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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]No one is asking teachers to have full blown moshpits of drunkin school kids making out with everyone. 
All parents are asking is that [b]A. schools reopen.  B. They be done so with PPE (masks if needed, shields, distance)   C. have a clear plan based on Science and data for how to trace/track and notify if there are positive cases. [/b]

Teachers are essential workers. Period. They chose this profession just like Drs, Nurses, Dentists, Psychiatrists, and millions of other professionals. They knew that their job (K-12) would not be a work from home type of job. I have not heard ONE benchmark that hasn't moved for when teachers think schools can reopen. First it was PPE, then it was reduced hours, then it was 14 days no new cases (city, county, state, country, who knows), now it is vaccine?? All the while we have daycares open, checkers at grocery stores, gas stations, janitors at hospitals working and doing their parts. Teachers cry and complain about having to 'go on the front lines'. Front lines?? Come to a hospital for a day honey. That is front lines and not with kids. With actual sick, elderly, injured, infected.
THEN cry to me how 6 months off wasn't enough and you still need more time. Till when? We have a whole batch of new grads that I bet would take yours spot in a heartbeat. [/quote]

And the teachers aren't in control of B or C.  The teachers I know would go back if B and C were true, but they aren't.  And that's not on teachers, it's on state, local, and federal government.  Frankly, I don't think C is possible until we reduce the spread, because when you have even the numbers we have in DC, you're beyond testing and tracing.  We need to drastically reduce cases, while ramping up testing, tracing, and quarantine support.  Then you can do C, and schools could open.  As a parent, I agree with your A, B, and C, but I don't want to send my kid back without B and C, and right now it doesn't feel like those are in place.  [/quote]

Are you trying to tell me SCHOOLS can't keep track of positive cases and alert parents? Really. They won't know what class the kid has been in or what class the teacher taught. Give me a break. 
PPE is readily available and has been even offered to be paid for by parents for goodness sakes. It is just the teachers don't want it because then they would have to work.[/quote]

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