Anonymous wrote:Some child care centers never closed during the lockdown. The YMCA has taken care of 40,000 children of essential workers since March. Guess how many coronavirus outbreaks they've had.

Zero.

From NPR:


https://www.npr.org/2020/06/24/882316641/what-parents-can-learn-from-child-care-centers-that-stayed-open-during-lockdowns

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Anonymous wrote:Not only are there supply and cleaning issues but some of the practices around sick students have to change. I’ve had a kid throw up on the floor and take the whole class outside because it took too long to get a custodian to clean up. I’ve had kids sent back to class with a basin because they didn’t actually throw up in front of the nurse. Kids come back to class if they don’t have a fever or they can’t get in contact with a parent/guardian but are clearly ill. And of course there are the kids who tell you they had a fever or threw up that morning but there they are at school. All of this has become the teacher’s problem and that has to change if we plan to keep students and teachers safe.

I'm a parent and I completely agree, and wish this had never been handled so laxly. When a kid in my kid's class throws up at school (my kids always report this to me) and then is back the next day, I strongly resent their parents for sending them.

Vomit doesn’t always require quarantine. Many vomiting instances are a result of food poisoning which is not contagious. Why the contempt? Kids need to be in school and parents know their kids better than your 3rd hand expertise.

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Anonymous wrote:Fine, but then the teachers union should say they support in-person school with appropriate precautions.

Make the common goal in-person school or it won’t happen.

80% of teachers in DCPS have said they won’t return to in-person work until there’s a vaccine

Source?

WTU call with teachers today. Over 1,000 teachers in attendance. 80% said no in person until a vaccine

I doubt it represents teachers as a whole. I'm a DCPS teacher who heard about the WTU call and had no interest in joining, and I imagine many teachers like me (who generally trust DCPS to figure this out, and who plan to teach in person when DCPS decides that is best) chose not to attend the meeting.

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Anonymous wrote:Not only are there supply and cleaning issues but some of the practices around sick students have to change. I’ve had a kid throw up on the floor and take the whole class outside because it took too long to get a custodian to clean up. I’ve had kids sent back to class with a basin because they didn’t actually throw up in front of the nurse. Kids come back to class if they don’t have a fever or they can’t get in contact with a parent/guardian but are clearly ill. And of course there are the kids who tell you they had a fever or threw up that morning but there they are at school. All of this has become the teacher’s problem and that has to change if we plan to keep students and teachers safe.

I'm a parent and I completely agree, and wish this had never been handled so laxly. When a kid in my kid's class throws up at school (my kids always report this to me) and then is back the next day, I strongly resent their parents for sending them.

Vomit doesn’t always require quarantine. Many vomiting instances are a result of food poisoning which is not contagious. Why the contempt? Kids need to be in school and parents know their kids better than your 3rd hand expertise.

The rule is 24 hours vomit and fever free. Come on, if your kid threw up on Tuesday don’t bring them back Wednesday. It’s disgusting and an obvious F you to the rules and others in the class (students and teachers).

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Anonymous wrote:Fine, but then the teachers union should say they support in-person school with appropriate precautions.

Make the common goal in-person school or it won’t happen.

80% of teachers in DCPS have said they won’t return to in-person work until there’s a vaccine

Source?

WTU call with teachers today. Over 1,000 teachers in attendance. 80% said no in person until a vaccine

I doubt it represents teachers as a whole. I'm a DCPS teacher who heard about the WTU call and had no interest in joining, and I imagine many teachers like me (who generally trust DCPS to figure this out, and who plan to teach in person when DCPS decides that is best) chose not to attend the meeting.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Not only are there supply and cleaning issues but some of the practices around sick students have to change. I’ve had a kid throw up on the floor and take the whole class outside because it took too long to get a custodian to clean up. I’ve had kids sent back to class with a basin because they didn’t actually throw up in front of the nurse. Kids come back to class if they don’t have a fever or they can’t get in contact with a parent/guardian but are clearly ill. And of course there are the kids who tell you they had a fever or threw up that morning but there they are at school. All of this has become the teacher’s problem and that has to change if we plan to keep students and teachers safe.

I'm a parent and I completely agree, and wish this had never been handled so laxly. When a kid in my kid's class throws up at school (my kids always report this to me) and then is back the next day, I strongly resent their parents for sending them.

Vomit doesn’t always require quarantine. Many vomiting instances are a result of food poisoning which is not contagious. Why the contempt? Kids need to be in school and parents know their kids better than your 3rd hand expertise.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Fine, but then the teachers union should say they support in-person school with appropriate precautions.

Make the common goal in-person school or it won’t happen.

80% of teachers in DCPS have said they won’t return to in-person work until there’s a vaccine

Source?

WTU call with teachers today. Over 1,000 teachers in attendance. 80% said no in person until a vaccine

Anonymous wrote:Teachers- we need to be back at work. Parents- you need to help us fight for cleaning & class sizes. Without it- we’ll get shut down again. Parents- you've also gotta understand that DC still hasn’t given us a definition of what hybrid looks like. Covid kiddo care is hard to find & we find need a running head start.
We miss your students. We love our jobs.
We can make this work.

Anonymous wrote:To the person who said no specials because of 100 kids... As a science teacher I teach 120 a day. Your solution isn’t feasible at the middle and high school level.


To the poster above:
Art teachers can see up to 180 students in a day. Every day is a new set of classes. So if you teacher 500 students in Art in a given week you are exposed to 500 students, sometimes they come twice weekly. My understanding of Middle and High school is that you see a fraction of that many students weekly. Obviously, still not a safe situation either.

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Anonymous wrote:Not only are there supply and cleaning issues but some of the practices around sick students have to change. I’ve had a kid throw up on the floor and take the whole class outside because it took too long to get a custodian to clean up. I’ve had kids sent back to class with a basin because they didn’t actually throw up in front of the nurse. Kids come back to class if they don’t have a fever or they can’t get in contact with a parent/guardian but are clearly ill. And of course there are the kids who tell you they had a fever or threw up that morning but there they are at school. All of this has become the teacher’s problem and that has to change if we plan to keep students and teachers safe.

I'm a parent and I completely agree, and wish this had never been handled so laxly. When a kid in my kid's class throws up at school (my kids always report this to me) and then is back the next day, I strongly resent their parents for sending them.

Vomit doesn’t always require quarantine. Many vomiting instances are a result of food poisoning which is not contagious. Why the contempt? Kids need to be in school and parents know their kids better than your 3rd hand expertise.

Anonymous wrote:Then lead with the teachers union stating “our first priority is in person school”.

Set that priority!

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Not only are there supply and cleaning issues but some of the practices around sick students have to change. I’ve had a kid throw up on the floor and take the whole class outside because it took too long to get a custodian to clean up. I’ve had kids sent back to class with a basin because they didn’t actually throw up in front of the nurse. Kids come back to class if they don’t have a fever or they can’t get in contact with a parent/guardian but are clearly ill. And of course there are the kids who tell you they had a fever or threw up that morning but there they are at school. All of this has become the teacher’s problem and that has to change if we plan to keep students and teachers safe.

I'm a parent and I completely agree, and wish this had never been handled so laxly. When a kid in my kid's class throws up at school (my kids always report this to me) and then is back the next day, I strongly resent their parents for sending them.

Vomit doesn’t always require quarantine. Many vomiting instances are a result of food poisoning which is not contagious. Why the contempt? Kids need to be in school and parents know their kids better than your 3rd hand expertise.