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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Working parents, would you be okay returning to your offices as they once were? This means the large communal spaces, or times when you were  crammed into a smaller room for meetings. Or maybe much of you day  is spent at a desk next to or amongst numerous colleagues for hours on end. How about your commute on a packed metro train?

If returning to normal with no change isn’t okay with you, then why are you asking teachers and school staff to do the same? If you plan on continuing to work from home, then why not give that same courtesy to teachers? We are in close proximity to students all day. For high school teachers that means sometimes hundreds of people daily. Not many other jobs can say the same. Put yourself in our shoes.[/quote]

Some jobs can be done from home (albeit not with young kids around on a "distance learning" regimen), and others can't. Teaching school falls in the latter category. If you have reason to believe, or believe anyway, that the risk is too high for you, find a new job.

And yes, I would be fine returning to my office, since I am not in a high-risk category. If I was and my job could not be done remotely, I would need to look for alternatives.[/quote]

Give me an example of a job that has made absolutely no changes as a result of  the pandemic.[/quote]

Nobody is suggesting making absolutely no changes. Clearly, schools need to improve their sanitation and infection control protocols, and enforce sick policies strictly. They should have done this a long time ago and now they finally have incentive to do so. They can even require masks if they absolutely must.[/quote]

Schools have long had an incentive to do it since teachers on short term paid sick leave cost the system. Schools just haven’t had the power to do so. I still think they don’t. When Larlo arrives with a 100.6 F temp and slight cough, is the principal going to drive him to mom and dad’s place of work and dump him there? If not, parents know they can “Tylenol and ignore that call.”[/quote]

If they have an incentive to control infections, then why do they not provide the facilities that would make it possible for an entire class to wash their hands before lunch? There are lots of viruses that are not killed by the hand-sanitizer that is provided as a substitute for proper hygiene.[/quote]

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