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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I want to go back to some sense of normalcy like everyone else, but frankly, as a teacher I don’t trust FCPS to make a sound call that’s protective to us. In case you all forgot, Brabrandt was planning to try and keep schools open.

The idea that we have so much control is laudable at best. Not a single one of these scenarios was developed using teacher input. We often get information until after it’s distributed to families.

I don’t know what the answer is here because I’m not an infectious disease expert. I do know that if my husbands office with 50 people has deemed it to unsafe to be in for the foreseeable future, I can’t see how it’s safe for teachers to be in a small space with 30 plus kids and in a building with thousands.[/quote]

Are your husband and his co-workers effectively doing their jobs while tele-working? Work is still productive? Business is still good? My guess is yes, hence his office seems the risk of having everyone there unnecessary. If not, lay-offs would have already occurred.

Are you and your coworkers effectively doing your jobs through telework? Productivity is not reduced? All is still good and smooth running?

Not all jobs are conducive to telework. There are plenty of us, myself included, that still need to report to the office even in a pandemic because the type of work we do involves being there. And before you bring up money- my salary is definitely less then most FCPS teachers, nor do I have a lovely pension plan.

I’m all for FCPS moving to a full time professional and established DL program. Moving to the Virtual VA or K12 platform where the teachers there already have a vast amount of DL experience and I know my kids will get appropriate lessons.

That would leave teachers like you out of a job with FCPS but hey, you don’t actually want to work during the pandemic anyway. So win-win all around. 
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Please move your kid to virtual VA. That would not impact the workforce in FCPS. So these goofy fantasies of teachers being put out of work during a pandemic are silly.

Teaching is much more conducive to telework than any other profession. It’s also the profession it makes the most sense for during times like these. [/quote]

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