Wish I wasn't a teacher because of Covid

[NebularNerd]

In my family/friends circle, I am the only one who will be face to face with 150+ people per day with no PPE, no social distancing, nothing.

I have one relative who is not expecting to return to the office this year.
Another who now only works in the office two days per week, in a building where numbers are severely restricted, one way systems, spaced out desks etc.
Another friend who is also able to wfh for the foreseeable future.

I can't help but think that had I made a different career choice I would not now be faced with contracting a potentially life threatening virus and passing it on to my clinically extremely vulnerable husband or elderly parents.

I will go to work and try to ignore what's going on in the world and do my best. But I wish I could be made to feel safer - screens, masks, fewer pupils, something.

I hope I'm worrying for nothing, but it is getting difficult to sleep at night.

I would be totally happy to remove all these things.

Then you're an ignorant fool.

Exactly, children have suffered the most throughout all this and if you (teachers) can't see that then maybe you should take up a different career

@Piggywaspushed
LOL you prat trying to make out I am lying. I have a mixed year 1 and 2 class. 16 children in my class are year 1, hence having them back in June but not the year 2s. Next week my year 2s will be back also and I cannot wait

@moretolifethanthis2020

I would be totally happy to remove all these things. This whole thing is totally and utterly out of proportion. Life is a risk, with or without covid. But I don't go to bed crying about it every night. We have to have some normality now. This is not the bubonic plague, and believe me, if it was, I wouldn't want to leave the house.

Right.

This thread intended to discuss the safety of teachers and students in schools.

Not a debate about whether Covid is dangerous or not generally.

@Back50
Please please don't include me in that as I cannot wait to have the children back.
It is very worrying that as teachers we are supposed to be teaching resilience and yet these teacher on here are wetting the bed every night about a tiny risk.

I'm departing this thread now as I just can't deal with you doom mongers.

LOL you prat trying to make out I am lying.
I think you have misunderstood. The point is that those low numbers in June is exactly what we haven't got this coming term. So the risk is far greater.

@moretolifethanthis2020 completely agree with you and I'm lucky that most teachers at DC are thinking the same

I'm departing this thread now as I just can't deal with you doom mongers

@moretolifethanthis2020 completely agree with you and I'm lucky that most teachers at DC are thinking the same

@Back50

Exactly, children have suffered the most throughout all this and if you (teachers) can't see that then maybe you should take up a different career

You're telling a bunch of teachers about children's mental health?! No one gave a flying fuck about that before Covid, when teachers were dealing with the realities of it with their pupils every day.

@echt for your first day back to work

@CallmeAngelina
Children are not bio-hazards, whether there are 16 or 30 of them.

@noblegiraffe

I'm not sure what else you want to happen

The same Covid-secure guidelines to apply to schools as everyone else’s workplace.

Can anyone explain why that is unreasonable?

Completely agree, particularly secondary teachers, why can’t they teach behind a screen.... like they did when they set fire to the potassium or whatever that was?

I'm lucky that most teachers at DC are thinking the same

Sorry, but you have no IDEA what those teachers are really thinking.

completely agree with you and I'm lucky that most teachers at DC are thinking the same

You can’t possibly know that.

I feel the same but as I'm in a special school there is certainly no distancing.

@Back50

Exactly, children have suffered the most throughout all this and if you (teachers) can't see that then maybe you should take up a different career

Yep, knew it. New name same shit.

@moretolifethanthis2020

I would be totally happy to remove all these things. This whole thing is totally and utterly out of proportion. Life is a risk, with or without covid. But I don't go to bed crying about it every night. We have to have some normality now. This is not the bubonic plague, and believe me, if it was, I wouldn't want to leave the house.

The bubonic plague can be treated by antibiotics

[quote moretolifethanthis2020]@CallmeAngelina
Children are not bio-hazards, whether there are 16 or 30 of them.[/quote]
I refer you back to my post of 21.46

@Back50, I said before Covid. Children have been suffering from mental health problems for a long time and teachers are acutely aware of it. We certainly don't need you coming along to helpfully point it out now.

@CallmeAngelina
Well yes mental health in children has always been there and so you should understand the further massive effect this is going to have on the children's mental health

@echt for your first day back to work

I am at work. In lockdown.

Just to clarify, I'm not crying every day or wetting the bed about going back to work.

Can you imagine if NHS staff were accused of the same thing?

I would feel safer in another job though, and I don't want to watch any of the vulnerable people I love suffer or die. 🤷‍♀️