My neighbor a teacher says she is supposed to

[doc03]

go back to school next week. She has a blood clotting disorder already and COVID is known to cause blood clots. She is 60 and has to decide to quit or take a chance of dying from COVID.

[SheltieLover]

1. 😱

Early retirement! 😰😰😰

People should not have to make that choice! 🤬

She should be able to teach from home on zoom.

[Laelth]

5. Yep. Don't quit.

It’s time to negotiate an early retirement package.

-Laelth

[MontanaMama]

11. Some districts aren't offering those options.

I just heard an interview with a GA teacher on CNN who was told that he must return to the classroom for in person teaching or quit. He quit.

[hlthe2b]

2. I can't even be incredulous about stories such as hers anymore. To be numbed so that this level

of wanton ignorance, injustice, and overt conscious negligence is no longer unexpected is the true horror of this time.

I wish your friend well and all of us like her putting lives on the line.

[Nevilledog]

6. +1

[Freedomofspeech]

3. How awful for these teachers, and students.

My husband was a school superintendent...so happy that he is retired. It is so hard for these administrators to have to make this decisions. I was a high school librarian and I have many former students who are now teachers....they are all a wreck.😪This is all so heart breaking.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

4. If it was me I'd retire even if it was a financial hardship.

It's a horrible choice to have to make and she shouldn't have to make it. But.

[marybourg]

7. I think she should ask for accommodation

under the ADA before she does anything else

[KT2000]

10. Excellent idea!! n/t

[Ohiogal]

8. And then to hear the trumpanzees

Complaining about teachers who don’t want to do their jobs .... it’s sickening

[Tanuki]

9. Could she take a temporary medical leave of absence?

[whistler162]

12. Today we had a Zoom session with

the superintendent of the district I work in. JH/HS 2 days in school split by the alphabet and Mondays for deep cleaning. Elementary schools 5 days with 10-12 students per classroom, very small district. With remote learning options. Mandatory mask-wearing and daily screening form with testing available at the start of the year and batch testing thereafter. New York state. Glad I can hide 80 to 90% of the time in my office/house, the district bought land for the fields and there is a house on it. So the "technical support department", two people, work out of the house (just a small prefab so nothing fancy).

[mcar]

13. Hubby is 63 this month

A HS teacher in Florida. Students come back mid week. He can retire but, of course, his FL pension doesn't include health insurance and I am self-employed.

I'd still like him to retire and we'll figure out a way to get insurance. He said the teachers' belief is that schools will close within 2 weeks of reopening. All the trainings they are doing are relating to online learning.