Teachers are so worried about returning
to school that they're preparing wills
CNN,
by
Theresa Waldrop
Original Article
Posted By: NorthernDog,
7/16/2020 9:23:39 PM
Back-to-school is looking a little different for many teachers nationwide this year, as they grapple with returning to their classrooms amid a pandemic. Added to their list of concerns: Death. "How horrible is it that one of the things on the list to do is to have a plan for students and teachers dying?" Denise Bradford, a teacher in Orange County, California's Saddleback Valley Unified School District, told CNN. Her comment comes after the Orange County Board of Education voted this week to return children to schools without face masks or social distancing, despite a surge in coronavirus cases and
Reply 1 - Posted by:
droopydog 7/16/2020 9:28:18 PM (No. 480808)
I want to keep getting paid but I don't want to be anywhere near your wretched kids.
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
Cat Ballou 7/16/2020 9:28:25 PM (No. 480809)
Exactly OP, what a bunch of wooses..........!!
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
Calvinesq 7/16/2020 9:32:14 PM (No. 480814)
Lawyers on full employment. Question: Why now? Do you drive a car? Why didn't you have a will already?
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
Shells 7/16/2020 9:34:58 PM (No. 480818)
Who knew that teachers are such a fear-filled population of cowardly babies.
It’s not the beaches at Normandy, ladies. It’s a freaking classroom.
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
Daisymay 7/16/2020 9:35:12 PM (No. 480819)
Good grief What a Bunch of Whiners! It's your JOB to educate those kids. Get off your fat rear ends,, your government unemployment windfall $600 checks are about to end anyway, so you might as well to back to work! Most people don't have a choice. It they want to keep their job they have to show up. That should be the case for Teachers as well!
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
Urgent Fury 7/16/2020 9:39:00 PM (No. 480821)
Don't paint all teachers with the California Union Lefty brush.
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
voxpopuli 7/16/2020 9:39:10 PM (No. 480822)
it's an ill wind...
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
Hard Nard 7/16/2020 9:41:48 PM (No. 480826)
Well, it is being reported by CNN so I'd take it with an industrial strength grain of salt.
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
chumley 7/16/2020 9:48:52 PM (No. 480833)
Big deal. I had a will at 21. Uncle Sam made me. Boo freakin hoo.
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
Nashville 7/16/2020 9:56:10 PM (No. 480841)
I work in a factory, 400 people on 3 shifts, we work 24/6, have been since February.
Millions of people like me are sick and tired of this crap.
What’s the matter ‘Karen’ full pay from your kitchen table too good to give up?
We The People deem teachers ‘essential’....
Get your pampered ass back to ‘work’.
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
Quigley 7/16/2020 10:03:13 PM (No. 480851)
I heard yesterday that the science - or should I say the inconvenient science- says that children do not pass covid and they are not susceptible to it.
This covid is for schools teachers what global warming is to politicians: elect me and I'll save the planet in 100 years. Let me teach your kids and I promise not to get anywhere near them.
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
kiwinews 7/16/2020 10:09:18 PM (No. 480855)
Responsible people have wills. Teachers are supposed to be responsible people. Should have had one anyway, derps.
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
Ida Lou Pino 7/16/2020 10:13:28 PM (No. 480861)
This reeks of planted fake news.
The nose knows.
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Reply 14 - Posted by:
Kate318 7/16/2020 10:20:32 PM (No. 480867)
Denise, you have a far greater chance being killed by one of your “aggrieved” students than by COVID. Buck up, sweetheart.
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Reply 15 - Posted by:
smcchk 7/16/2020 10:38:44 PM (No. 480878)
OMG - I am not going to be able to endure the whining from the teachers! Did we hear ANY whining from nurses or doctors or the kid who packs your groceries for 4 months? NO! But now the teachers might have to work and it will be nonstop.
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Reply 16 - Posted by:
padiva 7/16/2020 10:42:53 PM (No. 480881)
If you have children, a will is necessary to appoint guardianship for the children.
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Reply 17 - Posted by:
Nimby 7/16/2020 10:48:27 PM (No. 480887)
Quit your job. Let someone else teach the kids
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Reply 18 - Posted by:
msjena 7/16/2020 10:50:57 PM (No. 480888)
Why should they get paid if they don't show up? Are they better than other essential workers, who have been showing up all along? Or is teaching not essential work?
