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

[Anonymous]

We have had a few teachers out in quarantine at our school, either with COVID themselves or due to an immediate family member having COVID. My child reported that two of the teachers continued to teach from home via Zoom during the time they were out for quarantine. I thought that was very nice of them. Is that common?

Our school is a small private.

[Anonymous]

1) taught the week after giving birth. Plans to take her mat leave when in person resumes.
2) taught while spouse had mild COVID. Could hear coughing sometimes.
3) had some type of foot surgery and was bed-bound. Taught that whole time.

I only thought 1 was not relatable, but now it seems brilliant.

[Anonymous]

My sister teaches in New York State and had to quarantine since one of her students tested positive. She had to teach remotely while in quarantine.

[Anonymous]

Yes, it’s the expectation at our school. Even the principal was “greeting” kids at the door from home in quarantine! Love our dedicated staff.

[Anonymous]

Yes. Our daughter's teacher was remote for two weeks because her husband is covid positive. No issues.

[Anonymous]

We can do this and avoid taking COVID leave or sick time. You only get COVID leave once for 10 work days maximum, so if you have to quarantine twice (which has already happened to some teachers, due to being exposed to sick students or staff) you would be out of luck for the duration of the second period.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:We can do this and avoid taking COVID leave or sick time. You only get COVID leave once for 10 work days maximum, so if you have to quarantine twice (which has already happened to some teachers, due to being exposed to sick students or staff) you would be out of luck for the duration of the second period.

Teachers can expected to be quarantined multiple times.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:We can do this and avoid taking COVID leave or sick time. You only get COVID leave once for 10 work days maximum, so if you have to quarantine twice (which has already happened to some teachers, due to being exposed to sick students or staff) you would be out of luck for the duration of the second period.

Teachers can expected to be quarantined multiple times.

Then they should be paid for each of them. It is ridiculous to force people to work as the virus rates surge and then shrug when they are exposed, through no fault of their own.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:We can do this and avoid taking COVID leave or sick time. You only get COVID leave once for 10 work days maximum, so if you have to quarantine twice (which has already happened to some teachers, due to being exposed to sick students or staff) you would be out of luck for the duration of the second period.

Teachers can expected to be quarantined multiple times.

Except not really. I’ve had 2 students get it, but they only have you quarantine if the kid reports that they were within 6 feet of you for 15 minutes or more.

In both of my cases the kid or the kid’s parent told me they had it, and when I checked with admin about 1 they told me I shouldn’t know.

So, while I feel like I should have quarantined twice I didn’t.

Having said that, there are no subs and I have curriculum to get through. If I had to quarantine and was well enough to teach, I’d want to do that, especially since

[Anonymous]

Sorry I didn’t mean to hit send

I’d want to teach through the quarantine so that my kids didn’t get further behind.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:We have had a few teachers out in quarantine at our school, either with COVID themselves or due to an immediate family member having COVID. My child reported that two of the teachers continued to teach from home via Zoom during the time they were out for quarantine. I thought that was very nice of them. Is that common?

Our school is a small private.

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).

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:We can do this and avoid taking COVID leave or sick time. You only get COVID leave once for 10 work days maximum, so if you have to quarantine twice (which has already happened to some teachers, due to being exposed to sick students or staff) you would be out of luck for the duration of the second period.

Teachers can expected to be quarantined multiple times.

Then they should be paid for each of them. It is ridiculous to force people to work as the virus rates surge and then shrug when they are exposed, through no fault of their own.

If you CAN teach virtually while quarantined/isolated, then why wouldn't you? What else would you be doing?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:We can do this and avoid taking COVID leave or sick time. You only get COVID leave once for 10 work days maximum, so if you have to quarantine twice (which has already happened to some teachers, due to being exposed to sick students or staff) you would be out of luck for the duration of the second period.

Teachers can expected to be quarantined multiple times.

Then they should be paid for each of them. It is ridiculous to force people to work as the virus rates surge and then shrug when they are exposed, through no fault of their own.

If you CAN teach virtually while quarantined/isolated, then why wouldn't you? What else would you be doing?

Whatever they want? If your job puts you in danger by staying open during a surge and then you are forced to isolate yourself from your family due to exposure to a known + at work (I know some teachers who had to do so for Thanksgiving, locked away from their small children) you really think the employee owes more to their job? They should have the choice of either using their (one time, paid) COVID leave or working. If they’re sick they shouldn’t be working at all.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:We can do this and avoid taking COVID leave or sick time. You only get COVID leave once for 10 work days maximum, so if you have to quarantine twice (which has already happened to some teachers, due to being exposed to sick students or staff) you would be out of luck for the duration of the second period.

Teachers can expected to be quarantined multiple times.

Then they should be paid for each of them. It is ridiculous to force people to work as the virus rates surge and then shrug when they are exposed, through no fault of their own.

If you CAN teach virtually while quarantined/isolated, then why wouldn't you? What else would you be doing?

We were told we will be teaching virtually and we want to. There aren’t any subs in public school and I don’t want to use my sick time every time I am quarantined.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:
If you CAN teach virtually while quarantined/isolated, then why wouldn't you? What else would you be doing?

In many cases, taking care of your kids who are quarantined with you and for whom you cannot get any childcare (since doing so would defeat the purpose of quarantine).