MCPS Says Regular Hand-Washing will be Encouraged, but at Ronald McNair Elem. no hand sanitizer in any hallway stations, ran out of hand wipes, paper towels, toilet paper.

 

The Montgomery County Public Schools website has a COVID-19 Information webpage.   

Under the section titled HEALTH AND SAFETY PROCEDURES, the Board of Education lists what will be done by MCPS building services staff during this COVID-19 pandemic.  The information posted to the MCPS website is shown in the image.  

Note the description of building services staff duties related to COVID-19 Health and Safety Procedures is very, very vague.  

The Parents' Coalition has been looking into what these Health and Safety Procedures look like in actual schools. 

We have been informed that at Ronald McNair Elementary School each classroom was given one container of hand wipes and those are running out.  There is no hand sanitizer in the hallway hand sanitizer stations, and some bathrooms are out of toilet paper and paper towels. 

How can regular hand-washing be encouraged when the supplies needed to perform that action are not available to students? 

Hand sanitizer stations placed throughout the building are only useful if they are kept supplied with hand sanitizer.