Deal full of Subs BC of teacher group exposure?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

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What do you want? A list of teachers who have Covid sent schoolwide? They have a right to personal privacy. I'm sure their individual classes were informed.

That’s the problem. Classes were not informed. Kids finding subs in the rooms with no idea why.

Do kids normally get told why their teacher is out sick? I feel like it’d be really awkward to tell a room of 11-13 year olds your teacher has diarrhea or something. Like how crazy would it be for my principal to tell my kids I was out having fertility treatments? I didn’t even tell her why I was out!

Kids and parents aren't even being informed that they even have a sub or for how long. No one is asking to be told why.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:...

What do you want? A list of teachers who have Covid sent schoolwide? They have a right to personal privacy. I'm sure their individual classes were informed.

That’s the problem. Classes were not informed. Kids finding subs in the rooms with no idea why.

Do kids normally get told why their teacher is out sick? I feel like it’d be really awkward to tell a room of 11-13 year olds your teacher has diarrhea or something. Like how crazy would it be for my principal to tell my kids I was out having fertility treatments? I didn’t even tell her why I was out!

Kids and parents aren't even being informed that they even have a sub or for how long. No one is asking to be told why.

The poster literally asked why.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Similar situation at Wilson. DD Physics teacher has not been present and the sub has no information. Sub doesn't even answer the question when they ask if he will be the sub again tomorrow or for how long.

Sub probably doesn't know.

[Anonymous]

What's going on with Deal? In a school this size & with this many subs, there hasn't been a single positive case yet? Is it a COVID magic zone? We haven't gotten a single notification yet.

[Anonymous]

Thing with Deal (and DCPS at large) is that there's a sub shortage, so some classes are being combined. Teachers are being forced to cover others classes on their breaks...and admins/front office staff are covering.

This breaks the model DCPS itself created to minimize exposures.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:What's going on with Deal? In a school this size & with this many subs, there hasn't been a single positive case yet? Is it a COVID magic zone? We haven't gotten a single notification yet.

Like most of DCPS they're not testing yet because no official procedures set up yet by OSSE (or DCPS or DOH - they can't seem to figure it out).

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Similar situation at Wilson. DD Physics teacher has not been present and the sub has no information. Sub doesn't even answer the question when they ask if he will be the sub again tomorrow or for how long.

The Wilson physics teacher is a new hire and is being processed downtown. Kids have been told 1-2 weeks. In the meantime, they have a “free”
period.

Is the new physics teacher a replacement for Ms. Benjamin who retired? Is this for AP Physics C?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I'd want to know if there was Covid in my community / school - even if I, or my child, wasn't a close contact.

I think it’s safe to assume there is COVID in your school community unless the school is incredibly small. I am a teacher at a school with about 400 students and from day one I assumed covid was in the building. That is the way you should proceed.

Oh come on.

We are going to keep doing testing and tracing. You are not going to surrender to a disease we have good tools to prevent that kills about one in every 10,000 kids— small, but not zero.

I am the PP who is a teacher and I never said I was going to 'surrender to a disease'. I was responding to another PP who said they would want to know if there was any COVID in their school community. And I stand by my response- there is COVID in every school community unless it is a very small school. I was not fear mongering so please save responses that start with "oh come on" for other more hysterical posts.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:...

What do you want? A list of teachers who have Covid sent schoolwide? They have a right to personal privacy. I'm sure their individual classes were informed.

Seems like parents have the right to know if some anti-vaxxer teacher exposed their child to COVID.


That said, coronavirus is going to tear through these schools -- and the kids will be fine. It's rare for children to have any problems. Not so sure about unvaccinated adults.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:...

What do you want? A list of teachers who have Covid sent schoolwide? They have a right to personal privacy. I'm sure their individual classes were informed.

Seems like parents have the right to know if some anti-vaxxer teacher exposed their child to COVID.


That said, coronavirus is going to tear through these schools -- and the kids will be fine. It's rare for children to have any problems. Not so sure about unvaccinated adults.

NP who is vaccinated but I actually don’t think parents have a right to know if an anti vaxxer is teaching their children. Teachers are employees of the school system. You know that your child’s teacher is either:

-vaccinated
Or
-getting tested weekly by their employer

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:...

What do you want? A list of teachers who have Covid sent schoolwide? They have a right to personal privacy. I'm sure their individual classes were informed.

Seems like parents have the right to know if some anti-vaxxer teacher exposed their child to COVID.


That said, coronavirus is going to tear through these schools -- and the kids will be fine. It's rare for children to have any problems. Not so sure about unvaccinated adults.

THAT'S NOT TRUE ANYMORE! Delta has been having a far more significant impact on children than ever before. Now, we can collectively determine that the risk of harm to children from covid is not significant enough to keep children out of school, but to say that there is NO risk of harm is just being oblivious to the actual facts.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I'd want to know if there was Covid in my community / school - even if I, or my child, wasn't a close contact.

I think it’s safe to assume there is COVID in your school community unless the school is incredibly small. I am a teacher at a school with about 400 students and from day one I assumed covid was in the building. That is the way you should proceed.

Oh come on.

We are going to keep doing testing and tracing. You are not going to surrender to a disease we have good tools to prevent that kills about one in every 10,000 kids— small, but not zero.

I am the PP who is a teacher and I never said I was going to 'surrender to a disease'. I was responding to another PP who said they would want to know if there was any COVID in their school community. And I stand by my response- there is COVID in every school community unless it is a very small school. I was not fear mongering so please save responses that start with "oh come on" for other more hysterical posts.

