Our school is at 4.8%. our administration has been fantastic and transparent and bon e of this is their fault. DD only had one teacher out today. Bless them all.

No way in hell am I sending her tomorrow. This isn't the school's fault. But we need to stop playing games. I sent her today because the report was 2.7 or something. But enough BS. If mcps wants to set arbitrary metrics, the bar is met enough for me.

Anonymous wrote:Oh no. Definitely not. MCPS said schools over 5% were a risk. Regardless of what they say now, we know it's not safe.

Life has risks but this is too much.

What are you afraid of exactly?

I’m happy if you keep your kid home because it means less kids in the classroom for my kid who will be in school.

But let’s be clear - there have been ZERO deaths of kids age 0-18 in MoCo due to Covid since the beginning of this pandemic. That is actually a fantastic statistic and should be immensely reassuring to all MCPS parents.

https://www.montgomerycountymd.gov/covid19/data/case-counts.html#deaths-age

Vaccine mandates not vacation mandates. Though I would like a vacation mandate!

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Anonymous wrote:By the end of the week all the schools will be red. They just did this to give you false hope that they weren’t actually already planning on closing.

Some of us tried to tell you before Christmas that schools had to pivot to virtual for January. But apparently things are easier to understand when they're color-coded. That was a genius idea of MCPS, their one and only...

There is no have to. That’s just what is happening in MOCO only. Even NYC schools are staying open

NYC is one os the worst places for Covid - though our area is hot on their heels.

NYC is a hot mess! Looks like their ridiculous mandates (stupid vacations mandate) didn’t help one bit.

Anonymous wrote:Oh no. Definitely not. MCPS said schools over 5% were a risk. Regardless of what they say now, we know it's not safe.

Life has risks but this is too much.

+1 no way. whatever is being voluntarily reported, its much much higher than that and will continue to rise exponentially.

I am sending my child. He needs to be in person to receive his accommodations and special education services. He is vaccinated and healthy. I consented to testing if the school wants to test.

Students with disabilities fell behind drastically during online learning. It would be unfair to them to force online learning without a testing to stay option or an option for support services and accommodations that are not accessible online.

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Anonymous wrote:NO NO NO

MCPS said 5% and over not safe and now they are backtracking.

BCC is 7.3% - second worst in the county. No way is it safe.

MCPS is a total disaster. No consistent messaging, few safety precautions. no freaking buses and kids waiting out in the cold.

Nothing like giving all school administrators vacations during an evolving crisis. Thank Dr. McKnight and the Board of Ed for MCPS’s lack of preparedness and lack of communication.

McKnight needs to go. Right now. She cannot handle this.

Oh no. Definitely not. MCPS said schools over 5% were a risk. Regardless of what they say now, we know it's not safe.

Life has risks but this is too much.

Yes! Sending my kids to a red school tomorrow.

Mask up and move along. That’s what we have been doing and that is what we’ll continue to do.

Yes why not? Wasn’t the point of vaccinating them to make covid less scary? They are vaccinated. I’m boosted. The toddler is a toddler. I’m not scared of omicron covid and I shouldn’t be. Talk to your friends. Many probably secretly had it lately and will tell you it was nothing or at worst a typical winter virus. Did nobody ever get sick before in the winter? 2020 covid was scary. Post-vax 2022 covid not so much. How’s Larry Hogan and Senator Booker doing? Fine. Because this is 2022.

Absolutely am sending both my kids to their red school tomorrow. The community spread is much higher than the spread on school. I am also not worried at all about them catching omicron with its mild symptoms.

I’m sending my K kid to a red school tomorrow. She begged to go back and has been so sad the past 2 weeks. Giving her 1 more normal day before I presume we move to virtual. Driving not doing bus.

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Anonymous wrote:NO NO NO

MCPS said 5% and over not safe and now they are backtracking.

BCC is 7.3% - second worst in the county. No way is it safe.

MCPS is a total disaster. No consistent messaging, few safety precautions. no freaking buses and kids waiting out in the cold.

Nothing like giving all school administrators vacations during an evolving crisis. Thank Dr. McKnight and the Board of Ed for MCPS’s lack of preparedness and lack of communication.

I agree, but honestly what option could they give *but* virtual learning at this point? Even if they had tried to anticipate the case rate, they wouldn't have been able to hire subs in time (labor shortage). There just aren't enough bodies standing right now. Meanwhile, if your teacher has asymptomatic covid, they might be able to actually teach you virtually.

Anonymous wrote:My kids are going to the red schools. I think they both had Cove in the beginning of the Christmas break. I didn’t think to get them tested because their symptoms were mild. And then I got Covid and my symptoms were not so mild. We are all vaccinated plus boosters. We have all been symptom-free since December 27. Oh, because my symptoms are not mild I actually did get tested and I tested positive. and since it’s so difficult to get a PCR test we didn’t test the kids

+1

People seem to be forgetting that Omicron was beginning its sweep through the high schools more than a week before break. Students who were out sick the week before break were back today - said their whole family had it over break and everyone was feeling better now. If there's enough staff to operate a school safely, especially in HS, I say stay open.

Anonymous wrote:NO NO NO

MCPS said 5% and over not safe and now they are backtracking.

BCC is 7.3% - second worst in the county. No way is it safe.

MCPS is a total disaster. No consistent messaging, few safety precautions. no freaking buses and kids waiting out in the cold.

Nothing like giving all school administrators vacations during an evolving crisis. Thank Dr. McKnight and the Board of Ed for MCPS’s lack of preparedness and lack of communication.