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[quote=Anonymous]As a NYC teacher, I am absolutely disgusted by the behavior of parents since the second shutdown on the 18th. If the community wanted open schools then they had a responsibility to keep the virus under control. We’re currently averaging almost 2,000 new cases a day in the city. We just had the day with the most deaths since may this past week. We haven’t even seen the impact of the holiday on the data yet.

Furthermore, there were 3,002 COVID cases among staff and students in the few weeks we were open and 9% of all school buildings were shutdown due to outbreaks the day we closed. Yet parents keep posting “schools are safe! Follow the science! Teachers can’t read!” I’ve read that NYC teachers are “the lepers of our society” and that we are “abandoning their children” and on and on. This is the thanks we get for putting ourselves at risk to open up for their children. I hope that we are DL at least through the new year. I already went to my doctor to get a medical exemption to stay home from now on, and many colleagues have said they’ll do the same now. This isn’t worth it, especially as cases continue to rise and the city threatens to reopen anyway. Any sympathy I had for these parents is gone after reading this vitriol. [/quote]

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