Frightened, frustrated and anxious : Teachers battle burnout amid pandemic
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Many nights this fall, Jessica Iannacone hasn’t logged off her computer until 10 or 11 p.m.
The Greenwich science teacher, on staff at Eastern Middle School, has all the normal tests to grade, lessons to plan and questions to answer from her students and parents.
But, as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic, she also has to rewrite exams and assignments, adapt her curriculum to both her in-person and remote students, upload worksheets to software that she and her colleagues learned for this year, and meet with other staffers via Zoom.
Stamford changes quarantine rules for schools as COVID cases rise
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Elementary school children at Rogers International School on November 19, 2020.John Moore / Getty Images
STAMFORD Any time a student or teacher in a classroom comes down with COVID-19, that class will be immediately placed in quarantine until contact tracing has been completed.
That is the new edict written by Health Department Director Jennifer Calder that was sent to school nurses this week.
“Effective immediately, whenever there is a confirmed positive case in a student or school employee, the entire class as well as any staff associated with (the) case will be immediately quarantined for 14 days,” Calder wrote.