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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]https://www.nytimes.com/2020/11/17/opinion/schools-closing-covid.html?action=click&module=Opinion&pgtype=Homepage

I couldn't agree more and am really disappointed with MCPS and their non-scientific "health metrics" which we will certainly never meet, meaning no in-person school for our kids this year. [/quote]

This isn’t about the kids. This is a workplace safety issue. The sooner you realize that and understand that your feelings as a parent are completely irrelevant, the sooner you will understand the reality of the situation.

Why the hell would a doctor write about schools? Maybe a teacher should write about the medical workplace? [/quote]

Seriously. Unless teachers can be outfitted with covid floor level ppe, no way they should be forced to teach in person.[/quote]

Yet somehow daycare workers and private school teachers and Catholic school teachers and German teachers are teaching in person ... [/quote]

That other employees are exploited -- likely because they lack protections afforded by strong unions -- hardly means that others should similarly be exploited.[/quote]

I am a Catholic school teacher who has been teaching full time in person since early September. I do not feel exploited, nor do my colleagues in my school. Please do not presume. We are adults capable of assessing our own risks and of making our own decisions.[/quote]
+100000 public school teacher who has been teaching full time in person since late August. Do NOT speak for us. [/quote]

Do you have 35 kids in a classroom who change classrooms for 8 periods in an over capacity building where each teacher doesn't have their own classroom and very little cleaning?[/quote]
Our school has overcrowding issues and I am a high school teacher so yes students change classes. Our district STARTED with the default of opening schools this fall and then asked "how can we make it work?". I am grateful for all of the work my district did to get creative in finding solutions to the various issues associated with re-opening schools instead of looking at the existence of issues and throwing their hands up "well, those issues exist so I guess we can't open." [/quote]

So, how does that work in MCPS?  You are posting about MCPS so what would that look lik there?[/quote]

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