If you can answer all these questions, you can let kids back in school:

If a teacher tests positive for COVID-19 are they required to quarantine for 2-3 weeks? Is their sick leave covered, paid? 1/11
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? 2/
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?3/
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? 4/
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? 5/
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? 6/
If your kid, or a student in your kid's class tests positive, does every other student and teacher have to quarantine? Do we all get notified who is infected? Or do HIPAA regulations mean parents and teachers just get “may have been in contact” emails all year long? 7/
What's the stress going to do to our teachers? Their health and well-being? 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? 8/
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? 9/
How many more people are going to die, that otherwise would not have if we had stayed home longer? 10/
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. Should they have a right to stay home?

These Q's come from a teacher and parent in the NYS school system. Parents: Ask lots of questions.

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I'm not saying these are easy questions, but our elected leaders need to try to answer them. Yes, people need to get back to work and kids should get back in school, but until you have a plan, rushing in is simply reckless.
The argument some states made in opening up early was that we needed to get the economy back on track. Well, they rushed it and as a result we're in worse medical shape than before AND the economy will now take longer to rebound.
We lack discipline, respect and selflessness in this country. Not to mention, we celebrate non-experts and demonize science and public policy experts. Populism is killing us.
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