At your school, do quarantined teachers who are feeling continue to teach remotely from quarantine?

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Anonymous wrote:I teach elementary and have had 2 coworkers test positive for COVID, be moderately sick, and teach through it.

Then they are mildly sick with Covid.

Moderately sick people with COVID are not working unless their job requires them to act like a sick person who is having trouble breathing and can barely make it from sofa to toilet.

I was “mildly” sick with Covid last spring. My most apparent symptoms was a light, dry cough I could often suppress. I even followed some online workouts a few times. BUT my body aches so badly I could hardly sit still. I had daily headaches. I was so exhausted that I napped three times per day. You never would have known this watching me on Zoom. There was still no way I could have done two hours of grading a d two hours of lesson planning per day in addition to teaching duties and parent communications.

Everyone experiences every malady differently. Never assume.

I feel like if I heard a teacher or anyone else had Covid, my default assumption would be that they would not be available for awhile. I would certainly not assume they felt mostly OK. And if they continued showing up to class (or other work), I'd be pleasantly surprised but also a bit concerned that they were actually feeling like crap but didn't feel like they could take off.

My friend's 15-year-old had Covid. He was in a boarding school and they knew he was positive before they saw him so they were able to successfully quarantine him in the basement without exposing anyone else in the house. He never had more than a very mild cough and about 3 days of dulled taste and smell, but they still had a parent sleep in the living room every night so they could be within easy earshot if he suddenly felt worse or needed something. Covid is unpredictable and no joke. Even mild cases, you don't know. I would never assume anyone who tested positive was fine until they were over it.

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Anonymous wrote:If I get COVID at work you better believe I am not picking up a single math manipulative while I’m home, asymptomatic or on a ventilator. There is no world in which schools should be open even as elected officials continue to tell us that January will be the darkest month of our country’s history. If I have to hear one more time that gathering together with my parents and siblings will inevitably kill dozens of people but commuting to work with hundreds of strangers on public transit and gathering indoors for 7 hours a day with coughing, sneezing kids is fine, I will scream.

Uh, you sound triggered.

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Anonymous wrote:If I get COVID at work you better believe I am not picking up a single math manipulative while I’m home, asymptomatic or on a ventilator. There is no world in which schools should be open even as elected officials continue to tell us that January will be the darkest month of our country’s history. If I have to hear one more time that gathering together with my parents and siblings will inevitably kill dozens of people but commuting to work with hundreds of strangers on public transit and gathering indoors for 7 hours a day with coughing, sneezing kids is fine, I will scream.

Uh, you sound triggered.

I'm not triggered, I'm not willing to make sacrifices for a system that cares very little for those who make it function. The school should hire a substitute to cover the class, or an administrator can do it. Very simple. I won't be guilted with the "but it's for the kids!" line. If people really cared about the kids, schools would be safe and adequately funded. Trying to force teachers into dangerous situations and then gaslight them into working from quarantine is not "for the kids".

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Anonymous wrote:Most employers that have employees who are working from home are also requiring them to work from home if they are isolating - of course a teacher who is isolating due to exposure but who is not sick should be teaching. Otherwise, that teacher would just be sitting around doing nothing AND they'd be using up some of their vacation/sick time.

Now a sick teacher should be focusing on their health and not teaching (unless they just have the very mildest symptoms that they would have been coming in to school with in a normal year anyway).

Nobody has answered that question for my school - if we get quarantined - can we teach remote - or do we use up all of our sick leave after the first round? Yet another argument for staying remote since teachers will be likely to have to quarantine multiple times - unless the school/school system lies or "mitigates" because they moved desks and it was "less than 15 minutes exposure" and they will disinfect the door handle just in case...

As far as teaching with mildest of symptoms - like in a normal year - did you mean like my "mild" walking pneumonia? Due to lack of substitutes, many of my colleagues and I don't do sick leave.

If you have sick leave, you are allowed to take it. You just don't want to. If your administration is pressuring you not to, then that's illegal.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I teach elementary and have had 2 coworkers test positive for COVID, be moderately sick, and teach through it.

Then they are mildly sick with Covid.

Moderately sick people with COVID are not working unless their job requires them to act like a sick person who is having trouble breathing and can barely make it from sofa to toilet.

I was “mildly” sick with Covid last spring. My most apparent symptoms was a light, dry cough I could often suppress. I even followed some online workouts a few times. BUT my body aches so badly I could hardly sit still. I had daily headaches. I was so exhausted that I napped three times per day. You never would have known this watching me on Zoom. There was still no way I could have done two hours of grading a d two hours of lesson planning per day in addition to teaching duties and parent communications.

Everyone experiences every malady differently. Never assume.

I feel like if I heard a teacher or anyone else had Covid, my default assumption would be that they would not be available for awhile. I would certainly not assume they felt mostly OK. And if they continued showing up to class (or other work), I'd be pleasantly surprised but also a bit concerned that they were actually feeling like crap but didn't feel like they could take off.

My friend's 15-year-old had Covid. He was in a boarding school and they knew he was positive before they saw him so they were able to successfully quarantine him in the basement without exposing anyone else in the house. He never had more than a very mild cough and about 3 days of dulled taste and smell, but they still had a parent sleep in the living room every night so they could be within easy earshot if he suddenly felt worse or needed something. Covid is unpredictable and no joke. Even mild cases, you don't know. I would never assume anyone who tested positive was fine until they were over it.

But this question is NOT about people with Covid, it's about people QUARANTINING/ISOLATING. Stop twisting things.