Maybe your kid is back in school this year and maybe you've been pulling your hair out over the absurd rules he's being forced to endure under the new COVID regime. But whatever you're going through probably isn't as bad as Montgomery County, Maryland:

The first week of school in Montgomery County, Maryland, saw 1,000 students, faculty, and staff sent home to quarantine thanks to last-minute rules promulgated after students had already returned to the classroom.

The rules laid out that any "single symptom" should be presumptively treated as COVID-19 and result in the quarantine of that "sick" student and all of his or her close classmates.

In practice, this meant entire classes being sent home for one complaint about a headache.

Multiple parents, meanwhile, publicly confirmed these accounts:

Just a gentle reminder: Maryland is listed as a "low regulation" homeschool state by the Home School Legal Defense Association!

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