Teachers Not Wanting to Go Back in Person

[Anonymous]

We're in a global pandemic with variants being churned out around the world. The kids have not been vaccinated.

My kids are too young so I have no stakes in this fight but what's so hard to understand about teachers (or office staff) wanting to be safe at work?!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:We're in a global pandemic with variants being churned out around the world. The kids have not been vaccinated.

My kids are too young so I have no stakes in this fight but what's so hard to understand about teachers (or office staff) wanting to be safe at work?!

The teachers can get vaccinated. Problem solved!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:We're in a global pandemic with variants being churned out around the world. The kids have not been vaccinated.

My kids are too young so I have no stakes in this fight but what's so hard to understand about teachers (or office staff) wanting to be safe at work?!

The teachers are back in the schools. I am one. I feel safe.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:
So you have an acquaintance if yours in school against her wishes. Of course there are a few. The PP makes it sound like everyone is at home making excuses to not go in and that’s even close to being accurate. Even your acquaintance is in-person.

I don't know any other teachers, but yes, Im sure there are a wide variety of opinions. I don't think teachers wishing they could stay home and stay "safe" is rare, but it likely isn't the majority. I would hope by fall evidence for the efficicay of the vaccines convinces those who are still anxious, but I worry if the data so far isn't enough, they still will be worried in the fall.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:We're in a global pandemic with variants being churned out around the world. The kids have not been vaccinated.

My kids are too young so I have no stakes in this fight but what's so hard to understand about teachers (or office staff) wanting to be safe at work?!

Teachers around here have had the opportunity to be vaccinated for months now.

If you believe the vaccines work, what do you have to be afraid of, as a teacher?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Time to go back to work or quit already. Teaching kids in a classroom is the job you signed up for. This endless making excusing is getting really embarrassing.

Yeah! Like how teachers made up the pandemic and then 600,000 people in our country died. Remember that lame excuse they came up with?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:We're in a global pandemic with variants being churned out around the world. The kids have not been vaccinated.

My kids are too young so I have no stakes in this fight but what's so hard to understand about teachers (or office staff) wanting to be safe at work?!

Teachers around here have had the opportunity to be vaccinated for months now.

If you believe the vaccines work, what do you have to be afraid of, as a teacher?

Some of us have serious medical conditions that our specialists believe limit the protection we will get from the virus. My workplace is one of many places that my doctor has advised me to steer clear of and I’m taking him seriously although I would spend less time at a restaurant, church, or the nail salon. I also don’t go to big box stores or anywhere really. I go to the doctor and that’s it.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:We're in a global pandemic with variants being churned out around the world. The kids have not been vaccinated.

My kids are too young so I have no stakes in this fight but what's so hard to understand about teachers (or office staff) wanting to be safe at work?!

Teachers around here have had the opportunity to be vaccinated for months now.

If you believe the vaccines work, what do you have to be afraid of, as a teacher?

Some of us have serious medical conditions that our specialists believe limit the protection we will get from the virus. My workplace is one of many places that my doctor has advised me to steer clear of and I’m taking him seriously although I would spend less time at a restaurant, church, or the nail salon. I also don’t go to big box stores or anywhere really. I go to the doctor and that’s it.

Than it may be time for you to retire, or find another line of work. The virus is going to stay with us; we're not going to eradicate it, ever. If being in a public-facing job is too dangerous for you in that context, you will need to do something else. The vaccine is it, there's nothing else coming along to provide a better level of protection.

Honest question- if you really can't go back into your workplace safely, do you believe you deserve to continue to draw a salary from that employer?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:We're in a global pandemic with variants being churned out around the world. The kids have not been vaccinated.

My kids are too young so I have no stakes in this fight but what's so hard to understand about teachers (or office staff) wanting to be safe at work?!

Teachers around here have had the opportunity to be vaccinated for months now.

If you believe the vaccines work, what do you have to be afraid of, as a teacher?

Some of us have serious medical conditions that our specialists believe limit the protection we will get from the virus. My workplace is one of many places that my doctor has advised me to steer clear of and I’m taking him seriously although I would spend less time at a restaurant, church, or the nail salon. I also don’t go to big box stores or anywhere really. I go to the doctor and that’s it.

Than it may be time for you to retire, or find another line of work. The virus is going to stay with us; we're not going to eradicate it, ever. If being in a public-facing job is too dangerous for you in that context, you will need to do something else. The vaccine is it, there's nothing else coming along to provide a better level of protection.

Honest question- if you really can't go back into your workplace safely, do you believe you deserve to continue to draw a salary from that employer?

Sorry, but there are articles in the news every day about how it’s wrong to force remote workers back at this time, how remote work is here to stay, how employers should be enticing people to come back to offices. It’s time for everyone to get back in there, then! Teachers are not going to shrug and accept a higher risk level than other workers with comparable levels of education, for less compensation. Society is going to have to figure that one out. Meanwhile, we’ll keep making the best decisions for ourselves and our own families.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:We're in a global pandemic with variants being churned out around the world. The kids have not been vaccinated.

My kids are too young so I have no stakes in this fight but what's so hard to understand about teachers (or office staff) wanting to be safe at work?!

Teachers around here have had the opportunity to be vaccinated for months now.

If you believe the vaccines work, what do you have to be afraid of, as a teacher?

Some of us have serious medical conditions that our specialists believe limit the protection we will get from the virus. My workplace is one of many places that my doctor has advised me to steer clear of and I’m taking him seriously although I would spend less time at a restaurant, church, or the nail salon. I also don’t go to big box stores or anywhere really. I go to the doctor and that’s it.

