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[quote=Anonymous][quote]Now, we were just told last week that we will be DL (at least at the start of the year). I can give up my entire summer to re-plan for one scenario, but there was literally not enough time to recreate two new plans for both scenarios. Teachers are in a hopeless situation. The reality is that every job you people keep bringing up is completely different from being trapped in a room with fifteen kids all day. Even with masks, they aren’t perfect. And having to constantly watch and enforce mask protocol is yet another thing that will be taking me away from teaching. Our HVAC system sucks. Grocery store workers deal with tons of people every day, but the amount of time they are exposed to each potentially infectious individual is small - that affects the likelihood of transmission in a huge way. Truck drivers and delivery people - not trapped in a room with potentially viral people all day. Office workers - last I checked, not trapped in a 30x30 foot room with 15 kids for the entire day. There aren’t many other jobs I can think of that place workers in this uniquely worrisome situation.

Well, it may not be exactly the same, but let's not quibble about the enormous risk that many occupations are currently exposed to including:

Law enforcement
Military
Health care
Amazon fulfillment
Meat packing and processing
Social workers
Occupational and speech therapists

I know you think you are special, but a lot of people are dealing with risk right now - including me.

Again, explain to me how any of those careers are the same as the risks associated with teaching? I’ll be trapped in a room full of kids with poor ventilation, kids who will probably be wearing their masks incorrectly. I’m not in a giant warehouse, I’m in a small classroom with fifteen kids. I have family members who are social workers and they will be seeing one client at a time, with masks, client removed if they don’t comply with the mask, and plexiglass between them and others.

If you worked in an office that turned out to have a serious asbestos issue, or black mold growing everywhere, or some sort of health risk like that, you would be well within your legal rights to refuse going in until the workplace is a safe environment again. It is not unreasonable to want to teach out of the classroom until rapid test results and reduced test costs are available. Teachers and students should be tested twice a week at minimum - temperature checks are functionally useless, especially when you factor in the parents that will inevitably give their kid a Tylenol before leaving for school. On some other boards, there are already parents at schools that are reopening in the hybrid model who are complaining about the restrictions placed on their activities at home - they already said their plans are to continue doing what they want, in large groups, with the “don’t ask, don’t tell” mentality. All it takes is a handful of families who think this way, combined with a lack of testing, to create a serious issue. NOT the same at all as those other professions you listed.[/quote]

You are right, your job is really dangerous and every job I listed is really safe.  I mean, I am definitely NOT behind a plexiglass shield with calm, compliant clients - I work with the mentally ill and homeless popultation, but you are exposed to so much risk and I am exposed to none.  You are very special and people who work in meatpacking plants are much better off than you for sure.

Don't go to work, teach from home, that is your right if the school supports it.  I'm actually fine with that.  What I am not fine with is what a special flower you consider yourself to be.[/quote]

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