This is complete BS. Everyone will be red and in virtual until Spring. This is a way to be open and not be open at the same time. Congrats to everyone who pressed for virtual. This sucks big time. MCPS is a joke. Education has become a joke. Everyone knows that the green schools will be red in a matter of days.

So parents have to find childcare solutions in two-week increments? How is that possibly going to work?

Anonymous wrote:Where is the listing of schools by color on the MCPS website? I can't find anything on the Dashboard.

or where can you find your school's color?

this poster again.

I was able to find this list on the dashboard. It wasn't there earlier. (Why did I think it would be there at noon today??? Silly me!)

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Anonymous wrote:I thought they said there had to be a minimum of 10 cases? One only had 9 and was still sent to virtual

It's also discouraging to hear them announce the initial plan that says if a school hits the 5% metric, it would only be assessed for closure and not automatically trigger closure.

But I bet if we asked to see the receipts on all 11 of those assessments, MCPS would be left empty-handed. That was another lie from MCPS

I thought this was going to be based on verifiable results. They set up a system inviting fraudulent reporting.

Good point. Poorly planned and executed from multiple different perspectives

This is "worst in nation" stuff. They've set up a system whereby a small percentage of parents can keep a school held hostage on a day-by-day basis. How can anybody plan anything given these dynamics?

Are you suggesting that some parents will report COVID positive cases even if they are not true? Or report multiple fraudulent cases under various user accounts? In an attempt to switch that school to virtual?

I would hope they wouldn't do something so nefarious. I would also hope that MCPS would have the basic safeguards in place to prevent such a thing. I admittedly have not looked at the user form, but it feels like some user information should be captured to prevent duplicate entries?

I'm saying 5% is an awfully low bar to hit when you have no controls in place on reporting. At least health care-administered PCR tests are controlled. More than a few of those schools only need 1-2 cases to flip to red. Any parent in the school could just open up the form and say a Binax test popped.

They'll just balance the asshats who don't report positives.

Anonymous wrote:Who's sending their kids into a yellow zone? Show of hands..

I'm not even sending my kid into her "green" school because it's clear there's a reporting problem.

Our school is one of only 10 schools in MCPS (the least-positive 5%) that is reporting a <1.5% rate.

There is absolutely no way we have less COVID than all of the surrounding schools, which are reporting about double our rate. Actually, there's one way, but it's unlikelier than:

-Fluke
-Temporary "good luck"
-Especially terrible communication/reporting

The last bit is related to the one weird (but unlikely) reason we could actually have a rate that reflects half of the rate of neighboring schools.

That is that our school may have the highest proportion (1/3) of immigrants from a specific country, and thus:

-There's probably a lot of information being missed by or miscommunicated to them

and/or, much less likely IMO

-It's possible they've been far more cautious than average or a lot had COVID in early December or something

Even if so, that shouldn't explain the huge disparity.

I need to reach out to folks in the school that I know from that country to find out if any of this is the case.

But then again, it may have nothing to do with our specific demographics.

Anonymous wrote:How about having to actually upload actual results, as opposed to suspected positive? Believe it or not, people still do get colds, flus, etc. And docs are telling patients to just assume its covid in the absence of adequate tests.

To be fair, the form does say "use this form to report positive COVID-19 cases in students or staff"

If people are reporting suspected cases, they are abusing the system.

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Anonymous wrote:I thought they said there had to be a minimum of 10 cases? One only had 9 and was still sent to virtual

It's also discouraging to hear them announce the initial plan that says if a school hits the 5% metric, it would only be assessed for closure and not automatically trigger closure.

But I bet if we asked to see the receipts on all 11 of those assessments, MCPS would be left empty-handed. That was another lie from MCPS

I thought this was going to be based on verifiable results. They set up a system inviting fraudulent reporting.

Good point. Poorly planned and executed from multiple different perspectives

This is "worst in nation" stuff. They've set up a system whereby a small percentage of parents can keep a school held hostage on a day-by-day basis. How can anybody plan anything given these dynamics?

Are you suggesting that some parents will report COVID positive cases even if they are not true? Or report multiple fraudulent cases under various user accounts? In an attempt to switch that school to virtual?

I would hope they wouldn't do something so nefarious. I would also hope that MCPS would have the basic safeguards in place to prevent such a thing. I admittedly have not looked at the user form, but it feels like some user information should be captured to prevent duplicate entries?

I'm saying 5% is an awfully low bar to hit when you have no controls in place on reporting. At least health care-administered PCR tests are controlled. More than a few of those schools only need 1-2 cases to flip to red. Any parent in the school could just open up the form and say a Binax test popped.

