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Anonymous wrote:Teachers are scared for a reason. They don't want to get sick and they don't want to bring home the virus to their unvaccinated family. They think their lives, and the lives of their families, are more important than your kid getting an education. It is hard to disagree with them. When you walk in their shoes then you can criticize. But you aren't the one being crammed into tiny classrooms with poor ventilation with kids sent to school sick because their parents are bad and lazy parents.

Clearly you don't have kids in APS. What is this BS you speak of about being crammed into tiny classrooms? they will be hybrid with kids 6 feet apart. and the teachers are getting vaccinated!! So are their parents that you speak of. time to deal with it.

Liar. Most parents are NOT eligible yet.

But the teachers are getting the vaccine, and everyone is wearing a mask, and they are washing hands and social distancing.. come on man.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Teachers are scared for a reason. They don't want to get sick and they don't want to bring home the virus to their unvaccinated family. They think their lives, and the lives of their families, are more important than your kid getting an education. It is hard to disagree with them. When you walk in their shoes then you can criticize. But you aren't the one being crammed into tiny classrooms with poor ventilation with kids sent to school sick because their parents are bad and lazy parents.

Clearly you don't have kids in APS. What is this BS you speak of about being crammed into tiny classrooms? they will be hybrid with kids 6 feet apart. and the teachers are getting vaccinated!! So are their parents that you speak of. time to deal with it.

Liar. Most parents are NOT eligible yet.

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Anonymous wrote:Are you really so surprised? We are in a serious health pandemic. How can you not be scared of it?

So pathetic people are addicted to pandemic fear porn!

Go away, covid denier.

Build a bubble and live in it.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Are you really so surprised? We are in a serious health pandemic. How can you not be scared of it?

So pathetic people are addicted to pandemic fear porn!

Go away, covid denier.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Teachers are scared for a reason. They don't want to get sick and they don't want to bring home the virus to their unvaccinated family. They think their lives, and the lives of their families, are more important than your kid getting an education. It is hard to disagree with them. When you walk in their shoes then you can criticize. But you aren't the one being crammed into tiny classrooms with poor ventilation with kids sent to school sick because their parents are bad and lazy parents.

Clearly you don't have kids in APS. What is this BS you speak of about being crammed into tiny classrooms? they will be hybrid with kids 6 feet apart. and the teachers are getting vaccinated!! So are their parents that you speak of. time to deal with it.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Are you really so surprised? We are in a serious health pandemic. How can you not be scared of it?

So pathetic people are addicted to pandemic fear porn!

Anonymous wrote:Teachers are scared for a reason. They don't want to get sick and they don't want to bring home the virus to their unvaccinated family. They think their lives, and the lives of their families, are more important than your kid getting an education. It is hard to disagree with them. When you walk in their shoes then you can criticize. But you aren't the one being crammed into tiny classrooms with poor ventilation with kids sent to school sick because their parents are bad and lazy parents.

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Anonymous wrote:Are you really so surprised? We are in a serious health pandemic. How can you not be scared of it?

How? By using your brain. If you're young,healthy and VACCINATED, you are unlikely to get infected and if you still do, you'll recover quickly. Even before the vaccine,the death stats for younger people were minimsl. You are more at risk during your daily commute yo work.

If young, healthy teachers live alone or with a fully vaccinated household sure, there is not much to worry about. But I am sure many live with unvaccinated housemates or family members, and some may be medically fragile or in high risk groups. And not all teachers are YOUNG and HEALTHY. Some may themselves be medically fragile or in high risk groups.

Anonymous wrote:Are you really so surprised? We are in a serious health pandemic. How can you not be scared of it?

Anonymous wrote:The amazing thing is how low the covid rates are in Arlington compared to almost everywhere else AND teachers are vaccinated which isn’t true most other places *with open school*.

And I disagree that opening school in the fall and having classes occasionally move to a week of virtual learning for covid cases or testing would be worse than a year with no school at all. Which is what we got stuck with.

I agree with op, the teachers I know are very happy and comfortable with the current setup and had convinced themselves it would be a whole year like this.

Complaining about having to wear “PPE” all day! It’s a mask. Everyone who has been working in person since last April has worn a mask all day.

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Anonymous wrote:NP. Here’s a potential answer to OP’s question: no testing or tracing.

Yes. And indoor lunch.

get over it. everyone else has. If there were testing, tracing, and outdoor lunches, there would be new reasons not to return. We've all learned that these past several months. enough already.

Anonymous wrote:I am so at a loss. All of the data I've seen show that the vaccines are incredibly effective at protecting the person who is vaccinated and reducing transmission. Having a vaccinated teaching force, combined with APS's mask requirement, cohorting, health screening, distancing, air cleaners, etc, the risk to teachers is insanely low. Yet my 2nd grader's teacher today told her class that she doesn't want to return to school but that APS is making her. Putting aside that this was completely inappropriate information to tell to second graders, where is this fear coming from? She's young and healthy and vaccinated. Elementary is completely cohorted. She doesn't have to do concurrent learning. And her hybrid class is small enough to fit in a single classroom. Why are all these vaccinated teachers so afraid? The data is amazing. These vaccines work terrifically well, with strong efficacy starting shortly after the first dose. I just don't understand.