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I am a teacher at MS 88.
UPDATE: My colleagues are hearing from Test & Trace for the FIRST TIME this morning-- 4 days since exposure in our school building, and 3 days since we were notified (from self-reporting and internal tracing.) 1/
https://morecaucusnyc.org/2020/09/10/an-open-letter-from-ms88-teachers/ @MOREcaucusUFT
UPDATE: My colleagues are hearing from Test & Trace for the FIRST TIME this morning-- 4 days since exposure in our school building, and 3 days since we were notified (from self-reporting and internal tracing.) 1/
https://morecaucusnyc.org/2020/09/10/an-open-letter-from-ms88-teachers/ @MOREcaucusUFT
The notification & isolation @MirandaBarbot mentions in this article was the work of OUR OWN STAFF, NOT THE CITY! Please listen to us on the ground working through the ramifications of a positive case! https://www.brooklynpaper.com/ms-88-coronavirus-open-letter-covid-schools/ 2/
There are many holes in the city's T&T plan. My partner (who also works at MS 88) is under mandatory quarantine. I am not. We live together! Of course, I've been quarantining anyway- but I should not have to lose any additional CAR days due to this oversight. 3/
My partner finally spoke to T&T this morning, and gave them my name. 4 DAYS AFTER EXPOSURE. BTW I'm confident that I was in closer contact with the individual who tested positive than he was. The individual is relatively new to the school and likely did not know my name! 4/
What does this mean for students who are new to the school? In addition to not knowing names, how do you describe faces covered by masks? 5/
Two teachers with the same last name were contacted by T&T as of this morning. BOTH are under mandatory quarantine because the individual who tested positive mentioned this last name. One of these teachers returned to school yesterday in PERSON, not knowing he was on the list. 6/
Both teachers were masked and socially distanced from the teacher who tested positive, but one had more exposure. In the eyes of the city, they are equal. We are now understaffed, and 100s of students will have substitute teachers on the first few days of in-person school. 7/
On top of all of this: Many of my colleagues who have been quarantining since Wednesday, thanks to OUR OWN INTERNAL TRACING LED BY OUR ADMINISTRATORS AND TEACHERS, are still waiting on "expedited" test results that have yet to come in! 8/
My colleagues under quarantine are very UPSET to miss the first few days of in-person school. They have been working around the clock to make the HYBRID work. Now? Many of them, us, are full remote for the first few days of in-person school. 9/
PLEASE HELP US so that we can work through these problems before students arrive! Our demands are listed in the letter at the beginning of the thread! 10/ @NYCMayor @DOEChancellor @UFT @bradlander @MarkTreyger718 @cmenchaca @ChalkbeatNY @BrianLehrer @NYCSchools
urgent Qs from colleagues: Who/what are the official channels for determining quarantine? Our administrators? Phone calls from T&T? What does quarantine mean for our families? When is an investigation closed? How long should contact tracing take? 11/
What does exposure mean? What is the official threshold for mandatory quarantine? How do we measure that? Does @NYCSchools have their own metrics, or are we using @CDCgov? Do parents know that their children may not have their teachers on the first day of school? 12/12
