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Anonymous wrote:I like the update! I prefer case-by-case basis. I applaud how MCPS is handling this, although I think this announcement should have gone out Wednesday night with the updated covid count.

+1. Keep schools open.

+2

+the majority of sensible people who opposed closing schools while everything else remains open

And so glad they're bringing back the 11 schools. My kids used to be at NCC and it was crazy to close the entire school for 15 cases. There are probably more kids out for non-Covid reasons on any given day.

Yayyyy!!! School closures should be a last resort. Thank you MCPS for finally coming to your senses.

Buffoons

They should required negative tests to enter school buildings.



Since Omicron will recede in a couple of weeks, they can spend that much on bloody tests.

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Anonymous wrote:Everyone trying to avoid virtual missed 3 instructional days this week by not being virtual.

Except, of course,other Virtual Academy was also closed due to inclement weather.

That's more proof of their incompetence

Anonymous wrote:I hope teachers and staff know that kids will report to school with COVID. They may have minor symptoms but teachers/staff may not.

We've masked for all this time, gotten vaxxed. I will not keep my kid home when schools are open. Especially given that no real plan is in place to educate kids who have minor/asymptomatic cases. Are they to stay home for days on end to protect a school that MCPS won't protect?!?

Of course we know about parents sending sick kids; people always send sick kids to school! We had a child who said she’d been sick all weekend test positive within 15 minutes of school opening this week. Who knows how many kids she infected on her bus.

Anonymous wrote:"We said we would use a 5% threshold to consider a transition to virtual learning but then too many schools surpassed that threshold so we decided not to use it after all. Stay tuned for more last-minute, unplanned, spur-of-the-minute decisions based on various factors for us to know and you not to know. Keep your notifications turned on because anything could change at any moment based on anything we decide is significant."

This.

As a staff member, it would have been nice to have received an email about all of this before reading it elsewhere.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I like the update! I prefer case-by-case basis. I applaud how MCPS is handling this, although I think this announcement should have gone out Wednesday night with the updated covid count.

+1. Keep schools open.

+2

+the majority of sensible people who opposed closing schools while everything else remains open

And so glad they're bringing back the 11 schools. My kids used to be at NCC and it was crazy to close the entire school for 15 cases. There are probably more kids out for non-Covid reasons on any given day.

I hope teachers and staff know that kids will report to school with COVID. They may have minor symptoms but teachers/staff may not.

We've masked for all this time, gotten vaxxed. I will not keep my kid home when schools are open. Especially given that no real plan is in place to educate kids who have minor/asymptomatic cases. Are they to stay home for days on end to protect a school that MCPS won't protect?!?

Anonymous wrote:It"s pretty obvious they're saying "no virtual unless we're forced into it because there's not enough staff to stay open."

Exactly. If only they just said what they mean. But here we are with “multiple measures.” Will we even know how many schools are open or closed? And for how long?

We are so happy to see this update! Upgrade your masks everyone and go to school!

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Anonymous wrote:TL, DR " We still don't have a plan and don't know what to do."

In actuality, they are saying that they have taken this long to finally decide to copy what DCPS decided to do 3 weeks ago.

What a mess. How incompetent can these people be?

I mean, maybe if they hadn't given themselves an extra week of vacation right when these decisions needed to be made, we could have returned on Monday to an actual plan and some clarity.

I just can't believe that folks who have explicitly been hired as "leaders" are allowed to walk away from their responsibilities during a crisis. Can you imagine if any other senior leader tried that? "Sorry, FEMA will not be responding to the hurricane until next week because we're on vacation. Good luck!"

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Anonymous wrote:OK "high vaccination rates" are not "measures" the school system is implementing. When MCPS requires vaccination for all staff and students (unless otherwise exempted) then we will be looking at measures the school system is implementing.

To be fair, MCPS is actually running a ton of vaccine clinics and outreach. I'll allow it.

The county health department is running the clinics on their premises.

Anonymous wrote:Everyone trying to avoid virtual missed 3 instructional days this week by not being virtual.

Except, of course,other Virtual Academy was also closed due to inclement weather.

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Anonymous wrote:I can confirm from Central Office that all 11 virtual schools will resume in-person learning on Monday.

Yay!!!

Then why wouldn’t they just say that? Why this Sunday nonsense?