EP #338 - 09.09.2021 - Classroom Teachers in the Pandemic

Today I welcome teachers Rebecca Martinson and Angela Minor back to COVIDCalls to talk about COVID and the return to school. 

Rebecca Martinson is a nurse teaching intro to nursing and Anateomy and Physiology to high school students for 10 years-  it is her 11th year teaching. She wrote an oped for the New York Times last summer critical of the planning going into covid safety related to schools. During the past year in addition to teaching she has volunteered at several mass vaccination clinics as a draw nurse and vaccinator. Her area is seeing its largest surge ever in Covid19 cases and hospitalizations however under her governors order she is returning full time in person to the classroom on September 1. 

Mrs. Angela Minor has been teaching high school students since 1995. She currently teaches AP Government, Current World Issues and issues and Advocacy: Class, Race and Gender in America in lower Bucks County, Pennsylvania. She also teaches graduate classes through The Regional Training Center which partners with LaSalle University and the College of New Jersey.