2021/2022 School Year

hiddendriver34 said:Right, because obviously, the homeroom teacher does it just for the sheer thrill and excitement of it. It’s not like they can imagine a single better way to spend their evening.

Look, I don't know how he spends his time and honestly, I don't care. Just like he shouldn't be concerned with how I spend mine. My old teachers back in the day never felt the need to go digging through my business or my parents' business at 10:00 PM.
That’s just how I am with my own work, too.

Grace Edwards said:Look, I don't know how he spends his time and honestly, I don't care. Just like he shouldn't be concerned with how I spend mine. My old teachers back in the day never felt the need to go digging through my business or my parents' business at 10:00 PM.
That’s just how I am with my own work, too.

Do you really think he’s doing this because he actually needs to? 🤦

EDIT: Is it obvious to you that this guy handles his business outside of office hours? And the only reason your brain can come up with is that he's doing it out of necessity?

hiddendriver34 said:Do you really think he’s doing this because he actually needs to? 🤦

EDIT: Is it obvious to you that this guy handles his business outside of office hours? And the only reason your brain can come up with is that he's doing it out of necessity?

Well, he doesn't have to do it. At all. How would anyone even manage this before the internet era? They wouldn't. Everything would still get done... It’s just this modern obsession where we convince ourselves that things absolutely *must* happen right this second. It isn't solely the professor's fault.

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hiddendriver34 said:Right, because obviously, the homeroom teacher does it just for the sheer thrill and excitement of it. It’s not like they can imagine a single better way to spend their evening.

A teacher's job isn't to act as a data collector for vaccination records.
PERIOD.
And they certainly shouldn't be doing this during their regular hours, let alone after work.

They can simply forward an email from the school nurse to the class or the parents, and that should be plenty.
There's no need to deal with this outside of working hours either—not even for updates on someone being in quarantine.
From what I remember, last year they were collecting info on our chosen doctors, and we had to update our emails and phone numbers, but they told us the CDC would contact us directly if anything was needed.

What exactly is the catastrophic fallout if a teacher—acting on some official order to compile a list of vaccinated students—decides to cite privacy laws like HIPAA, or perhaps just adds an epidemiologist to the class WhatsApp group? Or something along those lines, I suppose.

hiddendriver34 said:Do you really think he’s doing this because he actually needs to? 🤦

EDIT: Is it obvious to you that this guy handles his business outside of office hours? And the only reason your brain can come up with is that he's doing it out of necessity?

He does it because he's an idiot who doesn't know how to manage his time.
If I could handle scheduling client meetings for the next day at a decent hour while pulling 12-hour shifts (actual work hours!), then he can do it too. But I guess that would mean shorter coffee breaks after work. My bad.

You don't actually know his body of work or how he operates, yet you're all out here trashing this top-tier professor.

The school didn't have much going on with the testing protocols lately, and last time, they ended up leaving a week earlier than everyone else after some rapid tests flagged the principal and a couple of teachers.

Now, the obvious issue is that nobody is reaching out to them, and they aren't getting any actual guidance.
We've got students who tested positive today and haven't heard a peep from anyone by 2 PM, while two others have already come down with fevers. At this rate, I guess the class will just be showing up for morning classes on Monday like nothing happened.

They really could have just notified them yesterday that they shouldn't show up to school until everything was sorted out.

lujka_x said:There’s just no escaping it... you're basically surrounded by a sea of unvaccinated people.

I think I might have a chance.
I mean, I went ahead and got my shot. 🥳

OutOfBubblegum said:The homeroom teachers are gathering all this data on COVID vaccination status because apparently the school counselor needs it to put together a report for the local health department official.

aha.
I guess school counselors can never really have enough paperwork or bureaucracy to keep them busy, right?🎉

Grace Edwards said:He does it because he's an idiot who doesn't know how to manage his time.
If I could handle scheduling client meetings for the next day at a decent hour while pulling 12-hour shifts (actual work hours!), then he can do it too. But I guess that would mean shorter coffee breaks after work. My bad.

You don't have a clue. Most likely, the principal or some administrator called him five minutes ago and demanded he gather that data immediately.