Than it may be time for you to retire, or find another line of work. The virus is going to stay with us; we're not going to eradicate it, ever. If being in a public-facing job is too dangerous for you in that context, you will need to do something else. The vaccine is it, there's nothing else coming along to provide a better level of protection.

Honest question- if you really can't go back into your workplace safely, do you believe you deserve to continue to draw a salary from that employer?

Some will. But also school systems will adapt with the help of technology and social demand. Two of my kids had a public school music teacher with a limb difference. 20 years ago, she would not have had the option to teach. Then technology bridged the gap. If COVID is here to stay, so are people including students who won’t be sufficiently protected by the virus. It makes sense for school systems to at least try to fill virtual positions with immune impaired teachers.

But also, some teachers will recover from cancer or doctors will develop better vaccines. No need for anyone to leave teaching right now if they don’t want to.

In the end though, you don’t get to decide if someone else’s employer pays them. The employer gets to define duties and how they are done. If a school system defines Zoom instruction as a satisfactory method, the teacher gets paid. Certainly public employees in many fields are being paid to telecommute. I might have an issue with exactly how Helen at the MVA is working from home, but I don’t tell her to quit and I don’t think I get to tell her what she deserves if her boss is satisfied. And, no, you aren’t the boss of teachers.

[Anonymous]

It’s amazing how the people who say “But teachers can get vaccinated” don’t believe the vaccines will ever improve.

If that is the case, are you ready to pay higher taxes to support all of the people who will be permanently out of the workforce.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:It’s amazing how the people who say “But teachers can get vaccinated” don’t believe the vaccines will ever improve.

If that is the case, are you ready to pay higher taxes to support all of the people who will be permanently out of the workforce.

Improve...to what? These are damn good vaccines. There are 4, and about to be 5 of them.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:We're in a global pandemic with variants being churned out around the world. The kids have not been vaccinated.

My kids are too young so I have no stakes in this fight but what's so hard to understand about teachers (or office staff) wanting to be safe at work?!

Teachers around here have had the opportunity to be vaccinated for months now.

If you believe the vaccines work, what do you have to be afraid of, as a teacher?

Some of us have serious medical conditions that our specialists believe limit the protection we will get from the virus. My workplace is one of many places that my doctor has advised me to steer clear of and I’m taking him seriously although I would spend less time at a restaurant, church, or the nail salon. I also don’t go to big box stores or anywhere really. I go to the doctor and that’s it.

unfortunately if your job has to be done in person (like teaching) you have no ADA rights to work from home.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:We're in a global pandemic with variants being churned out around the world. The kids have not been vaccinated.

My kids are too young so I have no stakes in this fight but what's so hard to understand about teachers (or office staff) wanting to be safe at work?!

Teachers around here have had the opportunity to be vaccinated for months now.

If you believe the vaccines work, what do you have to be afraid of, as a teacher?

Some of us have serious medical conditions that our specialists believe limit the protection we will get from the virus. My workplace is one of many places that my doctor has advised me to steer clear of and I’m taking him seriously although I would spend less time at a restaurant, church, or the nail salon. I also don’t go to big box stores or anywhere really. I go to the doctor and that’s it.

Than it may be time for you to retire, or find another line of work. The virus is going to stay with us; we're not going to eradicate it, ever. If being in a public-facing job is too dangerous for you in that context, you will need to do something else. The vaccine is it, there's nothing else coming along to provide a better level of protection.

Honest question- if you really can't go back into your workplace safely, do you believe you deserve to continue to draw a salary from that employer?

Sorry, but there are articles in the news every day about how it’s wrong to force remote workers back at this time, how remote work is here to stay, how employers should be enticing people to come back to offices. It’s time for everyone to get back in there, then! Teachers are not going to shrug and accept a higher risk level than other workers with comparable levels of education, for less compensation. Society is going to have to figure that one out. Meanwhile, we’ll keep making the best decisions for ourselves and our own families.

I can’t believe it’s may 2021 and you are still pulling that line out. it’s over, done. you are going back to the classroom in the fall. there may be a very, very few teachers who qualify for medical exemptions, but they’ll have to be reassigned to non-teaching jobs.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:We're in a global pandemic with variants being churned out around the world. The kids have not been vaccinated.

My kids are too young so I have no stakes in this fight but what's so hard to understand about teachers (or office staff) wanting to be safe at work?!

Teachers around here have had the opportunity to be vaccinated for months now.

If you believe the vaccines work, what do you have to be afraid of, as a teacher?

Some of us have serious medical conditions that our specialists believe limit the protection we will get from the virus. My workplace is one of many places that my doctor has advised me to steer clear of and I’m taking him seriously although I would spend less time at a restaurant, church, or the nail salon. I also don’t go to big box stores or anywhere really. I go to the doctor and that’s it.

Than it may be time for you to retire, or find another line of work. The virus is going to stay with us; we're not going to eradicate it, ever. If being in a public-facing job is too dangerous for you in that context, you will need to do something else. The vaccine is it, there's nothing else coming along to provide a better level of protection.

Honest question- if you really can't go back into your workplace safely, do you believe you deserve to continue to draw a salary from that employer?

Sorry, but there are articles in the news every day about how it’s wrong to force remote workers back at this time, how remote work is here to stay, how employers should be enticing people to come back to offices. It’s time for everyone to get back in there, then! Teachers are not going to shrug and accept a higher risk level than other workers with comparable levels of education, for less compensation. Society is going to have to figure that one out. Meanwhile, we’ll keep making the best decisions for ourselves and our own families.

What are you talking about?! Teachers generally have the same or possibly less education than nurses, and they have been at work the entire time. And for the last time, teachers are NOT office workers, so that comparison completely sucks. You don't want a public-facing job anymore, just quit already.