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Anonymous wrote:Stop complaining already. You wanted schools open in full as normal, you got it.

Yup! This is what you wanted TogetherAgainMCPS, deal with it.

We want “TogetherAgainMCPS brought to you by new and competent leadership”. We got the former but not the latter.

Please. It's not unreasonable to want MCPS, the public school system for the county that's home to NIH and FDA, to use *science* in determining guidelines, not whatever nonsense they deem will prevent any transmission of COVID in schools ever. God forbid they follow CDC or CHOP PolicyLab or the guidelines Ashish Jha and colleagues outlined for his kids' school system in Massachusetts, etc. Nope. Instead we get quarantines for any symptom, with no thought to practical considerations or any number of outcomes that matter for kids.

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Anonymous wrote:Stop complaining already. You wanted schools open in full as normal, you got it.

Uh...this is not normal.

Yes, it is. Only difference is kids are masked. They should always have been sent home if sick.

except often they aren't masked in fact one of my kid hates the fact that one kid who sits next to him takes off his mask during every single class multiple times

And cloth masks suck anyway, which is what most kids are wearing.

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In elementary? Yes, they are all over each other. I had three boys in a dog pile while waiting for busses last week. They have zero sense of personal space. This is what 5 days a week for everyone looks like. Without mandatory testing, this is the best we can hope for in terms of catching cases before we have full blown outbreaks.
—k teacher in a school with multiple classes quarantined

A FIFTEEN-MINUTE dog pile?

Common sense that kids are exposed sitting in a classroom for a 7-8 hour day. Come on use the big brain

They get exposed, and we have an 86% vaccination rate. That’s how we will get to herd immunity.

There is a 0% vaccination rate in Elementary school for students. You may be ok with exposure and covid as you'll just send your sick kid to school but others are not.

The teachers and staff are vaccinated. That’s how you protect those kids by vaccinating adults. If kids get exposed the consequence is minimal to the kids. Get a grip your kids will be exposed to all kinds of viruses. There is a major RSV outbreak currently, no vaccine against RSV. Children’s ICU is full with RSV infections.

I hope we turn our attention ruin to an RSV vaccine next. Does the virus just not affect boomers or the elderly enough?

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I hope we turn our attention ruin to an RSV vaccine next. Does the virus just not affect boomers or the elderly enough?

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Anonymous wrote:Stop complaining already. You wanted schools open in full as normal, you got it.

Yup! This is what you wanted TogetherAgainMCPS, deal with it.

We want “TogetherAgainMCPS brought to you by new and competent leadership”. We got the former but not the latter.

Please. It's not unreasonable to want MCPS, the public school system for the county that's home to NIH and FDA, to use *science* in determining guidelines, not whatever nonsense they deem will prevent any transmission of COVID in schools ever. God forbid they follow CDC or CHOP PolicyLab or the guidelines Ashish Jha and colleagues outlined for his kids' school system in Massachusetts, etc. Nope. Instead we get quarantines for any symptom, with no thought to practical considerations or any number of outcomes that matter for kids.

It was the same thing last year. Gayles made up his own metrics. There was no scientific basis, rationale, etc. They were just made up metrics--completely out of line nationally--designed to keep kids out of school. The district finally had to blow him off and ignore his guidance. Same thing now. Just made up guidance--completely out of line with every other district out there--based on nothing but a whim.

Exactly. Dr. Gayles knows better than CHOP. Sure. And for whatever reason, way too many hypereducated MCPS parents didn't even bother to fact check him or to care that he was literally making things up. And you're right, PP, it's exactly the same thing happening now, and I am having none of it. It's embarassing.

God, I'm going to get flamed for this, but in hyper-woke MoCo, it would have been bad form to question the decision making of a gay black Doctor. I 100% believe that's why some people in the county didn't speak up against him

Hell, even some of the people that did try to get more information from him in a respectful way were put on blast by him and his team.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Stop complaining already. You wanted schools open in full as normal, you got it.

Yup! This is what you wanted TogetherAgainMCPS, deal with it.

We want “TogetherAgainMCPS brought to you by new and competent leadership”. We got the former but not the latter.

Please. It's not unreasonable to want MCPS, the public school system for the county that's home to NIH and FDA, to use *science* in determining guidelines, not whatever nonsense they deem will prevent any transmission of COVID in schools ever. God forbid they follow CDC or CHOP PolicyLab or the guidelines Ashish Jha and colleagues outlined for his kids' school system in Massachusetts, etc. Nope. Instead we get quarantines for any symptom, with no thought to practical considerations or any number of outcomes that matter for kids.

It was the same thing last year. Gayles made up his own metrics. There was no scientific basis, rationale, etc. They were just made up metrics--completely out of line nationally--designed to keep kids out of school. The district finally had to blow him off and ignore his guidance. Same thing now. Just made up guidance--completely out of line with every other district out there--based on nothing but a whim.

Exactly. Dr. Gayles knows better than CHOP. Sure. And for whatever reason, way too many hypereducated MCPS parents didn't even bother to fact check him or to care that he was literally making things up. And you're right, PP, it's exactly the same thing happening now, and I am having none of it. It's embarassing.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Stop complaining already. You wanted schools open in full as normal, you got it.

Yup! This is what you wanted TogetherAgainMCPS, deal with it.

We want “TogetherAgainMCPS brought to you by new and competent leadership”. We got the former but not the latter.

Please. It's not unreasonable to want MCPS, the public school system for the county that's home to NIH and FDA, to use *science* in determining guidelines, not whatever nonsense they deem will prevent any transmission of COVID in schools ever. God forbid they follow CDC or CHOP PolicyLab or the guidelines Ashish Jha and colleagues outlined for his kids' school system in Massachusetts, etc. Nope. Instead we get quarantines for any symptom, with no thought to practical considerations or any number of outcomes that matter for kids.

