Texas school district closes after 2 teachers die of COVID-19

[hookaleft]

WACO, Texas (KWKT) – A Texas school district announced Monday evening it will be closing all campuses until Sept. 7 after a second teacher passed away of COVID-19 complications.

Natalia Chansler and David “Andy” McCormick both taught social studies at Connally Independent School District’s junior high school in Waco.

“Although they were in the same content area, they were at two different grade levels in two different portions… of the building,” said Assistant Superintendent Jill Bottelberghe. All staff identified as “close contacts” with a known COVID-19 case are asked to get tested every other day, Bottelberghe said.

All of the district’s campuses are set to be closed for a week and students will do remote learning. Buildings will be deep cleaned and sanitized.

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https://fox8.com/news/coronavirus/texas-school-district-closes-after-2-teachers-die-of-covid-19/

[Budi]

1. I believe also that Tx cut funding for remote learning

No funds for schools that decide to go remote.
Your on your own.

And Abbott has NO term limits.
He's dictator for life as long as they continue to remove the rights of any voter block that threaten his reign.

I'm leaving Tx.

[iemanja]

2. Just what Abbot wanted

[mackdaddy]

3. I can find no mention whether the teachers who died were vaccinated.

But my guess in that we will see a lot more of this over the next few weeks.

Delta is so contagious that nearly everyone will get it. Just look at the CDC study of one teacher infecting half the class. I can not see how it will not run through these un-vaccinated school kids.

It is just a matter of how sick they get from it.

[Dustlawyer]

5. My son and daughter are both teachers here in TX.

My son got COVID teaching before vaccines and is looking to get out of teaching because they set him up to get it. My daughter was vaccinated but her school district is run by RW nut jobs. She taught a class of new teachers for the two weeks before school started this year. Two of the teachers reported that they had COVID before attending and were told to attend unless they had a fever. The district did away with free COVID testing they had last year as well as paid time off to recover from COVID. Most of the teachers in the class, including my daughter, caught COVID. They had to change the policy on the first day of school because most of the teachers were sick.

[LisaL]

7. That's outrageous.

NT

[Dustlawyer]

10. Yes! My daughter was not told they had COVID until everyone was already sick.

Thanks to Abbott the district didn’t have to tell the parents they were making sick teachers work.

[PA Democrat]

13. That is outrageous.

I am waiting to see what happens in my school district which is full of rightwingers who voted for NO mask mandate.

Yesterday, PA Governor Wolf announced a statewide mask mandate for schools but the Republican legislature is already trying to reverse his order and the locals will be foaming at the mouth while screaming about their "freedoms."

Fortunately, my children are out of school and there are no teachers in my immediate family. I can't imagine the stress of worrying about family members in the superspreader environment of schools with low vaccination rates and no masks.

[Wingus Dingus]

4. They don't care. As long as it's not them, they don't care.

[LisaL]

9. Yep, Abbott run off and got antibody treatment at the first sign of a positive test.

He tests daily.

[SoCalDavidS]

6. Why Stop Now?

Go for 3. Or 4. Or 5.

It's only human life, after all.

But hey, at least TX overturned Roe v Wade. What an accomplishment.

Fuckers.

[LisaL]

8. A lot more will die once all of this is said and done.

No mask mandates, bunch of un-vaccinated children (and teachers) in close proximity to each other.

[PA Democrat]

11. Governor Abbott has prohibited mask reqirements

so masks were "optional" in this school district.

This is the type of tragedies we will see more of thanks to sociopaths in government who put appealing to their crazy base ahead of the health and safety of their citizens.

[gohuskies]

12. Abbot is running Death Panels non-stop

What an evil and despicable creature this guy is proving to be. He and Ron DeathSentence are basically running a bioweapons lab and nurturing death and illness almost unabated and with help from the courts. This is beyond disgusting; it is crimes against humanity in Texas and Florida.