Strictly speaking, that isn't even the homeroom teacher's responsibility. It shouldn't be on him to notify parents about quarantine protocols on a Sunday afternoon or to track who’s been sick or vaccinated just so they don't have to isolate. It shouldn't be his job to burn through his personal time, evenings, and weekends on stuff like this. He could easily tell the health department and the principal to kick rocks and deal with it themselves. Honestly, maybe he should. But nobody does that, mostly because—as our former Madam Secretary would put it—“you just have to do your part."

urbantinker8 said:aha.
I guess school counselors can never really have enough paperwork or bureaucracy to keep them busy, right?🎉

Hold on, are you actually suggesting I'm making things up?
It's pretty clear from the text that the principal is complaining about the administrative workload and the extra tasks being piled on.

By the way, you completely missed my main point, which is how the contact tracing isn't even decided by the actual epidemiologists—it's handled by school bureaucrats who just compile reports for them.
And they aren't looking at individual close contacts; they're looking at who has or hasn't had a vaccine pass, which the epidemiologists then use as their baseline criteria for determining exposure.
They aren't following standard contact tracing protocols where individual proximity is assessed; instead, simply being in a certain classroom without having a valid vaccination status for a 14-day period is enough to trigger the whole thing.

So, an epidemiologist here sent an email to the daycare director and the head of health services yesterday evening around 9 PM. And they just kept going. Then, because apparently we needed the sleep deprivation, us parents finally got the notification at 7 AM this morning.

coastalorca43 said:Hold on, are you actually suggesting I'm making things up?
It's pretty clear from the text that the principal is complaining about the administrative workload and the extra tasks being piled on.

By the way, you completely missed my main point, which is how the contact tracing isn't even decided by the actual epidemiologists—it's handled by school bureaucrats who just compile reports for them.
And they aren't looking at individual close contacts; they're looking at who has or hasn't had a vaccine pass, which the epidemiologists then use as their baseline criteria for determining exposure.
They aren't following standard contact tracing protocols where individual proximity is assessed; instead, simply being in a certain classroom without having a valid vaccination status for a 14-day period is enough to trigger the whole thing.

No, I'm not saying you're making anything up.
It's just, unfortunately, how things work in this country.
All those psychologists, counselors, specialists... in our schools, they seem to spend most of their time dealing with paperwork. So, I suppose it isn't really surprising that they were so quick to jump into the administrative task of listing students for quarantine. Just give them as many reports to fill out as possible, as long as it means they don't have to do the actual job they were hired for.🎉

Grace Edwards said:He does it because he's an idiot who doesn't know how to manage his time.
If I could handle scheduling client meetings for the next day at a decent hour while pulling 12-hour shifts (actual work hours!), then he can do it too. But I guess that would mean shorter coffee breaks after work. My bad.

Those are some really harsh words, and honestly, they're totally misplaced here.

-briskjackal5

urbantinker8 said:I think I might have a chance.
I mean, I went ahead and got my shot. 🥳

So why are you acting so terrified then—and why the hostility toward people who aren't?

Alex Morales47 said:So why are you acting so terrified then—and why the hostility toward people who aren't?

I wouldn't say I'm acting out of fear, really.
I suppose I just find myself frustrated with the people making it impossible for us to actually get back to some semblance of normalcy.

urbantinker8 said:I wouldn't say I'm acting out of fear, really.
I suppose I just find myself frustrated with the people making it impossible for us to actually get back to some semblance of normalcy.

If they announced tomorrow that all the restrictions were officially over and we could go back to business as usual—would you actually be fine with that? Or would you still be looking over your shoulder at the unvaccinated?
I get the impression that vaccinated people are actually terrified of those who haven't taken the shot. It’s almost like we’re being treated as if we’re the ones at fault...

urbantinker8 said:I wouldn't say I'm acting out of fear, really.
I suppose I just find myself frustrated with the people making it impossible for us to actually get back to some semblance of normalcy.

Sure, hate isn't exactly a pretty look.
But the real issue is that carrying that kind of bitterness eats away at you from the inside—honestly, I think it does more damage than most physical illnesses.

urbantinker8 said:I wouldn't say I'm acting out of fear, really.
I suppose I just find myself frustrated with the people making it impossible for us to actually get back to some semblance of normalcy.

You're barking at the wrong crowd, because it's the politicians, not the people, who are keeping us from getting back to normal...

Linda Lee4 said:You're barking at the wrong crowd, because it's the politicians, not the people, who are keeping us from getting back to normal...

but then again, politics is made up of people, isn't it?
I suppose some folks do it as a career, while others just sort of dabble in it during their downtime.