I’ve honestly given up. Unless they approve vaccines for kids by like tomorrow the timeline doesn’t even matter. I’m much more content since changing my mindset to when not if for when DD gets Covid.
Post by bookqueen15 on Aug 30, 2021 17:01:41 GMT -5
I posted last week about my DS and then DD getting COVID. Well today my husband and I both woke up with symptoms and we tested positive today unfortunately. We tried our best to distance and wear masks around the kids but pretty hard for when they're only 3 and 7. Our quarantine really feels never ending! We are both vaccinated and so far have mild symptoms and hopefully that continues since my DH is immune suppressed but he did get his booster a couple weeks ago.
And my DDs interest in doing her school work at home is now gone and she was very difficult about doing her work today, it's going to be a LONG week!
She was not, she said, explaining that she has had “adverse reactions to vaccines in the past” and that a doctor advised her against getting inoculated against the coronavirus.
H, DS(5) and I went to DS' kinder open house tonight. His teacher is vaxxed and is impatiently waiting for the kids vaccine too. (What a relief!) She has a school age kid and has had family die from covid.
It was hard to be surrounded by so many people again! My anxiety was through the roof just being in the building. Not helping was there were way too many grown ass adults improperly masked there. We are 18 months into this.
CCPS (Carroll County Public Schools in Maryland) voted two weeks ago not to require masks in school. It's "Optional". State BOE voted in a special session to require all schools in the state to mask. This was approved by Gov. Hogan, but needs to be ratified at another meeting, and the earliest it could take effect would be 9/15. School starts 9/8 here. Tonight the CCPS BOE met in a special session to vote on if they were going to reverse their decision before the first day of school and require masks for all staff and studentes. THEY VOTED AGAINST MASKS AGAIN. It's optional until the state forces CCPS to require them. The amount of misinformation and complete BULLSHIT uttered at that meeting was staggering. FUCK THE CCPS BOE.
(my 9 year old will mask, her closest friend will be masked, and our other school aged contacts have all said they will mask in school)
The community FB page is also a cesspool of anti-maskers now.
Still no guidance on quarantine and exposure protocols. Teachers will be allowed to individually choose to use Schoolology or Google Classrooms, so kids will potentially need to learn and use two different platforms, and as of now the plan is for teachers to assist students who are out on quarantine AFTER HOURS (which will never happen because #Contract).
She was not, she said, explaining that she has had “adverse reactions to vaccines in the past” and that a doctor advised her against getting inoculated against the coronavirus.
If this is truly the reason they revoked custody, I think this is massive overreach (and I am a HUGE vaccine advocate). I don’t even know that I believe her about the reactions and I still think it is wrong to take custody away, if that is truly the only reason.
Post by suburbanzookeeper on Aug 30, 2021 21:56:58 GMT -5
Our first day was the 11th and we received our first positive COVID letter for DS's class. We are mandatory indoor masking and have been since the start of school... we asked who was absent today and three kids were out including the child who sits next to him.
I honestly don’t understand why we’re opening schools with the Delta surge and being so close to getting these kids vaccines.
There were so many opinion pieces back in April that covid, like all viruses, was going to move into whatever population it could — so while case counts overall might plunge due to the vaccine, it would surge for the unvaccinated. And yet, most of those pieces and warnings from health officials didn’t address the **very large population** of kids excluded from the vaccine. So now they’re shocked? It’s maddening.
Our health department ordered a Catholic grade school here to go remote for at least two weeks due to such high case numbers from the school. We have not only a P-12 mask mandate, but now a statewide indoor mask mandate. I am curious how well this school was enforcing it.
Out of curiosity, so I am prepared, how would you handle this type of scenario? This is all hypothetical at this point.
You have one kid in school, everyone is masked. You are notified of a positive case in the classroom. Not considered a close contact for whatever reason.
Do you still send your kid to school? Keep them home? Do you let them play with friends in their normal pod (masked, unmasked)? Let them do their one other activity (indoor but masked)?
I feel like first step would be for testing, and if it's negative do you just KOKO? I have no idea what the guidance is for this because we've been fairly locked down.
I honestly don’t understand why we’re opening schools with the Delta surge and being so close to getting these kids vaccines.
