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Just spent all morning sorting, cleaning, wiping everything down

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I'm 3 hours away from the morning bell ringing. I have been sorting, cleaning, wiping every desk, chair, computer, keyboard, mouse, with disinfectant. I'm supposed to have 25 kids in each class with 6 classes. I have 2 bathrooms for 600 kids and staff. Screw the 6 ft rule, you'll be lucky to be 3 ft apart and you'll be packed like a sardine in the bathroom. I have spent hours combing over the 12 pages of guidelines and this just can't be done. This is my 24th year and the year I retire. I can't be risking my 55 year old life to teach video game design to 15 year olds.<br><br>I'm just wondering what others are doing because my district is following the guidelines to the letter. I see just 6 desks in all the photos of your classrooms. I will have 25 and 3 tables for laptops/librarian. I don't think my classroom has ever had 6 desks. It's a computer lab for animation, app building, and game design.<br><br>I am not sure how you are doing this.<br><br>EDIT: I have 25 desks per class. 6 classes. It's a rotating class and a computer lab so every class is in here at some point that's why I need to wipe 150 kid's desks every morning just in case. I have 150+ chairs to wipe too. I asked for a TA and custodian to help with this and the district says no.<br><br>I'm not mad at anyone here. I just want the district to postpone school 30 days. I have a feeling they are going to close after 3 weeks anyway. I have a principal at my school who wants to reopen right now and he thinks that we can do distancing and keep all these kids and staff safe. I understand that a school needs to stay open. But he's wrong. He's wrong. All you have to do is watch the videos of kids on the news trying to do 6 foot distancing. You can't do it when you have 600 kids in a single school.<br><br>EDIT: MOST OF YOU ARE MY AGE. 55 and over. I'm not at all worried about getting sick. I am worried about being a carrier even if I have immunity. I don't want to be responsible for a kid's parent, grandparent, uncle, aunt, or sibling dying. I'm not willing to risk that right now when we should postpone 30-60 days and make sure we are safe and we know what we are doing. This is a 3rd world country right now when we should be a 1st world country innovating solutions to this. My school has 600 kids, 120 staff. We can't even get the staff to wash their hands, stay home, and not mark their teachers absent when we are sick. Many teachers won't wear masks and refuse to wipe their desks down after class because they think the principal is over reacting. I'm just not a willing participant here. I don't think we should be doing this.<br><br>EDIT: I have a meeting with our principal 30 minutes before the morning bell rings. I'm going to just tell him that I'm not doing it. I'll teach 6 kids at a time. I'll teach summer school. I'll teach online. I'll just do whatever he wants, but I will not take risks to just appease parents or our principal and superintendent.<br><br>Thanks for all the advice. You are all awesome. This was my happy place before you made it an unhappy place. I'm going to spend the rest of my time answering emails and reading memos from the principal and just sit on Reddit and have a bad day. But thanks for all the support.

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