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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]There are lots of reasons why a teacher might be unavailable.

First, there will be situations where teachers are exposed when students aren't.  I teach in person.  We had a situation where a teacher and her husband spent time with someone, who was diagnosed the day after she saw him. Since the time period between the teacher seeing the person, and seeing students, was so short, the Health Department found there was no risk.  So, the teacher was ordered to quarantine but not the class.  Then during the teacher's two week quarantine her husband got the virus so the two weeks started again.  Then their kid got it, so the two weeks started again.  The teacher never got it but she was teaching from home 5 weeks I think?

There are also situations where teachers aren't interchangeable.  At my school, there's on teacher who can teach the AP and post AP calc classes.  They can't just switch her with one of the Algebra 1 teachers.  There's one teacher who can teach a couple of the languages.  Or there will be situations where things are uneven.  So, there's 3 third grade teachers and they all have ADA protection, and none of the 2nd grade teachers do.  [/quote]

Or the teacher is not local and they are placing a monitor while she teaches from a distance.

True story.[/quote]

Just out of curiosity, why does it matter?

My SIL a teacher with an accommodation.  She moved in with us, so that her kids would have safe childcare so she could teach uninterrupted.  If she had stayed home, she would have had the kids interrupting her teaching etc . . . It literally makes no difference to her students, so she wouldn't be in the classroom either way, so why wouldn't parents want her to make the choice she did?  [/quote]

It matters because the teacher has no reason to stay out other than not coming back to VA. How many others would jump at the opportunity to work from elsewhere and have a monitor cover the class? FCPS shouldn’t be paying for that. The monitor should be used to cover for someone with an ADA accommodation. [/quote]

How would you know whether your teacher has a reason to stay or not.  ADA information is protected.  My students certainly don't know why I won't be returning to the classroom.  [/quote]

I know because it is a co-worker. She isn’t my teacher. She teaching from outside of VA. Thousands of miles outside of VA. The monitor is being placed so she doesn’t have to come back to VA. Sorry if I wasn’t clear. [/quote]

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