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Anonymous wrote:I give up. It's probably just easier to do virtual until our kids can get vaccinated than deal with the roadblocks this idiotic Board wants to throw up. At least there's stability with virtual.

They need to stop the spread. Some people are clearly ok with getting covid as they don't care about anyone but themselves, even their kids and send them to school sick and don't care the impact it has on others.

I don't get the complaining. It was clear this would happen, so deal with it. Just like the same families told those of us concerned to just deal with it. Your turn. Virtual has a waitlist and isn't taking new families but go ahead and apply.

Please. Stopping the spread is impossible now, we're never getting to zero Covid. MCPS seems to have some expectation of getting the risk level down to zero, instead of taking common sense mitigation measures(masks, outdoor lunch, quarantine cases, not kids on the other side of the cafeteria). If their aim is zero risk, they should've never opened for in-person.

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Anonymous wrote:I give up. It's probably just easier to do virtual until our kids can get vaccinated than deal with the roadblocks this idiotic Board wants to throw up. At least there's stability with virtual.

They need to stop the spread. Some people are clearly ok with getting covid as they don't care about anyone but themselves, even their kids and send them to school sick and don't care the impact it has on others.

I don't get the complaining. It was clear this would happen, so deal with it. Just like the same families told those of us concerned to just deal with it. Your turn. Virtual has a waitlist and isn't taking new families but go ahead and apply.

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Anonymous wrote:what can we do to stop this madness?

By stopping to read the actual guidance, instead of believing a sh1tstirrer who says runny noses will be banned from school.

I’m the OP. As far as I’m aware the actual guidance has not been shared yet. From anecdotal reports at multiple schools I understood that cold symptoms were included, but I’m heartened to hear that where schools have shared written guidance it doesn’t include colds. However coughs, headache and sore throat are all very common. Current test positivity is 3.4 percent.

THREE POINT FOUR PERCENT!

so almost 97% of those cases will lead to unnecessarily keeping entire classes of kids out of school for up to ten days. Ridiculous.

Again - if they do a covid test and test negative - no quarantine, right? So the kid goes home, takes a test, tests negative - everyone back at school within 24 hours. Yay. OR kid goes home, takes COVID test - tests positive, and then we prevent further spread since the kids are all at home and quarantined.

“Yay”??? The entire class is needlessly worried and misses school. And 24 hours is best case scenario.

DP. To avoid this, don’t send your kid to school sick. yay!

I don’t (yay!!) but unfortunately I haven’t yet found a way to control what other people do. If you have tips, do let me know.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:what can we do to stop this madness?

By stopping to read the actual guidance, instead of believing a sh1tstirrer who says runny noses will be banned from school.

I’m the OP. As far as I’m aware the actual guidance has not been shared yet. From anecdotal reports at multiple schools I understood that cold symptoms were included, but I’m heartened to hear that where schools have shared written guidance it doesn’t include colds. However coughs, headache and sore throat are all very common. Current test positivity is 3.4 percent.

THREE POINT FOUR PERCENT!

so almost 97% of those cases will lead to unnecessarily keeping entire classes of kids out of school for up to ten days. Ridiculous.

Again - if they do a covid test and test negative - no quarantine, right? So the kid goes home, takes a test, tests negative - everyone back at school within 24 hours. Yay. OR kid goes home, takes COVID test - tests positive, and then we prevent further spread since the kids are all at home and quarantined.

“Yay”??? The entire class is needlessly worried and misses school. And 24 hours is best case scenario.

DP. To avoid this, don’t send your kid to school sick. yay!

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Anonymous wrote:We tried the free Covid testing through the County a couple of times. It took several days to get results back if at all.

With Kaiser we've always gotten results back within 24 hours if not within 12 hours. But you have to be a member and be willing to drive to the Gaithersburg center.

For those without access to quick turnaround testing this is going to be a nightmare.

Very low income will have medicaid and can get private testing for free.

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Anonymous wrote:We tried the free Covid testing through the County a couple of times. It took several days to get results back if at all.

With Kaiser we've always gotten results back within 24 hours if not within 12 hours. But you have to be a member and be willing to drive to the Gaithersburg center.

For those without access to quick turnaround testing this is going to be a nightmare.

Actually you don't.

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Again - if they do a covid test and test negative - no quarantine, right? So the kid goes home, takes a test, tests negative - everyone back at school within 24 hours. Yay. OR kid goes home, takes COVID test - tests positive, and then we prevent further spread since the kids are all at home and quarantined.

Takes what test?

A COVID test - jeez. Read.

This assumes that the family of the kid in question has the motivation and access to testing. Otherwise they can hold the entire class to ransom.

Anonymous wrote:Pretty easy to get the negative test and get everyone back within a day. Seems like NBD.

Anonymous wrote:Has anyone actually heard anything from MCPS about this? I saw the tweet from Caitlynn Peetz, who is usually a reliable source, but we usually also get emails and texts from MCPS about this stuff and we haven't seen anything.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:what can we do to stop this madness?

By stopping to read the actual guidance, instead of believing a sh1tstirrer who says runny noses will be banned from school.

I’m the OP. As far as I’m aware the actual guidance has not been shared yet. From anecdotal reports at multiple schools I understood that cold symptoms were included, but I’m heartened to hear that where schools have shared written guidance it doesn’t include colds. However coughs, headache and sore throat are all very common. Current test positivity is 3.4 percent.

THREE POINT FOUR PERCENT!

so almost 97% of those cases will lead to unnecessarily keeping entire classes of kids out of school for up to ten days. Ridiculous.

Again - if they do a covid test and test negative - no quarantine, right? So the kid goes home, takes a test, tests negative - everyone back at school within 24 hours. Yay. OR kid goes home, takes COVID test - tests positive, and then we prevent further spread since the kids are all at home and quarantined.

“Yay”??? The entire class is needlessly worried and misses school. And 24 hours is best case scenario.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:what can we do to stop this madness?

By stopping to read the actual guidance, instead of believing a sh1tstirrer who says runny noses will be banned from school.

I’m the OP. As far as I’m aware the actual guidance has not been shared yet. From anecdotal reports at multiple schools I understood that cold symptoms were included, but I’m heartened to hear that where schools have shared written guidance it doesn’t include colds. However coughs, headache and sore throat are all very common. Current test positivity is 3.4 percent.

THREE POINT FOUR PERCENT!

so almost 97% of those cases will lead to unnecessarily keeping entire classes of kids out of school for up to ten days. Ridiculous.

Again - if they do a covid test and test negative - no quarantine, right? So the kid goes home, takes a test, tests negative - everyone back at school within 24 hours. Yay. OR kid goes home, takes COVID test - tests positive, and then we prevent further spread since the kids are all at home and quarantined.

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Again - if they do a covid test and test negative - no quarantine, right? So the kid goes home, takes a test, tests negative - everyone back at school within 24 hours. Yay. OR kid goes home, takes COVID test - tests positive, and then we prevent further spread since the kids are all at home and quarantined.

Takes what test?

A COVID test - jeez. Read.

This assumes that the family of the kid in question has the motivation and access to testing. Otherwise they can hold the entire class to ransom.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Again - if they do a covid test and test negative - no quarantine, right? So the kid goes home, takes a test, tests negative - everyone back at school within 24 hours. Yay. OR kid goes home, takes COVID test - tests positive, and then we prevent further spread since the kids are all at home and quarantined.

Takes what test?

A COVID test - jeez. Read.