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Post by Deleted on Aug 21, 2020 14:07:23 GMT
"New guidance from President Donald Trump's administration that declares teachers to be “critical infrastructure workers” could give the green light to exempting teachers from quarantine requirements after being exposed to COVID-19 and instead send them back into the classroom. Keeping teachers without symptoms in the classroom, as a handful of school districts in Tennessee and Georgia have already said they may do, raises the risk that they will spread the respiratory illness to students and fellow employees.... Data kept by The Associated Press shows the coronavirus is spreading faster per-capita in Georgia than any other state, while Tennessee has the seventh-fastest spread. A few schools that reopened for in-person instruction in both states have already closed after cases were reported. Gordon Central High School in the northwest Georgia town of Calhoun switched to online instruction Wednesday citing a high number of teachers in quarantine. At least five other school districts in Tennessee have given the designation to their teachers, seeking to exempt them from quarantine orders. Gov. Bill Lee on Tuesday blessed the move, with his administration saying it would accept the designation, citing the Department of Homeland Security's Cybersecurity & Infrastructure Security Agency.... In Georgia, suburban Atlanta 's Forsyth County has also designated teachers as critical infrastructure workers. Spokesperson Jennifer Caracciolo said that means they could be told to return to classrooms, but said the 50,000-student district will decide on a case-by-case basis." www.usnews.com/news/us/articles/2020-08-20/teachers-could-stay-in-classroom-if-exposed-to-covid-19 |
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Post by amom23 on Aug 21, 2020 14:22:14 GMT
Well isn't that just comforting to hear as a teacher and a parent? I just can't even.  |
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Post by epeanymous on Aug 21, 2020 14:25:46 GMT
We’re going to drag this thing out forEVER.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 21, 2020 14:28:06 GMT
What the ever loving F**K?  |
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Post by Deleted on Aug 21, 2020 14:45:12 GMT
We’re going to drag this thing out forEVER. Yup. There is no plan. After 6 mos, there is no plan except "cross your fingers and hope for the best". |
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Post by tracylynn on Aug 21, 2020 14:48:18 GMT
Seriously. I don't even understand anymore.
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Post by pyccku on Aug 21, 2020 15:28:18 GMT
Keep this in mind...as a parent you are probably NOT going to hear about exposures via teacher or another student. Unless kids start dying (or teachers...maybe) these districts are going to keep it under wraps so as not to cause panic or anything.
So if you think your kid will be fine because the schools are going to be watching out for exposure...think again.
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Post by dexter on Aug 21, 2020 15:29:29 GMT
And Iowa.
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Post by casii on Aug 21, 2020 15:36:34 GMT
We're all screwed.
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Post by ashley on Aug 21, 2020 15:37:22 GMT
If schools are open, what else are they going to do?
Basically, on day 1, teachers get exposed. They need two weeks to quarantine.
On day 2, substitute teacher is now exposed. Needs to quarantine.
Etc, etc.
How many teachers in how many schools, and how many substitute teachers are available?
I don’t see how schools can stay open safely.
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Post by myshelly on Aug 21, 2020 15:41:11 GMT
Teachers at the local elementary school are being told that even if they test positive they can go back after 3 days fever free.
The school secretary went to get a Covid test, worked pre-K registration, for her results and was positive, stayed home for 3 days, and was told to return to work after 3 days fever free, so she did.
Then the attendance clerk, receptionist, VP, and principal tested positive.
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Post by garcia5050 on Aug 21, 2020 15:49:33 GMT
This is all insane. There should have been a comprehensive plan for good online learning from the very beginning. I commend the states/districts that decided to go fully online, in face of some backlash. A reddit group has compiled a list of Covid K-12 school closures, quarantines and/or deaths. I believe it's based solely on other news reports (not rumors). It's eye opening - and very sad. link to google doc spreadsheet |
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Post by Gravity on Aug 21, 2020 15:59:43 GMT
That's what healthcare workers in my area have been told for months. If every healthcare worker stayed home for two weeks every time they were exposed, there would not be any healthcare workers left to work.
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Post by gizzy on Aug 21, 2020 16:12:23 GMT
Well isn't that nice of him? He just keeps giving and giving, doesn't he?
