New 2022-2023 Covid Plan and Guidelines

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Anonymous wrote:Listen, we are in for a train wreck if they don’t get rid of the required 5 day isolation. We do NOT have any subs. We have major community spread right now. We need to be able to decide when we as teachers feel okay to come in. Having to cover for so many colleagues was a major part of teacher burnout last year.

Teachers who get covid should stay out until a negative test. Simple!

It’s not simple if there are no substitutes available! The kids keep on coming in every day, and we don’t have enough adults to look after them.

Then parents need to step up and help. Problem solved.

No the district needs to pay subs more. There is no system in place for volunteer patent subs.

They need to pay more but even if they do it’s a thankless job that few want. Why don’t you do it?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Listen, we are in for a train wreck if they don’t get rid of the required 5 day isolation. We do NOT have any subs. We have major community spread right now. We need to be able to decide when we as teachers feel okay to come in. Having to cover for so many colleagues was a major part of teacher burnout last year.

I’m a teacher too and I’m tired of going to work sick whether it be from Covid or something else. I’m done sacrificing my body because the school district can’t get it together. I will not go to work sick. Simple.

That’s fine. You can use your sick days however you like.

DP. I don’t think you are a MCPS teacher if you think you can use your sick days however you want. Formally, you can stay out for 4 days without a doctor’s note. Informally, if you don’t have Covid, admin will pressure you to come in because there aren’t enough subs. Especially if you want to take off a Friday or Monday. I scheduled a procedure on a Thursday afternoon when we had Monday off so I could have 4 full days to recover without impacting my colleagues. I put the sub request in a month in advance. Submitted the leave slip the same day. My principal waited until after school on that Wed to sign it because it never got picked up.

I say this as a (tenured) mcps teacher…it is your leave to take. Principal doesn’t have to sign the slip, you put it in, you put the job in the sub system. You can talk to your team if you’re so inclined. But it is your leave to take. As long as we as teachers let admin think they have to give us permission for things, we will never get anywhere.
Now, we should still have covid leave but that’s another issue.

Another teacher here. Yes! We had a principal for several years who tried to deny people their leave. It wasn’t until she tried to do it with several more confident teachers that she mostly stopped.

You’d get more leave if you worked year round and without the constant breaks. Would you prefer that?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:First of all, we can all agree that CDC guidelines have been designed to get workers back on the job to pad the wallets of the already wealthy, not for acute public health reasons. Second, the CDC is about to conveniently change their guidelines right as kids go back to school to favor…wait for it..NOT public health, but keeping low wage workers at work. Shocker!

Covid is a cold. People have been going to work and school with colds forever.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:First of all, we can all agree that CDC guidelines have been designed to get workers back on the job to pad the wallets of the already wealthy, not for acute public health reasons. Second, the CDC is about to conveniently change their guidelines right as kids go back to school to favor…wait for it..NOT public health, but keeping low wage workers at work. Shocker!

Covid is a cold. People have been going to work and school with colds forever.

How are the people that died from covid at clocking in on time each day?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Listen, we are in for a train wreck if they don’t get rid of the required 5 day isolation. We do NOT have any subs. We have major community spread right now. We need to be able to decide when we as teachers feel okay to come in. Having to cover for so many colleagues was a major part of teacher burnout last year.

I’m a teacher too and I’m tired of going to work sick whether it be from Covid or something else. I’m done sacrificing my body because the school district can’t get it together. I will not go to work sick. Simple.

That’s fine. You can use your sick days however you like.

DP. I don’t think you are a MCPS teacher if you think you can use your sick days however you want. Formally, you can stay out for 4 days without a doctor’s note. Informally, if you don’t have Covid, admin will pressure you to come in because there aren’t enough subs. Especially if you want to take off a Friday or Monday. I scheduled a procedure on a Thursday afternoon when we had Monday off so I could have 4 full days to recover without impacting my colleagues. I put the sub request in a month in advance. Submitted the leave slip the same day. My principal waited until after school on that Wed to sign it because it never got picked up.

I say this as a (tenured) mcps teacher…it is your leave to take. Principal doesn’t have to sign the slip, you put it in, you put the job in the sub system. You can talk to your team if you’re so inclined. But it is your leave to take. As long as we as teachers let admin think they have to give us permission for things, we will never get anywhere.
Now, we should still have covid leave but that’s another issue.

Another teacher here. Yes! We had a principal for several years who tried to deny people their leave. It wasn’t until she tried to do it with several more confident teachers that she mostly stopped.

You’d get more leave if you worked year round and without the constant breaks. Would you prefer that?

I’m pretty sure teachers are the two year round schools do not get significantly more leave. I’m not even sure they get 1-2 days more.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:First of all, we can all agree that CDC guidelines have been designed to get workers back on the job to pad the wallets of the already wealthy, not for acute public health reasons. Second, the CDC is about to conveniently change their guidelines right as kids go back to school to favor…wait for it..NOT public health, but keeping low wage workers at work. Shocker!

Covid is a cold. People have been going to work and school with colds forever.

Its not a cold. Grow up already.

