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You aren’t an office worker. Nurses and doctors have been working in person through most of the pandemic. Same with grocery store workers, people who work in manufacturing plants and distribution centers, etc. I don’t understand the obsession with what office dwellers are doing. It’s a different job!

It’s not like the people we like best get to stay home and the people we don’t like have to go to work. That’s true in some workplaces but not across the board. Generally, people whose work requires in person are in person, and people whose work is mostly staring at a computer screen stay home. It’s a practical consideration, not a prize. And the idea that teachers won’t go back until even office workers go back is crazy, not least because some office workers will never go back. That’s because their employers realized they just don’t need to be in person. I am sorry, but that is not the conclusion we’ve drawn about schools.

Sorry that your profession is really important and we’ve collectively found that it really needs to be done in person?[/quote]

That's fine, you can have whatever attitude you want, but that's now what this thread is about.  This thread is about the Wisconsin study people are citing as evidence that the risk to employees of returning to in person instruction in schools, with extensive mitigation, is less than it is to the general population.  It appears that the risk to adult staff was higher than that of the general population.   I think that is important information to have.

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They also found this to be true in the UK, Texas, and New York. Sorry that you think it’s important for teachers to work in person but are unwilling to compensate us to account for the extra risk-doctors and nurses ARE getting hazard pay, and so did grocery workers. Sorry that communities are unwilling to cut back on travel, indoor dining, casinos, malls, and parties to drive down community infection rates. I’m not willing to put myself at risk so your kids can sit in a classroom during a pandemic while thousands of people die each day. Full stop. I have my own family whose safety is infinitely more important to me than the convenience of yours. Teachers have no obligation or duty to risk their lives for this job and we aren’t compensated as such. Schools are not hospitals or grocery stores, no matter how many times you repeat that. We will work from home until it’s safe to return, just like the rest of the workforce whose jobs don’t, in fact, have to be performed in person. No one prefers things this way, but I would much rather teach online than get COVID or spread it to my family.  A lot of parents seem to think they’re justified in saying, “The level of risk you’d be undertaking is worth it to me, so we should open schools.” That’s just not how this works. You don’t get to force other people to work under hazardous conditions because you’ve decided it’s an acceptable amount of risk for them to take on.

https://www.sec-ed.co.uk/news/covid-19-infection-rates-1-9-times-higher-among-teachers-coronavirus/

https://www.chalkbeat.org/platform/amp/2021/1/12/22227990/covid-teachers-school-reopening

https://www.kvue.com/amp/article/news/education/austin-covid-rates-increasing-in-schools/269-b117b076-c274-4134-981d-4e9b27b0c230[/quote]

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