Different teacher here, and I completely agree. There is definitely covid in nearly every school in this district, and I have fully accepted that I am highly likely to catch it. I am vaccinated, so I am also fairly certain that I will be fine. I'm trying to deal with the moral weight of potentially infecting my students, but I am coming to terms with it. I am fairly sure that I WILL infect some of my students, despite my best efforts, because I am highly likely to catch covid, and I will not be able to quarantine until I have an actual positive test. Even if I am a close contact, I will be a potential breakthrough case and infecting students before potentially testing positive. I'm not going to be allowed to take leave, because my principal has already made clear that we will not be able to get enough subs, and so he will only grant leave if you are symptomatic or actually test positive.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I'd want to know if there was Covid in my community / school - even if I, or my child, wasn't a close contact.

I think it’s safe to assume there is COVID in your school community unless the school is incredibly small. I am a teacher at a school with about 400 students and from day one I assumed covid was in the building. That is the way you should proceed.

Oh come on.

We are going to keep doing testing and tracing. You are not going to surrender to a disease we have good tools to prevent that kills about one in every 10,000 kids— small, but not zero.

I am the PP who is a teacher and I never said I was going to 'surrender to a disease'. I was responding to another PP who said they would want to know if there was any COVID in their school community. And I stand by my response- there is COVID in every school community unless it is a very small school. I was not fear mongering so please save responses that start with "oh come on" for other more hysterical posts.

Different teacher here, and I completely agree. There is definitely covid in nearly every school in this district, and I have fully accepted that I am highly likely to catch it. I am vaccinated, so I am also fairly certain that I will be fine. I'm trying to deal with the moral weight of potentially infecting my students, but I am coming to terms with it. I am fairly sure that I WILL infect some of my students, despite my best efforts, because I am highly likely to catch covid, and I will not be able to quarantine until I have an actual positive test. Even if I am a close contact, I will be a potential breakthrough case and infecting students before potentially testing positive. I'm not going to be allowed to take leave, because my principal has already made clear that we will not be able to get enough subs, and so he will only grant leave if you are symptomatic or actually test positive.

+1

I am the PP and I have come to terms with that as well. As soon as kids walked in the building Monday I knew there would be no distancing and no way to prevent spread. Anything my admin is doing besides mask requirements is pure covid theater.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I'd want to know if there was Covid in my community / school - even if I, or my child, wasn't a close contact.

I think it’s safe to assume there is COVID in your school community unless the school is incredibly small. I am a teacher at a school with about 400 students and from day one I assumed covid was in the building. That is the way you should proceed.

Oh come on.

We are going to keep doing testing and tracing. You are not going to surrender to a disease we have good tools to prevent that kills about one in every 10,000 kids— small, but not zero.

I am the PP who is a teacher and I never said I was going to 'surrender to a disease'. I was responding to another PP who said they would want to know if there was any COVID in their school community. And I stand by my response- there is COVID in every school community unless it is a very small school. I was not fear mongering so please save responses that start with "oh come on" for other more hysterical posts.

Different teacher here, and I completely agree. There is definitely covid in nearly every school in this district, and I have fully accepted that I am highly likely to catch it. I am vaccinated, so I am also fairly certain that I will be fine. I'm trying to deal with the moral weight of potentially infecting my students, but I am coming to terms with it. I am fairly sure that I WILL infect some of my students, despite my best efforts, because I am highly likely to catch covid, and I will not be able to quarantine until I have an actual positive test. Even if I am a close contact, I will be a potential breakthrough case and infecting students before potentially testing positive. I'm not going to be allowed to take leave, because my principal has already made clear that we will not be able to get enough subs, and so he will only grant leave if you are symptomatic or actually test positive.

Students are not likely to catch it from a teacher who is vaccinated, masked, and distanced. They are much more highly likely to catch it from a classmate coming from a low vaccinated Ward on the bus or in the cafeteria.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I'd want to know if there was Covid in my community / school - even if I, or my child, wasn't a close contact.

I think it’s safe to assume there is COVID in your school community unless the school is incredibly small. I am a teacher at a school with about 400 students and from day one I assumed covid was in the building. That is the way you should proceed.

Oh come on.

We are going to keep doing testing and tracing. You are not going to surrender to a disease we have good tools to prevent that kills about one in every 10,000 kids— small, but not zero.

I am the PP who is a teacher and I never said I was going to 'surrender to a disease'. I was responding to another PP who said they would want to know if there was any COVID in their school community. And I stand by my response- there is COVID in every school community unless it is a very small school. I was not fear mongering so please save responses that start with "oh come on" for other more hysterical posts.

Different teacher here, and I completely agree. There is definitely covid in nearly every school in this district, and I have fully accepted that I am highly likely to catch it. I am vaccinated, so I am also fairly certain that I will be fine. I'm trying to deal with the moral weight of potentially infecting my students, but I am coming to terms with it. I am fairly sure that I WILL infect some of my students, despite my best efforts, because I am highly likely to catch covid, and I will not be able to quarantine until I have an actual positive test. Even if I am a close contact, I will be a potential breakthrough case and infecting students before potentially testing positive. I'm not going to be allowed to take leave, because my principal has already made clear that we will not be able to get enough subs, and so he will only grant leave if you are symptomatic or actually test positive.

Students are not likely to catch it from a teacher who is vaccinated, masked, and distanced. They are much more highly likely to catch it from a classmate coming from a low vaccinated Ward on the bus or in the cafeteria.

I am not PP but at my school distanced is absolutely not happening. In any fashion. Vaccinated and masked? As a teacher yes. There is no distancing at all.