MONTGOMERY COUNTY, MD: "Some parents are growing increasingly frustrated with the current Montgomery County Public Schools (MCPS) quarantine policy after approximately 5,000 students have been quarantined this school year. According to the official county policy, unvaccinated close contacts of symptomatic and positive rapid test students must quarantine for 10 days. MCPS added that the students must serve the full 10-day quarantine and cannot test out to return before completing the fully designated quarantine time. Some parents in the county, including Margery Smelkinson, have voiced outrage about the policy. She and others have said MCPS has been far too strict in determining who must quarantine, with the county allegedly making students stay home based on broad and general symptoms.
"Someone in his class had a headache and most of the grade was quarantined," Smelkinson said on Wednesday. "Covid symptoms are not unique, so this could have thousands of kids out of school very quickly. They’re still over-identifying students and they’re still sending whole classrooms home. It’s unsustainable. We need a different solution.”
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