I tested positive for COVID-2 last Tuesday. No serious breathing symptoms yet but it feels like the worst cold/flu of your life. I took one day off last week and posted asynchronous work. Friday I taught half a day. I had many well wishes from parents over the weekend to rest up and recover.
Fast forward to today, and I still feel like death. I teach another half-day this morning and then assign asynchronous work the rest of the day. I get 6 text messages in a row from a student's mom, who had previously been supportive, telling me a long story about how when SHE had COVID, no one helped her and so she had to suffer in silence so her kids could eat, and that when she wanted to give up she looked at her children and that motivated her, and her in-laws couldn't help because of infection risk, and she's working so hard to keep her family healthy, and it was so traumatizing for her youngest daughter because she couldn't hug Mommy while she was sick. She sent a final message telling me "You're young. Make a good effort and you will be fine".
What do I say to her? Am I no longer allowed to take sick days because of this WFH crap? If this was a normal school year and a normal sick day I would have laughed the message off. Now I'm feeling both deathly sick, guilty, and resentful that this Mom is implying I'm some young, lazy weak thing who won't suffer like she did.
Submitted January 25, 2021 at 01:27PM by DatWhiteTeacherLady https://ift.tt/3sWtCkI
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