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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I don't believe most of the people on here saying they are teachers are actually teachers, for one.  Second, every single teacher I know is planning on going back to work once the governor lifts the order.  I don't know anyone independently wealthy who can afford to stay home.  I could see a handful of young teachers with small children at home deciding to take another year's worth of unpaid leave, but it won't be more than a very small percentage.  Yes, I know, the people on this board would love to see teacher's be out of a job.  I know you don't think we deserve our pay or our job security.  You'd love to watch teachers be told "you're out".  But it isn't going to happen.  You are stuck with us, just like we are stuck with you.  The decision to open schools or not is 100% in the hands of the governor.  No one else. [/quote]

That’s sad! I don’t want to see teachers out of a job. I love my child’s teacher. I think the fact that everyone wants teachers to go back to school is a positive thing, right? I feel like it’s the teachers that are refusing to return to work that bother parents.[/quote]

What are you talking about? Teachers refusing to work? Teachers have demanded that they put in place actual safeguards before we return to the building (PPE, reducing crowding, temperature checking, etc). The alternative is NOT that we stop working, but that we continue teaching from home. You know, like most people are doing.

Btw, one mask a week is how hospitals are operating under crisis rationing protocols. It is not recommended by the manufacturer or by any medical advice that they are reused multiple times. I will not be working with one surgical mask a week. That's why nurses have been striking since this crisis began. Like here, for example: https://www.cbsnews.com/news/nurses-protest-ppe-shortages-15-hospitals/

Don't run to the media about how one mask a week is negligent and reprehensible and then expect teachers (who have no inherent risk of exposure to disease in their job description) to operate under those conditions.
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