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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I hope the teachers who didn't want to work in person in the fall 2020 are leaving.  Schools were safely open in Europe, public and private schools were safely open in red areas, and private schools were safely open in deep blue areas, including NOVA.  They didn't care one bit about the kids, especially the underprivileged kids who were hurt the most.  Go find another profession.[/quote]

I’m sorry that I put my family first in trying to protect my highly immunocompromised (on chemo) partner by seeking (and receiving) an ADA exemption from returning in-person during fall 2020. I definitely should have put them at risk so that your child could get out of your hair.
-a teacher[/quote]

Teacher,

You don't need to provide a reason.  Most people would have made the same choice you did.  Ignore the troll.  You did the right thing and you don't need to defend your choice.

Parent[/quote]

Many people didn’t have that choice.  Right or wrong.  ADA is not any kind of guarantee.  The employer needs to make reasonable accommodations and if they can’t, you lose your job.  Schools in some places decided it was reasonable to let workers do their jobs from home.  And we all know public schools were not going to go out of business making that decision.

[b]Do we need to go through the professions where people had no choice and kept going to work if they wanted a paycheck.  So many.[/b]

I don’t have a particular problem with what went down and I’m glad teachers were safe and their families too.  But I do think teachers need to recognize how lucky they were to keep jobs and not have to endanger themselves at all when many workers didn’t have that option.  This path was not an entitlement it was a gift and lots of teachers in other parts of the country didn’t get that gift.

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So you agree workers in the US are taken advantage of constantly on almost all fronts by their employers (who have bought their elected and appointed officials) and need to collectively unite in order for real change to happen.

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Walk me through what it looks like for you once the the nurses and doctors, grocery workers, bus drivers, police offers, firefighters, EMT workers, water and sewer plant workers, trash pickup teams, road maintenance crews, long haul truckers, pharmacists, and hospital workers among many jobs have collectively united and decided during a pandemic they are not going to show up to work.

What happens next?[/quote]

Just wait, when unemployment jumps to 10-15% these jobs will be much easier to fill.[/quote]

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