If the district doesn't cancel school, do we go?

I teach in a large, suburban district just outside of Seattle. We already had one teacher fall ill with the coronavirus, but was over a month ago, and they cancelled school for two days to clean the building. We have been "back to normal" for the sake of the kids, but I feel like everything could change extremely fast. <br><br>Many of our parents began sending emails to the school board and superintendent over the last week (I assume in response to a rise in "community spread" confirmed cases in the Seattle area), inquiring if we will close if/when confirmed cases show up in the county.<br>Our superintendent sent out an email on Monday to parents, stating that the district was working in conjunction with King County, and would follow their guidelines as the district decided whether to close (which is stipulated by the state as only when there is a confirmed case in the county), in case of a closure. <br>We just learned that a middle school in a neighboring school district is closed for 14 days, and the ones in the surrounding districts are closed for 2 days to be sanitized, due to a confirmed case of COVID-19 within the county, although not in the district. I am extremely shocked that our superintendent did not send out a message in response to this. If I were a parent, I would want to know what was happening. <br><br>I read a Facebook comment from the wife of one of our school's teachers (I did not see the original post) and she said that as teachers, we also cannot cancel classes in the event that the district will be open. She works in a different school in said district as a librarian. Her reasoning was that students need childcare, although many parents are already keeping their kids home. I think her larger point was that we can't cancel school if we don't want to risk losing our job. <br><br>TLDR: <br><br>1. do we as teachers have to go to work if school is open.<br>2. should the district close if cases within the county are in the thousands, when the virus is likely spreading at a much faster rate than that, but still under the radar?