Anonymous
Post 02/26/2021 09:37     Subject: APS - why are teachers so terrified?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Teachers in elementary that don't switch rooms - OK
Teachers in Middle that have many classes throughout the day - Sort of OK

Assistants and lower paid staff switching rooms all day and monitoring lunch - Those are the people who should quit


Aren’t those people eligible for the vaccine now? Why should they quit what is probably a much needed job if they are vaccinated?


Because some of those jobs aren’t even eligible for sick pay and are typically the most overworked inside the building.
Anonymous
Post 02/26/2021 09:35     Subject: APS - why are teachers so terrified?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Teachers in elementary that don't switch rooms - OK
Teachers in Middle that have many classes throughout the day - Sort of OK

Assistants and lower paid staff switching rooms all day and monitoring lunch - Those are the people who should quit


Aren’t those people eligible for the vaccine now? Why should they quit what is probably a much needed job if they are vaccinated?

Yes. Many of us have had the second shot already.
Anonymous
Post 02/26/2021 09:33     Subject: APS - why are teachers so terrified?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
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.


LCPS Teacher- I just don't want to get anyone else sick. I don't want to get Jane mom or BOB grand[parents sick. It really sucks that we have to go back. I told my 6th graders life is not worth rushing and we shouldn't rush anything and talked to them how school board rush into reopening. there still 1,000 cases a day and we not sure how well vaccine works so yah it won't be easy..


This is an inappropriate conversation for you to have. Keep that to yourself. Now your students know you do not want to be there with them and you are unnecessarily creating a fear for them. All because after almost a year, you have to go back and do your job in-person. Shameful.


It is a TROLL.
Anonymous
Post 02/26/2021 09:33     Subject: APS - why are teachers so terrified?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
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.


LCPS Teacher- I just don't want to get anyone else sick. I don't want to get Jane mom or BOB grand[parents sick. It really sucks that we have to go back. I told my 6th graders life is not worth rushing and we shouldn't rush anything and talked to them how school board rush into reopening. there still 1,000 cases a day and we not sure how well vaccine works so yah it won't be easy..


We do know how well the vaccine works. We are also learning that vaccinated people are not spreading the virus around.


Don’t respond to trolls.
Anonymous
Post 02/26/2021 09:27     Subject: APS - why are teachers so terrified?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
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.


LCPS Teacher- I just don't want to get anyone else sick. I don't want to get Jane mom or BOB grand[parents sick. It really sucks that we have to go back. I told my 6th graders life is not worth rushing and we shouldn't rush anything and talked to them how school board rush into reopening. there still 1,000 cases a day and we not sure how well vaccine works so yah it won't be easy..


This is an inappropriate conversation for you to have. Keep that to yourself. Now your students know you do not want to be there with them and you are unnecessarily creating a fear for them. All because after almost a year, you have to go back and do your job in-person. Shameful.


Would you be saying this if you had a child in 6th grade that is failing? You can't rush life doesn't shouldn't mean you can press pause on education for a year.


Did the pp saying “my 6th graders” mean that she is the parent of 6th graders, or teacher of 6th graders?
Anonymous
Post 02/26/2021 09:24     Subject: APS - why are teachers so terrified?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
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.


LCPS Teacher- I just don't want to get anyone else sick. I don't want to get Jane mom or BOB grand[parents sick. It really sucks that we have to go back. I told my 6th graders life is not worth rushing and we shouldn't rush anything and talked to them how school board rush into reopening. there still 1,000 cases a day and we not sure how well vaccine works so yah it won't be easy..


This is an inappropriate conversation for you to have. Keep that to yourself. Now your students know you do not want to be there with them and you are unnecessarily creating a fear for them. All because after almost a year, you have to go back and do your job in-person. Shameful.


Would you be saying this if you had a child in 6th grade that is failing? You can't rush life doesn't shouldn't mean you can press pause on education for a year.
Anonymous
Post 02/26/2021 09:18     Subject: APS - why are teachers so terrified?
Anonymous wrote:
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.


