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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]How much did school districts spend on medical gowns and gloves for teachers when there is ZERO scientific data or evidence that it’s necessary or appropriate outside a medical setting?  Even at the pediatrician’s office they are just wearing masks.

Those supplies should be getting donated to local hospitals.  Unbelievable waste of taxpayer dollars.  Providing that equipment probably just scared teachers even more, making them less willing to return to classrooms.[/quote]

This is clearly different.  N95 masks are now the recommended PPE in many countries.  This is where many in the Biden administration are heading.  The only holdback is concerns about the supply chain.  The cloth masks don’t do a whole lot it turns out.  [/quote]

I fully support KN95 or KF94 masks for teachers but medical gowns, gloves and shoe covers is completely overboard.  Someone said it’s for teachers that have to clean poop but I know a speech therapist (no poop cleaning involved) who was given all those supplies by one of our local districts.  Totally unnecessary and wasteful.[/quote]

Wasteful. For the teachers (or IAs, or worse, PHTAs, barely making a living wage) working in-person with students with severe disabilities. I’m sure you would be super thrilled to work hand-over-hand for 8 hours with a kid who cannot wear a mask with no PPE for yourself. And when outbreaks hit the program (as they did with many CAT B programs), I’m sure it’s a-ok for ALL of the kids in the program to lose out on in-person instruction for two weeks because of the wastefulness that PPE would be. Really???[/quote]

Are teachers trained in how to properly wear and dispose of all this medical equipment?  Point me to one reliable source that indicates teachers and school staff need medical supplies like gowns, gloves, and shoe covers.  They are working with students, not hospital patients in a COVID wing![/quote]

Yes, we are trained in proper PPE wear and disposal.  This is how we know reusing these items is not best practice and that FCPS is actually not prepared.  [/quote]

+1. Yes, we got trained before we went in person in October. PP is exactly right: we all figured out quickly that the county was not at all prepared when they started telling us to reuse the plastic gowns and gave us a hard time when we asked for more gloves. For anyone questioning the use of these items, I'd like to know whether you'd be willing to assist someone else's teenager with a diaper change or deal with reflex vomiting during a pandemic without a gown and gloves? If the answer is yes, the county has a job for you![/quote]

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