MCPS Says Staff will "Regularly Clean and Disinfect," but at Whitman High School that means once a month.

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 Whitman High School in Bethesda, for example, the building is cleaned once a month.

We note the MCPS description of "cleaning" does not mention the removal of trash in the building.  We have learned that the trash at Whitman High School is also not being removed on a daily basis.  

Parents might want to ask the Board of Education for clarification on what is actually meant by "regularly clean and disinfect all high-touch areas" so that they can understand exactly what the Board of Education has put in place in schools during the COVID-19 pandemic.