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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I tested positive for Covid yesterday.  I am a teacher in a country where schools have been open since May, and we remained open each time a student tested positive.  We would simply send the child and the child's 'bubble group' home.

I am devastated.  I have been so frightened of this for so long, but I need to work and that is the only reason I have been going to school.

I hate that parents at our school echo the sentiments I see here.  The kids are fine and the few who have had Covid bounced back quickly!  And, and, and...it's only one or two teachers, so this is a success!

But I'm the one teacher who tested positive on that routine rapid test.  I'm the one now at home and terrified.  Lovely to know that I am worth so little.  To me, the in-person learning is not a success.  [/quote]

I'm very sorry for the position you're in and that you're terrified, but my husband is a ER doctor who treats patients in the hospital with COVID. I assume you think he should keep going to work? The fact that you are now anti-in person learning because you personally got COVID is too bad, but not particularly relevant to the overall societal calculus. Europe has made the right call. Yes, schools; no, restaurants & bars. The priorities in this country are just sad.[/quote]

Wow talk about an overreach

Are you suggesting we pay teachers the same as an ER doctor?

An ER doctor is the last line of defense in this not the first

The first is people staying at home as much as possible and then more so.

My cousin is an ER doc.  Guess what she’s not sending her kids back or trying too.  She is only seeing
Covid patients.  She’s not going to risk making asymptotic kids and sending them into a school.  She’s also not seeing her parents even at a distance and they are her childcare.  So it all falls to her DH.  He’s stepping up as he can’t go in person [/quote]

This was not at all my point. My point was that if my DH gets COvID and so he then decides he favors hospitals being closed... Would anyone care? Would that be relevant? Because, guess what, tons of his colleagues have gotten COvID. Including his nursing colleagues, who make less than a DCPS teacher on average. [/quote]

Average wage of a DC teacher is 66k. And nurses it ranges from 55k-90k, the reason being there are so many types of nurses. My sister is a nurse and her starting pay was 80k.

Also in their field teachers are the equivalent of a doctor, the nurse is more of an equivalent to a paraprofessional. Unless you're like a Certified Registered Nurse Anesthetist, that might as well be a doctor.

*Note for the daft, not saying these professions are alike or that teachers should be paid exactly like a doctor or a registered nurse is exactly like a para. We are talking about their roles in the field.

Back to the main point that schools cause more outbreaks than restaurants and bars, we should make a note of that and make sure we are doing ONLY hybrid and Wednesday cleaning. Stricter rules and DCPS needs to reinforce them.

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