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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Agree with opening elementary! Always have.  Not middle and high unless you cohort them.  They are cohorted for student AND teacher safety.  To minimize the number of people you come in contact with.  Does no one get that?[/quote]

From what I have read by epidemiologists who believe in opening, cohorting is good, but not strictly required IF you use other mitigation measures  (6' distance, masks, sick people staying home).

Cohorting actually allows you to do things like drop the 6' requirement, as does low community spread.[/quote]

There will be parents that send their kids to school sick. Gonna happen. [/quote]

And the teachers will be fine. Once the second shot kicks in, teachers will be nearly bullet proof. Add in the backdrop that class sizes will be so low, that the odds of a classroom having an infection are also low.

"Maccabi said it has 128,600 members who have seen seven days pass since full vaccine protection kicked in — and only 20 [0.015 percent] have caught the coronavirus after they were considered immunized. Ekka Zohar also noted that she found that none of the 20 vaccinees was hospitalized or suffered from a fever higher than 38.5 degrees."

https://www.timesofisrael.com/week-after-2nd-pfizer-vaccine-shot-only-20-of-128000-israelis-get-covid/ [/quote]

I'm not worried about myself. I'm worried about bringing it home to my elderly mother.[/quote]

And that is a legitimate concern.  As a parent I want you to know that I support you in knowing that the health of your mother is more important than returning to work in school.  Some of these parents are so dug in right now that no amount of discussion will change their position.  Ignore them and do what you need to do to keep your family safe.[/quote]

If protecting her mother's health is really her concern, then she should have thought about this long before this pandemic. With the full vaccination, she is at extremely low risk of passing that on to her mother--many of viruses pose a bigger risk,which they always have. Her argument is disengenuous. I don't know if these teachers really feel this way because of the fear-mongering and disinformation that has been so rampant, or just don't want to do their jobs anymore. Either way, this particular teacher should probably never return to work if she is truly concerned that teaching poses a risk to her mother. [/quote]

But as of right now most in person teachers aren’t fully vaccinated and have no idea when they will receive even the first dose. [/quote]

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