Educators You Rock

Educators You Rock community support Appreciation Breakfast! Shout out to the paraprofessionals, teachers, bus drivers, and other educators staff!

Back to School preparation for bus drivers, teachers, kitchen staff ! Must register to attend!!!! Date coming soon !

https://www.wsbtv.com/news/trending/coronavirus-oklahoma-student-knowingly-infected-with-virus-attends-first-day-school/GNUXY66ELVFPZBCQKAFWI3A4BI/

Coronavirus: Oklahoma student knowingly infected with virus attends first day of school A student who was knowingly infected with the coronavirus attended classes on the first day of school, Oklahoma public school officials said.

https://www.wftv.com/news/education/if-child-comes-down-with-covid-19-school-everybodys-risk-local-doctor-says/IOQJOA4GORCQ5CQQVD2BIRB7JI/

If child comes down with COVID-19 at school ‘everybody’s at risk,’ local doctor says If a child comes down with COVID-19 and goes to school in an in-person classroom, everyone the child comes into contact with in class and at home is at risk, a local doctor said Thursday.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/markets/u-s-students-get-sicker-from-the-coronavirus-than-kids-in-other-countries-are-at-higher-risk-dr-scott-gottlieb-says/ar-BB16GdZd?ocid=ob-fb-enus-894

U.S. students get sicker from the coronavirus than kids in other countries, are at 'higher risk,' Dr. Scott Gottlieb says "We have more co-morbid illness among young people in this country, more asthma, more obesity, more diabetes, so there is going to be higher risk with our school age population," former FDA chief Dr. Scott Gottlieb said.

Questions for School Openings:

• 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.
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