Per MCPD:
For Immediate Release: Wednesday, January 12, 2022
Schools
Montgomery County Public Schools Director of Systemwide Athletics Jeffrey Sullivan released a statement regarding an incident that occurred at a JV girls’ basketball game between Sherwood and Albert Einstein on Saturday, January 8.
According to the letter, members of both teams accused one another of making racist and derogatory comments during the course of the game.
Montgomery County Public Schools sent the following message to parents and students on Sunday afternoon:
Dear MCPS Community,
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Per Montgomery County:
For Immediate Release: Thursday, January 6, 2022
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Earlier today in a media briefing, MCPS informed the public that it will be sorting schools into three categories– green, yellow, and red.
The categories will identify whether individual schools are below the 5% threshold (5% of the population of students and staff testing positive for Covid-19 in a 14 day period).
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Updated at 10am with additional information
Green- under 3% report testing positive within the last 14 days
On January 2, MCPS released an update to their Return to R.A.I.S.E. plan for school Athletics and announced that spectators will be prohibited from attending MCPS sporting events until January 16.
MCPS has also canceled all overnight travel until January 16.
A winter storm warning has been issued for Central and SE MoCo. A Winter Storm Advisory is in effect for NW MoCo (Germantown, Clarksburg, Poolesville, Damascus, etc.).
This is the opposite of what we’re used to, as areas further north are usually expected to get more snow. For the areas with a warning, 3-7 inches of snow is expected.
New communication was sent out to the MCPS community by MCPS Athletics. The letter to the community can be seen below:
Dear MCPS Community:
Montgomery County Public Schools sent out a community message on Friday afternoon with updated guidelines for sports and afterschool activities. The letter states that all-in person, non-athletic afterschool activities have been suspended from December 20 through January 7, though community events and day care can continue as scheduled.
Athletic practices and games can continue as scheduled but all athletic games scheduled to take place during Winter Break (December 23-January 2) are now cancelled, though optional practices are allowed.
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MCPS has posted an important message on the homepage of its website notifying the community that the school system and local police have been made aware of viral online threats that have been going on across the country.
In the message, which can be seen below, MCPS states that there is no indication that the threats have any credibility.