Several friends posted this thread on FB, so I don't know to whom it should be attributed. But it's so good, I'll post the whole thing here as a public service.
➡️Betsy DeVos, we have a few questions for you:
➡️Betsy DeVos, we have a few questions for you:
1/ If a teacher tests positive for COVID-19 are they required to quarantine for 2-3 weeks? Is their sick leave covered, paid?
2/ If a teacher with 5 classes a day with 30 students each becomes infected, do all 150 of those students need to then stay home and quarantine for 14 days?
3/ 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?
4/ 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?
5/ 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?
6/ 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?
7/ What if your child or other kids test positive? Must every other student and teacher quarantine? Do we all get notified who is infected and when? Or do HIPAA regulations require parents and teachers to just send mysterious “may have been in contact” emails all year long?
