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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Ah, I see I shouldn’t try to reason with hateful people. If you think the WTU is evil I no longer care. Honestly it doesn’t change my job or have any real meaningful impact on my life.

I guess it just is hurtful seeing parents get so angry at teachers for asking for safety measures. As a self-contained teacher 90% of my students will NOT wear masks, so yes I do expect the other safety methods to be implemented.

Call me lazy or whatever, DL is so much harder than in person and more annoying to plan. I hate it and would rather start in person now, honestly winter hybrid scares me more. I’m not sure why people don’t understand that most humans fear death, the media has perpetuated this and the US has the highest Covid-19 related deaths.

I know who I am and if the district says return in person I will do so. Continue this conversation about evil teachers, in 1-2 years time this will just be a memory.[/quote]

The reason so many people are frustrated with teachers is that hardly anyone in DC has coronavirus. The numbers are extremely low. Why can’t schools open right now? Schools across the country have opened, in person, with significantly more coronavirus cases than we have in the District without any problems. And daycares are open here. Private schools are open. Camps are open, all without incident (and not to mention restaurants and gyms and museums). It would be one thing if we were a hotspot but we are anything but. We are a coronavirus cold spot.

https://covidactnow.org/us/dc?s=1033220

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Why ask me? I honestly have no idea except for fear mongering. Getting constant emails about safety, being bombarded by death in the media, it makes me scared. A virus is different than being hit by a car.

Is it really safe for older people? 50% plus teachers are older or have comorbidities.

What districts have been hybrid for 2 months or more?

Like I stated, I’ll go back but I would like DCPS to do the minimum since my kids can’t or won’t wear masks. Is that too much to ask? [/quote]

Exactly. We don’t know what a low-enough level of coronavirus cases is because we’re not experts. But experts do know, and they’ve established metrics for safely reopening schools and you know what? DC meets every major organization’s standards. Our positivity rate, our infection rate, our number of new cases are all comfortably within recommendations. When teachers still balk, and say they still work, it looks to a lot of people like their objections don’t actually have much to do with coronavirus.[/quote]

But what districts have been doing hybrid for 2 months or more?

And the experts always leave things out, Dr. Fauci dropped at the end of Jennifer Garderner’s Instagram live no less, that vitamin D and E are helpful against Covid-19, yet never said that in the news...

I will do my job in person but not because I trust health experts but because it’s my job. Again is asking DCPS to help protect self contained teachers too much? I just need cleaning supplies and decent ventilation. [/quote]

Why would school being open for two months somewhere be the relevant metric? Obviously you know that no school districts in the US go back in early July EVER, so how would it possibly be that a US school district has been open for hybrid 2 months. These facile questions are exactly why people get frustrated with teachers. [/quote]

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