This is absolutely fucking chilling

[Nevilledog]

[Phoenix61]

1. What the ever loving fuck. Please, dear god

tell me that’s some trolling bs. We can’t have fallen that far, can we?

[Nevilledog]

2. It's obviously something that would be an internal communication.

I asked my hubby who is an admin and he said "We're discussing everything, but we wouldn't put that in writing."

I got the impression from his demeanor that the topic of deaths occurring had and is being discussed.

[BGBD]

22. It's not a question...

it is a certainty.

It's also not just a couple. If schools reopen, there will be thousands of deaths this fall and winter on the 1st order with school exposures and 10's of thousands to deaths on 2nd and 3rd order exposure from those. The vast majority of those 1st order deaths will be teachers.

We had 9 months to prepare for this and thanks to republicans we got nothing done. We were more worried about when hair salons could open than the biggest public health crisis in a century. Thanks to that, we are still stuck in the mud.

[plimsoll]

39. My wife said about the same thing.

They had a teacher die earlier. Not having a plan just causes confusion. At least their planning on dealing with the real world.

[roamer65]

3. If I had children, I would be getting a good attorney on retainer.

I’d would withhold my children and sue their fucking pants off for child endangerment.

Someone like...oh...Geoffrey Fieger.

[Alliepoo]

23. I read here on DU about Louisiana (I think)

Passing a law that protects schools from liability involving covid. Of course they did.

[JI7]

4. Don't they already have that for shootings ?

[eppur_se_muova]

7. That sounds like a scene from The Simpsons or Family Guy ...

"Use this form. Just scratch out "mass shooting" and write "virus". "

[PatrickforO]

11. There you have it! A savings on printing costs so the state can cut the budget even

further!

[Blue Owl]

13. We are sorry for your loss, MR. BLACK...

Please pick up your student's belongings after school, MR BLACK...

[KS Toronado]

14. That's about the size of it, with MR. BLACK being on the "fill in the blank" line

[kentuck]

5. Insane

Where do you go from there?

[Kid Berwyn]

6. Evil greed heads.

Long past time to arrest these mass murderers.

[AZ8theist]

8. Somewhere Betsy DeVos is SMILING!!

A student "death template"...
She's just a little jealous she didn't THINK OF THIS FIRST!!!

[KPN]

9. Perhaps it was their way of torpedoing something the community actually supported?

[PatrickforO]

10. If you need to prepare a template letter for student and teacher deaths as

part of a reopening plan, YOU SHOULD NOT BE REOPENING.

I'm with you on that one Neville.

[scarletwoman]

12. Come on people! It's a crisis list for CLOSING a school - read the first 3 bullet points!

Not to mention, it's completely unsourced. What proof is there that this comes from an actual school?

You know, we make fun of right wingers for being gullible and willing to believe all kinds of bullshit as long as it fits their worldview.

But DUers do it, too - witness this thread.

"if it's on the Internet it must be true!" Can't we grow past that?

[BigmanPigman]

16. Here is the article...

https://heavy.com/news/2020/07/canyons-school-district-utah-template-letter-deaths/

"The Canyons School District responded to an inquiry from Heavy, confirming that yes, that early draft was authentic."

[scarletwoman]

19. Thank you. I still think getting worked up over the fragment posted in the OP demonstrates very poor

critical thinking skills.

Seeing the whole story makes it even more ridiculous. Ultimately, there's nothing outrageous or sinister in the school's crisis planning process.

There's really no there, there.

[erronis]

24. Exactly. There are way too many unsourced articles recently. Wonder if it's a "campaign".

[BigmanPigman]

15. I hope this is part of the Back To School Night

Agenda. If I were teaching I would put this on my Power Point presentation and tell the parents to speak with the admin or district if they have any concerns. Put it back on the decision makers! Schools are a business and have a bottom line. Teachers are not a top priority, they are "disposable". I know and most teachers know too.

[Bernardo de La Paz]

29. Seems like some schools think children are disposable too. . . . nt

[BigmanPigman]

31. They just announced ...NO SCHOOL!

https://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1002&pid=1374604

GOOD! Teachers unions are saying NO WAY! Maybe that helped as well as CA shutting down again.

Also, schools in countries that had it under control and had schools reopened successfully just shut them down again(S Korea, Hong Kong, Israel, etc). That will be us, opening and closing to quarantine every two weeks...financially not a smart move for school districts. $$$ is what they care about more than the disposable students and staff.

[keithbvadu2]

17. It's an admission of risk.

[calimary]

18. No kidding!

[rusty quoin]

21. It reminds me of insurance companies not insuring nuclear power plants. No-go.

[rusty quoin]

20. Don't trust them.

[erronis]

25. Please post an authoritative source when posting. Helps avoid a lot of questionning

by readers wondering if it's real or not.

Later posters mentioned a "heavy.com" article which is also just another aggregator. Still it's better than nothing.

[Nevilledog]

26. Here you go.... All 31 pages available.

Link to tweet

?s=20

[erronis]

27. Perfect - thanks. Looks like I'll need to get a scribd account but that's OK.

I've used scribd a bit in the past.

Main thing is to just short-circuit the requests for some background info.

You're great.

You've been extraordinarily prolific recently (from what I can tell, no analysis).

[Nevilledog]

28. Retired and bored. Keeps me from killing my husband.

[dixiegrrrrl]

35. I have an account.

But downloading documents is free, last I checked.

[Bernardo de La Paz]

30. Timing

[Nevilledog]

32. It's insane, isn't it?

What's Canada doing with schools?

[Bernardo de La Paz]

33. Mostly undecided as of now. Parents are getting a bit antsy re planning, but most are patient

Overall, some areas of Canada are doing very well and many schools could reopen carefully, I think.

[Nevilledog]

34. As it should be.

[Initech]

36. Dear god, what have we become?

[warmfeet]

37. Sending children back to school under these circumstances is

nothing short of murder. Anyone contemplating it is not someone I can trust in any way - not in any situation, nor at any time.

[Alex4Martinez]

38. Such templates are good tools given the circumstance. Schools may be closed, but teaching goes on.

Students will die, teachers will die.

There is every reason to include templates for these eventualities.

I call that being prepared, as much as it shocks us that we need it.

We need it.