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A friend of mine just posted this on FB.

Betsy DeVos we have a few questions for you:

• If a teacher tests positive for COVID-19 are they required to quarantine for 2-3 weeks? Is their sick leave covered, paid?

• If that teacher has 5 classes a day with 30 students each, do all 150 of those students need to then stay home and quarantine for 14 days?

• 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?

• 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?

• 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?

• 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?

• What if a student in your kid's class tests positive? What if your kid tests positive? Does every other student and teacher they have been around quarantine? Do we all get notified who is infected and when? Or because of HIPAA regulations are parents and teachers just going to get mysterious “may have been in contact” emails all year long?

• What is this stress going to do to our teachers? How does it affect their health and well-being? How does it affect their ability to teach? How does it affect the quality of education they are able to provide? What is it going to do to our kids? What are the long-term effects of consistently being stressed out?

• How will it affect students and faculty when the first teacher in their school dies from this? The first parent of a student who brought it home? The first kid?

• How many more people are going to die, that otherwise would not have if we had stayed home longer?

30% of the teachers in the US are over 50. About 16% of the total deaths in the US are people between the ages of 45-65.

We are choosing to put our teachers in danger.
We're not paying them more.

We aren't spending anywhere near the right amount to protect them. And in turn, we are putting ourselves and our kids in danger.
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OldMetalHead 9 July 13
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And these people freak the fuck out if someone dates to tell them to wear a mask. Yet somehow it is okay for DeVos to try and bully States into sending kids to a risky school situation for them, their teachers, their parents, their grandparents and the community at large. They are willfully accelerating the spread of COVID-19 and willfully causing the death of Americans.

a) someone should be suing every one of them and the Federal government and every State that joins in with nonsense
b) there should be mass civil disobedience to ignore this
c) where the fuck are the pro-lifers when you need them... Great opportunity for Dems to turn the tables of the pro-death Republicans and take over the branding to mean actually giving a damn about protecting and healing living human beings - especially children and the most vulnerable amoung us. Which is surprisingly what their so called savior preached.

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Those are the perfect questions because there's no answer to them that can justify a careless school opening. She wouldn't be able to answer them. She might just try to answer with taking points but it would expose her. Trump would just lash out and claim it was a nasty question, you're a terrible reporter.but that didn't work. This is brilliant.

barjoe Level 9 July 13, 2020
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Good questions.

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