With no mask mandates at their schools, teachers are urging students to wear them during the coronavirus pandemic.
Jessica Peterson constructed plexiglass barriers for her students' tables at John Harris Elementary School in Sioux Falls, S.D., to help prevent the spread of germs."She's given the power to the school districts to decide what we need, and I understand that," she said."But it's most powerful when your governor says, 'Yes, we should be wearing masks.' And she didn't.
"I'm doing my best to get my room ready to keep my students as safe as possible," she said."There's definitely not the same excitement that I normally have as a teacher about going back to school. There's some anxiety that comes with it. But I really do want to get back into my classroom."Allison, the Tennessee teacher, said many of her students live in poverty and do not get enough food or attention when they are at home.
Lane, the high school teacher in Oklahoma, said he never considered not returning to the classroom, even though his age and the semiannual treatments he still gets for prostate cancer put him in a high-risk category. Lawrence E. "Train" Lane, a teacher and zone director at the Oklahoma Education Association, said up to 20 teachers a day across the state have been requesting assistance writing their wills ahead of the school year.There will be some precautions. Lane's high school plans to take students' temperatures twice a day.
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