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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?

Hmmm (NP)... Looking an hour later than you, the dashboard numbers for my kids' two schools are clearly totals-- as they are much higher than the Jan. 11 case numbers. The overall percentages of cases are still pretty low--around 4-5% in one and 7-8% in the other--which comports with their experience that not many kids and teachers are out (at least yet). Odd how varied the experiences seem to be across just one district.

Hi, I'm the PP you were responding to.

There's no way ours could be total active cases, unfortunately. The only thing I can think of, that would make both your and my numbers "correct," is if that box with the individual schools still hasn't been updated since break. Like, maybe we did have 32 total cases through Dec 22, and just coincidentally had 32 yesterday. That actually sounds totally possible when I think back to our "community letters." We had ebbs and flows, but probably on average, 2 per week for ~16 weeks?

That would also explain why your total numbers were much higher than yesterday's daily numbers, especially if your Jan 11 daily numbers weren't shockingly high, like ours were. In fact, I believe our Jan 11 numbers were only so high because they had been implausibly low before-- we were just "catching up" with testing (higher-poverty school). So, let's say you had 8 cases in an ES yesterday, but your total before break was 30. They could say "30" and that could seem more like a reasonable number for your "active cases" (last 5-10 days or however they're counting them), but I suspect that 30 is really just the cases through Dec 22. Anyway, just a hunch.

It's not odd that experiences would vary across the district, though. SES at the very least is wildly divergent.

They addressed parent concerns NOT AT ALL during tonite’s MCPS webinar inappropriately titled “Community Conversation”. They need to be shown the door. They spent most of the time self-promoting, obfuscating or being defensive. Meanwhile they can’t even update todays data or answer basic questions submitted by parents by the thousands

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Anonymous wrote:SO its 8:20, but no data for today posted.

This really makes me mad. Keep schools open, but give me the data so I can make informed decisions about my children’s attendance.

+1 the lack of transparency is gross

It is very clear that Covid spread along my child’s group of friends at school in the past week. There’s no other explanation for the outbreak we’re seeing in a group of kids who play together at school and don’t hang out with each other outside of school. Omicron is definitely spreading in schools and MCPS has decided to just let it happen.

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

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

This is completely online with how mvps operates.

Tell us that 5% is the threshold until we reach 5%, then delete the plan.

Post numbers daily until the number become too frightening to post then stop posting

Every sitting member of the school board needs to go.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Just chiming in to say both my kids’ schools are also running 95% normally. Today had full return to bus routes, teachers have been in every day, only 1-2 kids quarantining at a time.

This really is not the dystopian landscape the fear mongers would have you believe.

+1 I absolutely believe there are schools in MCPS that are currently in crisis. There are also schools that are not. We need MCPS to figure out which is which and move the crisis schools to virtual.

agree.. MCPS should look at schools case by case.. as they said they are doing.

NP AND THEY HAVE MOVED 0.0000000% OF SCHOOLS TO VIRTUAL THIS WEEK.

How long will this fancy new holistic analysis take?

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Anonymous wrote:Just chiming in to say both my kids’ schools are also running 95% normally. Today had full return to bus routes, teachers have been in every day, only 1-2 kids quarantining at a time.

This really is not the dystopian landscape the fear mongers would have you believe.

+1 I absolutely believe there are schools in MCPS that are currently in crisis. There are also schools that are not. We need MCPS to figure out which is which and move the crisis schools to virtual.

agree.. MCPS should look at schools case by case.. as they said they are doing.

Anonymous wrote:SO its 8:20, but no data for today posted.

This really makes me mad. Keep schools open, but give me the data so I can make informed decisions about my children’s attendance.

Anonymous wrote:Just chiming in to say both my kids’ schools are also running 95% normally. Today had full return to bus routes, teachers have been in every day, only 1-2 kids quarantining at a time.

This really is not the dystopian landscape the fear mongers would have you believe.

+1 I absolutely believe there are schools in MCPS that are currently in crisis. There are also schools that are not. We need MCPS to figure out which is which and move the crisis schools to virtual.

SO its 8:20, but no data for today posted.

You wrote:

some newspaper ought to do a data driven analysis of the MCPS policy choices and HOW they endangered students and staff.

But maybe you meant:

some newspaper ought to do a data driven analysis of the MCPS policy choices and WHETHER OR NOT they endangered students and staff.

Or are just asking for someone to find evidence supporting what you believe (in the absence of this evidence) to be true?

I honestly hope that some enterprising reporter at Bethesda Magazine or the Washington Post has filed a Maryland Public Information request to get these COVID numbers and more. The information will not come in time to help parents make decisions, but in 2 months, some newspaper ought to do a data driven analysis of the MCPS policy choices and how they endangered students and staff.

Anonymous wrote:Just chiming in to say both my kids’ schools are also running 95% normally. Today had full return to bus routes, teachers have been in every day, only 1-2 kids quarantining at a time.

This really is not the dystopian landscape the fear mongers would have you believe.

I’m the PP from 19:24. You are very lucky that your school is running almost normally. Sounds like you should stay in person. Ours should not. MCPS needs to stick to what they said and look at schools on a case by case basis. Your school should stay in person. Ours absolutely should not right now. Aside from the admin issue there isn’t a single Kindergarten teacher. More importantly, the bus that serves our FARM area isn’t running. There is no equity and many classes have little to no learning going on at all.

Anonymous wrote:Just chiming in to say both my kids’ schools are also running 95% normally. Today had full return to bus routes, teachers have been in every day, only 1-2 kids quarantining at a time.

This really is not the dystopian landscape the fear mongers would have you believe.

At YOUR school. This is what you believe is happening at YOUR school. How would you know if the resource teacher is out, or the counselor, or a few para educators, the counselor, reading specialist, etc. We have 63 students in quarantine (as of today) and many staff members out. Today (early dismissal), a bus showed up at 1:45. Dismissal was 12:55. I’m planning for my students in quarantine, planning for my students in-person, and pulling things for students in my colleague’s class (no sub). Not a fear monger, just a truth teller.

My school is missing teachers, students and quarantines classmates, buses, it’s chaos every day in the front office.