How about having to actually upload actual results, as opposed to suspected positive? Believe it or not, people still do get colds, flus, etc. And docs are telling patients to just assume its covid in the absence of adequate tests.

MoCo show says that they have the list but their website is overloaded right now so I haven’t been able to access it.

Where is the listing of schools by color on the MCPS website? I can't find anything on the Dashboard.

or where can you find your school's color?

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Anonymous wrote:I thought they said there had to be a minimum of 10 cases? One only had 9 and was still sent to virtual

It's also discouraging to hear them announce the initial plan that says if a school hits the 5% metric, it would only be assessed for closure and not automatically trigger closure.

But I bet if we asked to see the receipts on all 11 of those assessments, MCPS would be left empty-handed. That was another lie from MCPS

I thought this was going to be based on verifiable results. They set up a system inviting fraudulent reporting.

Good point. Poorly planned and executed from multiple different perspectives

This is "worst in nation" stuff. They've set up a system whereby a small percentage of parents can keep a school held hostage on a day-by-day basis. How can anybody plan anything given these dynamics?

Are you suggesting that some parents will report COVID positive cases even if they are not true? Or report multiple fraudulent cases under various user accounts? In an attempt to switch that school to virtual?

I would hope they wouldn't do something so nefarious. I would also hope that MCPS would have the basic safeguards in place to prevent such a thing. I admittedly have not looked at the user form, but it feels like some user information should be captured to prevent duplicate entries?

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Anonymous wrote:I thought they said there had to be a minimum of 10 cases? One only had 9 and was still sent to virtual

It's also discouraging to hear them announce the initial plan that says if a school hits the 5% metric, it would only be assessed for closure and not automatically trigger closure.

But I bet if we asked to see the receipts on all 11 of those assessments, MCPS would be left empty-handed. That was another lie from MCPS

I thought this was going to be based on verifiable results. They set up a system inviting fraudulent reporting.

Good point. Poorly planned and executed from multiple different perspectives

This is "worst in nation" stuff. They've set up a system whereby a small percentage of parents can keep a school held hostage on a day-by-day basis. How can anybody plan anything given these dynamics?

If you think it through it won't be long before all are reporting red and then it will turn into something else. In theory, it's not meant to last.

I mistakenly believed them, but this all a fraud by design. They'll get and keep everybody in red until they reach a point where they abandon this system some time in spring.

I'll bet much sooner than spring sadly.

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Anonymous wrote:I thought they said there had to be a minimum of 10 cases? One only had 9 and was still sent to virtual

It's also discouraging to hear them announce the initial plan that says if a school hits the 5% metric, it would only be assessed for closure and not automatically trigger closure.

But I bet if we asked to see the receipts on all 11 of those assessments, MCPS would be left empty-handed. That was another lie from MCPS

I thought this was going to be based on verifiable results. They set up a system inviting fraudulent reporting.

Good point. Poorly planned and executed from multiple different perspectives

This is "worst in nation" stuff. They've set up a system whereby a small percentage of parents can keep a school held hostage on a day-by-day basis. How can anybody plan anything given these dynamics?

If you think it through it won't be long before all are reporting red and then it will turn into something else. In theory, it's not meant to last.

I mistakenly believed them, but this all a fraud by design. They'll get and keep everybody in red until they reach a point where they abandon this system some time in spring.

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Anonymous wrote:I thought they said there had to be a minimum of 10 cases? One only had 9 and was still sent to virtual

It's also discouraging to hear them announce the initial plan that says if a school hits the 5% metric, it would only be assessed for closure and not automatically trigger closure.

But I bet if we asked to see the receipts on all 11 of those assessments, MCPS would be left empty-handed. That was another lie from MCPS

I thought this was going to be based on verifiable results. They set up a system inviting fraudulent reporting.

Good point. Poorly planned and executed from multiple different perspectives

This is "worst in nation" stuff. They've set up a system whereby a small percentage of parents can keep a school held hostage on a day-by-day basis. How can anybody plan anything given these dynamics?

If you think it through it won't be long before all are reporting red and then it will turn into something else. In theory, it's not meant to last.

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Anonymous wrote:I thought they said there had to be a minimum of 10 cases? One only had 9 and was still sent to virtual

It's also discouraging to hear them announce the initial plan that says if a school hits the 5% metric, it would only be assessed for closure and not automatically trigger closure.

But I bet if we asked to see the receipts on all 11 of those assessments, MCPS would be left empty-handed. That was another lie from MCPS

I thought this was going to be based on verifiable results. They set up a system inviting fraudulent reporting.

Good point. Poorly planned and executed from multiple different perspectives

This is "worst in nation" stuff. They've set up a system whereby a small percentage of parents can keep a school held hostage on a day-by-day basis. How can anybody plan anything given these dynamics?