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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I'd want to know if there was Covid in my community / school - even if I, or my child, wasn't a close contact. [/quote]

I think it’s safe to assume there is COVID in your school community unless the school is incredibly small.  I am a teacher at a school with about 400 students and from day one I assumed covid was in the building.  That is the way you should proceed.[/quote]

Oh come on.

We are going to keep doing testing and tracing. You are not going to surrender to a disease we have good tools to prevent that kills about one in every 10,000 kids— small, but not zero.[/quote]

I am the PP who is a teacher and I never said I was going to 'surrender to a disease'.  I was responding to another PP who said they would want to know if there was any COVID in their school community.  And I stand by my response-  there is COVID in every school community unless it is a very small school.  I was not fear mongering so please save responses that start with "oh come on" for other more hysterical posts.[/quote]

Different teacher here, and I completely agree.  There is definitely covid in nearly every school in this district, and I have fully accepted that I am highly likely to catch it.  I am vaccinated, so I am also fairly certain that I will be fine.  I'm trying to deal with the moral weight of potentially infecting my students, but I am coming to terms with it.  I am fairly sure that I WILL infect some of my students, despite my best efforts, because I am highly likely to catch covid, and I will not be able to quarantine until I have an actual positive test.  Even if I am a close contact, I will be a potential breakthrough case and infecting students before potentially testing positive.  I'm not going to be allowed to take leave, because my principal has already made clear that we will not be able to get enough subs, and so he will only grant leave if you are symptomatic or actually test positive.[/quote]

Students are not likely to catch it from a teacher who is vaccinated, masked, and distanced.  They are much more highly likely to catch it from a classmate coming from a low vaccinated Ward on the bus or in the cafeteria. [/quote]

PP here.  Vaccinated and masked, sure, but there is no distancing.  At my school, the first row of desks (as arranged by the school, and I'm not allowed to move them) aren't even 3 feet from the board, so even if I wanted to maintain 6 feet of distance, the school didn't set it up in a way that I could.  Students are not maintaining distance, teachers are not maintaining distance, its JUST NOT HAPPENING.  But, as I said previously, I'm coming to terms with this.  I'm doing the best I can, but also accepting the fact that there is a high likelihood that I will be infected with covid, and that I will spread it to my students.

As a side note, props on the racist and classist assumptions.  For one thing, there are schools IN the low vaccinated wards you mention.  I happen to work at one.  And even in your school, its not only going to be the black kids from the other side of the city who bring covid - the kids from your neighborhood can have it too.  But its probably easier for you to keep fearing the black children in particular.[/quote]

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