I am an Australian teacher. You will not by default practice #herdimmunity on me & my colleagues. Read "I’m an epidemiologist. When I heard about Britain’s ‘herd immunity’ coronavirus plan, I thought it was satire" by William Hanage theguardian.com/commentisfree/…
Catching #Covid19 still means you can get it again. Prof Kim Woo-Ju, Depart of Infectious Diseases at Korea University. He's done SARS, Swine Flu Pandemic, Ebola, & MERS. At 8.08 he calls those who have #Covid19 & get it again as having a "reactivation'.
There were no brawls over toilet paper in Taiwan b/c everyone felt safe. Teachers in Taiwan had a Pandemic Office providing PPEs for teachers & students & highly trained cleaners as well. In Australia some schools didn't have enough soap for students to wash their hands.
I just can't believe journalists haven't read the @WHO website. Or followed their press briefings which have clearly stated that children need to be protected from #Covid19.
I love my students in all their diversities in their multilingual kinship networks, families, Aunties, Uncles, Parents, Foster Parents, Grandparents, abilities, creativity, aliveness, LGBTIQQ their richness & diversities they bring to my classrooms.
I am an Australian teacher. You will not by default practice #herdimmunity on me & my colleagues. Read "I’m an epidemiologist. When I heard about Britain’s ‘herd immunity’ coronavirus plan, I thought it was satire" by William Hanage theguardian.com/commentisfree/…
Catching #Covid19 still means you can get it again. Prof Kim Woo-Ju, Depart of Infectious Diseases at Korea University. He's done SARS, Swine Flu Pandemic, Ebola, & MERS. At 8.08 he calls those who have #Covid19 & get it again as having a "reactivation'.
There were no brawls over toilet paper in Taiwan b/c everyone felt safe. Teachers in Taiwan had a Pandemic Office providing PPEs for teachers & students & highly trained cleaners as well. In Australia some schools didn't have enough soap for students to wash their hands.
I just can't believe journalists haven't read the @WHO website. Or followed their press briefings which have clearly stated that children need to be protected from #Covid19.
I love my students in all their diversities in their multilingual kinship networks, families, Aunties, Uncles, Parents, Foster Parents, Grandparents, abilities, creativity, aliveness, LGBTIQQ their richness & diversities they bring to my classrooms.
@WHO doesn't classify a country as shut down until the schools are closed. UNESCO states that 91% of the world's school are currently shut down due to #Covid19. However this is still up for debate in Australia? en.unesco.org/covid19/educat…
Many privates school had their #coronavirusaustralia planning meetings in January & did laptop device testing in February, they recently got more money before parliament was closed down. Public schools, have with a lot less resources been stepping up to the plate.
Many teachers are working 12,14, 16 and 18 hour days. We haven't been set up for success. We have been consumed with caring for the mental well being during these uncertain times. Scared & terrified students don't retain information or engage in meaningful lessons.
The pain of UNESCO growing reports of all schools shut down world wide in order to stop #Covid19, has burnt deeply on me as a teacher. That's up for debate due to Morrison's 'medical advice'. But what it says to me as a teacher is that I am not valued. en.unesco.org/covid19/educat…
I don't want to end up like other teachers around the world where they closed the schools too late. foxnews.com/us/new-york-ci…
I love & care for my students & their communities. I also don't want them to die either. timesofisrael.com/12-year-old-gi…
I know I have vulnerable students in all the classes that I teach. Children who have suffered childhood trauma often have compromised immune systems.
Children who don't have enough to eat also have compromised immune systems, like the 1 in 5 kids in Australia who go to bed w/o dinner or to school w/o breakfast.
Once again teachers love & care for our students deeply. Once you have kid in your class they become 'your kids'. I don't want my kids to die. euronews.com/2020/03/27/cor…
I teach in schools but I have also taught in youth refuges, gifted & talented kids, in domestic violence refuges, Autistic kids outdoor Science, Sustainable art workshops for kids having fled #domesticviolence. I have also taught young pregnant Mothers nutrition classes.
I have taught kids who have been sexually abused by their families.
I taught a kid one who started crying as family was living in tent because both parents lost their jobs.
I have taught a young woman whose PTSD was so bad I had to lie on my back to be in the same room as her or she would have a panic attack.
I have taught a kid who was too young and too violent to be in the Young Violent Offenders programme.
I love my students no matter how they come to school. I love to teach but some days my job is to give a tiny bit of love to an incredibly stressed young person. I have to check if they are suicidal, check when they last ate, check when was the last time an adult listened to them.
