Thread by @xianb8

After travel and being able to calculate the chaos, I had to take Monday off to stay with my daughter and another student. On Tuesday, another parent watched them while I went to school in a full cyberpunk environment suit.

On Monday and Tuesday, while a teacher was out and quarantined, Sprout's class was close contacted the entire day.

Meanwhile, my class had lots of coughing and sniffles, but no positive cases.

We've been locked out the rest of the week. Now, CPS is saying they might open Pre-K remote because of the need to quarantine, but since there was no report in my class (4 students were home cause of COVID and got zero instruction), we can't go remote.

Also, because Sprout was home, and isn't a close contact, and I've tested negative, I'm not a contact.

So Monday, I would have to send my kid in remote and teach in person while my students are home because of COVID/exposure.

UNLESS, I can find a parent from my class AND walk them through CPS' intentionally obtuse reporting system AND get CPS to recognize the report THEN my students would have access to remote. But barring that...

If my students return to a school building, then they could contract COVID or become a close contact. THEN they could be enrolled in remote instruction and I could teach them OR

If one of my students loses the N-95s I bought for them out of pocket and wears one of the cloth masks the mayor gave them, and then runs through the streets licking things, contracts COVID and then somehow reports it, then they could have instruction. SO

Basically whether students can receive remote instruction is not their family's vulnerability to COVID, or family's scientific understand of risk, it's whether students in high risk communities are actively exposed to or contract COVID.

Or maybe I don't understand it. That's not an understanding problem on my side. It's a design problem on the city's side.

Of course, this assumes me and every single observation of Omicron aren't wrong and our distinguished Chief Executive Officer of Kids, Pedro Martinez is wrong.

Since he has...

Since CEO Martinez has insisted repeatedly that the vaccinated can't contract COVID, these vaccinated kids must not be. (Again, not that they aren't vaccinated--that's been documented. They must not really exist on the same plane as our CEO)

CEO Martinez: Grown-ass man; child agnostic