Still hanging in there. So many kids and adults out. I've covered 3 classrooms this week. Hoping I'm

[GPV]

still dodging the covid bullet, but a kiddo in yesterday's class turned around to go home in the morning when a sibling tested positive. I've spent 2 days with that child and who knows how many other eventual first contacts.

I have perpetual allergies, but I'm stuffier and runnier than usual. Also headachy, but I've been herding 5 year olds. No going out for tests today. Maybe tomorrow if things seem worse.

How about everyone else? Are you still avoiding it? Stacking extra duties up left and right? Our teachers will be compensated, but not the support staff, at least not under that agreement. Hopefully that oversight will be corrected since extra duties and subbing tend to fall on support staff shoulders more often because we don't have our own classrooms to manage.

[PJMcK]

1. My wife is a teacher at two schools

At both schools, she was asked to substitute for sick teachers every day this week. These classes were in addition to her regular schedule.

It's incredible to me that she's still healthy but we're pretty strict in following the protocols.

[Backseat Driver]

2. Yup, hanging...but TPTB are making everyone into a team player...

For example: if, during the holiday, folks (usually stockers et al) worked overtime where they were justly compensated, those total store overtime hours of time and a half must now be recouped from everyone's schedule and from everybody's hours by the end of the month, not just from those so paid, so no 40 hrs for DH this pay period - lost a 1/2 day for the recoup of those total store overtime hours and got sent home early.

Note: The resource scheduler/team lead changed everyone's schedule as ordered, but "forgot" to post those changes on the schedule site before personnel showed up to work, so they were told to clock out and go home as early as the minute they showed up...Guess we should be grateful it wasn't the whole day! Another "No good deed, at least by other team members, goes unpunished." SMH!

[Igel]

3. Yup.

Covered a class during my conference period today. And Friday. 3 days last week, 8 days the first 8 days of the new semester. Admin doesn't like putting APs in the classroom. Today we wound up merging classrooms one period--no volunteer teacher subs, admins all busy or in the classroom, and there were still uncovered classes. "Surprise, Ms. K, you get half of your neighbor's students! You history, they're in art! Enjoy!"

Plus there's after-school detention, Saturday after-school detention. Standardized test tutoring or night school. ARDs. 504s. I'm really tired. It's the days when I arrive at 6:20 am and leave campus at 7:15 pm that really hurt.


Add in the daily notifications of "an individual in your class has tested positive". And between classes we're to be in the halls ...

And the "an individual in your child's class has tested positive" notes.


I seriously have trouble imagining I haven't been infected at least once. Maybe twice. Most of my students, few of my colleagues, mask.

None of my students have been hospitalized.