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[quote=Anonymous][quote=jsteele][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Will be interesting to see how many outbreaks are caused by teachers vs. students[/quote]

Why is the attack line always “teachers”. You do realize there are other people who work in school buildings  and interact very closely with students don’t you?

Let’s talk about what percentage of DCPS adult Covid cases in the entirety of 2021 were caused by TEACHERS and not other support staff.
You can say you’re generalizing, but assumptions like yours are part of the problem[/quote]

most of the adults in schools are teachers, and most of the people interacting with kids are teachers. but the problem with adults in schools being unvaccinated goes beyond teachers, definitely. all adults in schools should be required to be vaccinated. [/quote]

Current data at vaccinate.dc.gov for DCPS shows that 42.4% of covid cases involve students, 46.4% involvement non-teaching staff, and only 11.2% are teachers. I have felt for a while that the continued focus in this forum on teachers is not in good faith. Whether that is true or not, the focus is not supported by the data.
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While that’s the most recent comprehensive data, I would describe it at “current” without more context. That’s the data for August 1, 2020 through September 1, 2021. This school year started August 30, so that doesn’t really include in any material respect information about the current state of Covid cases. The reason personnel is so much higher than teachers is because teachers didn’t go in at all until March and from March, only a relatively small subset went in and on a very limited basis. Many many teachers continued teaching remotely from home even when kids went back in person. DCPS used hired aides from November 2020 when they first opened to that virtual in person structure and also to supervise the in person classes that began “in person” with a remote teacher. In other words, the adults who were in schools (and so subject to reporting) from August 1, 2020 through at least mid-August 2021 were by and far these aides and other personnel, not teachers. What would be important to see is the breakdown since August 2021, i.e. when all teachers are back.[/quote]

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