Anonymous wrote:Just because there are multiple positives at one school doesn't mean it's caused by in-school transmission. Most people get COVID from loved ones, in their homes. Someone brings it home and infects everyone else.

I'm not saying there is no in-school transmission, but so far we don't know.

You can check the Maryland Covid dashboard for the active confirmed school outbreaks: https://coronavirus.maryland.gov/pages/school-resources. The last update is from 12/8, so it currently only shows Clarksburg, Paint Branch, and QO for MCPS. Not sure if they'll be able to update it this Wednesday as scheduled after of the MDH hack?

Note that the definition of an outbreak states that they only count cases where in-school transmission was confirmed by contact tracing, so kids who got it from a sibling who brought it home won't be counted in these numbers, even if they go to the same school. If it's not clear how they got it--if it can't be linked by contact tracing to another case in the school--it's not included in the numbers.

So you could have 20 cases at a school, and only 5 might be counted in the school outbreak (could be 2 kids in one class and three who ate lunch together, or maybe all 5 in one cohort, or a teacher and 4 of their students). You could easily have other outbreaks from a weekend party, or a bunch of kids on the same travel soccer team, that would run up the overall numbers in a particular school but not officially be counted as a school outbreak. The only way you'd know about those would be the school grapevine.

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Anonymous wrote:Why OP? Not vaccinated? Otherwise, what does it matter?

Many of the recent outbreaks are "breakthrough cases."

And in a couple days, they’re breakthrough recoveries.

Ok, covid denier. You don't seem to get those cases, will spread within all the schools through siblings and our community. Thanks for doing your part to spread it through the schools.

If you wanted zero risk of covid, you should have applied for virtual.

I just don’t know how long of you want to live like this, being fully vaccinated yet still wanting to avoid any exposure/illness at all.

I don't think the PP wants what you say. I think it makes sense to have options to sit out at times from the classroom (whether isolating or just stay out of school when cases are high). However, I did not know that the teachers negotiated a deal where they do not do both. I think an option to record the screen and audio is reasonable and not much extra effort. But maybe they are already doing this for the isolating kids but not publicizing it. Thanks to all the teachers - you really have a lot on your hands.

Teachers had no say in any of this. You have the option to homeschool if you want your kids to be home. Or, pay for a private program.

What do you think collective bargaining is? The teachers had a say in concurrent. They said no, and MCPS went along with it.

The union said no. Mcps said no. Parents said no. So, you homeschool. Or pay privately. Too bad.

Yeah because reopening without options has gone so well….. we had over a year to reshape education and you all wanted status quo and it’s a legitimate disaster, so congratulations.

It HAS gone really well. Most kids have had a half-year of in-person education with no disruptions. Mine have. I'm not sure you know what the word disaster means (actually, I know you don't).

It hasn’t gone so well for the kids and staff who got Covid.

Too bad. It hasn't gone well for people infected in restaurants, malls, gyms, offices, etc. People are going to get infected, and most are going to recover. That's just how it is going forward.

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Anonymous wrote:Just because there are multiple positives at one school doesn't mean it's caused by in-school transmission. Most people get COVID from loved ones, in their homes. Someone brings it home and infects everyone else.

I'm not saying there is no in-school transmission, but so far we don't know.

They are bringing Covid into the schools. There is no distancing. There are sepveral outbreaks. Of course there is some in school transmission.

Of course there is some. But there hasn't been much, notwithstanding the predictions of DOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMM on DCUM in August.