COVID Safety Concerns Prompt Call for SF Teachers to Participate in ‘Sickout'

The San Francisco Unified School District continues to conflict with a teacher shortage, but connected Thursday it faced a caller situation successful the signifier of an online petition calling for a district-wide "sickout" implicit COVID information concerns.

District officials reported 616 teacher absences connected Thursday, with 29% of those spots covered by substitutes and the remainder filled by different staff. On Wednesday, SFUSD reported 414 teacher absences.

Concerns implicit COVID are increasing with the omicron variant driving a grounds surge successful the city, but it is unclear however galore of Thursday's sick calls were successful protestation and however galore were caused by the coronavirus.

High schoolhouse wellness teacher Katrina Cubilo-Sicairos spent the time lasting extracurricular the territory bureau and called for much important COVID testing, PPE and more.

"I bash enactment the sickout today. I'm taking a idiosyncratic permission time to amusement up and amusement the territory determination are definite things we request for schools to enactment harmless and enactment open," Cubilo-Sicairos said.

The teachers national was not progressive successful the sickout, but said it is raising COVID concerns with the district.

Meanwhile, the territory has said it continues to travel nationalist wellness guidance and schools stay debased hazard settings with due information protocols and testing.