'I didn't sign up to fight a virus in a classroom. I signed up to teach English.' A middle school teacher describes the risk she faces every day in the classroom, saying, 'I'm risking my health, my life and the health and lives of my family.'
Catch up on the developing stories making headlines., says she’s always loved teaching. But with the coronavirus still raging and schools around the country beginning to reopen, she resigned from her job last week to protect herself and her family.
Nancy Shively resigned from her job as a special education teacher in Oklahoma Monday over concerns for her safety as schools reopen amid the coronavirus pandemic. “There are many students across the county who come in declaring to their teachers that their parents don’t believe in COVID,” Robbins said. “There are parents who’ve reached out to me to express their dislike of my requests for a safe school. Across the board, there are people who believe in science and there are people who don’t believe in science, and having a conversation between the two is almost pointless. We’re not going to change each other's minds.
“Every day you leave your house and you walk into the building, you’re exposing yourself to hundreds and hundreds of students who are exposing themselves to multiple people when they’re outside of school,” Robbins said. “Gwinnett is the most diverse county in all of Georgia, and so I have students from last semester who live with grandparents or live with aunts and uncles or live with extended families,” she said. “So I know that multigenerational homes are definitely going to be impacted. I know that they were impacted in the spring, so I can only imagine when schools reopen in the fall.”
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