Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I only see January 11 numbers. Where is 12

I’m worried they are now going to hide the daily numbers too.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:My school is also basically normal. It’s not the dystopian hell scape littered with body bags the virtual boosters say it is.

You are VERY lucky this is the case for you. Our school has no assistant principal, guidance counselor, entire Kindergarten team, secretaries and 3 other grade level teachers as well as 2 bus drivers- 1 is for our FARMS area. 1/4-1/3 of some of the classes are in quarantine. The only reason we have any administration at all is because our Principal has recovered and is back in the building.

I do NOT want long term virtual and I don’t think a school like yours that is basically normal should go virtual. Our school needs to go virtual right now. They really need to look at the schools on a case by case basis like they said they would!

Anonymous wrote:I only see January 11 numbers. Where is 12

Anonymous wrote:My school is also basically normal. It’s not the dystopian hell scape littered with body bags the virtual boosters say it is.

Anonymous wrote:Okay, Jeff redirected the thread about today's numbers over here. Here was what was going to be my response:

I'm looking all over and don't see it either. I mean, I do see "9643 Active Cases" and "3640 Active Quarantines" in the blue graphic dashboard part, but I don't know how that's changed since yesterday, if at all.

Ohhhhhhh, if I look in TINY print below the bottom right of the dashboard graphic area, it does say it was "Last updated 1/12/2022"

If it is so, it's about 170k students + staff, right? So that's somewhere around 5-6% active cases and 8% either cases or quarantined.

That actually seems low.

In any event, the entire dashboard graphic section hasn't been updated, because my school is showing 32 *total* cases in the menu on the left side and it had 32 positives yesterday alone. But it's also not meant to be just active cases, because there are more than that. Maybe... all of these numbers are meant to represent JUST YESTERDAY'S NEWLY-REPORTED numbers? Oh, FFS, who can tell?

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Families are no longer being notified of exposure to close contacts the way they were in the past. When I tested positive for Covid last month, my entire (elementary) class had to quarantine for a period of time. Students who were fully vaccinated were able to return sooner than those unvaccinated. Students who were symptom free were able to test on a certain date and return sooner than the full 10 day quarantine period. Another teacher at my school tested positive today and admin are no longer permitted to share this information with families. A student in my class was in school on Monday and tested positive that night. The only students (families) that were notified were the students who sit at this student’s table. We have snack in the classroom because of a late lunchtime. We unmask for breakfast and snack in the classroom. Before, the entire class would have been notified of a positive case in the classroom. That is no longer the policy.

I counted the number of students we have out for Covid or in quarantine (as of today), and if MCPS was still sharing the color coded charts, our school would be at 11.9% (in the “red”). I also was told today that admin are not allowed to make any requests for someone to take a look at the numbers of students and staff out due to Covid. Schools are on their own to figure out how to make things work. We have large amounts of students in virtual learning at every grade level. Our para-educators are assigned to work with the students in virtual learning every day. This means fewer people are available to cover lunch/recess. As a result, we have altered schedules. We have teachers out without any substitutes. As a result, students are missing their specials. We have had central office staff in our building to help cover a few things here and there, but not enough to fill all the gaps. 25% of my class is in quarantine (majority have Covid themselves).

We are giving everything we have to make this work, but this is hard. We are scrambling every day, all day. This just isn’t sustainable.

This is why we need virtual Right Now. Sorry our leaders are not protecting you, it sounds so stressful. My siblings work in healthcare and that is stressful enough, I don’t wish this stress and danger on anyone who doesn’t need to be taking these risks right now.

Anonymous wrote:Families are no longer being notified of exposure to close contacts the way they were in the past. When I tested positive for Covid last month, my entire (elementary) class had to quarantine for a period of time. Students who were fully vaccinated were able to return sooner than those unvaccinated. Students who were symptom free were able to test on a certain date and return sooner than the full 10 day quarantine period. Another teacher at my school tested positive today and admin are no longer permitted to share this information with families. A student in my class was in school on Monday and tested positive that night. The only students (families) that were notified were the students who sit at this student’s table. We have snack in the classroom because of a late lunchtime. We unmask for breakfast and snack in the classroom. Before, the entire class would have been notified of a positive case in the classroom. That is no longer the policy.

I counted the number of students we have out for Covid or in quarantine (as of today), and if MCPS was still sharing the color coded charts, our school would be at 11.9% (in the “red”). I also was told today that admin are not allowed to make any requests for someone to take a look at the numbers of students and staff out due to Covid. Schools are on their own to figure out how to make things work. We have large amounts of students in virtual learning at every grade level. Our para-educators are assigned to work with the students in virtual learning every day. This means fewer people are available to cover lunch/recess. As a result, we have altered schedules. We have teachers out without any substitutes. As a result, students are missing their specials. We have had central office staff in our building to help cover a few things here and there, but not enough to fill all the gaps. 25% of my class is in quarantine (majority have Covid themselves).

We are giving everything we have to make this work, but this is hard. We are scrambling every day, all day. This just isn’t sustainable.