If you are pro reopening schools this fall, please read these points and actively think about them.

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 per class, 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 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 test 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 HIPPA regulations are parents and teachers just going to get mysterious "may have been in contact" emails all year long?

- Is the stress going to affect the teacher's 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 teachers in the U.S. are over 50. About 16% of the total deaths in the U.S. are people between the ages of 45-65.
If you are in favor of reopening schools, you are choosing to put our teachers and children in danger.

Math problem: High school student with Corona rides the bus, capacity 60, enters gym class with 40, goes to seven classes with 24 in each class, eats lunch with 200 while passing between classes multiple times. How many students will be sent home for 14 days because of exposure?

Saw this on Facebook. Thought it would be a good addition. It was from a retired teacher.