Are you hearing of lots of instructors calling in sick?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Covid, colds and flu's are going around and no one is masking and students are going to classes sick. Read here how parents encourage their kids to go to class sick. Not surprising at all.

+1000

DC graduated from college last year but hears from friends still there that covid is rampant, NO students are willing to test, and DC's friends' colleges have largely stopped handing out very low-cost/no-cost covid tests. No student wants to test anyway--they fear a positive test will mean they have to isolate for a week or more--which is totally not the case any more, per CDC guidance. But the kids are misinformed or not informed at all.

This is what happens when people decide a pandemic is magically "over" just because they want it to be. And the current dominant variant of covid is much more contagious than earlier variants. Generally the symptoms are not as bad but at the same time it is more highly transmissible. God help students with any tendencies to get sick or with any pre-existing conditions.

If you want instructors back on the job those instructors should mask all the time. Oh, wait. Students will say they can't understand a masked lecturer yet students themselves won't mask so the instructor can go wtihout a mask while talking.

This could be curbed and instructors could get back to work if colleges stopped the "let it rip" hands-off nonsense and said instructors can require students to mask in their classes if the profs want. Go on, flame away, DCUM. Claim that it's no big deal. But if you do that, don't come back to complain that your kid is sick or your kid's professors are out sick "too often."

totally agree. there's a lot they can do without shutting down, or sending everyone into isolation and should do it! The less chaos the better. We're paying a lot for these four years - it's expensive!

Yup---so much that they could be doing that would still let the kids have a normal experience. Simply wearing masks during classes would go a long way. Opening windows in the classrooms/lecture halls as well, or better yet simply upgrading the HVAC to have full HEPA filtration---a great investment in the future of everyone's wellbeing

Nobody is doing isolation anymore---but I'm happy my kid is in a single this year that connects to another single with a bathroom in between. Much easier to stay healthy when someone sick isn't sleeping in your room or sharing a communal bathroom

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:How do you even know this, OP? On the radar of things my kid wants to talk about when we call, a sick professor is not on the list.

Can you post what's on your talking list?

On my list:
How are your classes going?

My kid answered with:
"I was bummed my Econ class got canceled today and last Monday. My professor has covid. There's a lot of people with covid so I'm being really careful"

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:How do you even know this, OP? On the radar of things my kid wants to talk about when we call, a sick professor is not on the list.

Can you post what's on your talking list?

On my list:
How are your classes going?

My kid answered with:
"I was bummed my Econ class got canceled today and last Monday. My professor has covid. There's a lot of people with covid so I'm being really careful"

+1 LOL.

Me: How were your classes today?
Kid: History professor cancelled AGAIN due to illness. I didn’t check my email early, went to the class and no one was there.

[Anonymous]

Yeah most of the faculty in my department had it last month.

I wear a mask a lot and am often the only one.

I also Zoomed for a few days when I was exposed 3 times in the same day.

I am aware of colleagues making class online and some cancelling.

It happens.