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Reply 19 - Posted by:
ThreeBadCats3 7/16/2020 10:57:11 PM (No. 480897)
When you are dead, you don’t have to worry about anything. When you are alive, get on a diet, loose some fat and decrease your covid risk. Otherwise, try to teach the kiddies something other than socialism.
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Reply 20 - Posted by:
stablemoney 7/16/2020 11:07:41 PM (No. 480902)
This sounds like a good time to get rid of the bad teachers. What is happening is many teachers want to get paid, but not have to go to work. Let's not let this faux emergency go to waste, let's keep the bad teachers at home, but without paychecks.
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Reply 21 - Posted by:
Proud Texan 7/16/2020 11:19:55 PM (No. 480909)
Is it because of the covid or, more likely, the discontinued police protection?
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Reply 22 - Posted by:
DVC 7/16/2020 11:25:32 PM (No. 480915)
Wah, wah, wah.
Not a heck of a lot worse than the annual Chinese flu. I was talking with a nurse in southern Colorado today, she has treated people with this stuff, says people are more afraid of the Wuhan flu than they should be.
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Reply 23 - Posted by:
Tet Vet 68 7/16/2020 11:42:32 PM (No. 480926)
What horse pucky! You should have a Will anyway! What Bee Ess
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Reply 24 - Posted by:
24tea@Mag 7/17/2020 12:02:52 AM (No. 480935)
Why did we hire them? Now that their under contract they get paid if they show up to work or not. Get a grip and get back to work!
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Considering what sits in some of these classrooms, you should have had a will and sidearm long ago.
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Reply 26 - Posted by:
hoopsfan 7/17/2020 1:27:54 AM (No. 480970)
Boo-hoo to those whiners.
Obviously, teaching children is not their first priority. I encounter some very nice people of all ages that have been working with the public at Costco and my local grocery stores and been doing so since the virus first began. They not only have survived, they have served with a smile.
Is it too much to ask for you to do your job?
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Reply 27 - Posted by:
judy 7/17/2020 1:31:47 AM (No. 480972)
Politicians & government employees checks never stopped! Small businesses are suffering. I’ve heard many Democrats say they will never vote for a democrat again. Since March we’ve seen what it’s like to lose freedom, jobs, see mayors & governors destroy cities & states, allow rioting & destruction while stopping church services & stopping the return to work , tolerate feces, urine, needles & homeless on the streets while insisting everyone wear a mask, destroy cites over one death while allowing abortions, keep lottery, marijuana shops, grocery stores, Walmart open while preventing others from working....vote for all republicans in November....drain the sewer...
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Reply 28 - Posted by:
ussjimmycarter 7/17/2020 1:33:05 AM (No. 480973)
My BS meter just went to full red alert with sirens blaring in my head! Comrades must band together to fight the imperialistic Swine American people who want their children in school getting educated! Although, Comrades are missing an opportunity for extolling the virtues of Mao, Castro, Lenin and Che to their young head full of mush daily!!!
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Reply 29 - Posted by:
NeverForget 7/17/2020 2:01:29 AM (No. 480985)
Don't these teachers read "Chicken Little" and "The Boy Who Cried Wolf" anymore. If so, they are failing to learn the lessons.
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Reply 30 - Posted by:
Trigger2 7/17/2020 4:35:04 AM (No. 481026)
They keep saying old people are teachers. My comment is then why are they still there? Retire, why don't they? The answer is because the job benefits are lucrative and they don't want to give it up.
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Reply 31 - Posted by:
Strike3 7/17/2020 5:20:19 AM (No. 481049)
Police and military people face that danger every day and don't get paid nearly what these glorified babysitters do. There's always Burger King, honey.
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Reply 32 - Posted by:
WhamDBambam 7/17/2020 6:40:41 AM (No. 481092)
Maybe occupational wills.
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Reply 33 - Posted by:
kono 7/17/2020 12:14:21 PM (No. 481501)
The mob-driven removal of security guards and police from schools presents a greater threat to teachers' lives than exposure to kids' germs.
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The drama queen routine is getting old. If you are too afraid to enter a classroom, go get a job somewhere else. How about a lion tamer?