It was the same thing last year. Gayles made up his own metrics. There was no scientific basis, rationale, etc. They were just made up metrics--completely out of line nationally--designed to keep kids out of school. The district finally had to blow him off and ignore his guidance. Same thing now. Just made up guidance--completely out of line with every other district out there--based on nothing but a whim.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Stop complaining already. You wanted schools open in full as normal, you got it.

Yup! This is what you wanted TogetherAgainMCPS, deal with it.

We want “TogetherAgainMCPS brought to you by new and competent leadership”. We got the former but not the latter.

Please. It's not unreasonable to want MCPS, the public school system for the county that's home to NIH and FDA, to use *science* in determining guidelines, not whatever nonsense they deem will prevent any transmission of COVID in schools ever. God forbid they follow CDC or CHOP PolicyLab or the guidelines Ashish Jha and colleagues outlined for his kids' school system in Massachusetts, etc. Nope. Instead we get quarantines for any symptom, with no thought to practical considerations or any number of outcomes that matter for kids.

It was the same thing last year. Gayles made up his own metrics. There was no scientific basis, rationale, etc. They were just made up metrics--completely out of line nationally--designed to keep kids out of school. The district finally had to blow him off and ignore his guidance. Same thing now. Just made up guidance--completely out of line with every other district out there--based on nothing but a whim.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Stop complaining already. You wanted schools open in full as normal, you got it.

Yup! This is what you wanted TogetherAgainMCPS, deal with it.

We want “TogetherAgainMCPS brought to you by new and competent leadership”. We got the former but not the latter.

What does that even mean?

(honestly curious; i don't follow the inner workings of any of these parent groups)

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Stop complaining already. You wanted schools open in full as normal, you got it.

Yup! This is what you wanted TogetherAgainMCPS, deal with it.

We want “TogetherAgainMCPS brought to you by new and competent leadership”. We got the former but not the latter.

Please. It's not unreasonable to want MCPS, the public school system for the county that's home to NIH and FDA, to use *science* in determining guidelines, not whatever nonsense they deem will prevent any transmission of COVID in schools ever. God forbid they follow CDC or CHOP PolicyLab or the guidelines Ashish Jha and colleagues outlined for his kids' school system in Massachusetts, etc. Nope. Instead we get quarantines for any symptom, with no thought to practical considerations or any number of outcomes that matter for kids.

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In elementary? Yes, they are all over each other. I had three boys in a dog pile while waiting for busses last week. They have zero sense of personal space. This is what 5 days a week for everyone looks like. Without mandatory testing, this is the best we can hope for in terms of catching cases before we have full blown outbreaks.
—k teacher in a school with multiple classes quarantined

A FIFTEEN-MINUTE dog pile?

Not PP but it’s no wonder these kids are bouncing off the walls after being offered chocolate milk and apple juice twice a day. Maybe if MCPS cut back on the sugar offereings these kids wouldn’t be so hyper all the time.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Stop complaining already. You wanted schools open in full as normal, you got it.

Yup! This is what you wanted TogetherAgainMCPS, deal with it.

We want “TogetherAgainMCPS brought to you by new and competent leadership”. We got the former but not the latter.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Stop complaining already. You wanted schools open in full as normal, you got it.

Uh...this is not normal.

Yes, it is. Only difference is kids are masked. They should always have been sent home if sick.

except often they aren't masked in fact one of my kid hates the fact that one kid who sits next to him takes off his mask during every single class multiple times

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In elementary? Yes, they are all over each other. I had three boys in a dog pile while waiting for busses last week. They have zero sense of personal space. This is what 5 days a week for everyone looks like. Without mandatory testing, this is the best we can hope for in terms of catching cases before we have full blown outbreaks.
—k teacher in a school with multiple classes quarantined

A FIFTEEN-MINUTE dog pile?

Common sense that kids are exposed sitting in a classroom for a 7-8 hour day. Come on use the big brain

They get exposed, and we have an 86% vaccination rate. That’s how we will get to herd immunity.

There is a 0% vaccination rate in Elementary school for students. You may be ok with exposure and covid as you'll just send your sick kid to school but others are not.

The teachers and staff are vaccinated. That’s how you protect those kids by vaccinating adults. If kids get exposed the consequence is minimal to the kids. Get a grip your kids will be exposed to all kinds of viruses. There is a major RSV outbreak currently, no vaccine against RSV. Children’s ICU is full with RSV infections.

One vaccinated teacher in a classroom of 25-35 students is not particularly helpful. Kids can get and spread covid. Teachers can get and spread covid even vaccinated. You can deny covid all you want but stop complaining about the absolute minimum in precautions.

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In elementary? Yes, they are all over each other. I had three boys in a dog pile while waiting for busses last week. They have zero sense of personal space. This is what 5 days a week for everyone looks like. Without mandatory testing, this is the best we can hope for in terms of catching cases before we have full blown outbreaks.
—k teacher in a school with multiple classes quarantined

A FIFTEEN-MINUTE dog pile?

Common sense that kids are exposed sitting in a classroom for a 7-8 hour day. Come on use the big brain

They get exposed, and we have an 86% vaccination rate. That’s how we will get to herd immunity.

There is a 0% vaccination rate in Elementary school for students. You may be ok with exposure and covid as you'll just send your sick kid to school but others are not.

The teachers and staff are vaccinated. That’s how you protect those kids by vaccinating adults. If kids get exposed the consequence is minimal to the kids. Get a grip your kids will be exposed to all kinds of viruses. There is a major RSV outbreak currently, no vaccine against RSV. Children’s ICU is full with RSV infections.