Article on Georgia Schools Show they Can Reopen Safely
![[Post New]](/jforum/templates/default/images/icon_minipost_new.gif){kind=icon}
Anonymous
See this pisses me off as a teacher. School cases are underreported and under tested because parents don’t want schools to close. Teachers said “it’s not safe to be in the building with that many staff and kids,” were forced in anyway, and when they contract covid the community wants to know what “behaviors” they did that caused it. WORKING IN SCHOOLS WITH ASYMPTOMATIC CARRIERS WHO SPREAD CAUSED IT. |
Anonymous
|
Yup. We moved temporarily to a school system in GA. We are 5 days a week. There have been some school closures for a few days to a week at a time (not my kids school) usually when they hit 4 cases. Sadly what is happening is teachers are bringing it in. They seem to be the most reckless of the group.
My place of residence is Loudoun and I'm so happy we made the temporary move. People in NoVA are scared of their own shadow and the teachers are very lazy. |
Anonymous
The teachers are getting it from asymptomatic kids in school The kids are asymptotic so they aren’t testing and their numbers don’t report to school totals Teachers develop symptoms and test Quit calling the people risking their health for teach your carpetbagger kids “lazy” |
Anonymous
That data doesn't demonstrate that the Woodson outbreak involved a student. That data demonstrates that a student reported having COVID on Nov 13th. VDH documents 5 cases at Woodson traced back to the same source- teachers. Fairfax County Health dept has talked about this too- they said that teachers let down their guard around each other- they take off their masks, they go out to lunch, they eat together- etc. And of course there will continue to be positive cases. But so long as there is not significant transmission in the schools, there is no reason for schools not to be open. The idea that the schools are teaming with asymptomatic kids who are masked and spaced somehow transmitting to teachers???? There are simply zero facts to support that inflammatory rhetoric. |
Anonymous
I don’t think they are contracting it at school. |
Anonymous
That’s the catch : they aren’t distanced the whole time. Mask wearing is spotty. Kids pull them down, they slide down. Only people who don’t work in schools think the mitigation is playing out in real life exactly how it claims it will on paper. And in fact it makes teachers jobs harder because now people like you think “you couldn’t have possibly gotten it in school, there’s mitigation” when the mitigation plans are pure theater. |
Anonymous
There are teachers in Loudoun schools right now who are under quarantine from student exposure. |
Anonymous
right- b/c the school has taken a very conservative approach and if there is a positive case, they send the contacts into quarantine. Being in quarantine does not equal contracting covid. I have been quarantined twice for possible exposure- both times negative. Its not fun, but its fine. (and quite frankly, for people who claim they are being uber careful and not going anywhere/ seeing anyone outside their household, etc- that's all quarantine is- wait it out at home.) |
Anonymous
You think quarantining after a known exposure is conservative ? It’s like... basic covid protocol |
Anonymous
This entire thread is ridiculous. Blaming teachers, who told you that schools would be unsafe, for contracting COVID. Unless you are testing everyone (they’re not) you have no proof that students are not transmitting the virus to staff. Contact tracers can’t say where 80% of infections originate, but we should believe that schools are totally different from any other building (governed by the laws of science) and it is simply impossible for this one virus to spread there. Sure, schools have large outbreaks of colds and flus every year, but because we want schools open, this virus is totally different! Please start blaming doctors and nurses for spreading the virus in their workplace. They probably caught it at a bar or restaurant, and now they’re spreading it at work! Just look how many sick people there are in the hospital. It’s disgraceful. |
Anonymous
This is obviously false. If kids were spreading it to teachers at school, they'd also be spreading to classmates, who would be spreading it to their parents. Which would cause the family to get tested, and the kids to be identified. And would also be leading to huge outbreaks in the community. But places that have had schools open since August with precautions have not seen this. Community cases in Georgia went DOWN after schools opened. Cases where I live remained low until early October when they started going up in all age groups and across the country. |
Anonymous
| In my district, teachers had a barbecue that led to a huge outbreak causing the whole school to get shut down for 2 weeks. |
Anonymous
Being in quarantine isn't the same as contracting it. |