Posted on 02/05/2021 2:02:21 PM PST by EdnaMode
Fairfax County schools are set to reopen classrooms for in-person learning this month, but thousands of teachers plan to continue working from home.
Fairfax County Public Schools plans to have students and teachers return to classrooms on February 16. However, 2,300 of the district’s 15,000 teachers many teachers will continue to instruct their classes virtually even while their students are physically present in the classroom.
Because of this, classroom monitors will be present in the classroom with children during class. So far, 645 classroom monitors have been hired, and the school district needs 205 more, Fox 5 DC reported.
The teachers who will stay home received approval for their American Disabilities Act requests submitted back in the fall before distribution of the coronavirus vaccine to Fairfax County teachers began.
School unions across the country have balked at returning to in-person classes, arguing that it is still not safe for them to return to work due to the pandemic.
However, some data suggests that fears of contracting the virus in a school setting have been overblown.
A study from the American Academy of Pediatrics offered the striking finding that among the 90,000 students and staff observed in the study who returned to in-person classes, there were zero instances of child-to-adult transmission within schools. Among the 11 North Carolina school districts that participated in the study over nine weeks, there were 773 community-acquired coronavirus cases, and an additional 32 infections were acquired in schools.
The Fairfax County public school system, which enrolls 186,000 students, will prioritize vulnerable students for in-person learning, including those with disabilities and those learning English.
The reopening plan, which will allow any student to come to school for two days of in-person classes per week by March 16, was unanimously approved by the county School Board.
“We acknowledge that no situation is risk-free, but the risks are greater in not returning students at this time,” said Fairfax Schools Superintendent Scott Brabrand. “Our president has asked for this, and we must come together now.”
Also the teachers: It's okay to have classroom monitors go in our place.
Wow. Fairfax has sunken to the Chicago level. Must be really proud to be the equal of Chicago.
These teachers are going to make it clear that they can be replaced.
Too many, most, government workers got a year of paid vacation, time for that to end!!!
These teachers can just go work in the solar industry.
what a racket
Gee, what could go wrong?
The teachers need to be fired this very minute, and their jobs given to the
monitors, or someone else willing to do the job.
~Easy
They can also reclaim abandoned land mines!
Learn to write code.
The teachers are demonstrating to their students that the teachers’ safety is more important than the monitors and the students. Not exactly leading by example. It does, however, demonstrate quite convincingly, the underlying ethics and morality of the ruling class of the school and current society in general.
In a sane world, these communist-supporting scumbags would have had no salary since the schools closed...
Basically, the communist union enabled them to retire at “full” salary...
No way they want to come out of retirement...
IMHO, good... Absolutely nothing taught in the government schools has any value other than being pure propaganda designed to destroy our once-great Nation...
Well, maybe the poor kids will get lucky and not be pumped as full of lies and propaganda with “Monitors” as they would be with the typical Certified Teacher.
Well, maybe the poor kids will get lucky and not be pumped as full of lies and propaganda with “Monitors” as they would be with the typical Certified Teacher.
I think this practice of escaping to "education" degrees started during the Nam war....many guys just got into college to take any courses just so they could avoid the draft.
Fire all the bass turds. Cut off their money. Then we’ll see.
“Well, maybe the poor kids will get lucky and not be pumped as full of lies and propaganda with “Monitors” as they would be with the typical Certified Teacher.”
We can only hope...
Can’t they just wear a mask? Or two? Or is it up to three now? Don’t the masks keep us safe?
When academic a hievement does not tank, the tea hers should be fired and schools of education closed.
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