There were so many opinion pieces back in April that covid, like all viruses, was going to move into whatever population it could — so while case counts overall might plunge due to the vaccine, it would surge for the unvaccinated. And yet, most of those pieces and warnings from health officials didn’t address the **very large population** of kids excluded from the vaccine. So now they’re shocked? It’s maddening.
I feel like it’s because we now know the harm of kids not being in school after this long. If we knew then what we knew now, I bet every school would have reopened last year, or much earlier than they did last year. Instead, the push is to open this year to make up for what was basically a lost year and we are facing Delta instead. It sucks.
Out of curiosity, so I am prepared, how would you handle this type of scenario? This is all hypothetical at this point.
You have one kid in school, everyone is masked. You are notified of a positive case in the classroom. Not considered a close contact for whatever reason.
Do you still send your kid to school? Keep them home? Do you let them play with friends in their normal pod (masked, unmasked)? Let them do their one other activity (indoor but masked)?
I feel like first step would be for testing, and if it's negative do you just KOKO? I have no idea what the guidance is for this because we've been fairly locked down.
In my school district, the guidance is to continue sending your child to school masked and quarantine masked until you get a negative test.
Out of curiosity, so I am prepared, how would you handle this type of scenario? This is all hypothetical at this point.
You have one kid in school, everyone is masked. You are notified of a positive case in the classroom. Not considered a close contact for whatever reason.
Do you still send your kid to school? Keep them home? Do you let them play with friends in their normal pod (masked, unmasked)? Let them do their one other activity (indoor but masked)?
I feel like first step would be for testing, and if it's negative do you just KOKO? I have no idea what the guidance is for this because we've been fairly locked down.
Disclaimer - DD1 was infected in her masked and distanced classroom last year despite not being closest to the infected child. Even with Delta, I would test about 3-5 days after exposure with PCR, hunker down until you get the result and then if negative, go back to school. Hopefully PCR turnaround times are quick in your area? It is usually 24-48 hours here.
Velar Fricative, honestly, I have no idea how fast turnaround is. We haven't tested once (lol, I am jinxing myself here) because we were hunkered down and didn't do anything to speak of. And we've been lucky.
I was thinking I may buy some of those BinaxNOW tests to have on hand for this scenario, but then also getting a plan in place for official testing.
School guidance has said if she's not a close contact that she can continue going to school, but I feel like if there is a positive IN her classroom, I am going to want some reassurance that she's negative.
My oldest is supposed to go on a class trip to DC in about a month, rescheduled from last year. Of course the situation now is worse than it ever was last year, but the school is holding firm and not postponing. I cannot imagine a scenario that keeps my child covid free after a 12 hour bus trip, rooming with classmates, eating indoors, visiting several indoor sights, a "party" on a boat, and then another 12 hours on a bus home.
Yesterday we got an email on the updated procedures and the teacher coordinating everything celebrated the fact that temperature checks are no longer required. They are requiring a negative test, but it's a snapshot in time 3-5 days before they are to leave. There's some line about quarantining 14 days before departure, like anyone at all is doing that.
She's not going, we can get back nearly all our money, but even if we had to eat the cost, I can't send her. I settled that in my mind weeks ago but finally told her yesterday. I promised her a trip to NYC to see Hamilton once she's vaccinated and the entire situation is less risky.
Out of curiosity, so I am prepared, how would you handle this type of scenario? This is all hypothetical at this point.
You have one kid in school, everyone is masked. You are notified of a positive case in the classroom. Not considered a close contact for whatever reason.
Do you still send your kid to school? Keep them home? Do you let them play with friends in their normal pod (masked, unmasked)? Let them do their one other activity (indoor but masked)?
I feel like first step would be for testing, and if it's negative do you just KOKO? I have no idea what the guidance is for this because we've been fairly locked down.
I’d test now and again in 6-7 days.
And just to throw it out there - there’s no such thing as a “pod” if the kids are attending school and in other activities as well. Not saying that he can’t play with friends, but I’d do that only masked going forward regardless of this exposure.
Post by mysteriouswife on Aug 31, 2021 8:36:24 GMT -5
Does this even go here? I have no idea, but it’s an @ post so maybe you can help.