So I don't want my students - I don't want my kids or their family members to die from #Covid19. dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8…
I passionately agree & disagree with my teaching colleagues. I laugh, love & struggle along through challenging days with them. I don't want my teacher friends & their families to die either. theguardian.com/australia-news…
Look at those feet. If you heart gasps when you look at those tingy little feet you are feeling what teachers feel when we look at our young, vulnerable, disadvantaged students.
Kids we know who have missed out on some of the basics of Tender Loving Care.
There is so much not known about SARS-CoV-2.
In "Coronavirus: Into The Red Zone" they take off their PPEs concerned even though they hadn't touched anything tiny particles could be on those suits. Serious implications with medicos reusing gowns & teachers reusing equipment if this is the case. youtube.com/watch?v=8qveMb…
“A few people recovered from the first time by their own immune system, but meds they use are damaging their heart tissue, & when they get it a second time, the antibody doesn’t help but makes it worse, & they die a sudden death from heart failure". nypost.com/2020/02/19/whi…
The wellbeing of staff & students is important to learning. Our young people feel so betrayed by us for the lack of action on Climate Change & now once again we fail to keep them safe b/c folks are too busy playing politics or don't actually want to look after their own kids.
Somehow all these White Anglo Middle Class parents are concerned for disadvantaged kids, and I wonder where they have been for the last 30 years of my life @samanthamaiden @leighsales?
This is wonderful! Will you all help campaign for a #UBI so all kids can eat before the come to school? Teachers all over Australia would be so grateful if that disadvantage ended.
Will you demand the end of NAPLAN? Which is a failed educational policy which had research & the head of American education coming on on Lateline and saying we tried this & it didn't work. This would immediately assist disadvantaged students?
Will all these parents that are so concerned about disadvantaged students call for 2-3 teacher's aides in every class, like in Finland so students who need one on one can be addressed immediately and not in the break I pretend is for me to eat?
Will all parents concerned about disadvantaged students tell our politicians before they give money for another private school to renovate their Olympic Swimming Pool that all public schools have to have adequate resources like air conditioning in Qld or a working Internet?
I read about the "right" of choice of a parent to have a school to go to drop their kids off to a school so they are not inconvenienced as discussed by @samanthamaiden.
It would be nice if Ismail Mohamed Abdulwahab, 13, who died alone in a London hospital had the choice of not drowning in the fluid in his lungs caused by coronavirus. 7news.com.au/lifestyle/heal…
If teachers, with a pre existing conditions, (which are the majority of the teachers, in the schools I go into, teaching is a very stressful job and it has serious consequences on your health) have a choice to work from home rather than feel pressured to put themselves as risk.
Our top 250 companies avoid paying enough tax, each, every three months which would provide #Centrelink for every single Australian for five years. If one company paid tax for one year = #UBI for every single Aussie for 20 years. #auspol #COVID19
If families had enough to live on, it would mean they have choice to feed their kids, have a choice to buy equipment for their kids, have a choice to go on excursions. It would mean an end a lot of disadvantage & gaps in Australian education.
It's wonderful to think when this Pandemic is over that there are so many parents that are now committed to having choices themselves and also for disadvantaged students to have more choices. If the political will was there we could close gaps in a generation.
So all parents will demand Gonski funding to be implemented? As they are so concerned about disadvantaged students?
Our school system replicates disadvantage at all levels. Can anyone point me to what kids are actually going to miss out on? What pedagogies are those kids missing out on?
What about the choice of disadvantaged kids and their families to be alive?
What about the choice of disadvantaged kids and their families to be alive?
There's no herd immunity for Covid19, once you get it once you can get it again.
What about the choices of journalists to not read @WHO website. What about the choices to continuously repeat inaccurate information. What medical advice does Morrison have that trumps over @WHO? Experts in their field?
There is another choice to be considered as well. The choice not to act until it is too late and Covid19 has spread. 
Young disadvantaged students often have compromised immune systems due to the nature of intergenerational trauma. Read about Adverse Childhood Experiences and what the physical, emotional & psychological impacts that they have, including reduced life span.
It's so great that we are all now going to make sure we are appraised of trauma sensitive pedagogies, food insecurity & ACEs so we can create more choices for our disadvantaged students.
Maybe some of our journalists can finally read the @WHO website and find out what is being discussed, advocated for and defined as sensible choices to keep our kids, their families and Australian teachers alive.
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