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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]So there’s something in the water in Fairfax that makes our teachers ten times more likely to have a certain discrete set of serious medical conditions than other districts? We need to get Erin Brockovich up here to investigate.[/quote]

I taught in Fairfax last year. I’m in MA this year and the district had hybrid or remote. All teachers are required to teach from the building though. I drive an hour to teach kids who are all at home because that’s the position i was hired for. It’s such a waste of gas but it’s whatever. One of our hybrid teachers has cancer, like literally still doesn’t have hair, and shes teaching hybrid and did not want to teach remote. MA also had tenure and a lot of older teachers compared to VA where I felt most teachers were in their 20’s and 30’s. Like we have many teachers in their 50s and 60s. It’s still a mess because they let kids jump from hybrid to remote and vice versa at a parent request whether it had to do with health or they just don’t like the teacher. Everyone has a mask, kids eat in the classrooms, no partner work, they can’t even really touch the books because when they do they like quarantine the book for a few days... The remote coordinator just decides things last minute and flips out at teachers for not reading her mind. They make us use Lucy Calkins. I’ve got 10 IEPs in my class and the kids can hardly write and it’s hard to help online because they don’t type, they take photos of their writing. Most kids have the IEP because they’re in fourth grade and we’re never taught phonics when they should’ve in k-2nd. I try to squeeze stuff in but it’s not part of the fourth curriculum. We were just told we can’t do breakout rooms so all the remote kids are going to be sad now. It will be all whole group and independent work.

Ranting, but my point was it’s not perfect anywhere but we even have a ton of older teachers and teachers with cancer who are teaching hybrid. I think teaching from home is better work life balance wise, and so many people are allowed to work remote now. So I get why it’s desired. But no, teacher in Fairfax county aren’t more susceptible lol. And if they’re literally getting masks, shields, and gowns that’s cool! We just have to BYOM. Bring your own mask. But every school is different. My friend elsewhere in MA got a face shield and a mask with the school logo haha..and her union won so that their teachers can work from home twice a week during full remote. [/quote]

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