DS (6) is having horrible nose bleeds. He was tested for covid 1.5 weeks ago and it was negative. (Other symptoms caused concern) not sure if correlation is causation. The only other change is his daily mask usage now he’s in school. Not wearing the mask is not an option. Any tips or suggestions on how to help stop the nose bleeds? I feel silly going to the pediatrician for this. He’s been a chronic nose bleeder since early on. They have just ramped up to daily. We started the humidifier and I ordered some little noses saline spray. We tried elevating his head, but he’s sleeps like a wild person. He is never where we left him.
Does this even go here? I have no idea, but it’s an @ post so maybe you can help.
DS (6) is having horrible nose bleeds. He was tested for covid 1.5 weeks ago and it was negative. (Other symptoms caused concern) not sure if correlation is causation. The only other change is his daily mask usage now he’s in school. Not wearing the mask is not an option. Any tips or suggestions on how to help stop the nose bleeds? I feel silly going to the pediatrician for this. He’s been a chronic nose bleeder since early on. They have just ramped up to daily. We started the humidifier and I ordered some little noses saline spray. We tried elevating his head, but he’s sleeps like a wild person. He is never where we left him.
Use a q-tip to gently smear a bit of vaseline in his nose.
aspentosh, if the guidance is that my kid can still attend school, I am still sending my kid to school but paying close attention to symptoms. I would also rapid test them.
But I am pretty anti- extreme quarantine scenarios because they are so disruptive to learning. And after 18 months of this I am less tolerant of my kids missing out on big chunks of learning if they don't have to. So I am never going to hold my kid out if the quarantine guidelines do not require me to do so. I am just being honest of where my headspace is right now.
I would pause on social stuff because that is not necessary.
Does this even go here? I have no idea, but it’s an @ post so maybe you can help.
DS (6) is having horrible nose bleeds. He was tested for covid 1.5 weeks ago and it was negative. (Other symptoms caused concern) not sure if correlation is causation. The only other change is his daily mask usage now he’s in school. Not wearing the mask is not an option. Any tips or suggestions on how to help stop the nose bleeds? I feel silly going to the pediatrician for this. He’s been a chronic nose bleeder since early on. They have just ramped up to daily. We started the humidifier and I ordered some little noses saline spray. We tried elevating his head, but he’s sleeps like a wild person. He is never where we left him.
Use a q-tip to gently smear a bit of vaseline in his nose.
I have no idea why I forgot this. Thank you. We did this a few winters ago when we did carry him to the pediatrician for weekly nose bleeds.
Out of curiosity, so I am prepared, how would you handle this type of scenario? This is all hypothetical at this point.
You have one kid in school, everyone is masked. You are notified of a positive case in the classroom. Not considered a close contact for whatever reason.
Do you still send your kid to school? Keep them home? Do you let them play with friends in their normal pod (masked, unmasked)? Let them do their one other activity (indoor but masked)?
I feel like first step would be for testing, and if it's negative do you just KOKO? I have no idea what the guidance is for this because we've been fairly locked down.
I personally will be keeping my unvaccinated 8 year old home if there’s a single case in or related to his classroom (sibling, etc). But my family has a situation that warrants extreme caution as my husband is immunocompromised and hasn’t yet been medically able to be vaccinated.
If virtual were an option at all we would be utilizing it. Instead he’ll be going to school, but put alone in a room for lunch, recess, snack and gym because our pediatrician deemed those too dangerous.
Out of curiosity, so I am prepared, how would you handle this type of scenario? This is all hypothetical at this point.
You have one kid in school, everyone is masked. You are notified of a positive case in the classroom. Not considered a close contact for whatever reason.
Do you still send your kid to school? Keep them home? Do you let them play with friends in their normal pod (masked, unmasked)? Let them do their one other activity (indoor but masked)?
I feel like first step would be for testing, and if it's negative do you just KOKO? I have no idea what the guidance is for this because we've been fairly locked down.
One consideration is that if the school doesn't require the child to quarantine, he may not be able to have the absences excused and he may not be able to access whatever distance learning resources are available to quarantined students.
I mean, I guess you could always say the child was exposed somewhere besides school?
As far as what I'm comfortable doing, I'm not going to keep my child home for every positive case in her class. I'd love to, but realistically I won't even know about all of them. Also, the way they're assigning work for kids at home quarantining is not sufficient to make me feel like she's getting the same material. If I keep her out too often, she'll be too far behind.