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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Schools will reopen mostly normal (no assemblies? maybe)

I think it’s overly optimistic teachers on this board suggesting otherwise.  [/quote]

I don’t quite follow who you think is being optimistic here.

The people being optimistic are the ones thinking school will open. [/quote]

No, teachers who think the world will carve out teachers/schools specifically while the rest of the world is already reopening this month are the ones being optimistic. It’s not going to happen folks.[/quote]

You are mistaken. If you think that teachers will go back to "school as normal" with kids packed into classrooms over capacity you are wrong. If your office is operating at half capacity schools should too. If there are no gatherings over 500 people permitted then schools should not be exempt. Schools are huge gathering places with a tremendous risk of transmission. We are not saying we want to be "carved out" (which doesn't make any sense, but okay) we are saying that we will not operate as if everything is fine. We demand the same level of protection as YOU have. If schools can't make any changes (won't provide adequate PPE, won't enforce a strict sick child policy, won't take temperatures, there isn't expanded testing capacity) then remote learning must continue.[/quote]

LOL what?? The same level of protection that I, an “essential” worker have had? Sure babe. You can have a stack of cloth masks. Give me your address I’ll send them right over. [/quote]
Do you work in a building with 1,000 people? Does your job involve working in one small room in close quarters with 30 kids, some of whom are coughing but their parent says “sorry! I’m at work.” And you can’t leave the room to wash your hands? And they share all of their materials all day (pencils, paints, play doh, calculators, base ten blocks, unifix cubes, legos, math manipulatives, magnetic letter tiles-just to name a few). And the room is also cleaned by you with supplies you purchase? And the kids call to you from the bathroom that they need help? And when you tell them to pack up for bussing they just sit there waiting for you to help them zip their bags and coats. And all day they need help blowing their noses and tying their shoelaces? And you literally can’t step outside for a second, even to use the bathroom. Is that what your job is like? 
If you don’t have that kind of hands on contact with people all day then no, it is not the same. [/quote]

DP.  You want to get PPE?  You realize that leaves less for the doctors and nurses who already don't have enough?  How will that work?  There cannot be distance learning in the fall.  It's not working.  The kids aren't learning anything. Are we just going to accept this as a lost year for all of these kids?  ES kids cannot learn unless they are in a classroom, especially the kids who need that extra help.  You seem hell bent on getting to "no" rather than figuring out how to make things work.[/quote]

Then maybe we should figure out how, as the so-called “richest country in the world “, we can use the next 3-4 months to get an adequate supply of PPE to everyone who needs it.  We’ve had since January to work on this. [/quote]

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