Faculty at COVID-19 Boarding Schools

Boarding schools across the US are forcing teachers back to classrooms and dorms despite spiking cases. Hear our voices here. Add yours at the link below.

[Faculty at COVID-19 Boarding Schools @fac_covid]

THREAD: Hundreds of Independent School Communities Inform Public Officials: Our Teachers and Employees Demand to Go 100% Remote This Fall (1/11)

[Faculty at COVID-19 Boarding Schools @fac_covid]

The truth is that we are scared for our lives and our livelihoods. Thank you, Pandemic School Team, for articulating so beautifully many of our shared concerns.
https://t.co/jipQYCaXDS

[Faculty at COVID-19 Boarding Schools @fac_covid]

@ColinRMoynihan @byshaw @viaSimonRomero @GiuliaMcDonnell @PatriciaMazzei @JMOONEY22 @schadgibson @ReporterMarina @emhew @vtdigger

[Faculty at COVID-19 Boarding Schools @fac_covid]

THREAD: Hundreds of Independent School Communities Inform Public Officials: Our Teachers and Employees Demand to Go 100% Remote This Fall (1/11)

[Faculty at COVID-19 Boarding Schools @fac_covid]

For more information about the Boarding School Communities Collective Statement, contact [email protected] (11/11)

[Faculty at COVID-19 Boarding Schools @fac_covid]

As quoted in this article, the pandemic is underscoring the many ways that elite private schools act as "efficient engines of inequality." Observation worthy of @AnandWrites @winnerstakeall @NAISnetwork
https://t.co/0YqQeDlu8B

[Faculty at COVID-19 Boarding Schools @fac_covid]

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[(((Howard Forman))) @thehowie]

Elite New England boarding school (@loomischaffee) has decided to NOT board for the fall, due to failures in testing adequacy, federal response & national containment.

This should cause every university to, at very least, consider these same factors.

https://t.co/v1hEQBbUKK

[Faculty at COVID-19 Boarding Schools @fac_covid]

This happened within hours. How will this translate to our dorms, classrooms, dining halls, sports fields, and other shared spaces? If we proceed with reopening and inviting hundreds of students from around the world back, how fast will we shut down? Will we even reach an hour?

[The New York Times @nytimes]

One of the first school districts in the U.S. to reopen its doors during the pandemic did not even make it a day before a call came from the county health department — a student who had walked the halls and sat in various classrooms had tested positive https://t.co/gTmeoCjZkW

[Faculty at COVID-19 Boarding Schools @fac_covid]

"How hollow is the independent school world’s recent turn to “equity and justice” when they’re fully willing to sacrifice their employees for the bottom line? They’re in pursuit of a diverse ruling class, nothing more."

[Faculty at COVID-19 Boarding Schools @fac_covid]

Question re: the collective statement: "Are you planning to have this statement published? You know these schools have been corporatized to the point of only caring about the bottom line and faculty pressure means little."

[Faculty at COVID-19 Boarding Schools @fac_covid]

"A collective statement protesting in-person reopening plans has garnered support from faculty and staff at 30 boarding high schools: https://t.co/7ffNxPj2yI."

[Faculty at COVID-19 Boarding Schools @fac_covid]

@NAISnetwork

[Faculty at COVID-19 Boarding Schools @fac_covid]

July 21st, 2020 update on the Collective Statements by Boarding School Communities and Independent School Communities: Combined Signatories are now at over 1,600 educators: 346 signatures across 42 boarding schools and 1300 signatures across over 150 day schools

[Faculty at COVID-19 Boarding Schools @fac_covid]

Private schools who mainly exist to serve America's corporate elite suddenly have a pandemic problem: their workers are revolting @AnandWrites @WinnersTakeAll