Based on what I'm reading here I see there's significant misinformation on the MCPS quarantine policy.

When an elementary school, unvaccinated kid is quarantined for being a close contact, the rule is that the kid will stay home for 10 days and monitor symptoms. No test is necessary. And 1, 2, 3 or 20 negative tests won't allow the kid to return to school sooner. My kid has been quarantined. We signed up for random testing at the beginning of the school year. The school also has rapid tests available. On the day my daughter was quarantined, they were doing random tests at the school. Surprising to us, she was sent home without being tested. Moreover, no testing is required at any point for the quarantined kids. Even more shocking is the fact that siblings of the quarantined kid are neither quarantined nor tested either. When our daughter was quarantined, we had to explicitly ask the school to include her in the pool of randomly tested kids. The PCR results, which were negative, took 2 days to arrive. Therefore, we also gave her a rapid test ourselves. Obviously, we wanted to know if she had COVID, and whether we had to isolate her from her siblings. However, per MCPS, this is not required. Responsible parents may do this regardless of MCPS' policy, but for those of you arguing that MCPS is doing a stellar job, I'd say that, per MCPS rules, my kid's twin sister could have potentially infected several kids at the school as well as their parents. It's a very absurd policy indeed.

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Anonymous wrote:If the quarantine policies nudge people to get their kids vaccinated, I have zero problem with that.

This whole thread is about a bunch of cranky anti-maskers trying to bring everybody else down.

MCPS has done a stellar job containing the spread. The last thing they should do is mess with a good thing to appease a few butites.

You're forgetting that schools everywhere never became the hotbeds of transmission some hoped for, regardless of their measures. We know a lot more today- of course we should base our current and future policies on what we today, not what we feared a year ago.

Anonymous wrote:If the quarantine policies nudge people to get their kids vaccinated, I have zero problem with that.

This whole thread is about a bunch of cranky anti-maskers trying to bring everybody else down.

MCPS has done a stellar job containing the spread. The last thing they should do is mess with a good thing to appease a few butites.

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Anonymous wrote:If the quarantine policies nudge people to get their kids vaccinated, I have zero problem with that.

And screw the younger kids that can't get vaccinated in the meantime? How big of you.

Honestly the people screaming now the loudest to reverse the policy are the ones who don’t want their kids to be vaccinated. Oh well- we are onto to your.

Honestly, I hear you on that one, and I'm nearly as frustrated with them as the people that to keep quarantines and expand surveillance testing.

I'm very confident in the safety and efficacy of the vaccine in kids, although I can somewhat understand the hesitancy when the initial authorization decision for the age cohort is based on ~1500 kids getting the vaccine. But that's not really the reason most of them are against the vaccine.

My kids will get it right away. We've got a high-risk health care worker in the family. Whether it's the kids passing it to the parent, or the parent passing it to the kids, both would be relatively bad.

Hard to believe when the loudest ones screaming are against child vaccines, against mask wearing, and THEY ARE ALL IN PUBLIC HEALTH. It's actually scary how convinced they are they are correct and everyone else is wrong.

Huh?

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Anonymous wrote:If the quarantine policies nudge people to get their kids vaccinated, I have zero problem with that.

And screw the younger kids that can't get vaccinated in the meantime? How big of you.

Honestly the people screaming now the loudest to reverse the policy are the ones who don’t want their kids to be vaccinated. Oh well- we are onto to your.

Honestly, I hear you on that one, and I'm nearly as frustrated with them as the people that to keep quarantines and expand surveillance testing.

I'm very confident in the safety and efficacy of the vaccine in kids, although I can somewhat understand the hesitancy when the initial authorization decision for the age cohort is based on ~1500 kids getting the vaccine. But that's not really the reason most of them are against the vaccine.

My kids will get it right away. We've got a high-risk health care worker in the family. Whether it's the kids passing it to the parent, or the parent passing it to the kids, both would be relatively bad.

Hard to believe when the loudest ones screaming are against child vaccines, against mask wearing, and THEY ARE ALL IN PUBLIC HEALTH. It's actually scary how convinced they are they are correct and everyone else is wrong.

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Anonymous wrote:If the quarantine policies nudge people to get their kids vaccinated, I have zero problem with that.

And screw the younger kids that can't get vaccinated in the meantime? How big of you.

Honestly the people screaming now the loudest to reverse the policy are the ones who don’t want their kids to be vaccinated. Oh well- we are onto to your.

Honestly, I hear you on that one, and I'm nearly as frustrated with them as the people that to keep quarantines and expand surveillance testing.

I'm very confident in the safety and efficacy of the vaccine in kids, although I can somewhat understand the hesitancy when the initial authorization decision for the age cohort is based on ~1500 kids getting the vaccine. But that's not really the reason most of them are against the vaccine.

My kids will get it right away. We've got a high-risk health care worker in the family. Whether it's the kids passing it to the parent, or the parent passing it to the kids, both would be relatively bad.

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Anonymous wrote:If the quarantine policies nudge people to get their kids vaccinated, I have zero problem with that.