[Anonymous]

https://www.yahoo.com/news/loss-smell-warning-sign-alzheimer-215918970.html

https://www.yahoo.com/news/long-covid-comes-three-different-143321332.html

Covid is just a cold. The loss of hair, libido, smell, energy. Brain damage. So what. That's what viagra and aspirin is for.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:https://www.yahoo.com/news/loss-smell-warning-sign-alzheimer-215918970.html

https://www.yahoo.com/news/long-covid-comes-three-different-143321332.html

Covid is just a cold. The loss of hair, libido, smell, energy. Brain damage. So what. That's what viagra and aspirin is for.

No, its not.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:First of all, we can all agree that CDC guidelines have been designed to get workers back on the job to pad the wallets of the already wealthy, not for acute public health reasons. Second, the CDC is about to conveniently change their guidelines right as kids go back to school to favor…wait for it..NOT public health, but keeping low wage workers at work. Shocker!

Covid is a cold. People have been going to work and school with colds forever.

LOL.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Listen, we are in for a train wreck if they don’t get rid of the required 5 day isolation. We do NOT have any subs. We have major community spread right now. We need to be able to decide when we as teachers feel okay to come in. Having to cover for so many colleagues was a major part of teacher burnout last year.

I’m a teacher too and I’m tired of going to work sick whether it be from Covid or something else. I’m done sacrificing my body because the school district can’t get it together. I will not go to work sick. Simple.

That’s fine. You can use your sick days however you like.

DP. I don’t think you are a MCPS teacher if you think you can use your sick days however you want. Formally, you can stay out for 4 days without a doctor’s note. Informally, if you don’t have Covid, admin will pressure you to come in because there aren’t enough subs. Especially if you want to take off a Friday or Monday. I scheduled a procedure on a Thursday afternoon when we had Monday off so I could have 4 full days to recover without impacting my colleagues. I put the sub request in a month in advance. Submitted the leave slip the same day. My principal waited until after school on that Wed to sign it because it never got picked up.

I say this as a (tenured) mcps teacher…it is your leave to take. Principal doesn’t have to sign the slip, you put it in, you put the job in the sub system. You can talk to your team if you’re so inclined. But it is your leave to take. As long as we as teachers let admin think they have to give us permission for things, we will never get anywhere.
Now, we should still have covid leave but that’s another issue.

Another teacher here. Yes! We had a principal for several years who tried to deny people their leave. It wasn’t until she tried to do it with several more confident teachers that she mostly stopped.

You’d get more leave if you worked year round and without the constant breaks. Would you prefer that?

I’m pretty sure teachers are the two year round schools do not get significantly more leave. I’m not even sure they get 1-2 days more.

teachers at year round schools still get the sane amount of time off. It’s just spread out differently.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:First of all, we can all agree that CDC guidelines have been designed to get workers back on the job to pad the wallets of the already wealthy, not for acute public health reasons. Second, the CDC is about to conveniently change their guidelines right as kids go back to school to favor…wait for it..NOT public health, but keeping low wage workers at work. Shocker!

Covid is a cold. People have been going to work and school with colds forever.

Its not a cold. Grow up already.

It’s not far off if you’re vaccinated and boosted.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:First of all, we can all agree that CDC guidelines have been designed to get workers back on the job to pad the wallets of the already wealthy, not for acute public health reasons. Second, the CDC is about to conveniently change their guidelines right as kids go back to school to favor…wait for it..NOT public health, but keeping low wage workers at work. Shocker!

Covid is a cold. People have been going to work and school with colds forever.

How are the people that died from covid at clocking in on time each day?

You clearly haven’t been looking at the statistics of who is dying from Covid. The vast majority are elderly. Of the remaining non-elderly deaths, the vast majority are unvaccinated.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:First of all, we can all agree that CDC guidelines have been designed to get workers back on the job to pad the wallets of the already wealthy, not for acute public health reasons. Second, the CDC is about to conveniently change their guidelines right as kids go back to school to favor…wait for it..NOT public health, but keeping low wage workers at work. Shocker!

Covid is a cold. People have been going to work and school with colds forever.

Its not a cold. Grow up already.

It’s not far off if you’re vaccinated and boosted.

Sure, keep telling yourself that.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:First of all, we can all agree that CDC guidelines have been designed to get workers back on the job to pad the wallets of the already wealthy, not for acute public health reasons. Second, the CDC is about to conveniently change their guidelines right as kids go back to school to favor…wait for it..NOT public health, but keeping low wage workers at work. Shocker!

Covid is a cold. People have been going to work and school with colds forever.

Its not a cold. Grow up already.

It’s not far off if you’re vaccinated and boosted.

I’m my experience, colds have generally been far more miserable.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:First of all, we can all agree that CDC guidelines have been designed to get workers back on the job to pad the wallets of the already wealthy, not for acute public health reasons. Second, the CDC is about to conveniently change their guidelines right as kids go back to school to favor…wait for it..NOT public health, but keeping low wage workers at work. Shocker!

Covid is a cold. People have been going to work and school with colds forever.

Its not a cold. Grow up already.

It’s not far off if you’re vaccinated and boosted.

I’m my experience, colds have generally been far more miserable.

You were fortunate, not my experience at all.