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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Are you going to lie on Monday when it’s time to go back to school?
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Bless your heart. Get some time away![/quote]

So that’s a yes. You’re going to lie. [/quote]

Then they turn around and want to know why teachers don’t want to teach their kids in person. Parents don’t care!!! Little Tommy just had to have his island vacay! Epitome of privilege.  [/quote]
DC teachers have all had the opportunity to be vaccinated. Kids traveling on spring break are not a threat to them.[/quote]

This. It's really illuminating how bitter some of the teachers are even after they were bumped up the vaccination queue earlier than teachers in many parts of the country and most parents on here (ie if school transmission really was significant it would be the unvaccinated parents at home, not the vaccinated teachers in the classroom, bearing the covid risk of schools being open)

And it wasn't all vacations. I doubt we were the only ones who left town to finally check in on recently vaccinated, elderly parents out-of-state who we hadn't visited in over a year. (We didn't see anyone else and still will follow the rules returning even though our exposure was only to two vaccinated people so less than most who stayed in town.)[/quote]

You are not the problem. And you are not the parent that upsets teachers. When I send a kid home for not following travel orders, it’s not for my safety.  It’s for my unvaccinated students, my unvaccinated husband (yeah we have families too), and my unvaccinated parents.  Just because a teacher is vaccinated doesn’t mean they aren’t concerned about those around them. Also, the last thing I want as a teacher is a case in my class and have to go back to virtual while my class quarantines.  It’s the parents who feel it’s their right to risk all of the above because they don’t agree with the rules that upset me.  Maybe I am bitter.  I am bitter at parents who ask me to put their kids first, but in return they can’t put one person above themselves.  I am bitter at parents who would risk everything we have been doing to get back in the classroom because they don’t agree with a rule. So maybe I am bitter, but you are not who I am bitter with.  I don’t know one teacher who would be upset with you. I actually have no issue with people who went on vacation so long as they followed the rules and waited 3 days to be tested.  [/quote]

Thank you. I'm the PP above you. I love reading about your desire to keep all the hard work getting back to this point together. For what it's worth, my understanding is that if you've been vaccinated you are at pretty low risk of acting as a carrier to bring the virus into your own home because your own antibody levels should still be high from recent vaccination (this answer may need to be reevaluated by Fall once it's been long enough after your second vaccination date for your antibody levels to drop and your own primary protection is T cell memory, but there should be plenty of time over the summer to evaluate that before school starts up again). Obviously, there's no one size fits all description for either teachers or families. Last thing I'll toss in is that if you asked my kids in class they'd tell you we just went on a big vacation. It's easier for us to spin them up and generate excitement about going to grandparents (ie ice cream every night & new toys show up) than say we're going on a long drive to check on a couple 80yr olds who haven't had enough younger help around the house over the past year. Best of luck to you and your family and stay safe.
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