And screw the younger kids that can't get vaccinated in the meantime? How big of you.

Obviously that is not what I meant, since the younger kids can't get vaccinated yet.

DP. Once the vaccines for 5-11s get approved, that will cover all students in MCPS buildings (except for the rare vaccine allergy case). Will the quarantine policies change for the unvaccinated? I think we should have test to stay everywhere now, but will there be less incentive to have it in place in once approval for 5-11s is given?

My kids are under 5 and in MCPS buildings.

There are also thousands more outside of MCPS buildings that are covered under the MDH requirements that MCPS is following.

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Anonymous wrote:If the quarantine policies nudge people to get their kids vaccinated, I have zero problem with that.

And screw the younger kids that can't get vaccinated in the meantime? How big of you.

Obviously that is not what I meant, since the younger kids can't get vaccinated yet.

Then you're being willfully oblivious to the impact of the quarantine policy. Maintaining the quarantine policy as written- which you seem to want to do to "nudge people to get their kids vaccinated" means screwing over the young kids that can't vaccinated.

If that isn't what you meant, then you should be looking for the quarantine policy to be removed, and a student vaccine mandate instituted (which would obviously only apply to groups that can actually be vaccinated).

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Anonymous wrote:If the quarantine policies nudge people to get their kids vaccinated, I have zero problem with that.

And screw the younger kids that can't get vaccinated in the meantime? How big of you.

Obviously that is not what I meant, since the younger kids can't get vaccinated yet.

DP. Once the vaccines for 5-11s get approved, that will cover all students in MCPS buildings (except for the rare vaccine allergy case). Will the quarantine policies change for the unvaccinated? I think we should have test to stay everywhere now, but will there be less incentive to have it in place in once approval for 5-11s is given?

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Anonymous wrote:If the quarantine policies nudge people to get their kids vaccinated, I have zero problem with that.

And screw the younger kids that can't get vaccinated in the meantime? How big of you.

Obviously that is not what I meant, since the younger kids can't get vaccinated yet.

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Anonymous wrote:If the quarantine policies nudge people to get their kids vaccinated, I have zero problem with that.

And screw the younger kids that can't get vaccinated in the meantime? How big of you.

Honestly the people screaming now the loudest to reverse the policy are the ones who don’t want their kids to be vaccinated. Oh well- we are onto to your.

Based on what, the fantasies in your head? I want them to change the policy NOW because elementary-aged kids won't be fully vaccinated until early/mid-December at the earliest, and that's too much time for needless quarantines. It's possible that people can support vaccinating their kids AND sane covid policy.

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Anonymous wrote:If the quarantine policies nudge people to get their kids vaccinated, I have zero problem with that.

And screw the younger kids that can't get vaccinated in the meantime? How big of you.

Honestly the people screaming now the loudest to reverse the policy are the ones who don’t want their kids to be vaccinated. Oh well- we are onto to your.

Anonymous wrote:If the quarantine policies nudge people to get their kids vaccinated, I have zero problem with that.

And screw the younger kids that can't get vaccinated in the meantime? How big of you.

If the quarantine policies nudge people to get their kids vaccinated, I have zero problem with that.

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Anonymous wrote:Well in a month or so it will only be the stupid anti-vaxxers that suffer. Can’t wait.

You know there are kids under 5 in MCPS, right? And that there are even worse quarantine requirements for preschools and child care centers?

Not many. In 2019-2020, there were 165,163 students total, of whom 4,576 (2.8%) were in pre-K. Plus some of the pre-K kids have already turned 5 or will soon turn 5. Everyone in kindergarten is already 5.

Obviously if your child is one of the under-fives in MCPS, it is very important. However, emergency use authorization for ages 5-11 will allow the vast, vast majority of kids in MCPS to get vaccinated. And that's good.

And then there are all the kids in private preschools and daycare facilities who are required to follow the same MDH requirements that MCPS policies are based on.

I know it is natural for parents to be selfish and only think about their own kids, but this is why parents have so politically impotent on matters related to kids. There are always parents like you that either lose interest, or worse- actively work against- other parents once something no longer directly applies to them. That is, rather than continuing to fight for meaningful changes ridiculous quarantine policies, some parents will happily decide quarantine policies are a good way to do a backdoor vaccine mandate.

I'm not against a vaccine mandate, but we shouldn't be holding school and child care ransom to do it.

It's selfish to say that it's a good thing that children aged 5-11 will be able to get vaccinated soon? How about that.

It's selfish to suggest that the quarantine policies should be continued because your kids will be able to get vaccinated soon.

My kids were vaccinated last spring. I'm not talking about the quarantine policies. I'm talking about kids getting vaccinated. It is a good thing that more kids will soon be able to be vaccinated. People should get their kids vaccinated.

Ok, but one of the earlier posts said this:

Well in a month or so it will only be the stupid anti-vaxxers that suffer. Can’t wait.

That wasn't a statement about being happy kids could get vaccinated. That was a statement suggesting they were happy the quarantine policies were going to stick it to antivaxxers.