New Hanover County Teachers Alliance-Plan C Initiative

Don’t want to risk my family’s health.

Plan C

Plan C!!!

This pandemic has too much that is unknown about it. Every day they are saying something different. Sending teachers and even students back into this uncertainty is very risky when there is another option .

Current plan is terrible

Please take care of us teachers and go with plan c for at least the first 9 weeks of school

My daughter is a NHCS student and has always had respiratory issues specially in spring and fall. In person classes with Covid around can have fatal consequences. Do not support in person clases at all because it is inconsiderate for students and school staff members.

Please, please consider moving to Plan C! I am a teacher but also a mother of 4 children in NHCS. They attend 3 different schools. Between my job and them going in-person, we are really increasing the risk of us getting this virus. Also, between teacher all day face-to-face, planning online materials, and helping my own children with their remote learning it is enough to burn a person out. The fear of getting sick and the guilt of possibly bringing it home to my own family is enough to make me consider leaving teaching. I have been a teacher for 20 years now. I don't want to leave! But I will pick my family and their safety if I feel I have to choose. I am sure I am not the only teacher in this position. Please remember that teachers are parents too!

Thanks! Let’s make health and well-being first for our students and teachers.

Plan B is a joke. We’ll homeschool before we participate.

I'm extremely worried about my own child.

There is simply still not enough certainty about the extent of the risk - in particular the risks of children being vectors of transmission to adults at home (.and those at the school). I don’t know anyone who wouldn’t prefer the kids could be in school but at this point we should continue to err on the side of caution.

The following questions has nothing to do with politics....these are legitimate concerns from the experts no one is listening to THE TEACHERS! Questions for School Openings: • 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

We have to think about the safety of our community! Plan B is not safe and is reckless!

Too many logistics to figure out and u knowns to do in person instruction in just a few short weeks

Thank you for organizing this and helping us have a voice in this uncertain time. One thing I AM certain about is that Plan B is a recipe for choas, more unknowns, more opportunities for having to “fly the plan while building it” as we heard over and over through Spring 2020 and it most certainly will not maximize learning for all students. Let’s be proactive this go round and set our students and staff up for success. Let’s continue moving in a direction where ALL student and staff can help stop the spread of COVID 19 through Plan C. Why take any risk? Health over education at this point in time. Teachers are resilient and will fill the academic gabs that have and will be made through the Fall. COVID 19 will stick around longer if schools open this Fall.

Feel more comfortable with online learning at this time

At this time we would feel more comfortable with virtual learning.

This is not in the best interest of teachers