Can`t remember where I read this.....
Betsy DeVos has said that 02% of the kids are likely to die of Covid-19 when they go back to school. This seems like a low number and she finds .02% an acceptable percentage. .02% in numbers is approximately 14,740 children. This means that with the push to open schools, she is sanctioning the death of 14,740 children of 14,740 families. (I personally don’t find this an acceptable number of deaths, but let’s not dwell on that.). Betsy DeVos when asked about her plan yesterday, couldn’t answer one question. So the educators gave her some real questions to answer. They are excellent ones and there is plenty here to unpack. Stay safe everyone!!
Why schools really can’t open in the fall:
Every parent and teacher should read this.
From someone who wishes school would open but has serious concerns about it happening.
A retired administrator posted this. A lot of food for thought! Parents and teachers, some tough questions re:schools opening
Betsy DeVos, we 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 with 30 students each, do all 150 of those students need to then stay home and 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 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 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? What if your kid tests positive? Does every other student and teacher they have been around quarantine? Do we all get notified who is infected and when? Or because of HIPAA regulations are parents and teachers just going to get mysterious “may have been in contact” emails all year 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 effects of consistently being stressed out?
• How will it affect students and faculty when the first teacher in their school dies from this? The first parent of a student who brought it home? The first kid?
• How many more people are going to die, that otherwise would not have if we 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 protect them. And in turn, we are putting ourselves and our kids in danger.
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