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Unable to access COVID-19 vaccines, teachers are feeling frustrated and expendable in the ongoing debate about reopening schools.
Kathy Kappes-Sum is a middle school math teacher in De Soto, Kansas, which was the first school district in Johnson County to resume full-time in-person learning for older students. She said social distancing is now impossible in the small, 15-by-16-foot room she teaches in.
“We had social distancing with hybrid. In most of our classes, we could pull that off,” Kappes-Sum said. “I haven’t seen anything saying the CDC or the county have changed the guidelines for how we’re supposed to stay safe. It’s masks