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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I'm a high school teacher.  IRL all of my dept colleagues, and the majority of the teachers that I know want to return to school.  DL is very, very hard... for us, our students, and my own kids.  I am fantasizing about moving to Montana for a year if we don't open in the fall.[/quote]

Please speak up about it then! I’m worried that the loudest voices will win. I believe most teachers do want to do the right thing and return to class. [/quote]

I’m a teacher.  Of course I wish that life would go back to normal.  I’m also a mom and know my 1st grader is missing out on a lot, and he’s suffering a lot because I am working so much while he needs me.  But who are you to decide that returning to school is “the right thing” in a global pandemic?!?  There were 360 new cases in Fairfax alone today.  I have a healthy neighbor in his 3O’s who got a stroke from COVID, a formerly healthy former student in her 30’s who has been sick for a month and still can barely walk across a room without feeling winded, and a 95 year old uncle who died from COVID.  He lived a long life but after 62 years of marriage , he didn’t deserve to die alone with no family around him and without seeing his wife for weeks.  His life mattered.  My husband manages a guy whose 25 year son is on a ventilator.  My health matters.  Yes, I might survive this if I got it but I might also be forever disabled by it.

Does FCPS have PPE for all of us?  How could this possibly work?

Do you know how many times a kid has told me that he has a fever but his mom gave him Advil that morning so he didn’t have to stay home?

Do you know how many times during a typical day that I look out to a student with a finger in his nose?

You don’t know what “the right thing is.”  I care about what is best for students.  It would have been absolutely horrible if I had to be stuck at home with my brother who abused me and my alcoholic father and depressed mother.  I think about my kids in situations like that ALL the time.  But I also do not want to be in n an enclosed windowless room with aerosolized viral load of my whole class all day.[/quote]

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