Anonymous
10/05/2023 14:45
Subject: Covid rules?
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:The OP asked about rules. No, despite what some pp's might want, there is no rule requiring you to keep kids home after their symptoms have improved, nor is there a rule regarding masks.
Send your kid back when they feel better, op.
This, seriously. Nobody is paying attention to these bogus ‘rules’ that aren’t even based in science.
Who is even tearing their kids for Covid at this point? Most of us are not wasting any more time and mental energy on this nonsense.
Those of us with cancer patients in our house are, and it would be helpful if you would acknowledge that we exist and that our kids go to school with your kids. Thanks.
I would recommend wearing an N95 at all times and stop relying on 6 year olds to protect you. Be the adult.
I do, and so does my kid. But when your kid comes to school offgassing COVID, the chances are high it will end up in my house, causing many more problems than it does in yours. Be a kind person.
So you're still getting Covid despite masking at all times around your kid, who is also masking at all times at school (except lunch I assume)? Look, you can't depend on kindness to keep you safe, you just can't. You need to up your game to protect yourself:
Upgrade your home air circulation system- you need a unit in every room. This is great for health in general
Get your family fit-tested for N95s. Your kid's mask especially probably doesn't fit as well as you think
Make alternate arrangements for school lunch (e.g., outside)
Consider VA (last resort if your kid doesn't do well in virtual learning)
signed,
BTDT
Anonymous
10/05/2023 14:36
Subject: Covid rules?
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:The OP asked about rules. No, despite what some pp's might want, there is no rule requiring you to keep kids home after their symptoms have improved, nor is there a rule regarding masks.
Send your kid back when they feel better, op.
This isn't true.
Per MCPS guidelines:
At MCPS, masks continue to be voluntary except as required by CDC COVID-19 guidelines for isolation, for individuals who become sick at school or are returning after the minimum 5-day isolation period.
The CDC guidelines for isolation are: If you test positive for COVID-19, stay home for at least 5 days and isolate from others in your home.
After you have ended isolation, when you are feeling better (no fever without the use of fever-reducing medications and symptoms improving),
Wear your mask through day 10.
OR
If you have access to antigen tests, you should consider using them. With two sequential negative tests 48 hours apart, you may remove your mask sooner than day 10.
What isn't true? Guidelines are just recommendations, not rules. There have long been specific exclusion policies based on symptoms-- recently having covid is not among them. You are not required to keep students home once their symptoms improve.
This is the rule we followed. Kept elementary schooler home for 5 days, sent back masked, removed mask on day 9 after 2 negative tests.
It’s easy to do that with an elementary schooler. Keeping a high school or middle school kid out of school for an entire week will mess up grades and be difficult to catch up from. Particularly pointless if they are not sick.
Screw it. I won't test even if my kid has symptoms...don't ask, don't tell. Not missing anymore school after they were closed for so long with the crazy policies that we have.
I feel the same way. They need to change the mandatory stay home 5 day rule, even if you have minimal symptoms. It doesn’t exist with flu or rsv. I’m fine with a mask for 10 days, as long as they can go to school before 5 days if their symptoms are mild.
If your kid has a fever and/or other viral symptoms, please keep them home until those symptoms are gone regardless of the results of any tests taken. Once your child is asymptomatic, send them back to school. This is the same logic most responsible parents have used since schools became a thing. If your kid is sneezing, coughing and/or has a fever, they likely have something that can easily spread to many people in a school environment and therefore they shouldn't be there. If your kid feels fine, looks fine, has no fever, no congestion, and isn't sneezing, send them to school. COVID is a very serious respiratory virus that is highly contagious. We now know that COVID behaves very similar to other common respiratory viruses and we can now safely apply the same common sense protocols we've applied to other respiratory viruses while doing out best to prevent the spread of it.
I don’t know why you are typing up this list of rules you originated in your head. MCPS had rules, and they are not these.
I think most parents have the common sense to know when their kid should or shouldn't go to school and I'm more inclined to trust the judgment of those parents relative to trusting the judgement behind outdated rules put forth by MCPS leadership. This being said; for anyone that is unsure of whether their kid should or shouldn't go to school, there is nothing wrong with referring to MCPS rules for guidance. As long as parents aren't sending sick kids to school, I don't care how they reached that determination.
Anonymous
10/05/2023 13:42
Subject: Covid rules?
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:The OP asked about rules. No, despite what some pp's might want, there is no rule requiring you to keep kids home after their symptoms have improved, nor is there a rule regarding masks.
Send your kid back when they feel better, op.
This, seriously. Nobody is paying attention to these bogus ‘rules’ that aren’t even based in science.
Who is even tearing their kids for Covid at this point? Most of us are not wasting any more time and mental energy on this nonsense.
Those of us with cancer patients in our house are, and it would be helpful if you would acknowledge that we exist and that our kids go to school with your kids. Thanks.
I would recommend wearing an N95 at all times and stop relying on 6 year olds to protect you. Be the adult.