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Post by Deleted on Aug 21, 2020 16:18:33 GMT
That's what healthcare workers in my area have been told for months. If every healthcare worker stayed home for two weeks every time they were exposed, there would not be any healthcare workers left to work. We can't do ICU at home. We CAN do learning at home, though. That's the difference. It may not be as good as learning at school (and in some ways it may be better) but it's the alternative we should be choosing in light of the mess that this country is in. |
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Post by Skellinton on Aug 21, 2020 16:19:49 GMT
If schools are open, what else are they going to do? Basically, on day 1, teachers get exposed. They need two weeks to quarantine. On day 2, substitute teacher is now exposed. Needs to quarantine. Etc, etc. How many teachers in how many schools, and how many substitute teachers are available? I don’t see how schools can stay open safely. They simply can’t. I am just so very thankful my Governor (Washington) and my neighboring state’s Governor (Oregon) made the decisions regarding schools so that they are remote only until there are certain metrics met. It sucks that I am unemployed because of it (non profit pre-K in a public school) but the safety and health of our community is and should be of paramount importance. I honestly don’t know how parents are dealing with this, other then ones in my family who have me to help, and I feel for everyone struggling because their kids are at home and they need to work, but the lives of our children and teachers need to be the priority. We cannot stop the spread of this disease with idiotic policies like this. |
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Post by sassyangel on Aug 21, 2020 16:23:39 GMT
We’re going to drag this thing out forEVER. Yes, we are.  |
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Post by ExpatBackHome on Aug 21, 2020 16:26:28 GMT
Teachers at the local elementary school are being told that even if they test positive they can go back after 3 days fever free. The school secretary went to get a Covid test, worked pre-K registration, for her results and was positive, stayed home for 3 days, and was told to return to work after 3 days fever free, so she did. Then the attendance clerk, receptionist, VP, and principal tested positive. 😱😱😱😱 |
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Post by sassyangel on Aug 21, 2020 16:27:36 GMT
We’re going to drag this thing out forEVER. Yup. There is no plan. After 6 mos, there is no plan except "cross your fingers and hope for the best". No, Pence has a plan. 🤣  One day I’ll learn to embed tweets, lol |
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Post by papercrafteradvocate on Aug 21, 2020 16:38:54 GMT
And cue up the lawsuits...
Teachers who have been exposed stay in classrooms potentially infecting others—students, other teachers, their own families.
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Post by samantha25 on Aug 21, 2020 16:44:35 GMT
sassyangel to embed a tweet- copy the url of the specific tweet from twitter. Then click on the button in the reply that has the less than, greater than signs (button next to the smiley). Click the Twitter icon and then paste the url that you copied from twitter. HTH
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Post by kibblesandbits on Aug 21, 2020 17:00:51 GMT
Pretty much any health care worker followed the same protocol.
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Post by annie on Aug 21, 2020 17:06:28 GMT
Teachers at the local elementary school are being told that even if they test positive they can go back after 3 days fever free. The school secretary went to get a Covid test, worked pre-K registration, for her results and was positive, stayed home for 3 days, and was told to return to work after 3 days fever free, so she did. Then the attendance clerk, receptionist, VP, and principal tested positive. I am not surprised by this. My principal yesterday said “you’re just going to get used to students testing positive.” She seems completely nonchalant. We were floored. |
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Post by Deleted on Aug 21, 2020 17:31:15 GMT
Pretty much any health care worker followed the same protocol. Yes. Again. We can't do health care from health care workers homes (except in some cases of tele-medicine - which we should use more of). But we CAN do teaching from the teacher's home via remote learning. They are NOT equivalent situations. |
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Post by aj2hall on Aug 21, 2020 18:00:34 GMT
That's what healthcare workers in my area have been told for months. If every healthcare worker stayed home for two weeks every time they were exposed, there would not be any healthcare workers left to work. We can't do ICU at home. We CAN do learning at home, though. That's the difference. It may not be as good as learning at school (and in some ways it may be better) but it's the alternative we should be choosing in light of the mess that this country is in. Not only that, but teachers don’t have the protective equipment that hospitals have or hopefully have by now. In addition, teachers did not sign up to put their health & lives in jeopardy. I know that doctors, nurses and hospital staff didn’t exactly sign up for that either, but part of their job even before covid involved being exposed to sick patients. My dh is a nurse practitioner and I know that we need to do more for health care workers from regular testing to offering housing for them. If my sons college can offer twice a week testing, our hospitals can, too. But, it’s not an either or situation. We can do more to keep health care workers AND teachers safe. |
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Post by Skellinton on Aug 21, 2020 18:02:14 GMT
Pretty much any health care worker followed the same protocol. Proverbial apples and oranges situation. |
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Post by flanz on Aug 21, 2020 18:31:34 GMT
We’re going to drag this thing out forEVER. Yup. There is no plan. After 6 mos, there is no plan except "cross your fingers and hope for the best". I have no words for the moronic machinations of this administration! My heart weeps for teachers and all at the mercy of this lunacy! |
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Post by flanz on Aug 21, 2020 18:33:11 GMT
Teachers at the local elementary school are being told that even if they test positive they can go back after 3 days fever free. The school secretary went to get a Covid test, worked pre-K registration, for her results and was positive, stayed home for 3 days, and was told to return to work after 3 days fever free, so she did. Then the attendance clerk, receptionist, VP, and principal tested positive. Thanks for sharing. The most likely way we'll hear about the extent of this issue is by telling our own local stories. |
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Post by rodeomom on Aug 21, 2020 18:44:36 GMT
My grandson went back to school (6th grade) on August 6th, a thursday. Went again the next day. The county went Moderate-Risk (Orange) and they closed the school. I think they go back on the 24. But in the meantime a student tested positive. Don't know what will happen how? I think they may still go back on the 24? It's crazy.
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Post by iteach3rdgrade on Aug 22, 2020 21:03:58 GMT
Teachers at the local elementary school are being told that even if they test positive they can go back after 3 days fever free. The school secretary went to get a Covid test, worked pre-K registration, for her results and was positive, stayed home for 3 days, and was told to return to work after 3 days fever free, so she did. Then the attendance clerk, receptionist, VP, and principal tested positive. WOW!
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