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@BetsyDeVosED I have a few questions for you. If a teacher tests positive for COVID-19 are they required to quarantine for 2-3 weeks? Is their sick leave covered, paid? If that teacher has 5 classes a day w/ 30 students each, do all 150 of those students need to then stay (1)
home & quarantine for 14 days?
Do all 150 of those students now have to get tested? Who pays for those tests? Are they happening at school? How are the parents being notified? Does everyone in each of those kids' families need to get tested? Who pays for that? What if someone (2)
Do all 150 of those students now have to get tested? Who pays for those tests? Are they happening at school? How are the parents being notified? Does everyone in each of those kids' families need to get tested? Who pays for that? What if someone (2)
who lives in the same house as a teacher tests positive? Does that teacher now need to take 14 days off of work to quarantine? Is that time off covered? Paid? Where is the district going to find a substitute teacher who will work in a classroom full of exposed, possibly (3)
infected students for substitute pay? Substitutes teach in multiple schools. What if they are diagnosed with COVID-19? Do all the kids in each school now have to quarantine and get tested? Who is going to pay for that? What if a student in your kid's class tests positive? (4)
What if your kid tests positive? Does every other student and teacher they have been around quarantine? Do all get notified who is infected and when? Or because of HIPAA regulations are parents & teachers just going to get mysterious “may have been in contact” emails all year (5)
long? What is this stress going to do to our teachers? How does it affect their health and well-being? How does it affect their ability to teach? How does it affect the quality of education they are able to provide? What is it going to do to our kids? What are the long-term (6)
effects of consistently being stressed out? How will it affect students & faculty when the first teacher in their school dies from this? The first parent of student who brought it home? The first kid?
How many more people are going to die, that otherwise would not have if we (7)
How many more people are going to die, that otherwise would not have if we (7)
had stayed home longer? 30% of the teachers in the US are over 50. About 16% of the total deaths in the US are people between the ages of 45-65.
We are choosing to put our teachers in danger. We're not paying them more.
We aren't spending anywhere near the right amount to (8)
We are choosing to put our teachers in danger. We're not paying them more.
We aren't spending anywhere near the right amount to (8)
protect them. And in turn, we are putting ourselves & our children in danger. Please feel free to cut, paste or copy & send to DeVos @usedgov or ur local school board . These questions were written by LIFE LONG teacher/ educator, my SISTER, who I love w/ all my heart. (END)
