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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Here’s the thing. I don’t think *your* need for childcare outweighs *my* health and safety. Especially because I virtually guarantee I make less money than you and also have children of my own.[/quote]

You cannot guarantee this. The average teacher in my school district outearns me, and my husband also works for local government and makes about what a teacher with his same level of education and expertise would make. It is very likely that many teachers have a higher HHI than my family does.

Also, no one is saying they need childcare at the expense of someone's safety. They are saying "let's take all reasonable measures to mitigate risk in schools, as we have in most other workplaces including doctor's offices, grocery stores, etc." Why would I want to send my child to an unsafe school environment where they might bring Covid home to our family? Of course I don't want that. But that doesn't mean I think we should keep schools closed indefinitely, especially when so many other schools have opened without incident. There is obviously a reasonably safe way to do it.[/quote]

Teachers aren't screaming about child care.  Select parents are.  No one is saying keep schools closed indefinitely.  But, they are closed indefinitely because numbers are going up and will probably go up with the holidays coming.[/quote]

Some teachers are screaming about childcare. See Carroll County.[/quote]

MCPS, too. Child care was brought up as one of the common themes in the concerns they heard from teachers.  Notably, that if they're forced to return to class on a hybrid schedule, what would they do with their young kids on the days they're not at school?

So apparently teachers are willing to acknowledge school is child care as long as its for their own kids.[/quote]

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