We started back to school. Wed we had inservice/introductions over Teams at home.

[demtenjeep]

Thursday and Friday we teachers and staff were in inservice.

masks were worn, but some under the nose, under the chin. An Assistant Principal giving a session on last year's discipline couldn't keep his mask on with 40 people in a room designed for 25 and his mask kept sliding down every 3 minutes. I was sitting in the front row. I actually got up and walked to the back and stood.


in the afternoon, we had time in our rooms. Being PBS lead, all the paras come to my room thinking they are gonna play on their cells all day-I put them to work-but they all took their masks off.

Oh and a principal from a different building greeted his staff with he had been exposed to covid and 15 of them had to go home and quarantine.

Additionally, venders were roaming the buildings with no masks at all.

Oh and tem checks will be starting on Monday ...after we had been in the buildings for 3 days.

There are almost 5,000 staff in the district and 45,000 students

[BigmanPigman]

1. Is this in a city that has a lot of Covid cases?

Can't you complain to the union?

[demtenjeep]

3. Our union is on the case

we are documenting

I have 4 years to retirement to get full benefits.

I could go in 2 and buy my two arkansas years but I really want to go 5

[BigmanPigman]

4. The union literally saved my life when it came to my health.

When I moved into a classroom that had installed A/C in a building that was originally made as a temp for the realtors to sell houses in the area 20 years earlier. It had no windows and the walls and ceiling tiles were stained brown from the water. The students and I were all on inhalers within a month. The district told me to keep the door closed and gave me a van of Lysol and a fan as a remedy.

I thought of buying my last years needed to be able to retire since I was sick over 90% of my teaching career due to the sick environment. I found out it would cost a fortune so I didn't do it, but in the process I found out that my doctors could tell the district that I physically can't teach anymore since the environment permanently damaged my health. They did this and I was able to retire under "disability". I don't qualify for health insur and have to hope they keep the ACA since the disability is about half of what my retirement pension would have been. I know that if I had to go back in a classroom now I would be extremely at-risk and my doctors would not allow me to teach and I would be on a Leave of Absence until Covid passes. I got everything under the sun when I was teaching...having mono for 6 months was really fun (and I didn't miss a day of work). Schools are germ factories, especially K-3.

I was harassed by the district for the rest of my career as a result of going over the district's head and going to the union for help. Assholes! I hope that doesn't happen to you.

[SheltieLover]

2. Recipe for disaster!

Can you get out of there? Retire? Get different job?

[demtenjeep]

5. no- I have 4 (2 if I buy) years left to retirement. No, I can't get a different job

I make 65,000 I have been a teacher for 25 years and have a Master's degree in Special Education. Why should I leave my career-that I built-and have a damn good reputation for doing wonderful things for kids..

[SheltieLover]

6. Good luck!