Texas school district closes after two teachers die of COVID
Source: ABC
A Texas school district has temporarily halted its in-person learning after two junior high school teachers died of coronavirus within the first weeks of the school year.
Natalia Chansler, 41, a sixth-grade social studies teacher, and David Andy McCormick, 59, a seventh-grade social studies teacher, had just welcomed students back to their classrooms at Connally Junior High School, outside of Waco, when they both became ill with COVID-19, last month.
"It has been very devastating and heartbreaking for the students, the staff, for everybody that surrounds the situation," Jill Bottelberghe, assistant superintendent of human resources, told ABC News on Tuesday. The one thing you don't ever know is exactly how many lives they have touched as an educator
so I'm sure we're not the only ones that are feeling that heartbreak right now.
McCormick was diagnosed with COVID-19 just one day after the start of the school year on Aug. 19, dying less than a week later. Shortly after McCormicks death, Chansler tested positive for the virus, dying just three days after her diagnosis, according to the district.
Read more: https://abcnews.go.com/Health/texas-school-district-closes-teachers-die-covid/story?id=79773758
RIP.
What else can one say other than please vaccinate if you can!
Evolve Dammit
(16,689 posts)IronLionZion
(45,380 posts)Democrats should liberate their suffering people
SmittyWerben
(823 posts)But the republican stupid is strong here. I live in a school district that borders Conally ISD and am not surprised at all by this outcome. We had a democratic congressman until 2010 when the district was severely gerrymandered and we have not been able to regain the seat.
patphil
(6,144 posts)The statistics in the ABC news article are terrifying.
What Abbott's doing amounts to deliberate, premeditated murder.
groundloop
(11,513 posts)I just about can't believe I feel this way, but fuck 'em, they've had plenty of opportunity to protect themselves from this pandemic.
Hopefully, if nothing else, the reduced number of GQP voters, especially in purple states, will help the country in the long run. I really feel bad about saying that because my wife's brother in law recently died from Covid, and although he was a super nice guy he was a trump supporter and refused the vaccine. He started feeling ill on a Thursday and one week later he was dead.
patphil
(6,144 posts)Without a mask mandate, teachers are very vulnerable. I'm not minimizing the risk to children...it's a lot greater than the mask holes believe, but every time a teacher gets sick, a whole classroom of students is adversely affected.
We are sacrificing our teachers and students to partisan politics.
This was all quite predictable, and avoidable. It shouldn't have to be this way.
Texas now makes it possible for anyone to sue a person who gets and abortion, or anyone who helps them. We should also be able to sue anyone who facilitates the infection of another person with the covid virus through willful neglect.
As its stands, it's much more serious from a legal jeopardy standpoint to get an abortion that it is to deliberately expose a person, adult or child, to a serious and sometimes fatal disease.
BlueIdaho
(13,582 posts)Killing teachers.
TexasTowelie
(111,894 posts)Not really LBN when the above is true.
aggiesal
(8,906 posts)After the Texas freeze and the anti-mask & antiVax, I would think
the citizens of Texas would be demanding his resignation.
Seriously, Newsom has done nothing compared to Abbott, yet Newsom
has to fight a RECALL.
Doesn't Texas have a RECALL mechanism?
Recall Abbott.
CountAllVotes
(20,863 posts)The wrong people are being recalled.
These thugs should be thrown in jail for murder one IMO!
Javaman
(62,497 posts)There is nothing wrong with your brain. Do not attempt to adjust your outlook. We are controlling your life. If we wish to make it louder, we will yell. If we wish to make it softer, we will also yell. We will control the women. We will control the children. We can control the image, make it horrifying. We can change the focus to ridiculous things, or sharpen it to crystal clear insanity. For the better part of your life, sit quietly and we will control all that you see and hear. We repeat: There is nothing wrong with your brain. You are about to participate in the totalitarian takeover. You are about to experience the awe and terror which reaches from the inner mind to...the republican fascist state.
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bluestarone
(16,847 posts)Have the authority to stop mask mandates nothing will!
Farmer-Rick
(10,134 posts)Even with masks, they are spreading the Delta variant. Kids don't keep masks on and don't wear them properly. If they are unvaccinated, they should not be gathering during a pandemic.
Wait until that South American variant gets in. It doesn't care if you are vaccinated or have survived a previous infection. It seems to go right through our immune defenses. Imagine if it crosses with the Delta variant? Texas schools are a perfect vehicle for this to happen.
But you know we got to keep this failed economic system alive by ignoring the pandemic and going back to business as usual.
More are going to die before this pandemic ends. They are sacrifices to capitalism.
What are we up to a million dead Americans yet!
radical noodle
(7,997 posts)If not, then they are partly to blame. Only about 47% of Texans have been fully vaccinated.
Bengus81
(6,927 posts)That will be the new phrase for reporting Covid deaths in Texas.