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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]why is there an assumption that the accommodations teachers have requested and/or received are not valid?[/quote]

hard to believe half the teachers have "disabilities"- unless they can provide a written medical exemption, they should be forced to return. they had their chances to be vaccinated. Its laziness pure and simple.[/quote]

Isn’t that how they got their ADA exemption?[/quote]

It appears some people believe disabilities are not common.[/quote]

DP here. No. They got their DC ADA exemptions (not Federal ADA) by having underlying conditions that could lead to them dying if they caught COVID. They obviously didn't have disabilities preventing them from teaching in person, because they taught in person before. But now there's a vaccine, and in DC there have been zero covid deaths for vaccinated people so there's no reason to continue this accommodation of working remotely. There's no valid excuse for a teacher to work from home now. It's just them continuing to game the system because they don't want to return to work for other (non-valid) reasons. Unfortunately, the current law allows them to cry obesity or asthma and stay home, although obesity and asthma are no longer valid reasons for reasonable accommodations of telework because teachers have access to a vaccine.

In the real world, teaching is an in person job, and the accommodation of working from home to teach K-12 wouldn't be considered reasonable by any judge.[/quote]

I don’t think you can blame the teachers at this point. They are doing what they are allowed to do.  The fault is with DC gov. If they would not allow it, it would not be happening. [/quote]

I absolutely blame the teachers along with DC government. WTU refused to send the teachers to work and put immense political pressure to obstruct reopening. I loathe the teachers sitting home on 2/3 pay to care for their children because they claim they can't work and care for their children because . . . schools are closed because they refused to return to work.[/quote]

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