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Metal worked peacock doors designed in 1925 by Tiffany for the C.D. Peacock jewelry store, Chicago, Illinois.

Here’s what will happen if they open schools:

1. Every teacher who can retire will retire at the last second making the nationwide shortage worse

2. There already aren’t enough teachers to teach socially distant classes, & they’re CUTTING funding everywhere, so they’ll be impossible. They’ll blame this on teachers & call it our “failure,” or blame it on unions for not letting them hire low pd untrained “emergency teachers”

3. The classrooms will not be sterilized between groups of students, & they will blame this on teachers. We don’t have enough time between periods to do it & many have hall duty, prep for next class. We won’t be given sterilization tools or PPE. No $$

4. This will all be blamed on teachers for being “bad” or failing”. When unions strike over this impossible situation, we’ll be “union thugs” who “don’t care about students”. All because we don’t want to die, don’t want our students & families to suffer & die.

5. Every teacher who can quit, will quit. Trust me, teachers are already looking for an exit. The shortage will get worse. You think you can’t find STEM teachers *now*? Hahaha. Just you wait.

6. At nearly every site that opens someone will get seriously ll. That person is most likely to be a teacher with 100+ contacts a day. “Contacts” means # of students taught a day. The teacher goes into ICU & the school goes on quarantine.

6A. This means an immediate 14 day lockdown for all students & school personnel. No planning for Zoom classes. No financial support for parents who can’t go into work the next day. There will be 12 hours notice.

7. Parents will die. Students will get sick & grow up believing they were the cause of those deaths bc they brought the virus home. Teachers will die. There’ll be a massive walkout in blue states. In red states it will be confined to sites w multiple deaths. There will be plenty.

8. We’ll end up w nationwide online classes again, again w zero planning, again it will suck, again it will fail to address inequities. All bc we had to put it together instantly again instead of PLANNING NOW.

9. The reason they don’t want to plan now for online ed is bc they believe in-person classes will jump start the economy. But the sudden reversal back to online ed due to widespread illness & death is a certainty. They’re just hoping it happens after the election.

10. The first school deaths will happen in early-mid September. The disease vectors of in-person classes will crash local economies as businesses in those areas are once again forced to close.

11. And the whole thing will be blamed on teachers for not magically being able to sterilize a classroom w no equipment or time; not being able to force students to distance in halls. They will blame us for our own deaths. For the deaths of our precious students. Our Families.

12. I’m going to stop here, but ask a teacher what they think they’ll be able to do in a socially distant classroom. LOL. It will be worse than Zoom. No partner work. NO group work. Solo play. No lab partners. No study partners. No eating lunch w friends. No PE. No singing.

You think your kid is “sad” bc they can’t play w their friends? Imagine how they’ll feel when they’re within six feet of their friends & not allowed any closer. Not allowed any hugs. Physically alone all day.

We bought our new sweet kitten a harness for walks. We had her try it on to get her comfortable with it and I’m not sure she loved it.