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Teachers may be more likely to spread COVID-19 than students, a new CDC study suggests.
The federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention examined nine outbreaks in eight elementary schools in Marietta, Ga., outside of Atlanta in December through last month, the agency said Monday.
A teacher was proven to be Ground Zero for four of the outbreaks, while a student was definitively identified as the starting point in another, researchers said.
In the other four outbreaks, while the line of transmission was not as clear, a teacher was suspected as being the kick-off, the study said.
“Educators were central to in-school transmission networks,” the scientists said in their report.
“The finding that educators play an important role in in-school transmission is consistent with findings from other investigations,” the study added, referring to previous British and German research.
Still, the CDC report noted that the Georgia schools involved in the study had “less than ideal physical distancing,” with students behind plastic dividers at their desks but fewer than 3 feet apart because of the sheer size of classes.
“Inadequate mask use” by students also may have contributed to at least five of the outbreaks, researchers said.
The Biden administration has said it wants to reopen more schools, but has been inconsistent on its goals and whether it wants more teachers to be vaccinated first amid pushback from unions.
CDC Director Rochelle Walensky discussed the study at a White House coronavirus briefing on Monday, saying it showed the need for teachers to be prioritized for vaccines.
She argued that it also underscored the need for schools to follow the CDC’s reopening guidelines .
“In particular, universal mask wearing, physical distancing of at least 6 feet and using ‘cohorting’ or ‘podding’ of students, are important to minimize spread,” she said.
“This is especially true of schools that have high rates of COVID-19 in their community.”
Walensky added that distance requirements — which she acknowledged are “challenging” — can be relaxed as community spread is reduced.

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Teacher protests are spreading around the nation. Here’s what’s fueling the movement
Apr 2, 2018 6:35 PM EDT

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Thousands of teachers protested Monday in Oklahoma and Kentucky, demanding higher wages and more resources for students. So far this year, teachers in four states - each with a Republican governor and legislature -- have walked out of classrooms to press for more school spending. John Yang talks with Liana Loewus of Education Week about what’s happening around the country.
Thousands of teachers protested today in Oklahoma and Kentucky, demanding higher wages and more resources for students.
It's the latest in a series of teacher walkouts that seem to be growing across red states.
Today, thousands of teachers in Oklahoma walked off their jobs and marched on the statehouse. They're demanding an even bigger raise than what legislators passed last week.
At the Kentucky State Capitol the scene, and the issue, was much the same.
Melissa Sheets teaches elementary school.
I pray and I hope that our legislators listen and they fully fund our schools. Kentucky is ranked 47 in per pupil funding. And in order for our students to be successful, they need top dollar.
So far this year, teachers in four states, each with a Republican governor and legislature, have walked out of classrooms to press for more school funding. It began in West Virginia, where a nine-day teachers strike led to 5 percent raises.
Arizona could be next. Teachers there rallied last week at the state capitol. They're considering a strike as they seek a 20 percent raise.
To put all this into context, we're joined by Liana Loewus from our partner Education Week, where she is assistant managing editor.
In Oklahoma, they got a raise from the legislature, but they are still protesting. What does that tell us?
The teachers got a $6,100 raise. The legislature passed it last week. But they're not happy with it. There's a lot less than they were asking for.
They were asking for $10,000 over three years, plus $200 million more in education funding. They didn't get what they asked. For so they said, we're walking out anyways.
What's the likelihood that they are going to get that?
It's really hard to pass a tax hike in Oklahoma. You need a three-quarters majority in the legislature. That hasn't happened since 1990. And it happened last week. So, I think it's pretty slim that it will happen again.
So, we have got all these other states.
You have got — in West Virginia, they got a pay raise. In Arizona, the issue is money. In Kentucky, it's pensions.
Some have described this — some teachers are describing this as a wildfire. Why are all these happening now?
Yes, West Virginia, if it's a wildfire, they were definitely the spark. Things started there.
A lot of it happened on social media. The union's really been playing a supporting role in most of these states, so teachers have been mobilizing on social media. Organizing seems to have changed because of Facebook really.
So, we have seen thousands and thousands of teachers gather on social media. And teachers in West Virginia have been really sort of bolstering the efforts in Oklahoma as well. So that's a lot of it.
