate

Huh? What survey???

Unless a survey goes through the PTA, I'm not sure how anyone would know about it? How was it distributed? Do you have the link?

https://www.montgomeryschoolsmd.org/reopening/parent-survey.aspx

42% return to school, 22% virtual, 35% undecided. I know this isn't as awesome or authoritative as the 14K vs. 2K change.org drivel floating around.

This is probably correct the way it was phrased. In the Spring, everyone was saying covid is over. Back then, even I thought it might be over.

Omicron changed all that.

Oh wait - this survey was June 22 through July 8, 2020??? It wasn't even for this past year 2021????

Why would you need a survey in 2021? School is in-person. Aside, this survey was performed at a time of peak covid hysteria when there was little understanding of the virus, no vaccines (nor any on the near horizon), no treatments, etc.

No one thought the pandemic would stretch more than a year.

The same survey rated their Child's Physical Health and Safety as 91.7%.

Coronavirus changed covid math since 2020.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:If a secure poll was directly sent by mcps (NOT the pta) to (and only to) all parents/guardians, then the result would be more believable.

These random petitions are not representative of what mcps parents/guardians want.

True, but even when they did that last spring, and 50% of the respondents said they wanted to return to school, the 'virtual only' crowd had a ton of excuses about why that poll wasn't really accurate

Huh? What survey???

Unless a survey goes through the PTA, I'm not sure how anyone would know about it? How was it distributed? Do you have the link?

https://www.montgomeryschoolsmd.org/reopening/parent-survey.aspx

42% return to school, 22% virtual, 35% undecided. I know this isn't as awesome or authoritative as the 14K vs. 2K change.org drivel floating around.

This is probably correct the way it was phrased. In the Spring, everyone was saying covid is over. Back then, even I thought it might be over.

Omicron changed all that.

Oh wait - this survey was June 22 through July 8, 2020??? It wasn't even for this past year 2021????

Why would you need a survey in 2021? School is in-person. Aside, this survey was performed at a time of peak covid hysteria when there was little understanding of the virus, no vaccines (nor any on the near horizon), no treatments, etc.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:If a secure poll was directly sent by mcps (NOT the pta) to (and only to) all parents/guardians, then the result would be more believable.

These random petitions are not representative of what mcps parents/guardians want.

True, but even when they did that last spring, and 50% of the respondents said they wanted to return to school, the 'virtual only' crowd had a ton of excuses about why that poll wasn't really accurate

Huh? What survey???

Unless a survey goes through the PTA, I'm not sure how anyone would know about it? How was it distributed? Do you have the link?

https://www.montgomeryschoolsmd.org/reopening/parent-survey.aspx

42% return to school, 22% virtual, 35% undecided. I know this isn't as awesome or authoritative as the 14K vs. 2K change.org drivel floating around.

This is probably correct the way it was phrased. In the Spring, everyone was saying covid is over. Back then, even I thought it might be over.

Omicron changed all that.

Oh wait - this survey was June 22 through July 8, 2020??? It wasn't even for this past year 2021????

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:If a secure poll was directly sent by mcps (NOT the pta) to (and only to) all parents/guardians, then the result would be more believable.

These random petitions are not representative of what mcps parents/guardians want.

True, but even when they did that last spring, and 50% of the respondents said they wanted to return to school, the 'virtual only' crowd had a ton of excuses about why that poll wasn't really accurate

Huh? What survey???

Unless a survey goes through the PTA, I'm not sure how anyone would know about it? How was it distributed? Do you have the link?

https://www.montgomeryschoolsmd.org/reopening/parent-survey.aspx

42% return to school, 22% virtual, 35% undecided. I know this isn't as awesome or authoritative as the 14K vs. 2K change.org drivel floating around.

This is probably correct the way it was phrased. In the Spring, everyone was saying covid is over. Back then, even I thought it might be over.

Omicron changed all that.