We checked with eight area districts who reported a total of 60 teachers out sick.
“Our campuses are not safe, clearly,” said Aurelia Wagner, a fifth-grade teacher at Wesley Elementary School in HISD. “And my question is whose spouse, mother, father or child is going to have to die for these lawmakers to change.”
Wagner said requiring teachers to be on campus is unfair.
Teachers from 60 different schools in 8 Houston area districts. That’s the tally on a “sick-out” today focused on #COVID19 safety and other issues, according to the group Educators for a Safe Reopening. I’ll have more beginning on @KHOU at 4:00 #khou11https://t.co/h8kj0FppIg Jason Miles (@JMilesKHOU) December 15, 2020