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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I’m sure (I hope, at least!) that this year teachers are staying home when they have cold-type symptoms that in past years they’d just push through.

But I don’t think we want teachers, even vaccinated ones, powering through that throat tickle or slight cough to head into the classroom. So everybody scrambles to cover. Following those covid best practices is inevitably going to exacerbate the shortage of subs that’s been a recurring problem for years.[/quote]

Teachers aren’t allowed to get tested in schools and [b]we are under a lot of pressure to keep showing up even when sick because of the shortage[/b]. We are all losing planning periods to cover other classes. Schools/admin does not want to test teachers bc there is a shortage already. A former colleague of mine tested positive and her administrator told her not to say anything. [/quote]

This really pisses me off- both for you as teachers but also for our kids who are forced to quarantine for 10 days if exposed.[/quote]

+1 It’s really short sighted for any employer to ask employees to come to work sick - especially with COVID being so easily transmissible. One employee will infect others, including other staff members. One teacher will multiply to whole departments and grade levels.  Who will be able to cover duties then?

In the early stage of the pandemic, nurses (who caught COVID on the job) were asked to staff hospitals even when they had a fever. Insane concept but as the patient needs increased, healthcare workers were expected to keep working even when they became sick. Sometimes there’s a disconnect in the decisions and pressure of administrators who are shortsighted to see the negative impact of their decisions.[/quote]

I completely agree originally the test was for anybody at risk but now if you think you're sick you have to take sick leave and drive somewhere to go find a test. It's so counterproductive. And it's not like there's a shortage of tests where it would really be an extreme burden to occasionally test teachers [/quote]

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