Has there been anything like this ever before?
There was actually a statewide strike in West Virginia in like 2007 and one in 1990.
They are quite rare, though. You know, we see smaller strikes, local strikes every year, just a few. Strikes were just so much more common in the 1960s.
And also the clustering of them like this.
Yes, that is unusual, to see teachers feeding off each other in other states.
And, again, I think that's — a lot of that is because this is happening online. They're bolstering each others' efforts online.
You talk about the sort of rank and file organizing this and the union leaders following. For instance, in Oklahoma today, the union leaders actually wanted to do this later in the month.
The union had said they were going to do this on April 23, and there was outrage on social media. The rank-and-file teachers said, no way. We want to do this April 2. We don't — we want to do it — we know that's closer to testing, but we don't care. We want this to be effective.
Teachers want more funding for schools, not only pay, but other things. A lot of the funding was cut after the recession in 2008.
Part of this is that the funding hasn't really rebounded since the recession.
So, teachers in Oklahoma will tell you, we haven't gotten a raise in 10 years. So, for them, this is really important.
And is it significant that all these are states that have Republican governors and Republican-controlled legislatures?
But, as we know — and they are states where education funding has been cut. But, as we know, with mobilizing happening on social media and in new places, I think this could potentially happen anywhere.
Liana Loewus from Education Week, thanks so much.
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February 16, 2021, 11:13 PM · 3 min read
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Three viral TikTok videos show a Florida high school teacher teaching misinformation about slavery.
The Lee County teacher falsely said slaves were not whipped and said the "n-word" means "ignorant."
Island Coast High School and the district said the video was under investigation.
A southwest Florida school district is investigating a high school teacher who was seemingly caught in TikTok videos teaching his students misinformation about slavery and making offensive comments about racial slurs.
The series of three videos depicts an Island Coast High School teacher claiming that the "n-word" actually just means "ignorant" and becoming angry when a Black student questions him. Fort Myers News-Press first reported the story on Monday.
The videos, which have millions of views in total, were posted to the social media app by a student Saturday who said the discussion took place in his Advanced Placement (AP) government class.
Island Coast High School, located in Cape Coral, Florida, said in a tweet Sunday that the TikToks were "under investigation." A spokesperson for the district, Lee County, also confirmed the investigation to the Fort Myers News-Press in an email.
Lee County Superintendent Gregory K. Adkins and Island Coast High School Principal Michelle Cort did not immediately return Insider's requests for comment.
In the first video, which has 4.3 million views as of Tuesday morning, the teacher falsely claims that slaves were not whipped by slave-owners in the US. It's well-documented that slaves in the Americas were abused.
The teacher then appears to threaten to kick a Black student out of the classroom for questioning the statements. "How do you know? Were you there?" the student, who posted the TikToks, asks the teacher in the video. "You want to have an honest conversation," the teacher says, after saying he could "kick" the student out of the classroom. "Let's have an honest conversation."
The second of the three TikToks has 1.8 million views as of Tuesday. The teacher can be heard asking, "If I call somebody the N-word, what am I calling them?" A student can be heard responding by saying, "ignorant," and the teacher agrees.
"The N-word just means ignorant," the teacher says. "It doesn't have any other meaning in any other vocabulary other than you are a stupid person. You are ignorant. You are not well-read. You are not well educated. That's what it means."
The statements ignore the racist history behind the word and its continued use to disparage Black people.
In the third video, students discuss hate speech, and the student who posted the TikToks tells the teacher that though the "n-word" may not feel like hate speech to him, it does to the student. "That's a good point," the teacher says in the video.
The student who posted the TikToks did not immediately respond to a request for comment through social media.
The viral videos immediately sparked outrage online. Commenters on TikTok, as well as Twitter users who shared the videos, identified the name of the high school and its district in the hopes of getting the teacher fired. The reaction follows a trend of social-media users identifying the workplaces and schools of people caught on camera doing offensive or racist things.
In April, a Georgia high school student posted a racist TikTok video with her boyfriend in which they said Black people "don't make good choices." Both students were expelled from their school after social-media users identified them.
Read the original article on Insider
Updated as of 9/7/2022 at 2:15 p.m. ET
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