LCPS Teacher- I just don't want to get anyone else sick. I don't want to get Jane mom or BOB grand[parents sick. It really sucks that we have to go back. I told my 6th graders life is not worth rushing and we shouldn't rush anything and talked to them how school board rush into reopening. there still 1,000 cases a day and we not sure how well vaccine works so yah it won't be easy..


This is an inappropriate conversation for you to have. Keep that to yourself. Now your students know you do not want to be there with them and you are unnecessarily creating a fear for them. All because after almost a year, you have to go back and do your job in-person. Shameful.
Anonymous
Post 02/26/2021 09:15     Subject: APS - why are teachers so terrified?
Anonymous wrote:
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.


LCPS Teacher- I just don't want to get anyone else sick. I don't want to get Jane mom or BOB grand[parents sick. It really sucks that we have to go back. I told my 6th graders life is not worth rushing and we shouldn't rush anything and talked to them how school board rush into reopening. there still 1,000 cases a day and we not sure how well vaccine works so yah it won't be easy..


We are very sure that the vaccines are EXCELLENT. If you don't realize that, you aren't paying attention.
Anonymous
Post 02/26/2021 09:15     Subject: APS - why are teachers so terrified?
Anonymous wrote:Teachers in elementary that don't switch rooms - OK
Teachers in Middle that have many classes throughout the day - Sort of OK

Assistants and lower paid staff switching rooms all day and monitoring lunch - Those are the people who should quit


Aren’t those people eligible for the vaccine now? Why should they quit what is probably a much needed job if they are vaccinated?
Anonymous
Post 02/26/2021 09:14     Subject: APS - why are teachers so terrified?
Here’s an idea... could this be cumulative? Maybe after years of buying their students supplies, snacks, and clothes, then being asked to be a human shield in a shooting, they decided that this was just too much?
Anonymous
Post 02/26/2021 09:14     Subject: APS - why are teachers so terrified?
Yeah some teachers I've talked to are worried about bringing it home. But if they are fully vaccinated the chances of this are extremely low. VERY LOW. This needs to be talked about more.

We are underselling the vaccine and it's role in disrupting transmission.

Anonymous
Post 02/26/2021 09:06     Subject: APS - why are teachers so terrified?
Anonymous wrote:
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.


LCPS Teacher- I just don't want to get anyone else sick. I don't want to get Jane mom or BOB grand[parents sick. It really sucks that we have to go back. I told my 6th graders life is not worth rushing and we shouldn't rush anything and talked to them how school board rush into reopening. there still 1,000 cases a day and we not sure how well vaccine works so yah it won't be easy..


We do know how well the vaccine works. We are also learning that vaccinated people are not spreading the virus around.
Anonymous
Post 02/26/2021 09:03     Subject: APS - why are teachers so terrified?
Teachers in elementary that don't switch rooms - OK
Teachers in Middle that have many classes throughout the day - Sort of OK

Assistants and lower paid staff switching rooms all day and monitoring lunch - Those are the people who should quit
Anonymous
Post 02/26/2021 09:01     Subject: Re:APS - why are teachers so terrified?
If teachers and students were dying in mass, schools would not be open anywhere.

But, they're not. So, schools in every country, and all private schools in America, and many public schools in America have been open for months.

The fear mongering is super unhealthy and unhelpful, and needs to stop.

Anonymous
Post 02/26/2021 08:51     Subject: APS - why are teachers so terrified?
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.


LCPS Teacher- I just don't want to get anyone else sick. I don't want to get Jane mom or BOB grand[parents sick. It really sucks that we have to go back. I told my 6th graders life is not worth rushing and we shouldn't rush anything and talked to them how school board rush into reopening. there still 1,000 cases a day and we not sure how well vaccine works so yah it won't be easy..