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I just quickly read all 102 pages of these guidelines. Here's some things that really stood out to me: https://twitter.com/BenWinslow/status/1288862156243398656
Let's start with "modified quarantine." Apparently if a student is exposed to Covid, the family gets to decide if those kids keep coming to school. I...could spend hours talking about the problems with this.
As a teacher, this is the part that feels the worst. If I'm exposed and they can't find a sub to cover my class? They can still ask me to come in. We had a sub shortage before, nobody is going to cover the class of someone with a known exposure.
"If having a substitute will negatively impact student learning" feels like a really big gray area for admin to abuse if they want to force us to come to work.
Also, don't get me started on the symbolism of only using faceless teachers and students in the images.
Also, don't get me started on the symbolism of only using faceless teachers and students in the images.
In order to plan for opening schools, we should meet to discuss how to lower risk. Great! Except that those meetings should still happen online. The dissonance....
Really looking forward to watching choirs practice outside in our triple degree summers. And then rain. And then Utah winters.
So if someone in my classroom exposes me to Covid, not only do I still have to come to work, I'm not going to be able to use my classroom? Either that or we're asking our custodial staff to clean rooms before it's safe.
So the government has provided 80 hours of paid leave if we're exposed. Depending on timing, that's enough for one isolation. So, you're SOL if you get exposed more than once.
There's more but I'll stop there. I'm grateful the department of health is trying so hard to support us. But honestly this feels like mental gymnastics trying to justify the HUGE risks that come with opening schools.
I miss my kids. I want to teach them. But this document made me physically ill to read.
