Optional days have been a real mess, leaving most of us less certain about our safety and the plans our District has for handling things. .
Weāre in a similar place. One of my teammates was absent yesterday. He said that he had a bad headache and cough, so he took the day off to go get tested. We were told that we do not need to wear masks while alone in our classroom, but I had others come into my room with no masks, or I had to quickly grab my mask and put it on when others entered. My other teammate needs a lot of reassurance with technology, so he would come in, no mask, and pull up a chair right next to me. Iām not optimistic about how long in-person school will last.
Good to see he tested negative. I haven’t been in our building since I dropped of tomatoes back when we were still planting them instead of picking and pulling them. The guy next to me still doesn’t seem to get it, from what I’m hearing. Just like your teammate. If he did that to me, I couldn’t go home.
After three days of inservice meetings, I’m still not certain about what I’m going to be asked to do. There’s another meeting in about an hour that should finally answer questions. Everyone keeps kicking the can down to the next person right now. There’s another teacher at our school in a similar situation. We’ve been in contact the past few days, she’s been going through the exact same things I have been. Not sure if that’s good, but at least the district has been consistently ham handed.
I’m sure it’s the same everywhere that decided to open, and not much better for places that decided to go virtual. We don’t have the staffing for the kids we have in school, and the online options don’t have the staffing to handle those kids either. If one or two of our in person teachers are out sick, the whole house of cards falls down.
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