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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Agree with all the PPs that teachers (and everyone) need to adjust their risk expectations if they want to work. My employer closed the office this spring, but has made it clear that we all need to plan to be back after Labor Day. I work in downtown DC in a 12 story office building, take the metro, and if I don’t show up to work I won’t have a job anymore. DH in the same situation. There is more risk to lots of people’s jobs right now, even if you aren’t on the front lines like some health care workers or grocery store employees.

Does anyone really think that if we start with DL this fall things will get better over and we will be “normal” F2F by Jan 2021? Realistically, even if we get a vaccine by Jan 2021, it won’t be produced and distributed at scale until 2022, and that’s a best-case scenario. If DL continues for that long or longer, a lot of parents with means will pull their kids out of public schools and find another solution - private or home schooling, which will result in severe budget cuts and decline in school quality. 
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Also massive inequality. The teachers I know, especially those who work with disadvantaged kids or reading specialists who give extra help to those who need it, are super concerned about their students falling way behind.  Some of them also realize that if DL continues into the fall, their will be cuts. They want to go back.

DH’s office will be back to 100% staffing in July. Small cubicles, recirculated air, normally lots of international travel that will resume eventually.  Some people with health risks have decided it’s not worth it to them so they are quitting with the hope they can come back in a year or two. Seems like an option for the vulnerable teachers.[/quote]

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