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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Not a teacher but having teachers in the building without students is dumb as F.

It increases their risk of exposure from other teachers (shared bathrooms, who knows how HVAC works, etc). For freaking theater.

WTF muscle memory? When they can go back safely and teach to students in person, they won’t forget how to stand in front of a whiteboard [/quote]

Unless they haven't left their house since the pandemic began, this is no more risky than their every day activities.[/quote]

BS. Shared bathrooms alone make it way way higher. Have you ever used a school bathroom?[/quote]

DP. I use the school bathroom virtually every time I’m at the school. School bathrooms are about the same as other public bathrooms. Have you not used a public bathroom since March?[/quote]

I’m a teacher.  I’m not scared of getting CoVID in an empty classroom or worried about the restroom.  I feel like Duran wants to do what’s best for the community at this point, so I will teach from home, go in-person, whatever the plan is.

I will say- in my building- I’m wearing a mask when I go back.  Custodians, colleagues, whomever will walk in and out of your class whenever, and the HVAC system is useless.  I think it’s silly to have to do that without kids in front of me, because it’s going to affect communication.  But if it satisfies the “get your ass back to work crowd”...

I've only used a public bathroom twice since March. Is that weird? I thought most people were avoiding public bathrooms.  :?: [/quote]

Its really not that risky.  Its a potential, albeit unlikely path.  There are no known cases of toilet plume transmission- but it has been theoretically studied.   I think focusing on the bathroom is kind of like washing your groceries- yes there is a theoretical possibility of covid transmission in all the right circumstances- but it extremely unlikely.
https://cen.acs.org/biological-chemistry/infectious-disease/COVID-19-bathroom/98/i38[/quote][/quote]

Sorry- I was responding to the bathroom post.  That wasn’t mine.  I have to pee constantly, that would never work for me.  :)

On a more serious note, we have to help these kids, but, when this is all over, I really think we need to get serious in talking about why some of this stuff is happening.  I saw it even before the pandemic- this rise in mental health issues among kids.  [/quote]

I’m an adult- look at me on the social media- and even as an educated adult- this is toxic.  It gets to me, and it’s compulsive.  I’d like to throw that in.[/quote]

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