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[b]If schools open without very strict protocols, adults working in the buildings will be FAR MORE EXPOSED than you or the average working adult, [/b]OP. Teachers in the NY public school system died because schools closed too late.

Shame on you. If you are so moronic as to misunderstand the level of risk involved, don't whine about "being so tired".
Everyone is tired of this pandemic!

Accept that some adults have been more exposed than you, or will be more exposed than you, and that a pandemic involves caring for others and making sure they're as safe as they can be. A novel concept for you, it seems.
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You guys really come on here and say anything...

Average working adult jobs with just as much exposure as school employees:

Me- medical field (have not stopped working) 
Grocery store
Retail 
Combination (target/Walmart) 
Gas station employee
Fast food industry (drive thru window) 
Law enforcement/ public safety
bus drivers

See?  Took 2 minutes just for those. 
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Op here. This is my point. But yet somehow, those who work in schools are "special" and need to be catered to. I just don't get it.[/quote]

Teachers are not special which is why some of them will die of COVID contracted on the job, just like all the careers listed above.

The problem isn’t that teachers think they are more at risk than bus drivers or grocery clerks. The problem is that the public thinks they are LESS at risk. The grocery workers threatened to strike and got masks from their employees. The bus drivers threatened to strike and got cleaning supplies and reduced occupancy. That is similar to what teachers are asking, but no one has guaranteed it yet.  So teachers might need to strike.[/quote]
We probably will. The suggestions that are being thrown around seem to totally disregard any labor protections for teachers. Lunch in the classroom? No mixing of adults and students? Yeah, guess I’ll just work under hazardous conditions all day without a break or the contractually stipulated planning time I need to get my job done. Anything to serve all those ungrateful parents! [/quote]

Labor actions, even those by public unions, are mostly about public perception.  And I am here to tell you that if teachers strike because they don't get a break of their planning period, they will get absolutely crushed in the court of public opinion.  Every single profession has had to make accommodations because of the pandemic; if teachers insist that every facet of the contract be adhered to, and strike if it isn't, public support will be nonexistent.  [/quote]

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