re: Louisiana BESE Board Meeting live, now to discuss reopening plans and approve measures

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For at least the fifth time, I don’t know a single teacher who isn’t ready to have students back. I know how much people love to believe what you said, though. We would like some clarity, but I don’t think that’s coming any time soon.

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I get that you hear that from people you know, but for some of us, all we are seeing and hearing (especially in this meeting) are teachers advocating for not having to enter the classroom again.

Make those overpaid babysitters go back

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 each, 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 the 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 tests 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 HIPAA regulations are parents and teachers just going to get mysterious “may have been in contact” emails all year long?

• What is this stress going to do to our teachers? How does it affect their 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 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.

We are choosing to put our teachers AND STUDENTS in danger.

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That's just stupid, teachers are gullible

Central is planning on having school open for the little ones and I'm looking forward to it.

My feeling on this is that it will get shut down though.

Lol duece. And one sec.. will pull it.

Edit from Facebook. Not my opinion, at all.

All those bullet points tell me is that we, as a society are fully living in the bullshite era.

My advice to everyone: open it ALL up and go about living your normal lives using your common sense.

Wanna keep your kid home? Fine. Watch a recorded lesson.

Wanna not wear a mask? Cool too. Someone gets sick, no big deal. Go home until better, use a substitute, come back in a few days like normal. No need to quarantine. That cat's out of the bag.

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I don’t think anyone is trying to make that argument at all

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You clearly aren’t paying attention