25 signatures reached
To: Texas Education Agency, Commissioner Mike Morath
Save children and teachers lives, start 2021 classes online
This petition is in support of all educators and students in Texas. The mission is to protect the educators and children from contracting and/or spreading Covid 19. This is a direct response to the decision to reopen all schools for the 2021 school year. This would create an increase & influx of virus cases, and back track any progress we've made in flattening the curve. Online classes have been executed by public and private schools since March 2020. As the number cases of Covid 19 continue to rise, we deem it ESSENTIAL that all courses continue to be offered ONLINE for the start of the 2021 school year.
Social distancing & masking alone are not viable solutions. An average classroom holds anywhere from 25-35 students not counting the teacher or teachers aids, even with mask and hand washing protocol, there is physically no room, to create a 6 ft barrier between 25-35 students including teachers and other staff. Further, expecting kids to wear masks continuously throughout the school day is far fetched.
Why is this important?
The medical community has concluded that SARS-CoV-2 transmission in the community is correlated with the amount of infections in schools. When community rates of COVID-19 are high, there is an increased likelihood that SARS-CoV-2 will be introduced to, and potentially transmitted within, a school setting.
Please sign our petition to keep our teachers and children safe from the pandemic.