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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.

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.

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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LOL.  Mow you're just making things up.

You are wrong on all counts.

APA's distance learning programming during the Fall of 2020 was NOT at all about ADA.  It was a school district choice to keep learning virtual and keep students, staff and families safe.  [b]Stop ignoring the facts and spewing lies.[/b]  ADA had NOTHING to do with it.

- a parent[/quote]

First to address the poster way above, a person with an immunocompromised partner at home would not qualify for ADA.  [b]The worker who requests an ADA accommodation must have the disability. [/b] You might have used the ADA process and your employer might have let you stay home anyway, but that decision had zero legal basis under ADA.

I agree the distance learning program was not entirely about ADA but the number of people seeking out ADA accommodations was certainly a factor in the school district deciding to go virtual.  The school district was faced with telling all those people to come in or they were fired at a time when they already were having a lot of labor problems.  In general, the discomfort of teachers was a factor in the decision to stay virtual in Fall 2020.

Sorry if you think it's a lie.  It's not.  I'm not going to tell you my exact job but I can tell you with certainty none of the above is a lie.
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NP. Nope.

The ADA also explicitly guarantees that "Persons discriminated against because they have a known association or relationship with a disabled individual also are protected" -- and those people can apply for protection under the ADA, although they do not have the disability themselves.

That doesn't mean this was why PP was granted WFH, but your post was not completely correct.

https://www.eeoc.gov/fact-sheet/ada-questions-and-answers[/quote]

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