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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Ugh. So even distance learning isn’t safe. I think we just need to accept this will be a list year. Use some of the saved money for more PPE for hospitals.[/quote]

How is it not safe?  Those teachers should not have been sharing a room.[/quote]

I feel like you don't know anything about how schools work. 
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Agreed- none of this is safe. Keep kids and teachers at home and firm micro schools if you absolutely need to work and trade off with other parents.[/quote]
Everyone has to work. You want society to keep functioning around you, yes? Why are teachers supposed to be the exception? [/quote]

That's exactly right. If teachers want to stay home [i]to work[/i] like any other profession given a choice, they should. [/quote]
You could probably get people to buy that if you had any plan to make it functional. I see the same teachers attending church, going on vacation, having 4th of July July bbq and advocating against returning to school. I saw how little effort was made in the spring and have no desire to continue down that road. [/quote]

Please don’t group all teachers together and make blanket statements like this.
I’m a teacher and I haven’t stepped foot inside of a store since March. I have been doing everything I possibly can to keep my family safe. I have immediate family members in my household who have underlying medical conditions and are at great risk for complications if they should contract COVID. Going back into the classroom terrifies me, because whatever I am exposed to I will bring home to my family. There will be multiple adults in classrooms. Elementary students are to stay in their room all day, with specialists (art, music, p.e., and media) going into each and every classroom. I will have students with IEPs and a special education teacher will need to meet with these students. I will have ESOL students and an ESOL teacher will have to plug-in the classroom to provide support. Then there are the para-educators and if your school has a partnership with a university, student interns. I was told I would have a student intern this year.  I have no say in this matter. There will be other adults in my classroom and that scares me.  I trust myself, because I know what I have been doing over the past several months. I have no idea what precautions my colleagues have been taking. I know of one who will be going to the Carolinas for a beach trip with extended family. Who know what others may be doing. I also do not trust the parents in the community, as they have shown me time and again that they will send their sick children to school. This isn’t the flu or strep throat (which both went through my class this past year...8 students tested positive for the flu alone). If I contract COVID, I will be out of school for weeks. There won’t be substitutes willing to come into a classroom in this situation. I am certain of this...it’s extremely difficult to obtain a substitute in a non-pandemic situation. There is no perfect solution. It’s all bad.[/quote]

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