If schools have to continue online, shouldn’t teachers worry about their jobs?

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Anonymous wrote:I think people should extend the same understanding to teachers that they do to essential workers like delivery people and grocery store workers. When school begins in person, teachers will face much greater risks than them, because they are in closer physical contact with children than anyone is with customers, and children have poorer hygiene. People may say that children don’t get the coronavirus in great numbers, but clearly they are vectors. If I’m not supposed to pet your dog because he might transfer germs to me, I’m sure I shouldn’t be hugging the child you just hugged.

+1 to all of this. It is very concerning for me as a teacher and a parent.

.03% is the percent of deaths in the population right now.

Do you not realize this isn’t just about death? There are other complications people are suffering from after having supposedly recovered. We don’t know what the long term effects of having COVID-19 are. And if all the schools open as normal and everyone gets sick at the same time, we will be back at square one with not having the hospital capacity to handle it.

I am extremely concerned that people like you can’t think about all the moving parts here.

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Anonymous wrote:Schools should resume in the fall. period. If teachers can't handle it, then FCPS has all summer to find people that can handle it.

You’re so funny. How many threads on here with parents complaining about teachers? How’s that shortage of subs in FFX county going? I understand there are lots of parents home who found they love teaching. This love is shown through frequent Whining about how hard it is to manage one or two kids at home. However, they’ve now had a couple of months to hone their expertise, so you will have plenty of excellence to choose from in your new hires!

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Anonymous wrote:I want to go back to teaching, because I think it is far better for my students.

I do have concerns about how we will protect students and staff from contracting the illness, since at my mid-century school building we are packed pretty tightly. I also have concerns about what will happen logistically when teachers become ill, since early covid looks like cold and flu. Most teachers go to work sick with cold and flu, but that won’t be advisable this year, so more subs will be needed in general to avoid combining classes and exposing students any more than necessary. In my district, we never have a sufficient sub pool.

The quality of subs is terrible also. They have no investment in the students, get paid a pittance, and are there mostly as a warm body to babysit your kiddos

And you know how many subs, PP? I am a sub, and I was at two schools multiple times every week. I have become very fond of many of the students in the classes I work in, and have developed friendly relationships with staff members. I take what I do seriously and am much more than a "warm body". The other subs I have met, for the most part, also care a lot about what they do and do feel invested in the students they teach.

Just like with any other job there are good employees and bad ones. I’m a teacher and I’ve witnessed subs
-doing a great job, following lesson plans and delivering lessons
-doing an okay job, relying heavily on videos/free time but getting some work done
-doing a terrible job, as in barely keeping the kids safe (spending the day reading magazines in the back of the classroom or in the hallway...not an exaggeration)

My school has five great subs that we typically see at least once a week, however they are all over 60 with health issues and all stopped working in February as a precaution. I doubt they will return. We already have a sub shortage every day. Unfortunately, the “solution” is that a teacher is pulled from their planning period to teach the subless class. This happens to me at least once a month. Some weeks, it happens every week. I’ve done in 2-3x a week at the height of flu season. That will expose teachers to even more students and allow teachers to also act as vectors when they move between 6-7 classrooms.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I think people should extend the same understanding to teachers that they do to essential workers like delivery people and grocery store workers. When school begins in person, teachers will face much greater risks than them, because they are in closer physical contact with children than anyone is with customers, and children have poorer hygiene. People may say that children don’t get the coronavirus in great numbers, but clearly they are vectors. If I’m not supposed to pet your dog because he might transfer germs to me, I’m sure I shouldn’t be hugging the child you just hugged.

+1 to all of this. It is very concerning for me as a teacher and a parent.

.03% is the percent of deaths in the population right now.

Do you not realize this isn’t just about death?

They don't. These are the mouthbreathers that we have to contend with.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Schools should resume in the fall. period. If teachers can't handle it, then FCPS has all summer to find people that can handle it.

I hope you understand that when you dismiss people’s concerns about dying of the virus due to a lack of precautions that you are showing how little you care about others. That’s very sad and I hope you aren’t sharing that with your children.
The stunning lack of regard for the well being for the people who work with your kids all day makes me want to go out of my way to please you even less.

That's the same person no doubt who sends their kid to school with a hacking cough all day, or lice, or with a fever but they just give them some medicine in the morning to cover it up.

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Anonymous wrote:Schools should resume in the fall. period. If teachers can't handle it, then FCPS has all summer to find people that can handle it.

I hope you understand that when you dismiss people’s concerns about dying of the virus due to a lack of precautions that you are showing how little you care about others. That’s very sad and I hope you aren’t sharing that with your children.
The stunning lack of regard for the well being for the people who work with your kids all day makes me want to go out of my way to please you even less.

That's the same person no doubt who sends their kid to school with a hacking cough all day, or lice, or with a fever but they just give them some medicine in the morning to cover it up.

When I taught HS, we had sisters who came to school with untreated staph infections on their arms and legs. They knew they had a gross rash and still they came.