Too bad the governor didn't require schools open in person full time last fall. Would have solved so many problems.

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Anonymous wrote:I wish chap Peterson hadn’t made a state law that prevents districts from reinstating mask mandates. It was such a stupid law. We knew we would have additional surges and the state made an important strategy unavailable.

If the NOVA school districts hadn't so dramatically overreacted in 2020-21, laws wouldn't have been necessary.

I agree. Thank god we have that law or the school board would have been hemming and hawing and wringing their hands all year about masks. Its nice that there's a law they have to follow, saves so much time and drama.

Anonymous wrote:I wish chap Peterson hadn’t made a state law that prevents districts from reinstating mask mandates. It was such a stupid law. We knew we would have additional surges and the state made an important strategy unavailable.

If the NOVA school districts hadn't so dramatically overreacted in 2020-21, laws wouldn't have been necessary.

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Anonymous wrote:I wish chap Peterson hadn’t made a state law that prevents districts from reinstating mask mandates. It was such a stupid law. We knew we would have additional surges and the state made an important strategy unavailable.

No one cares about surges. We are all over it.

https://youtu.be/5hfYJsQAhl0

Anonymous wrote:I wish chap Peterson hadn’t made a state law that prevents districts from reinstating mask mandates. It was such a stupid law. We knew we would have additional surges and the state made an important strategy unavailable.

No one cares about surges. We are all over it.

I wish chap Peterson hadn’t made a state law that prevents districts from reinstating mask mandates. It was such a stupid law. We knew we would have additional surges and the state made an important strategy unavailable.

Anonymous wrote:I feel like we get emails about cases every day. We also just went through Covid in our family, for the first time in the 2 years of pandemic. I think it’s the new 5 day rule, people still shed the virus after 5 days and kids and adults go back to school, so it spreads faster. Some don’t even report and just keep going to work

Yep, it's just like a cold. Time for everyone to move on.

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Anonymous wrote:PP and ask if your school has hired a Covid case manager. You may be shocked to learn that your school does not have anyone in charge of monitoring cases. Also ask if the school has a Care Room to semi isolate students who are sick with Covid symptoms. Again, some schools send sick students to a back hallway or to the front office or some multiple sick students like 5-6 to all sit together in a small room.

It’s a shit show out there

Are you telling me FCPS is spending precious school dollars paying for "covid case managers" at individual schools? That's insane. What purpose do they serve at this point?

Our school hired a part-time covid case manager to handle the increased number of students who are out with covid. Previously the principal was doing it - with the addition of the case manager, the principal could focus on her job instead of handling the covid students too.

What's there to "handle"?

All the money spent on these case managers could have been used for tutoring, something actually beneficial to students.

Yup. And now that tracing is done, even with more cases, ours is doing office duty and even covering classes sometimes.

It’s a way to hire a building sub without officially hiring a building sub because FCPS is too cheap to hire building subs.

to be honest, hiring a qualified building sub seems like a better use of covid money then some "case manager" just wasting everyone's time.

I feel like we get emails about cases every day. We also just went through Covid in our family, for the first time in the 2 years of pandemic. I think it’s the new 5 day rule, people still shed the virus after 5 days and kids and adults go back to school, so it spreads faster. Some don’t even report and just keep going to work

There have been three recent “classroom outbreaks” and other reported positives as well.

OP, I think we must have kids at the same school. PCR testing last night at the school, right? My kids have been masked the entire year, and we figure it's a combination of that and pure luck at this point that we haven't knowingly gotten it.

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Anonymous wrote:PP and ask if your school has hired a Covid case manager. You may be shocked to learn that your school does not have anyone in charge of monitoring cases. Also ask if the school has a Care Room to semi isolate students who are sick with Covid symptoms. Again, some schools send sick students to a back hallway or to the front office or some multiple sick students like 5-6 to all sit together in a small room.

It’s a shit show out there

Are you telling me FCPS is spending precious school dollars paying for "covid case managers" at individual schools? That's insane. What purpose do they serve at this point?

Our school hired a part-time covid case manager to handle the increased number of students who are out with covid. Previously the principal was doing it - with the addition of the case manager, the principal could focus on her job instead of handling the covid students too.

What's there to "handle"?

All the money spent on these case managers could have been used for tutoring, something actually beneficial to students.

Yup. And now that tracing is done, even with more cases, ours is doing office duty and even covering classes sometimes.

Our ES has five ladies sitting in the front office. Seems like overkill already without adding a 6th.

Our ES never streamed.

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Anonymous wrote:PP and ask if your school has hired a Covid case manager. You may be shocked to learn that your school does not have anyone in charge of monitoring cases. Also ask if the school has a Care Room to semi isolate students who are sick with Covid symptoms. Again, some schools send sick students to a back hallway or to the front office or some multiple sick students like 5-6 to all sit together in a small room.

It’s a shit show out there

Are you telling me FCPS is spending precious school dollars paying for "covid case managers" at individual schools? That's insane. What purpose do they serve at this point?

Our school hired a part-time covid case manager to handle the increased number of students who are out with covid. Previously the principal was doing it - with the addition of the case manager, the principal could focus on her job instead of handling the covid students too.

What's there to "handle"?

All the money spent on these case managers could have been used for tutoring, something actually beneficial to students.

They had been streaming the classes for kids who were out but that went away when they changed the policy to 5 days out and not 10.

I have noted a large up tick at our ES. At the beginning of the year we had 0 reported cases. During Omicron we had one class that was out because of an outbreak and a few more cases outside of that. The latest variant has seen an email every day with multiple cases reported each day.

I'll be worried when I see news reports and FB posts from local Doctors indicating an increase in hospitalizations of vaccinated folks. DS wears his mask at school and we are have been limiting indoor excursions. Admittedly, this isn't hard because we are not hugely into eating out or going to the movies and DS activities have moved outdoors because it is spring and the weather allows it.

COVID is going to be endemic. The variants continue to become less severe as it mutates, which I believe is what the science told us would happen. There is a possibility that a nasty strain will pop up again, just like we occasionally get a nastier strain of the flu. I am going to trust the vaccine and my booster and keep in keeping on. We have done as much as we can to decrease the risk of a bad outcome for ourselves and society. DS is going to school, soccer, and his activities. We are going to work and traveling for vacations.

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Anonymous wrote:PP and ask if your school has hired a Covid case manager. You may be shocked to learn that your school does not have anyone in charge of monitoring cases. Also ask if the school has a Care Room to semi isolate students who are sick with Covid symptoms. Again, some schools send sick students to a back hallway or to the front office or some multiple sick students like 5-6 to all sit together in a small room.

It’s a shit show out there

Are you telling me FCPS is spending precious school dollars paying for "covid case managers" at individual schools? That's insane. What purpose do they serve at this point?

Our school hired a part-time covid case manager to handle the increased number of students who are out with covid. Previously the principal was doing it - with the addition of the case manager, the principal could focus on her job instead of handling the covid students too.

What's there to "handle"?

All the money spent on these case managers could have been used for tutoring, something actually beneficial to students.

Yup. And now that tracing is done, even with more cases, ours is doing office duty and even covering classes sometimes.

It’s a way to hire a building sub without officially hiring a building sub because FCPS is too cheap to hire building subs.