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23. This is like the Twilight Zone
Wed Feb 3, 2021, 07:08 PM
Feb 2021

I'm in the Ruby Red part of Georgia, and schools here have been open since August. There are no teacher unions here (Right to Work laws. Smh), and the faculty and staff are sworn to secrecy in order to keep the positive cases out of the media. I shake my head when there is a national argument about opening schools going on when I see tons of school busses pass by my house in the mornings.

Because the teachers are afraid for their jobs here and don't want to risk seeming anti-republican/anti-Trump by going against the status quo, they simply step over the bodies of their dead colleagues and report to work. Students come to school and wonder why their teachers are missing for weeks and weeks, and they are never told the truth as to why their teachers are absent. Just yesterday, Georgia ran out of vaccines for the Phase I population, which does not include teachers. The teachers have no idea when they are supposed to be vaccinated, and nobody has answers.

It's creepy here.

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Totally AGAINST this bluestarone Feb 2021 #1
Will kids wear masks, social distance, wash hands most of the time? Irish_Dem Feb 2021 #2
Hell no, they like adults get complacent. Where I live the kids are don't want to kill their parents uponit7771 Feb 2021 #12
Yes they do jcgoldie Feb 2021 #22
Good for them! I would not have expected this. Irish_Dem Feb 2021 #25
I hear you jcgoldie Feb 2021 #29
Come to think of it, when I am out, the younger generation wears masks and wears them correctly. Irish_Dem Feb 2021 #31
" so the classes start earlier and are done by 12:30 " This is why. My daughter asked her friends if uponit7771 Feb 2021 #28
That's what they're doing with my sons' school. Crunchy Frog Feb 2021 #35
As a retired speech-language pathologist who worked in schools phylny Feb 2021 #43
My daughter has been teaching hybrid since September and the school is pushing for ft in person. seaglass Feb 2021 #44
Especially with the variant strains coming. I don't expect my child OnDoutside Feb 2021 #3
Oh wow !! I don't think the CDC in the US knows this, I seriously have been lurking CV data ... uponit7771 Feb 2021 #11
I'll dig out where I read that and post it OnDoutside Feb 2021 #13
WOW !!! That UK and S Africa is a mutha ... I don't know if you get US telivision but we're not bein uponit7771 Feb 2021 #19
Here OnDoutside Feb 2021 #30
👍 uponit7771 Feb 2021 #32
For an update OnDoutside Feb 2021 #40
She's a new Biden appointment. He can relieve her of duty if she keeps pushing this shite. nt Celerity Feb 2021 #4
She isn't the only one, there are other respectable physicians who agree with that. Even with still_one Feb 2021 #15
+1, looked it up ... there are only 4 million k-12 teachers in the US and it should take 1 week to uponit7771 Feb 2021 #27
I am going to email the WH why this is bad policy. I am sure teachers have let them know still_one Feb 2021 #34
No. Why? ananda Feb 2021 #5
Honestly, they can IF, and there are tons of IFs Freethinker65 Feb 2021 #6
my small school district's facebook page is blowing up in arguments MissB Feb 2021 #7
I don't agree because the data does ... NOT ... include exposure rate for children. If 100 ... uponit7771 Feb 2021 #8
For goodness sake, why not just vaccinate them? dawg day Feb 2021 #9
THIS !!! there are 4 million k-12 teachers in the US that should take a week with todays tech to uponit7771 Feb 2021 #14
exactly. They should be treated as front line workers still_one Feb 2021 #16
Exactly questionseverything Feb 2021 #38
My wife has been back in the classroom since August... VarryOn Feb 2021 #10
where I'm at its like the teachers could give a shit, I'm pissed to learn my kids have gotten half uponit7771 Feb 2021 #17
I'm sorry to hear that.... VarryOn Feb 2021 #36
Sure if everything is perfect, she is right WA-03 Democrat Feb 2021 #18
"it shows the cdc still has somethings not right" 👈🏾👈🏾👈🏾 uponit7771 Feb 2021 #24
I start medical leave tomorrow until I am vaccinated. I am not willing to risk my life demtenjeep Feb 2021 #20
+100000 roamer65 Feb 2021 #33
But that's based on many safety standards being put in place ? JI7 Feb 2021 #21
Yes, and the kids don't follow those standards to the nth degree uponit7771 Feb 2021 #26
This is like the Twilight Zone UncleTomsEvilBrother Feb 2021 #23
I'm very torn on this frazzled Feb 2021 #37
The teachers I know will strike before working in unsafe conditions Fiendish Thingy Feb 2021 #39
This is stupid. Schools are public petri dishes even without a pandemic raging out of control. Hermit-The-Prog Feb 2021 #41
I agree. nt cwydro Feb 2021 #42
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