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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]https://www.nytimes.com/2020/11/17/opinion/schools-closing-covid.html?action=click&module=Opinion&pgtype=Homepage

I couldn't agree more and am really disappointed with MCPS and their non-scientific "health metrics" which we will certainly never meet, meaning no in-person school for our kids this year. [/quote]

This isn’t about the kids. This is a workplace safety issue. The sooner you realize that and understand that your feelings as a parent are completely irrelevant, the sooner you will understand the reality of the situation.

Why the hell would a doctor write about schools? Maybe a teacher should write about the medical workplace? [/quote]

Seriously. Unless teachers can be outfitted with covid floor level ppe, no way they should be forced to teach in person.[/quote]

Yet somehow daycare workers and private school teachers and Catholic school teachers and German teachers are teaching in person ... [/quote]

That other employees are exploited -- likely because they lack protections afforded by strong unions -- hardly means that others should similarly be exploited.[/quote]

I am a Catholic school teacher who has been teaching full time in person since early September. I do not feel exploited, nor do my colleagues in my school. Please do not presume. We are adults capable of assessing our own risks and of making our own decisions.[/quote]
+100000 public school teacher who has been teaching full time in person since late August. Do NOT speak for us. [/quote]

Do you have 35 kids in a classroom who change classrooms for 8 periods in an over capacity building where each teacher doesn't have their own classroom and very little cleaning?[/quote]
[b]Our school has overcrowding issues and I am a high school teacher so yes students change classes. Our district STARTED with the default of opening schools this fall and then asked "how can we make it work?". I am grateful for all of the work my district did to get creative in finding solutions to the various issues associated with re-opening schools instead of looking at the existence of issues and throwing their hands up "well, those issues exist so I guess we can't open." [/quote][/b]

+1! This is exactly what infuriated me about MCPS’ approach. We didn’t start from the question of “how can we make this safe” but “can we -ever- reopen”. This difference is hugely important because the PP’s school’s approach leads to creativity, solutions, energy, movement. MCPS’s approach does not. I know that DL is going to be the only that that works sometimes, for some populations, but MCPS owns enough real estate, and the weather was fine this fall, that they could have done something. Instead we have shrugs and head shakes and over the top concern and worry about ridiculous health metrics.  We didn’t frame the question right from the beginning and we got inertia.  [/quote]

Exactly. MCPS doesn't even know what will work and what won't work (along with iterations along the way) because they've been unable to pull their thumbs out of their butts. They're no closer to bringing a student back now than they were in spring. So instead, they set up impossible-to-meet metrics barriers so they can sit around with their stupid "woe is me" expressions.[/quote]

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