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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]This is great.  The Economist objects to keeping schools shut even as lock down restrictions ease up.

https://www.economist.com/leaders/2020/04/30/when-easing-lockdowns-governments-should-open-schools-first?cid1=cust/ednew/n/bl/n/2020/04/30n/owned/n/n/nwl/n/n/AP/463610/n[/quote]

Understood, but this article also takes very little consideration towards the health risks posed  to adults working in schools. This article seems to insinuate that teachers should put their  health (and the health of their families)  at risk for the students they teach.

I get that there is no easy solution. I get that children need and deserve an education.  But getting teachers unions to agree to what this article suggests is a long shot. [/quote]

I feel for teachers, but I don't quite understand what makes them so special as compared to doctors, nurses, PAs, EMS techs, transit workers, garbage collectors, mail men, policemen, fire men, grocery store employees, etc, etc. If all of those other people have to work, why shouldn't teachers? Why would the union get a veto over teachers working as per their agreed contracts any more than all other essential workers do? School for kids is essential in my mind. More essential than some things getting treated as essential now and WAY more essential than some things that are part of the phased re-entry plans.

FWIW, I'm all for government accommodations in particular high risk cases (for instance by extending disability eligibility), but that not the same thing as saying that no teachers have to work.[/quote]

If you have ever worked in a school (particularly with young children), you would know that you are exposed to a lot of illness, even in good times.  It is impossible to avoid getting sick when you have kids coughing, sneezing, wiping boogers, and vomiting near you.  This happens a lot.  In other office situations, you don’t have to worry about being in a room with 25-30 people who don’t understand basic hygiene.  If you have a teacher who is immunocompromised (or has a family member who is), this is a very stressful situation.  Yes, some teachers in cities make decent money, but the majority of the ones I know in other areas of the country are making less than $40,000 a year.  [/quote]

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