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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Imagine if hospital and nursing home workers were this demanding about not going back to work?

School is just as essential as healthcare. You all are being absolutely ridiculous.

"I'm not going back until I feel it's a completely safe working environment"!
Newsflash: teaching has literally NEVER been a completely safe working environment. Teachers catch things from kids all the tine. Kids bring weapons to school etc...if you will not go back until there is zero risk than you need to find a new career.[/quote]

This. School is an essential societal function just like healthcare. [b]If there are unavoidable risks the job brings, you have to assume them when you go into the job.[/b] The good news about Covid is that if you are under 65 and don't have any severe pre-existing conditions, the actual risk for you is vanishingly small.[/quote]
Yes, but Covid wasn't around when teachers chose the career. So many people are commenting like teachers don't want to go back. They do. We would all like to reclaim the happy bliss that was last fall with normal operations. But now "there are unavoidable risks the job brings" and teachers will decide if they want to go back to the job. It's easy to say they should just quit, then. The problem is, if enough do, there aren't enough teachers to go back. Already at the normal rate of retirement and resignations, the county struggles each fall to start with full staffing. Simply doubling the retirees (next year's group retiring this year, for example) would be a real strain - not sure how easily they can fill those jobs at this point. More than that? It's a problem. Who is volunteering for their kids to start school with rotating substitutes for their teacher? We already have a sub shortage, and good grief is it hard to find long term subs. If you are busy writing letters to the BOE, at least make it clear that in-person is more important to you than a certified teacher, and as long as there is someone monitoring a class, you aren't worried about the quality of teaching.[/quote]

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