I do, and so does my kid. But when your kid comes to school offgassing COVID, the chances are high it will end up in my house, causing many more problems than it does in yours. Be a kind person.
Anonymous
10/05/2023 13:40
Subject: Covid rules?
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:The OP asked about rules. No, despite what some pp's might want, there is no rule requiring you to keep kids home after their symptoms have improved, nor is there a rule regarding masks.
Send your kid back when they feel better, op.
This isn't true.
Per MCPS guidelines:
At MCPS, masks continue to be voluntary except as required by CDC COVID-19 guidelines for isolation, for individuals who become sick at school or are returning after the minimum 5-day isolation period.
The CDC guidelines for isolation are: If you test positive for COVID-19, stay home for at least 5 days and isolate from others in your home.
After you have ended isolation, when you are feeling better (no fever without the use of fever-reducing medications and symptoms improving),
Wear your mask through day 10.
OR
If you have access to antigen tests, you should consider using them. With two sequential negative tests 48 hours apart, you may remove your mask sooner than day 10.
What isn't true? Guidelines are just recommendations, not rules. There have long been specific exclusion policies based on symptoms-- recently having covid is not among them. You are not required to keep students home once their symptoms improve.
This is the rule we followed. Kept elementary schooler home for 5 days, sent back masked, removed mask on day 9 after 2 negative tests.
It’s easy to do that with an elementary schooler. Keeping a high school or middle school kid out of school for an entire week will mess up grades and be difficult to catch up from. Particularly pointless if they are not sick.
Screw it. I won't test even if my kid has symptoms...don't ask, don't tell. Not missing anymore school after they were closed for so long with the crazy policies that we have.
I feel the same way. They need to change the mandatory stay home 5 day rule, even if you have minimal symptoms. It doesn’t exist with flu or rsv. I’m fine with a mask for 10 days, as long as they can go to school before 5 days if their symptoms are mild.
If your kid has a fever and/or other viral symptoms, please keep them home until those symptoms are gone regardless of the results of any tests taken. Once your child is asymptomatic, send them back to school. This is the same logic most responsible parents have used since schools became a thing. If your kid is sneezing, coughing and/or has a fever, they likely have something that can easily spread to many people in a school environment and therefore they shouldn't be there. If your kid feels fine, looks fine, has no fever, no congestion, and isn't sneezing, send them to school. COVID is a very serious respiratory virus that is highly contagious. We now know that COVID behaves very similar to other common respiratory viruses and we can now safely apply the same common sense protocols we've applied to other respiratory viruses while doing out best to prevent the spread of it.
I don’t know why you are typing up this list of rules you originated in your head. MCPS had rules, and they are not these.
Anonymous
10/05/2023 12:24
Subject: Covid rules?
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:The OP asked about rules. No, despite what some pp's might want, there is no rule requiring you to keep kids home after their symptoms have improved, nor is there a rule regarding masks.
Send your kid back when they feel better, op.
This isn't true.
Per MCPS guidelines:
At MCPS, masks continue to be voluntary except as required by CDC COVID-19 guidelines for isolation, for individuals who become sick at school or are returning after the minimum 5-day isolation period.
The CDC guidelines for isolation are: If you test positive for COVID-19, stay home for at least 5 days and isolate from others in your home.
After you have ended isolation, when you are feeling better (no fever without the use of fever-reducing medications and symptoms improving),
Wear your mask through day 10.
OR
If you have access to antigen tests, you should consider using them. With two sequential negative tests 48 hours apart, you may remove your mask sooner than day 10.
What isn't true? Guidelines are just recommendations, not rules. There have long been specific exclusion policies based on symptoms-- recently having covid is not among them. You are not required to keep students home once their symptoms improve.
This is the rule we followed. Kept elementary schooler home for 5 days, sent back masked, removed mask on day 9 after 2 negative tests.
It’s easy to do that with an elementary schooler. Keeping a high school or middle school kid out of school for an entire week will mess up grades and be difficult to catch up from. Particularly pointless if they are not sick.
Screw it. I won't test even if my kid has symptoms...don't ask, don't tell. Not missing anymore school after they were closed for so long with the crazy policies that we have.
I feel the same way. They need to change the mandatory stay home 5 day rule, even if you have minimal symptoms. It doesn’t exist with flu or rsv. I’m fine with a mask for 10 days, as long as they can go to school before 5 days if their symptoms are mild.
If your kid has a fever and/or other viral symptoms, please keep them home until those symptoms are gone regardless of the results of any tests taken. Once your child is asymptomatic, send them back to school. This is the same logic most responsible parents have used since schools became a thing. If your kid is sneezing, coughing and/or has a fever, they likely have something that can easily spread to many people in a school environment and therefore they shouldn't be there. If your kid feels fine, looks fine, has no fever, no congestion, and isn't sneezing, send them to school. COVID is a very serious respiratory virus that is highly contagious. We now know that COVID behaves very similar to other common respiratory viruses and we can now safely apply the same common sense protocols we've applied to other respiratory viruses while doing out best to prevent the spread of it.