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[quote=Anonymous][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]

*Starts the slow clap* This is so true. Parents pushing for everyone to go back to school is doing so for selfish reasons. They don't give a damn about anyone's health. All they know is that they don't have Covid, their family's fine, they want to be able to go back to work without worrying about childcare, and they're tired of dealing with the kids they gave birth to.

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