COVID teacher questions

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I say this as a teacher. If you are testing negative, just treat all of this like you would any other illness. Call out sick if you feel too bad to work and don’t try to point fingers about who gave it to you. If you’ve been a teacher before you know that viruses are always going around.

My first year of teaching I was constantly sick - you have to build up your immune system. It’s tough the first these with little sick leave but that’s true in all jobs. Good luck!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Grow up. I had Covid a few weeks ago and world kept going.

That's nice. The discussion here is that this teacher is new and doesn't have any sick leave.

Of course she does. It’s just regular sick leave, not extra covid leave. We need to be honest that covid just isn’t a big deal anymore. It’s a mild cold and fever you may not even notice.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Grow up. I had Covid a few weeks ago and world kept going.

Nice way to treat someone who is taking care of your kids when you don't want to for free.

No need to be rude but also it’s not “free” and they are not taking care of my kids they are teaching them. So tired of these types of comments

I’ll be rude. DP. I pay tens of thousands in county, state and property taxes and school is NOT free. And if you are babysitting my high schooler, you need to be fired. He is there for an education.
Covid wasn’t meant to last forever and now you will have to act like every other parent that works.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Grow up. I had Covid a few weeks ago and world kept going.

That's nice. The discussion here is that this teacher is new and doesn't have any sick leave.

Of course she does. It’s just regular sick leave, not extra covid leave. We need to be honest that covid just isn’t a big deal anymore. It’s a mild cold and fever you may not even notice.

Teachers have to build up sick leave. I got the flu about a month after I started teaching. I think I had two sick days by that point so I ended up taking a third and fourth day unpaid.

[Anonymous]

If you’re scared don’t work. Stay home.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Grow up. I had Covid a few weeks ago and world kept going.

That's nice. The discussion here is that this teacher is new and doesn't have any sick leave.

Of course she does. It’s just regular sick leave, not extra covid leave. We need to be honest that covid just isn’t a big deal anymore. It’s a mild cold and fever you may not even notice.

Teachers have to build up sick leave. I got the flu about a month after I started teaching. I think I had two sick days by that point so I ended up taking a third and fourth day unpaid.

This is page 65 of the contract: “ 4. Advance of Sick Leave—At the beginning of each school year, a unit member is advanced sick leave that will be earned during the school year. Sick leave in excess of the amount to be earned may be advanced by the Employee and Retiree Service Center. ”

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Grow up. I had Covid a few weeks ago and world kept going.

Nice way to treat someone who is taking care of your kids when you don't want to for free.

No need to be rude but also it’s not “free” and they are not taking care of my kids they are teaching them. So tired of these types of comments

I’ll be rude. DP. I pay tens of thousands in county, state and property taxes and school is NOT free. And if you are babysitting my high schooler, you need to be fired. He is there for an education.
Covid wasn’t meant to last forever and now you will have to act like every other parent that works.

Everyone pays taxes, you are nothing special. Your kid cannot learn if they made the teacher sick and they have to stay home.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Grow up. I had Covid a few weeks ago and world kept going.

Nice way to treat someone who is taking care of your kids when you don't want to for free.

No need to be rude but also it’s not “free” and they are not taking care of my kids they are teaching them. So tired of these types of comments

I’ll be rude. DP. I pay tens of thousands in county, state and property taxes and school is NOT free. And if you are babysitting my high schooler, you need to be fired. He is there for an education.
Covid wasn’t meant to last forever and now you will have to act like every other parent that works.

Everyone pays taxes, you are nothing special. Your kid cannot learn if they made the teacher sick and they have to stay home.

Still isn’t free Einstein.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Grow up. I had Covid a few weeks ago and world kept going.

That's nice. The discussion here is that this teacher is new and doesn't have any sick leave.

Of course she does. It’s just regular sick leave, not extra covid leave. We need to be honest that covid just isn’t a big deal anymore. It’s a mild cold and fever you may not even notice.

Please tell that to the loved ones of the 400 Americans who are still dying everyday from Covid.

Yes, Covid is now a lot easier to deal with but it’s not a”mild cold and fever you may not even notice” for everyone. Not that simple.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Grow up. I had Covid a few weeks ago and world kept going.

Oh, screw off.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Grow up. I had Covid a few weeks ago and world kept going.

That's nice. The discussion here is that this teacher is new and doesn't have any sick leave.

Of course she does. It’s just regular sick leave, not extra covid leave. We need to be honest that covid just isn’t a big deal anymore. It’s a mild cold and fever you may not even notice.

Stop spreading lies.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Grow up. I had Covid a few weeks ago and world kept going.

Nice way to treat someone who is taking care of your kids when you don't want to for free.

No need to be rude but also it’s not “free” and they are not taking care of my kids they are teaching them. So tired of these types of comments

I’ll be rude. DP. I pay tens of thousands in county, state and property taxes and school is NOT free. And if you are babysitting my high schooler, you need to be fired. He is there for an education.
Covid wasn’t meant to last forever and now you will have to act like every other parent that works.

Sweetheart, only a tiny fraction of your “tens of thousands of dollars in taxes” (and only the property taxes) go directly to public schools. It wouldn’t cover a month or two of five-days-a-week childcare/places with adult supervision to watch your kid, let alone 180 days.

Get over yourself.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:If you’re scared don’t work. Stay home.

Cool. Hope your kids enjoy their cadre of unqualified, warm body rotating subs!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I’m new to MCPS this year and mad they got rid of the extra COVID leave after I signed a contract. I have 2 kids so I know I could have used it. One of my kids and myself started having fevers today. Yesterday, I had a student email me to say he was out with COVID through Mo day and needed his missing assignments. I last saw him in class on Wednesday with over 50 other students in a room without working AC. What happens next? My rapid test is negative and just scheduled an appointment for Sameday testing.

Why didn’t the school alert me about a positive case in my class? Now I wonder about all the other kids that are already out sick.

Who is making sure this kid wears a mask upon his return to school? If I have COVID, who’s making sure I mask upon return? It just seems like it’s going to be a big cluster that could have been prevented.

I literally just got my first paycheck and now I’m sick. If this is COVID I am definitely filing worker’s comp. My room was 78 degrees without students. I complained about it and they brought in a little box fan.

MCPS never notifies me although I am on record as immunocompromised and had an ADA accommodation to teach virtually in spring of 2021. I find out because students and their parents tell me.

The first week of school I had three students spread across three classes who tested positive. Last week, one of those classes had two more kids test positive. It’s MS, they sit at tables or clustered desks and are too cool to wear masks so of course it is purely coincidence that the three who got sick in the same class sit together.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Grow up. I had Covid a few weeks ago and world kept going.

That's nice. The discussion here is that this teacher is new and doesn't have any sick leave.

Of course she does. It’s just regular sick leave, not extra covid leave. We need to be honest that covid just isn’t a big deal anymore. It’s a mild cold and fever you may not even notice.

Teachers have to build up sick leave. I got the flu about a month after I started teaching. I think I had two sick days by that point so I ended up taking a third and fourth day unpaid.

This is page 65 of the contract: “ 4. Advance of Sick Leave—At the beginning of each school year, a unit member is advanced sick leave that will be earned during the school year. Sick leave in excess of the amount to be earned may be advanced by the Employee and Retiree Service Center. ”

What isn’t explained is that if you use more leave than 10 days and you don’t have more saved up, you go unpaid AND the next fall, they subtract those days. I had a kid who was a sickly baby and toddler. I was in the red for leave for almost 4 years.