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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I don’t understand how they can claim disability when the vaccine is available to them?  I think we are going to see a big drop in enrollment in the fall.  This Union is corrupt beyond repair.[/quote]

There are some cancer, transplant, abd autoimmune conditions that doctors think don’t get protection from the vaccine. [/quote]

Are 30% claiming ADA? [/quote]

There’s a problem with your question. You seem to think ADA is a thing you “claim”. It’s not.

Even if someone is denied an accommodation to stay home, they are still considered disabled. And there are disabled people who get accommodations other than staying home. And sometimes, what the disabled person who wants to work in person needs is not something the workplace can accommodate. That’s a situation that exists separate from Covid. I was once on sick leave for months simply because my school could not figure out a way for me to use the bathroom when I needed to. Not many people would think that was an outrageous thing for a professional to be able to do. Only for a teacher would it seem like an extreme request because we don’t treat teachers like professionals. We treat them like hourly workers. [/quote]

How many teachers have been granted an accommodation to stay home and either teach DL or not teach at all since Jan 1? Since Sept 1, 2020? How many got an accommodation for IPL that schools can’t manage and so that teacher stays home? Are numbers usually made public for this?[/quote]

Even if it were public it wouldn’t be helpful in. I’ve been home on leave since second quarter but it has nothing to do with COVID. So you’d get some fake outrage if you saw a statistic like 100 teachers out on paid leave not even teaching at home, not knowing maybe all 100 of them have nothing to do with COVID. [/quote]

This is my situation. I would still have taken leave right now even if COVID had never happened. It was a coincidence that this is when my cancer was detected. Certainly Covid poses a special risk to me as a cancer patient and my doctor was not at all comfortable with me returning even after full vaccination. However, it would be a bit much to expect me to not take leave during this time.

People who act as though every teacher on leave is due to COVID fear are no different than those who believe every divorce or suicide or business failure is directly due to the pandemic. Sometimes life just keeps the hits coming and your private tragedies are not caused by a larger societal crisis, just contemporary.[/quote]

of course.  but when there are situations like every single K teacher refusing to return, one starts to wonder. [/quote]

How many schools had every single K teacher refuse to return? And how many teachers per school is that exactly? What is the profile of those teachers? My oldest DD was at a school with just three K teachers and they were all women in their 60s. One was a BC survivor. Another had a severely disabled adult son at home. If this pandemic had happened then, I would have understood if 100% of the K teachers there stayed home.

I think though that there’s something telling about the school’s admin or the parent community in a case like that. Teachers don’t trust admin and the parents to keep them safe. Probably based on years of bad experiences with sick kids being allowed to attend rather than being sent home. [/quote]

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